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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.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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