This article is about the American actor. For the rock band named after him, see Kane Hodder (band).American actor, stuntman, and author

Kane Warren Hodder (born April 8, 1955) is an American actor, stuntman, and author.

Hodder is best known for his portrayal of Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th franchise, with four appearances in the film series: Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, and Jason X; and one in the video game Friday the 13th: The Game. He is also known for his role as Victor Crowley in the Hatchet series. He also played Leatherface during the stunts of Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw M*acre III, The Texas Chainsaw M*acre III on a TV in Freddy Vs. Jason as a cameo, and in the upcoming video game The Texas Chain Saw M*acre, and Freddy Krueger's clawed glove hand in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday.

Contents

• 1 Life and career
• 2 Unmasked
• 3 Filmography
  • 3.1 Stunts
  • 3.2 Acting
  • 3.3 Himself
• 4 Personal life
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Life and career

Hodder was born in Auburn, California in 1955. Early in his career during an interview, he offered to show the interviewer and her cameraman a fire stunt, which went horribly wrong, leaving him with 2nd and 3rd degree burns over much of his upper body. It was because of these burns that he was initially selected to portray Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street (see 'To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story' section further down this page), a role that would eventually go to Robert Englund with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. He was the first actor to portray Jason Voorhees more than once, in a total of four consecutive movies from Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood to Jason X. He portrayed horror icon Leatherface through the stunt work of the 1990 film Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw M*acre III and played Freddy Krueger's clawed glove hand at the ending scene of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday. He also acted as a police guard in Jason Goes to Hell. He also appeared in an episode of The Arsenio Hall Show to promote Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, in costume as Jason.

Hodder at the 2007 Pittsburgh Comicon.

Although he offered to reprise his role as Jason Voorhees in the 2003 film Freddy vs. Jason, director Ronny Yu replaced Hodder with 6'5" Canadian stuntman Ken Kirzinger. The switch created controversy among fans of the series and has been credited to several rumors, including Kirzinger's location in Canada and his height compared to Robert Englund, the actor who portrayed Freddy Krueger, while Yu himself stated that it was New Line Cinema's idea to do so. Though Hodder still expresses resentment over not being chosen, he is still good friends with Kirzinger and Englund. In 2011 Hodder wrote, along with author Michael Aloisi, his autobiography Unmasked: The True Story of the World's Most Prolific Cinematic Killer. This was in 2014 turned into a Webseries, which was released as The Killer & I.

Hodder starred in the slasher film Hatchet as main character Victor Crowley, a physically deformed young boy who comes back from the dead to kill the people who invade the swamp he lives in, a similar story in relation to that of Jason Voorhees. The role earned him the Horror Jury Award for Best Actor at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. He reprised this role in Hatchet II, Hatchet III and Victor Crowley.

Hodder portrayed Grawesome Crutal in the old-school slasher film, Muck and its sequel Muck: Feast of Saint Patrick. He co-starred with Doug Jones and Michael McShane in the horror comedy film Love in the Time of Monsters. In March 2015, he was part of Adam Green's ArieScope webseries Adam Green's Scary Sleepover.

Kane Hodder reprised his role as Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The Game.

Unmasked

Hodder co-wrote an autobiography with author Mike Aloisi. The book is about his life and experience in the film industry and was released on October 1, 2011.

Unmasked do*ents the unlikely true story of a boy who was taunted and beaten relentlessly by bullies throughout his childhood. Kane only escaped his tormentors when he moved to a tiny island in the South Pacific where he lived for all of his teen years. After living shirtless in a jungle for a while, he headed back to America where he fell in love with doing stunts—only to have his love burn him, literally. For the first time ever, Kane tells the true story of the burn injury that nearly killed him at the start of his career. The entire story of his recovery, the emotional and physical damage it caused, his fight to break back into the industry that almost killed him, and his rise to become a film actor are told in Kane's own voice.

