Friday the 13th

Betsy Palmer

East Chicago

Betsy Palmer built the kind of career that refuses to fit neatly into one genre. Born Patricia Betsy Hrunek in East Chicago, Indiana, in 1926, she performed in school plays before attending business college and working as a railroad stenographer and secretary. The isolation of that job did not suit her. After an aptitude test pointed toward the arts, she studied at the Goodman School of Drama while working days and commuting to night classes. Palmer developed her craft in regional theatre, including stock productions with Paul Newman and Imogene Coca, before moving to New York with $400 in savings and a new professional name. Less than a week after arriving, she landed her first television role, joining the weekday soap opera Miss Susan in 1951. She went on to create the role of Virginia in Paddy Chayefsky’s original 1953 teleplay of Marty and became a familiar television presence as a Today reporter and a regular panelist on I’ve Got a Secret from 1958 until 1967. Her 1950s film work placed her alongside some formidable casts. She played Kitty Carter in The Long Gray Line, Ann Girard in Mister Roberts and Carol Lee Phillips in Queen Bee, all released in 1955. She later appeared with Anthony Perkins and Henry Fonda in The Tin Star and took the dual role of Phyllis Carter and Lynn Stuart in The True Story of Lynn Stuart. Theatre remained central to Palmer’s career. A life member of the Actors Studio, she appeared in seven Broadway shows, replaced Lauren Bacall in Cactus Flower and Ellen Burstyn in Same Time Next Year, and was chosen by Tennessee Williams to play Alma Winemiller in The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. For many moviegoers, however, Palmer’s defining screen turn was Mrs. Voorhees in Friday the 13th. She initially disliked the film and accepted the job partly to pay for a new car, but later embraced its place in her career. Further television roles in As the World Turns and Knots Landing, along with later horror and film appearances, completed a career that moved comfortably among stage, cinema, television and voice work.

Corey Feldman

Los Angeles

Corey Feldman’s screen career began unusually early, with a McDonald’s commercial at age three, followed by an extensive run of television appearances and advertising work. Born in the Reseda neighborhood of Los Angeles on July 16, 1971, Feldman grew up on camera, appearing in series including Mork & Mindy, Eight Is Enough, One Day at a Time and Cheers before becoming one of the most recognisable young actors of the 1980s. That recognition came through a remarkable sequence of genre favourites. Feldman appeared in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Gremlins and The Goonies, then played the volatile Teddy Duchamp in Stand by Me. In The Lost Boys, he brought a straight-faced, comic-book intensity to vampire hunter Edgar Frog—a role he later reprised in Lost Boys: The Tribe and Lost Boys: The Thirst. The film also began his onscreen partnership with Corey Haim. Billed together as “The Two Coreys,” they went on to make License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream, among other projects. Feldman’s particular screen presence suited stories in which childhood adventure bumped against something stranger or darker. He could play broad comedy without losing the nervous edge underneath it, a quality that connected family entertainment, horror and coming-of-age drama across his best-known work. He also became part of another enduring screen property as the voice of Donatello in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, later returning for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. His career subsequently moved between film, television, voice acting, stage work, reality programming and music. Feldman released his first album, Love Left, in 1992 and has continued performing and recording. He and Haim reunited for the A&E reality series The Two Coreys, for which Feldman also served as an executive producer. In 2013, he published the memoir Coreyography. Interest in Feldman’s less widely seen work has continued too. In 2023, director Jordan Peele programmed screenings of Feldman’s 2005 film The Birthday at Film at Lincoln Center, giving another curious corner of his long, unconventional career a fresh look.

Adrienne King

Long Island

Adrienne King’s career reaches well beyond the role that made her a familiar face to horror audiences. Born on July 21, 1960, in Long Island, King began appearing in commercials as a baby, with an Ivory soap advertisement among her earliest work. She later trained under acting teacher Bill Esper while taking parts in soap operas, Off-off-Broadway productions and television advertising. She also graduated from New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology with a fine arts degree. Before stepping into a leading role, King worked as a dancer in Saturday Night Fever and Hair and had a small supporting part in Between the Lines. Her defining screen turn came as Alice Hardy in Friday the 13th. Cast for the naturalistic quality producer-director Sean S. Cunningham saw in her acting, King brought a grounded, watchful presence to the film’s lead heroine. She returned briefly as Alice in the opening of Friday the 13th Part 2. After being repeatedly harassed by a stalker, King withdrew from public-facing screen work. She appeared as a stunt performer and background actor in Ghostbusters, then studied voice and dance during a summer program at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Back in the United States, she built a substantial career in voice acting and ADR, contributing to productions including What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Philadelphia, The Pelican Brief, Wolf, Jerry Maguire and Titanic. King returned to onscreen film acting with Psychic Experiment, an experience that made her realize how much she had missed performing. Further horror work followed, including Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming, The Butterfly Room and All American Bully. In 2021, she revisited Alice Hardy in the fan film Jason Rising and narrated the audiobook of Grady Hendrix’s The Final Girl Support Group. Acting is only one part of King’s creative life. She is also a painter and has worked in winemaking, selling her artwork alongside a Friday the 13th-themed line called Crystal Lake Wines. It is a varied career, but the connecting thread is clear: performance and art have remained central, whether she is in front of a camera, behind a microphone or working on a canvas.

