Richard Brooker
| Richard Brooker | |
|---|---|
.JPG) Richard Brooker at the Full Moon Tattoo & Horror Festival, Nashville TN March 2013 | |
| Born |
20 November 1954 Münster, West Germany |
| Died |
8 April 2013 (aged 58) United Kingdom |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Occupation | Stuntman, trapeeze artist, actor, director, producer, businessman. |
Richard Brooker (20 November 1954 – 8 April 2013) was an English stuntman, perhaps best known for his role in Friday the 13th Part III as Jason Voorhees.
Life and career
Brooker, a former trapeze artist, started his career in acting in a casting magazine, "Dramalogue". He began his career in the third Friday the 13th film, and later appeared in small film roles in Deathstalker, Deep Sea Conspiracy, and the television series Trapper John, M.D.. Brooker later became a director, for such notable series such as Bill Nye the Science Guy, and worked as producer on several sports channels and programmes, such as Fox Sports, polo and horse shows. He later shifted from filmmaking and acting to business, creating his own website design company, Production Access Network.
Family
He was in a relationship with Shannon McMurray from 1995 to 2000 and his children are Madison McMurray Brooker and Cameron McMurray Brooker.
Acting Career
From "Dramalogue", he was selected to be the third psychotic, deformed, machete-wielding serial killer Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th Part III as director Steve Miner wanted a bigger man for the role (standing at 6' 3"). Notably, he is the first actor to don the now iconic hockey mask as Jason, which would later become the series trademark. He did all his own stunts and wore blue jeans and a sweatshirt for the duration of filming. Brooker also wore white foam padding under his sweatshirt throughout filming to give him a more stocky appearance, since Brooker was slim and toned in real life due to his former career as a trapeze performer.
Brooker died on 8 April 2013. The cause of death was a heart attack.[1]
He appeared in episode 7 of Hell's Kitchen's 11th season, which paid tribute to him at the end of its 18 April 2013 broadcast.
References
- ↑ "RIP Richard Brooker". DreadCentral.
External links
| Preceded by Ari Lehman (1980–1984) Warrington Gillette, Steve Daskawisz (1981–1984) |
Actors portraying Jason Voorhees 1982–1984 |
Succeeded by Ted White |
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