Stuntman and actor Ted White, who played Jason Voorhees in “Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter” among other roles, has died at the age of 96.
Convention owner Sean Clark confirmed the news on Facebook (via Bloody Disgusting), writing that White “passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home.”White’s personal website notes that he was born on January 25, 1926, “in a small town in Texas.” At the age of 17, he went into the U.S.
Marine Corps, which saw him stationed in the Pacific on Iwo Jima during World War II.
He attended the University of Oklahoma on a football scholarship and was also a Golden Gloves boxer before moving to California, where he assembled an impressive list of stunt credits, including “Creature from the Black Lagoon,” “Giant,” “Rio Bravo,” “Planet of the Apes,” the 1976 “King Kong,” “Escape from New York,” “Road House,” and the 2000 “Gone in 60 Seconds” remake.The
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