Amy Steel

Pennsylvania

Amy Steel is an American film, television and voice actor whose screen career is closely associated with one of the slasher genre’s most appealing survivors. Born in Pennsylvania on May 3, 1960, Steel began working on television in 1980, appearing as Peggy Warner on All My Children and later playing Trudy Wilson on Guiding Light. Her film debut came with a supporting role as Allison in the little-seen 1981 comedy Fat Chance. That same year, Steel found her breakthrough as Ginny Field in Steve Miner’s Friday the 13th Part 2. An aspiring child psychologist forced into a confrontation with Jason, Ginny gave Steel a role with more resourcefulness and personality than the genre often allowed. IGN critic Eric Goldman later described her as one of the most appealing lead characters in the series. Miner considered continuing Ginny’s story in Friday the 13th Part III, but Steel declined the sequel after an exhausting, largely nighttime shoot and later said she regretted the decision because she liked how the character had been written. Steel returned to horror in a different key as Kit in Fred Walton’s April Fool’s Day, the 1986 black comedy mystery built around a gathering with increasingly sinister consequences. She followed it with the role of environmental scientist Penny in the 1987 comedy Walk Like a Man, appearing alongside Howie Mandel and Christopher Lloyd. Her television work ranged widely, with roles in Family Ties, CHiPs, The A-Team, For Love and Honor, China Beach, Home Improvement, Diagnosis: Murder, American Gothic, Chicago Hope, Millennium and JAG. She also appeared in television films including Women of San Quentin, First Steps and Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo. After playing Claire Goodman Isenberg in 2003’s A Time to Remember, Steel took an extended break from acting and became a psychotherapist. She returned to the screen in the 2014 anthology horror film Tales of Poe and later made a voice cameo as Dr. Ginny Field in the 2021 fan film Jason Rising.

Ari Lehman

New York City

Ari Lehman occupies a distinctive corner of horror history. Born in New York City on May 2, 1965, the American actor and composer made his film debut in Sean S. Cunningham’s Manny’s Orphans before taking on the role that would remain central to his screen identity: the child Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th. Lehman appears as Jason in Pamela Voorhees’s flashback and in Alice Hardy’s dream at the end of the film. It is a compact role, built around two key moments rather than a conventional character arc, but its place in the story gave Lehman a lasting connection to the Friday the 13th series. Footage of his performance later appeared, uncredited, in Friday the 13th Part 2 and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. That connection eventually carried into Lehman’s music. In 2004, he formed the punk-metal band First Jason, taking its name directly from his role as the young Voorhees. The group independently released Jason Is Watching! in 2009 and Heed My Warning in 2013, developing a horror-themed sound that made Lehman’s best-known film role part of a broader creative identity. In 2019, he also performed vocals on the acoustic version of Ice Nine Kills’ “Thank God It’s Friday,” released on The Silver Scream: Final Cut. Lehman’s work as a composer, performer and recording artist extends to independent-film soundtracks. His credits in that area include Alexia Anastasio’s all-female Salome and Vampire the Movie, which won the 2007 Rondo Award for Best Independent Feature. Across acting and music, his career has remained closely tied to genre filmmaking, turning one early horror appearance into the starting point for a continuing body of work.

