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‘Friday the 13th Part 2’ Actor Jack Marks Has Passed Away
Fellow Friday the 13th Part 2 actor Bill Randolph brings us the sad news this week that Jack Marks, best known to horror fans for his role in the 1981 sequel, has passed away.
Jack Marks played Deputy Winslow in Friday the 13th Part 2, who chases an adult Jason Voorhees through the woods. Arriving at his shack, Jason kills the Deputy with a hammer.
Prior to becoming a member of the Friday the 13th family, Jack Marks had a role in the 1976 TV movie Der gross Horizont, subsequently appearing in the TV series “Ryan’s Hope” and the 1988 film Anna. His final appearance on screen was in the TV series “Tattinger’s” in 1989.
Linda Marks writes in a note shared by Bill Randolph, “I am sorry to inform you that my dear husband, Jack Marks, died last week after a long, slow decline from congestive heart failure. I know many of you have known him in passing as he loved to entertain fellow elevator passengers and trade quips with security guards and neighbors, en route to wherever he was going.
“He spent his last two years mostly at home managing to enjoy his increasingly sedentary existence and keeping in touch with close friends. He received hospice care at home and briefly in Brooklyn, before he died peacefully, just short of 87 years old. We had been together 39 years.
“Jack had a substantial acting career, both before and after we moved to Westbeth, twenty-odd years ago. He mostly did off-Broadway and regional theatre. His biggest venues were touring nationally as the father in Briton Beach Memoirs and dying heroically in the movie Friday the 13th Part 2. He was proudest of his starring dual performance in Athol Fugard’s play, Valley Song, which he performed on Martha’s Vineyard. He also relished performing the old man, Lazar Wolf, in three different out-of-town productions of Fiddler on the Roof.
“When acting work became more difficult to get, he took up writing, producing hundreds of vibrant short stories and a few poems.”
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting send our deepest condolences to Linda Marks, and to all of Jack’s family members, friends, and colleagues. May he rest in eternal peace.
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Keanu Reeves Describes Untitled Time Loop Thriller from Director Tim Miller as ‘Groundhog Day’ With Sharks
At one point known as Shiver, Tim Miller‘s (Deadpool, Terminator: Dark Fate) next movie doesn’t yet have a title, but star Keanu Reeves offers a very intriguing tease this week.
Chatting with Collider, Reeves explains what drew him to the mysterious upcoming project from director Tim Miller. He tells the outlet, “Sharks. Time machine. Groundhog Day.”
That lines up with early plot details that surfaced earlier this year, with the film said to center on a “smuggler in the middle of a deadly double-cross while on a job in the Caribbean Sea.”
That synopsis continued, “Surrounded by bodies, hostile mercenaries, and bloodthirsty sharks, the man finds himself in a time loop and scrambling to break the cycle.”
Callie Cooke (“The Stranger”), Stefan Kapičić (Deadpool), Steven Waddington (Sleepy Hollow), Nicholas Duvernay (“The White Lotus”), Abraham Popoola (Cruella), Anastasia Safonov, and Bobby Holland Hanton (Thor: Love and Thunder) also star.
Ian Shorr (Splinter, Infinite) penned the screenplay for the sci-fi thriller, which had previously been described as having shades of Edge of Tomorrow and The Shallows.
Stay tuned for more on the untitled Warner Bros. project.
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