Actress Betsy Palmer dies at age 88, Betsy Palmer, a performer who began as a diversion show specialist and worked in genuine theater however accomplished her most prominent acclaim as a slasher and hatchet killer in "Friday the 13th," has passed on. She was 88.
Palmer passed on Friday at a hospice close to her home in Danbury, Conn., her administrator, Brad Lemack, said in an announcement.
In the blood and gore movie "Friday the 13th" (1980), Palmer depicted Pamela Voorhees, a mid year camp cook with an affinity for piercing the advisors.
Despite the fact that she later went to various blood and guts movie fan traditions, she told questioners that she despised the script and declined to act in the film's numerous spin-offs.
She accepted the occupation, she said, in light of the fact that it obliged just 10 days of work and would acquire her $10,000 — exactly what she expected to supplant the maturing Mercedes that quit on her one horrendous night as she drove on occupied Interstate 95. She supplanted it with a Volkswagen Sirocco.
"Furthermore, here we are, after 25 years, and I get fan mail from everywhere throughout the world," Palmer told a Newark Star-Ledger correspondent in 2005. "What do they call me? I'm 'The Queen of the Slashers.' I can't trust it."
Conceived Patricia Betsy Hrunek in East Chicago, Ind., on Nov. 1, 1926, Palmer learned at DePaul University before setting out toward the Actors Studio in New York. She had emotional parts on regarded network shows including "Playhouse 90" and "Studio One" in the 1950s. In 1953, she showed up on another amusement show called "Wheel of Fortune" as the letter-turner — the first Vanna White, as she later related it.
Her film work included "Mr. Roberts" with Henry Fonda, "The Long Gray Line" with Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara, "Ruler Bee" with Joan Crawford and "The Tin Star" with Fonda and Anthony Perkins.
Then, she did spells on the "Today" demonstrate and turned into a long-running big name specialist on the test show "I've Got A Secret."
Her other TV credits incorporated "Hitch's Landing," "The Love Boat," "Newhart," "Simply Shoot Me" and "Homicide, She Wrote."
On Broadway, Palmer showed up in "Prickly plant Flower" (1967), "Same Time, Next Year" (1977) and numerous different preparations.
Palmer was hitched in 1954 to Dr. Vincent J. Merendino. They separated in 1971.
She is made due by girl Melissa Merend
Palmer passed on Friday at a hospice close to her home in Danbury, Conn., her administrator, Brad Lemack, said in an announcement.
In the blood and gore movie "Friday the 13th" (1980), Palmer depicted Pamela Voorhees, a mid year camp cook with an affinity for piercing the advisors.
Despite the fact that she later went to various blood and guts movie fan traditions, she told questioners that she despised the script and declined to act in the film's numerous spin-offs.
She accepted the occupation, she said, in light of the fact that it obliged just 10 days of work and would acquire her $10,000 — exactly what she expected to supplant the maturing Mercedes that quit on her one horrendous night as she drove on occupied Interstate 95. She supplanted it with a Volkswagen Sirocco.
"Furthermore, here we are, after 25 years, and I get fan mail from everywhere throughout the world," Palmer told a Newark Star-Ledger correspondent in 2005. "What do they call me? I'm 'The Queen of the Slashers.' I can't trust it."
Conceived Patricia Betsy Hrunek in East Chicago, Ind., on Nov. 1, 1926, Palmer learned at DePaul University before setting out toward the Actors Studio in New York. She had emotional parts on regarded network shows including "Playhouse 90" and "Studio One" in the 1950s. In 1953, she showed up on another amusement show called "Wheel of Fortune" as the letter-turner — the first Vanna White, as she later related it.
Her film work included "Mr. Roberts" with Henry Fonda, "The Long Gray Line" with Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara, "Ruler Bee" with Joan Crawford and "The Tin Star" with Fonda and Anthony Perkins.
Then, she did spells on the "Today" demonstrate and turned into a long-running big name specialist on the test show "I've Got A Secret."
Her other TV credits incorporated "Hitch's Landing," "The Love Boat," "Newhart," "Simply Shoot Me" and "Homicide, She Wrote."
On Broadway, Palmer showed up in "Prickly plant Flower" (1967), "Same Time, Next Year" (1977) and numerous different preparations.
Palmer was hitched in 1954 to Dr. Vincent J. Merendino. They separated in 1971.
She is made due by girl Melissa Merend
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