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Biography: "Ted White, a veteran stuntman, answered the call to fill-in Jason's boots. At first, White hated everything about Friday The 13th. 'Except the money,' he admits. 'I was totally mercenary. I did it for the bucks.'
But once he was on the Final Chapter set, White got into the film's spirit - so much so that he developed his own philosophy on how to add depth to the stalker. 'When I was not on the set, I did not socialize and basically kept away from everybody,' he recalls. 'My idea was that once people became too familiar with him, they would lose their fear of him on screen. I felt the other actors really had to fear Jason for the movie to be effective.'
He didn't keep too much in character, though. The actor, who relates that the only drawback to the role was laying on the morgue slab, actually turned guardian angel during a long night's filming. 'We were shooting the scene where the girl is naked in the middle of the lake,' he says. 'It was the dead of winter, and she was so cold that she actually started crying. Finally, I got fed up and told the director [Joseph Zito] that I would stop working if they didn't get her out of the lake and let her warm up a bit. They did.'
White, whose numerous credits include an unmasked villain role in the same year's Romancing the Stone, retained his basic objection to this type of movie and refused screen credit on Final Chapter. Nonetheless, he was surprised at the finished product. 'Production-wise, it was a much better movie than I thought it would be,' he allows. 'It was scary, and it had all the fright anybody could ask for.'" - Jason Goes to Hell magazine
Filmography
Double Take (2001)
Downtown (1990)
Major League (1989)
Deadly Stranger (1988)
The Hidden (1987)
Hot Pursuit (1987)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1987)
Quiet Cool (1986)
Silverado (1985)
Starman (1984)
The Wild Life (1984)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Against All Odds (1984)
Tron (1982)
The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
Demonoid, Messenger of Death (1981)
Cutter's Way (1981)
Going Ape! (1981)
Oh, God! Book II (1980)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
Point Blank (1967)
Smoky (1966)
Cat Ballou (1965)
The Alamo (1960)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Television
Conagher (1991)
Follow Your Heart (1990)
A Killer in the Family (1983)
Power (1980)
Jarrett (1973)
Television Guest Appearances
The X Files (1998)
Hunter (1986)
Magnum, P.I. (1985)
Matt Houston (1983)
The Fall Guy (1981)
Kung Fu (1974)
Kojak (1974)
Mission: Impossible (1970)
The Andy Griffith Show (1966)
Daniel Boone (1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964)
Wagon Train (1964)
Perry Mason (1962)
The Alaskans (1960)
Cimarron City (1959)
Maverick (1958)
Stunt Acting/Coordinating
See IMDB.com
Where Is He Now?: Ted White continues to be involved in stunts and acting.
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