Taso Stavrakis

Taso Stavrakis is a stunt man and makeup effects artist and the protégé of special effects maestro Tom Savini. In the 1980 slasher classic Friday the 13th, Taso doubled for actress Betsy Palmer's Pamela Voorhees in many of the film's earlier scenes. Taso drove the jeep that carried the hitchhiking cook Annie to her final doom. Taso served as Palmer's "hand double" in many scenes as well. It was his hands that were seen in the part where Pamela slices Annie's throat open with a knife. His hand appears again in the scene where Pamela is peering through the bushes watching the camp counselors swimming in the lake and again at the end after Alice Hardy beheads Mrs. Voorhees. Taso also fired the arrow (shot by the character of Ned Rubinstein in the film) that nearly strikes camp counselor Brenda.

Notes & Trivia

 * Taso Stavrakis and his friend and mentor Tom Savini are both known for boasting thick, black mustaches, which later inspired original Jason Voorhees actor Ari Lehman to grow his own mustache.