Actor Ted White handed away on Friday on the age of 96, studies Bloody Disgusting. In horror circles, White is greatest identified for enjoying slasher icon Jason Voorhees in 1984’s Friday the thirteenth: The Final Chapter.

The information got here from movie producer Sean Clark, who was knowledgeable that White handed peacefully in his sleep. “I’ve had the pleasure of knowing him and working with him for close to 20 years. He was my adopted grandpa and hands down the best storyteller you could have ever met,” wrote Clark. “I am going to miss you immensely and those steak dinners we always had. […] My heart goes out to his wife Jeri and his sons. It was an absolute honor my friend. Rest easy. Love you Ted.”

Born in Snyder, Texas on January 25, 1926, Ted White initially performed soccer on the University of Oklahoma earlier than pursuing a profession in appearing. His first movie can be 1949’s The Sands of Iwo Jima, the place he performed a random marine and served as marketing consultant on the format of the titular island as a consequence of his service within the army. It was that movie the place he met John Wayne, and he would turn into a stunt double for the actor starting in 1952. His resume as a stuntman contains movies similar to 1968’s Planet of the Apes and 1973’s Soylent Green, together with 1981’s Escape from New York and 2000’s Gone in 60 Seconds.

White’s onscreen roles consisted primarily of bit components in films like Tron or Romancing the Stone, and plenty of of those had been uncredited. When he signed on to play Jason, he admitted it was as a result of he wanted the cash on the time. When requested to reprise the position for A New Beginning and Jason Lives, White turned them down. He wouldn’t return to the Friday the thirteenth franchise, although he was featured in two documentaries in regards to the collection that respectively launched in 2009 and 2013. In 2017, author Larry Ok. Meredith revealed Cast a Giant Shadow, a biography of about White’s profession.

Our ideas exit to the White household right now.

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