Friday the 13th’s Jason Ted White Dies on Friday

The movie Friday the 13th, which was released in 1982, a time when perhaps most of our readers, including your author, was not yet born, still ranks at the top of the horror classics.

Until 2001, a total of 10 films belonging to the Friday the 13th series were released. Of course, not all of them played the same actors. But the most iconic ones were definitely the first 3 movies. Ted White, who played the character of Jason Voorhees, who was in our minds with the hockey mask in the first movie, passed away.

Jason Voorhees passed away last ‘Friday’

Actor and stuntman Ted White, who played the character of Jason Voorhees in the movie Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, which was released 38 years ago, passed away on Friday night at the age of 96.

White’s onscreen roles consisted mainly of small episodes from movies like Tron or Romancing the Stone, many of which were not even mentioned. In a timely interview, White admitted that he agreed to play Jason because he needed the money.

When the producers asked him to act for A New Beginning and Jason Lives, White turned them down. He never returned to the Friday the 13th series, although he appeared in two documentaries about the series, which aired in 2009 and 2013, respectively.