Bill Randolph

Detroit

Bill Randolph’s acting career crossed theater, horror movies and television before taking an unexpected turn into graphic design. Born in Detroit on October 11, 1953, Randolph began acting in school plays at Lincoln High School. He later attended Allan Hancock College, studying in its PCCA theater training program, and earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from SUNY Purchase. His early stage work included the 1977 social-protest disco musical St. Joan of the Microphone, performed in New York City parks and at festivals including the Lincoln Center Outdoor Festival. Appearing alongside Mercedes Hall, Randolph created the role of Supersonic Phil Harmonic, the show’s resident club heart-throb. He went on to spend two years starring in the long-running Broadway production of Gemini, giving his career a substantial theatrical foundation before movies and television became a larger part of the picture. Randolph made his feature-film debut in Brian De Palma’s horror movie Dressed to Kill in 1980. His best-known screen role followed a year later, when he played Jeffrey in Friday the 13th Part 2. The sequel remains the movie most closely associated with him, placing Randolph within one of horror’s defining slasher series. His later film appearances included Penn & Teller Get Killed in 1989 and Guilty as Charged in 1991, his most recent movie role. On television, Randolph appeared in series including Hill Street Blues and As the World Turns. He also starred in Trauma Center and the short-lived 1984 series Comedy Zone, adding drama and comedy to a résumé already shaped by stage musicals and horror films. In the early 1990s, Randolph retired from acting in pursuit of a steadier career as a graphic designer. He later worked for the New York Daily News, closing one creative chapter while continuing in another field built around visual craft.

Bruce Mahler

New York City

Bruce Mahler is an American actor, screenwriter and producer whose career extends across film and television. Born in New York City on September 12, 1950, he has worked both in front of the camera and behind it, giving his screen career a wider shape than performance alone. Mahler’s range of occupations is an important part of his profile. He is associated with film acting and television acting, while his work as a screenwriter and film producer places him on the creative and production sides of moviemaking as well. Those roles involve different relationships with the finished work: the actor performs within the scene, the writer helps form what is on the page, and the producer contributes to bringing the project together. Mahler’s career encompasses each of those perspectives. That makes him the kind of screen professional who cannot be neatly described by one job title. Actor may be the most immediate label, but it is only part of the picture. His work in writing and production reflects a broader connection to how film and television are made, from the development of material to its realization on screen. For movie fans, Mahler’s career offers a reminder that performers often have creative lives beyond the roles audiences see. His background spans multiple areas of screen work without losing its central connection to acting. Whether approached as a film actor, a television actor, a writer or a producer, Bruce Mahler has built a career grounded in several distinct parts of the entertainment industry.

Camilla More

London

Camilla More is an English actress and film producer, born in London on 15 October 1957. Those two occupations give her profile a wider relationship with moviemaking than acting alone: one places her in front of the camera, while the other connects her with the work of bringing a film together behind it. It is a compact set of details, but it points to a career that cannot be reduced to performance alone. More’s place on the Please Rewind Talent Wall begins with that dual identity. She belongs here as a film actor, but producing is also part of her professional story. That matters because the Talent Wall is not only about familiar faces; it also reflects the different kinds of creative involvement that shape the movies we return to. More’s profile carries both sides of that equation, even though no Please Rewind movie is currently connected to her page. Until one of her films enters the Please Rewind collection, the essentials remain clear: she is an English performer, born in London, whose acting is paired with work as a film producer. Rather than stretching those details into a grand career narrative, it is better to leave room for the movies themselves to provide further context. For now, this profile marks Camilla More’s place in film through the two strands we can firmly trace—acting and producing—and offers a starting point for readers who encounter her name in the credits.

Carey More

London

Carey More is a British actress and film actor, born in London on 15 October 1957. Her place on the Talent Wall begins with that clear connection to cinema, with acting for film defining the available outline of her career. There are no Carey More movies currently connected to Please Rewind, so this profile does not single out a particular role or performance. Instead, it offers a straightforward introduction to a London-born performer whose professional identity is associated with acting and screen work. It is a concise starting point, leaving individual movies to provide the detail and context when they become part of the publication. That approach matters because a film actor is best understood through specific performances. A title, character and scene can reveal far more than a list of basic details: how an actor fits within an ensemble, contributes to the tone of a story or gives viewers a reason to return. Without a connected movie to discuss, it would be misleading to assign those qualities to More or make broader claims about her work. For now, the essentials carry the profile. More was born in 1957, is British and is associated with acting for film. As relevant titles join the Please Rewind conversation, they can bring the roles and performances into focus. Until then, this entry serves as a careful introduction for readers looking for Carey More and her work as a screen actor.

