Deadwood star Peter Jason died at the age of 80.
The TV veteran has collected more than 270 acting merit in his life, including roles in Karate Kid, Mortal Kombat and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
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Peter Jason died at the age of 80: Getty
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The popular actor was friends with legendary director John Carpentercredit: Getty
Fans and fellow actors paid tribute.
The legendary director of the John Carpenter horror film wrote on X: “Peter Jason, one of the actors of great characters in the cinema, died. His first movie was Howard Hawks’ Rio Lobo. He was a dear friend and I will miss him terribly.”
Jason’s friend Matt Anser wrote, “I’m broken.
“My dear friend and my father’s best friend, Peter Jason, passed away today. What a loss is really one of the sweetest people on the planet. My heart goes out to his wife and daughter.
“Peter, I hope you and my father laughed at *** S.” The fan added: “Ah hell, Rip Peter Jason. He loved him every time he appeared in one of Carpenter’s films, especially the prince of darkness and they live.”
American star Jason began her acting career in the late 1960s in smaller TV roles before he set her mark on John Wayne Western Rio Lobo as a Forsythe Lieutenant.
Other notable turns came in the 1980s when he played a football coach at Kung Fu Classic The Karate Kid and along with Pierce Brosnan in the Remington Steele Spyonage series.
By the end of the decade, he gave his name for himself in horror and had a successful partnership with director Carpenter, starting with Prince of Darkness in 1987.
The couple worked on a trio of scary films in the 1990s: the mouth of the madness, the village of damn and escape from La
Another frequent associate Jason was director Walter Hill, with whom he worked eight times.
In the early 2000s, Jason landed on a recurring role of Dimwitted Con Stapleton in the Western TV series Deadwood, for which he is the most famous.
Critically a recognized program that documented the trials and troubles of the growth of Deadwood in the southern Dakota in the 1870s won eight Emmy.
Jason repeated his role in 2019 for a reunion movie.
He also borrowed his vocal talents with numerous hit video games, including Gears of War 2 and Fallout 2.
Music lovers can also recognize it from a performance in Bat in Meat Loaf from a music video of Hell II.
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Dayton Callie and Peter Jason at the premiere of the Deadwood 2019credit: Getty
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