Filmography

Stunts

• Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
• Hardbodies (1984)
• The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985)
• House (1986)
• Avenging Force (1986)
• The Patriot (1986)
• House II: The Second Story (1987)
• Born to Race (1988)
• Prison (1988)
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
• Waxwork (1988)
• DeepStar Six (1989)
• The Horror Show (1989)
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
• Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw M*acre III (1990)
• 9½ Ninjas! (1991)
• Out for Justice (1991)
• Dangerous Women (1991)
• Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College (1991)
• The Rapture (1991)
• The Last Boy Scout (1991)
• House IV (1992)
• Double Trouble (1992)
• Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992)
• Live! From Death Row (1992)
• Under Siege (1992)
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
• Father Hood (1993)
• Demolition Man (1993)
• Younger & Younger (1993)
• The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994)
• A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)
• Just Cause (1995)
• Project Metalbeast (1995)
• Four Rooms (1995)
• Seven (1995)
• Fair Game (1995)
• L.A. Heat (1996)
• The Big Fall (1996)
• Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (1996)
• The Fan (1996)
• Marshal Law (1996)
• Brittle Glory (1997)
• Spawn (1997)
• Fire Down Below (1997)
• Team Knight Rider (1997)
• Most Wanted (1997)
• The Shooter (1997)
• The Underground (1997)
• Wishmaster (1997)
• The Protector (1997)
• The Shadow Men (1998)
• Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998)
• Black Thunder (1998)
• A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
• Enemy of the State (1998)
• Hitman's Run (1999)
• Robbers (2000)
• Partners (2000)
• Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
• Slackers (2002)
• Monster (2003)
• Daredevil (2003)
• Freddy Vs. Jason (2003), Stunt for Leatherface in Texas Chainsaw M*acre III as a cameo on a television
• The Devil's Rejects (2005)
• Fallen Angels (2006; also *ociate Producer)
• Hatchet (2006)
• Hack! (2007)
• Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007)
• Ghost Town (2008)
• Hatchet II (2010)
• Hatchet III (2013)
• Friday the 13th: The Game (2017) (Video game motion capture c*ography and stunts)
• Victor Crowley (2017)
• The Texas Chain Saw M*acre (2022) (Video game motion capture c*ography and stunts)

Acting

• California Split (1974) as Reno Poker Player
• Alligator (1980) as Alligator (uncredited)
• Streets of Hollywood (1983) as Kane
• Lone Wolf McQuade (1983) as Goon (uncredited)
• Hardbodies (1984) as Older Geek
• City Limits (1984) as Unfriendly DA
• Avenging Force (1986) as Thug
• House II: The Second Story (1987) as Gorilla
• Open House (1987) as Trailer Narration (voice)
• Prison (1987) as Forsythe / Gas Mask Guard
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) as Jason Voorhees
• Waxwork (1988) as Frankenstein's Monster (uncredited)
• Trained to Kill (1989) as Body Guard
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) as Jason Voorhees
• Best of the Best (1989) as Burt
• Ghoulies III: Ghoulies go to College (1991) as Man in Rolling Mop Bucket (uncredited)
• 9½ Ninjas! (1991) (uncredited)
• Alligator II: The Mutation (1991) as Billy Boy
• Out for Justice (1991) as Henchman at Party (uncredited)
• The Rapture (1991) as Security Guard (uncredited)
• Under Siege (1992) as Commando (uncredited)
• No Place to Hide (1993) as Weller
• House IV (1992) as The Human Pizza (uncredited)
• Best of the Best 2 (1993) as Backdoor Man
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) as Jason Voorhees / FBI guard at hospital #2 / Freddy Krueger's gloved hand
• Father Hood (1993) as Bus Driver (uncredited)
• Rubdown (1993, TV Movie) as Simon
• Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1993) as Keith Knox
• The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1994, TV Series) as Cop Near Bank Vault (uncredited)
• A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994) (uncredited)
• Scanner Cop II (1995) as Kidnapper #1
• Project Metalbeast (1995) as MetalBeast
• Steel Frontier (1995) as Kinton
• Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (1995) as Neo-National Socialist German Workers' Party Gunman (uncredited)
• Fair Game (1995)
• Wildly Available (1996) as Driver
• The Big Fall (1996)
• The Protector (1997) as Guard Falling Down Stairs (uncredited)
• Wishmaster (1997) as Merritt's Guard
• T.N.T. (1997) as Townie #3
• The Shooter (1997) as Fighter (uncredited)
• Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) as Bartender
• Watchers Reborn (1998) as Clerk
• V.I.P. (1998, TV Series) as Matthew Adair
• Nash Bridges (1998, TV Series) as Josh Denkirk (uncredited)
• Wildly Available (1999)
• L.A. Heat (1999)
• Geppetto (2000)
• Jason X (2001) as Jason Voorhees / Uber Jason
• Daredevil (2003) as Fallon's Bodyguard (uncredited)
• Charmed (2003, TV Series) as Thug at Pizza Place (uncredited)
• Dark Wolf (2003) as Biker Guy
• Grind (2003) as Sandy's Dad (uncredited)
• Monster (2003) as Undercover Cop
• Alias (2003, TV Series) as Lead Thug in Shanghai (uncredited)
• 2001 Maniacs (2005) as Jason
• The Devil's Rejects (2005) as Officer with Gas Mask on Left (uncredited)
• Hatchet (2006) as Victor Crowley / Mr. Crowley
• Room 6 (2006) as Homeless Demon
• Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006) as Guy at Elm Street House
• Fallen Angels (2006) as Envy
• Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007) as Ed Gein
• Hack! (2007) as First Victim
• Dead Noon (2007) as Undead Cowboy
• Born (2007) as Asmodeus / Cardinal
• B.T.K. (2008) as Dennis Rader
• Black Friday (2008)
• His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th (2009, TV Movie do*entary) as Himself
• Monsterpiece Theatre Volume 1 (2009)
• Old Habits Die Hard (2009) as Jonah
• Bundy: A Legacy of Evil (2009) as Warden
• Fear Clinic (2009, TV Series) as Villatoro
• Stingy Jack (2009)
• Frozen (2010) as Cody
• Hatchet II (2010) as Victor Crowley / Thomas Crowley
• Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010) as Himself
• Black Friday 3D (2010)
• The Afflicted (2011) as Hank
• Exit 33 (2011) as Ike
• Chillerama (2011) as Meshugannah (segment "The Diary Of Anne Frankenstein")
• The Family (2011) as Stone
• Monsterpiece Theatre Volume II (2011) as Milo (segment "Moonlighting")
• Robin Hood: Ghosts of Sherwood (2012) as Little John
• Among Friends (2012) as Limo Driver
• Holliston (2012-2013, TV Series) as Himself
• Hatchet III (2013) as Victor Crowley
• Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013, TV Movie do*entary) as Himself
• Exit to Hell (2013) as Sickle
• Love in the Time of Monsters (2014) as Lou
• Digging up The Marrow (2014) as Himself
• Alice D (2014) as Sr. Davenport
• Abandoned in the Dark (2014) as Hutchinson
• Fury: The Tales of Ronan Pierce (2014) as Eddie White
• Charlie's Farm (2014) as Tony Stewart
• Muck (2015) as Grawesome Crutal
• Old 37 (2015) as Jon Roy
• Tag (2015) as Tom
• Almost Mercy (2015) as Coach Elwood
• Smothered (2016) as Striper
• Chainsaw Maidens (2016) as Angel of Death
• Check Point (2017) as Cyris
• Friday the 13th: The Game (2017, Video Game) as Jason Voorhees / Roy Burns (Motion capture c*ography and stunts)
• Victor Crowley (2017) as Victor Crowley
• Death House (2017) as Sieg
• An Accidental Zombie (Named Ted) (2017) as Frank Lee
• Shed of the Dead (2019) as Mr. Parsons
• Paralyzed with Fear (2019) as Chemock
• Tabbott's Traveling Carnivale of Terrors (2019) as Victor: The Butcher
• Impractical Jokers: The Movie (2020) as Bodyguard (uncredited)
• Stay Home (2020) as Kane
• Room 9 (2021) as Beau Johnson
• 13 Fanboy (2021) as Himself
• Room 9 Part 2: They Turned Us Into Killers (upcoming) as Beau Johnson
• Knifecorp (upcoming) as Angus Finn
• "Dead by Midnight (Y2Kill)" (upcoming) as Kane Hodder
• "Junction Murders" (upcoming) as Jimmy Bernando
• Wickedy Ally (upcoming) as Captain Charles Black
• Jasper (2022) as Jasper Davidson
• The Pick Up (upcoming) as Bill
• Our Social Playground (upcoming) as Craig Garrington
• Iron Lung (upcoming) as Iron Lung
• Dr Frakenstein's Journal (upcoming) as Aaron Kosminski
• Devotion (upcoming) as Tank
• Dawn of 5 Evils (upcoming)
• Beaten Path (upcoming)
• Witchula (upcoming) as Elias Lou Warren
• Room and Board (upcoming)
• The Texas Chain Saw M*acre (upcoming video game) as Jedidiah Sawyer/Leatherface (Motion capture c*ography and stunts)