Catherine Parks

Tampa

Catherine Parks is an American actress whose work encompasses film, television and voice performance. Born in Tampa on December 10, 1956, Parks has been associated with several sides of the entertainment business, including acting, producing and screenwriting. That range gives her career a shape extending beyond a single type of screen work. Film and television acting place Parks in front of the camera, while voice acting calls for a different kind of performance, built without the usual visual tools available to an actor. Her work as a film producer and screenwriter also connects her to the creative process behind the camera. Parks has additionally been a beauty pageant contestant, another part of a varied professional background. Rather than fitting neatly into one category, she has occupied a collection of roles tied to performance and filmmaking. Actor remains the central description, but it is not the only one that applies. For movie fans, Parks is a performer whose profile reflects the many routes an actor can take through the industry. Her associations with film, television and voice work suggest a career open to different formats, while producing and screenwriting broaden the picture further. Those overlapping disciplines make her more than simply a name in a cast list: they place her among performers who have also engaged with how screen stories are developed and made.

Craig Thomas

Craig Thomas is an actor whose film work has not yet been connected to a movie featured by Please Rewind. With no further biographical or career details currently available, this profile will remain concise until there is a specific performance or film to revisit.

Crispin Glover

New York City

Crispin Glover has built a screen career around characters who rarely seem fully at ease with the world around them. Born in New York City on April 20, 1964, he moved to Los Angeles with his family at five and began acting professionally at 13. After teenage television appearances and early film roles, he broke through as George McFly in Robert Zemeckis’s Back to the Future. Glover’s nervous rhythms and precise physical choices helped make George more than a conventional awkward father figure, establishing the distinctly off-center presence that would shape much of his work. Rather than simply repeat that success, Glover pursued films and filmmakers that questioned the status quo. He played Layne in River’s Edge, worked with David Lynch on Wild at Heart and Hotel Room, and became the first actor to portray Andy Warhol in a widely released film with Oliver Stone’s The Doors. In Charlie’s Angels, he turned the Thin Man into a silent, sharply defined figure after persuading the producers to remove the character’s expository dialogue. Willard later gave him his first protagonist role in a studio-funded film. His choices have continued to move between mainstream productions and stranger territory. He performed Grendel through performance capture in Beowulf, speaking his dialogue in Old English, and reunited there with Zemeckis for the first time since Back to the Future. Other roles include the Knave of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, Phil in Hot Tub Time Machine and Mr. World in American Gods, his first series-regular television part. Acting is only one part of Glover’s work. He has also written, directed, produced, edited, published books and recorded music. His feature directorial debut, What Is It?, premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, followed by It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. in 2007. These films, funded in part through his acting work, reflect a career shaped less by a single lane than by a persistent interest in making work on his own terms.

Dana Kimmell

Texarkana

Dana Kimmell built a compact but varied screen career across television drama, action and early-1980s horror. Born in Texarkana on October 26, 1959, she spent part of her childhood in Kingsburg, California, before her family moved to Center, Texas. An early break came through Teen magazine, which selected her in 1974 as one of eight girls from 20,000 applicants to model in Hollywood for a week. She later signed with Nina Blanchard’s modeling agency and found an agent after graduating from Bullard High School as valedictorian in 1977. Kimmell made her professional acting debut that year with a guest appearance on Charlie’s Angels. Television became a steady part of her career, with appearances on shows including Eight Is Enough, Bosom Buddies, The Facts of Life, Happy Days, Fame, The A-Team, Dynasty, Hotel and Hunter. Her most substantial television role was Dawn Marshall, the youngest daughter of a wealthy Houston family, on the NBC soap Texas. She was credited in 51 episodes after first playing Dawn in an episode of Another World. For horror audiences, Kimmell is closely associated with Chris Higgins in Friday the 13th Part III, the college student who brings her friends to the mountains and finds herself confronting Jason Voorhees. Kimmell has spoken appreciatively of the role while also explaining that she viewed the film’s violence as shock-driven entertainment rather than something to be taken seriously. Her theatrical work also included Jim Sotos’s Sweet Sixteen and Lone Wolf McQuade, in which she played Sally McQuade, the daughter of Chuck Norris’s title character. Kimmell approached roles with clearly defined personal boundaries, declining nudity and profanity. That position also shaped her audition for Sarah Connor in The Terminator: although she loved the script, she asked for its sex scene to be removed or moved off-screen, and James Cameron declined. Her career ultimately reflects an actor willing to move between genres while remaining firm about the kind of work she wanted to do.

