Victor Miller, Original Friday the 13th Screenwriter, Dies at 86
Victor Miller, the screenwriter of the 1980 horror classic Friday the 13th who created Jason Voorhees, has died at 86 in Alameda, California, with his passing announced by his son. He also had a long career in daytime television, earning three Daytime Emmys for All My Children and writing for multiple soaps, while later engaging in a rights dispute over his original script.
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About Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th is a 1980 American slasher film produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, written by Victor Miller, and starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, and Kevin Bacon. The plot follows a group of teenage camp counselors who are murdered one by one by an unknown killer while they are attempting to reopen an abandoned summer camp with a tragic past.
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