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Betsy Palmer

1926 - 2015

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Betsy Palmer (born Patricia Betsy Hrunek; November 1, 1926 – May 29, 2015) was an American actress known for her many film and Broadway roles, television guest-starring appearances, as a panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret, and later for playing the antagonist and mother of Jason Voorhees, Pamela Voorhees, in the first Friday the 13th film (1980). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Betsy Palmer has received more than 1,920,674 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Betsy Palmer is the 3,588th most popular actor (down from 3,440th in 2019), the 5,373rd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,315th in 2019) and the 1,611th most popular American Actor.

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  • 1.9M

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  • 50.03

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Betsy Palmer ranks 3,588 out of 13,578. Before her are Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bengt Ekerot, Tarcísio Meira, Daniela Ruah, Megumi Hayashibara, and Heinz Erhardt. After her are Joachim Hansen, Harry Hamlin, Brian G. Hutton, Marc Lawrence, Neil Flynn, and Embeth Davidtz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Betsy Palmer ranks 273. Before her are Ljubiša Spajić, Ludvík Vaculík, Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Christine Jorgensen, James Krüss, and Rodolfo Pini. After her are Miguel Obando y Bravo, Geoffrey Howe, Fred Gwynne, Richard Jaeckel, Moshe Sanbar, and Rafiq Nishonov. Among people deceased in 2015, Betsy Palmer ranks 239. Before her are Ludvík Vaculík, Józef Oleksy, Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Franjo Mihalić, Pino Daniele, and Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni. After her are Lynn Anderson, Geoffrey Howe, Robert Chartoff, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Jackie Collins, and Angelo Anquilletti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Betsy Palmer ranks 5,373 out of 20,380. Before her are Art Farmer (1928), Pat Martino (1944), David Crane (1957), Irwin Winkler (1931), Glenn Davis (1934), and T. C. Boyle (1948). After her are Lilian Jackson Braun (1913), Harry Hamlin (1951), Brian G. Hutton (1935), Marc Lawrence (1910), Lynn Anderson (1947), and Mark Tornillo (1954).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Betsy Palmer ranks 1,611. Before her are Nancy Carroll (1903), Tori Spelling (1973), Norma Talmadge (1894), Pamela Reed (1949), Keenen Ivory Wayans (1958), and Daniela Ruah (1983). After her are Harry Hamlin (1951), Brian G. Hutton (1935), Marc Lawrence (1910), Neil Flynn (1960), Embeth Davidtz (1965), and Lainie Kazan (1940).

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Television and Movie Roles

Friday the 13th
Mrs. Voorhees
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
May 9th 19806.4 / 10
Friday the 13th Part 2
Mrs. Voorhees
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, new counselors roam the area, not sensing the ominous lurking presence that proves that the grisly legend is real.
May 1st 19816.191 / 10
Friday the 13th Part III
Mrs. Pamela Voorhees (archive footage)
An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naïve counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason, who stalks them at every turn...
Aug 13th 19825.9 / 10