Darcy DeMoss

Los Angeles

Darcy DeMoss is an American actress whose screen work sits across film and television. Born in Los Angeles on August 19, 1963, she has professional associations with acting in both mediums—a straightforward description, but one that places her firmly in the world of screen performance rather than limiting her profile to a single format. For movie fans, that film-and-television identity is the useful starting point. Cinema and episodic work ask performers to operate within different rhythms, and DeMoss’s occupational record encompasses both. It is a career shape defined here by range of format: film actor, television actor and, more broadly, actor. Those categories do not tell us how a particular performance lands, of course; that belongs to the movies themselves. They do establish the space in which her career has unfolded: acting for the camera. There is not yet a Darcy DeMoss title connected to Please Rewind, so this Talent Wall profile does not single out a particular role or performance. That makes the page less a verdict on one movie than an open door for future revisits. As our coverage grows, the point will be to meet her work where Please Rewind always tries to meet movies: through the performances, scenes and choices that make a title worth going back for. For now, the essentials are clear. DeMoss is a Los Angeles-born American screen performer with work associated with both movies and television. Her place on the Talent Wall reflects that dual identity and leaves room for the individual films to take focus when they enter the Please Rewind collection.

Diana Barrows

New York City

Diana Barrows is an American actor and singer whose career crosses film and television. Born in New York City on January 23, 1966, she has worked in more than one branch of screen performance, with professional roles spanning both movies and television. That range is central to Barrows’ profile. Film and television may share the same basic language of cameras, scenes and characters, but each has its own rhythms and demands. Her association with both mediums gives her career a broader shape than a profile built around just one side of the industry. Her work as a singer adds another creative discipline to that picture. For movie fans, performers with careers across different formats are often worth a closer look. A film appearance can introduce an actor through one concentrated role, while television allows for a different kind of connection with an audience. Barrows’ professional identity includes both, making her part of the long tradition of New York City-born performers who have moved between the big and small screens. Her place on the Please Rewind Talent Wall reflects that varied screen background. Rather than reducing her career to a single label, it is more useful to see Barrows as a performer whose work encompasses acting for film, acting for television and singing—a combination that gives several points of entry into her career.

Elizabeth Kaitan

Hungary

Born in Hungary on July 19, 1960, Elizabeth Kaitan is an American actress and former model whose screen career became closely associated with a particular stretch of 1980s and 1990s filmmaking. Before her movie work took shape, she modeled for the Bonnie Kay Agency in New York City during the early 1980s. Kaitan appeared in Savage Dawn in 1985, followed by the role of Jennifer Statson in Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 in 1987. A year later, she played Robin Peterson in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. These films remain among the better-known entries on her résumé and placed her in movies that continued to find viewers well beyond their original releases. Her career also included an unusually sustained role in the Vice Academy series. As Candy, Kaitan appeared in parts three, four, five and six, giving her a recurring screen identity across several installments rather than a single appearance. That run forms a substantial part of her 1990s work and distinguishes her filmography from performers remembered for only one sequel or franchise entry. In 1994, Kaitan played Linda in Beretta’s Island, a film that developed a cult reputation. Taken together with her Vice Academy appearances and her roles in Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 and Friday the 13th Part VII, it reflects a career built through productions that have remained in circulation among dedicated movie fans. Kaitan made her final film appearance in 1999. Her body of work is compact, but its most familiar titles offer several clear routes back into the genre-driven corners of late-20th-century American movies.

Erich Anderson

Sagamihara

Erich Anderson was an American actor whose career was built less around star billing than steady, versatile work across film and television. Born in Sagamihara on October 24, 1956, Anderson became a familiar presence on American screens, appearing in more than 300 television episodes over the course of his career. Among his early credits was the 1983 series Bay City Blues, followed by a role in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. Television, however, provided the broadest showcase for his range. He played Bruce Christianson in Second Chances, Billy Sidel in thirtysomething and Felicity’s father in Felicity—recurring parts that placed him comfortably within very different kinds of ensemble drama. Anderson was also the sort of actor who could step into a single episode and give it weight. His guest work included Murder, She Wrote, CSI, CSI: Miami, Melrose Place and House. On Star Trek: The Next Generation, he appeared as Commander Kieran MacDuff in the fifth-season episode “Conundrum,” while The Outer Limits gave him a lead role as Evan in “The Deprogrammers,” opposite Brent Spiner. He also appeared as a district attorney in Boomtown. Taken together, those credits show the shape of a durable working career: regular roles, guest appearances and genre work spanning crime stories, family dramas, science fiction and horror. Anderson could move between those worlds without needing to make the performance feel oversized, becoming one of those dependable faces viewers might recognize before they remembered where they had seen him. His creative work extended beyond acting. Between 2012 and 2022, Anderson published three novels. He died in 2024, leaving behind a substantial body of screen work defined by its variety and consistency.