April 8

• 2013 – Richard Brooker, he portrayed “Jason Voorhees” in “Friday the 13th Part III” and appeared in “Deathstalker.” He was 58.
• 2003 – Kathie Brown, wife of the late Darren McGavin, passed away at the age 63. She appeared in several TV shows including the original “Star Trek,” “Mr. Terrific,” The Wild Wild West” and along side her husband in the “Sentry” episode of “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.”
• 1996 – León Klimovsky, writer and director of such Spanish films as “The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman”, “Doctor Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo”, “Vengeance of the Zombies”, “Night of the Walking Dead”, “The People Who Own the Dark” and many more. He was 89.
• 1996 – Ben Johnson who appeared in the films “The Town That Dreaded Sundown,” the original “Mighty Joe Young” and “Terror Train,” passed away at the age of 77.
• 1972 – Charles Hoffman who wrote for the TV series “Batman” passed away at the age of 60.