Betsy Palmer, an actress who started out as a game-show panelist and worked in serious theater but achieved her greatest fame as a slasher and ax murderer in “Friday the 13th,” has died.

Betsy Palmer, an actress and leading TV personality of the 1950s and 1960s who displayed a sunny disposition on morning and game shows but achieved her most enduring fame as the murderous camp ...

LOS ANGELES -- Betsy Palmer, the veteran character actress who achieved lasting, though not necessarily sought-after, fame as the murderous camp cook in the cheesy horror film "Friday the 13th ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Betsy Palmer, the veteran character actress who achieved lasting, though not necessarily sought-after, fame as the murderous camp cook in the cheesy horror film Friday the ...

Betsy Palmer was horrified when she first read the script for what would become an iconic franchise – for a very different reason. The ‘50s TV star, who would go on to play the murderous camp ...

Actress Betsy Palmer, whose long film, stage and television career began back in 1951 in the early days of live television and who later found a new generation of fans in her role as Mrs. Vorhees ...

Betsy Palmer, a veteran character actress best known for playing the homicidal cook and mother of Jason Voorhees in the 1980 horror classic “Friday the 13th,” died on Friday at age 88.

By Mike Barnes, The Associated Press Betsy Palmer, the veteran character actress who achieved lasting, though not necessarily sought-after, fame as the murderous camp cook in the cheesy horror ...