Betsy Palmer

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Birth Name: Patricia Betsy Hrunek

Born: 1 November 1926 Died: 29 May 2015

Country of origin: United States

Height: 5' 7"

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Gone, but not forgotten (1852 items)
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Published 15 years, 4 months ago

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Serial Killers in Movies (20 items)
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Published 13 years, 8 months ago

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In Memoriam 2015 (166 items)
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Published 8 years, 7 months ago

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Horror Movie Moms (25 items)
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Published 10 years, 5 months ago

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Description: Betsy Palmer was probably best known for playing Jason Voorhees' mother in the horror film Friday the 13th (1980), but her career as an actress began many years before. Palmer was born Patricia Betsy Hrunek in East Chicago, Indiana, to Marie (née Love), who launched the Chicago Business College, and Rudolph Vincent Hrunek, a Czech-born industrial chemist. Palmer played a young female officer opposite Jack Lemmon in Mister Roberts (1955), and appeared in another war film the same year, The Long Gray Line (1955). Throughout the late 1950s, Palmer was recognized as a news reporter on Today (1952) on NBC, then became largely inv ... (more)