Himself

• To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story (2018)
• In Search of Darkness (2019)
• In Search of Darkness: Part II (2020)
• Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party (2020)

Personal life

Kane Hodder and R.A. Mihailoff

Hodder is an avid poker player. He has the word "Kill!" tattooed on the back of his bottom lip. He spends time working with children in burn centers, and despite the roles he often plays, Hodder has often been described as a very friendly man who loves to meet his fans.

For a long time, Hodder claimed his favorite kill scene in his films was the "sleeping bag against a tree" scene from Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. He now considers the one where he rips a woman's face in half from Hatchet (2006) to be his favorite.

Hodder is a noted Juggalo, a fan of the group Insane Clown Posse. To reflect this, he has a custom charm of the group's "hatchetman" logo holding a machete instead of a hatchet, a reference to his role as Jason.

Hodder appeared on the December 4, 2012 episode of the TruTV show Hardcore Pawn, in which he had a miniature gold mask made from a piece a fan had made for him.

Along with poker Hodder is also an avid ghost hunter. He founded the Hollywood Ghost Hunters group with former stuntman and friend Rick "Stuntman" McCullum who was a stunt double for Sid Haig.

In 1984, he married his wife Susan B. Hodder and has two sons name Jace Hodder and Reed Hodder.

References

External links

• Official website
• Kane Hodder at IMDb
• Kane Hodder: To Hell and Back - Official Trailer.