7. Richard Brooker - Friday The 13th Part III (1982)
The third Friday the 13th instalment was intended to be the last of the series, but as we all now know; that most definitely did not happen. When casting Jason, series director Steve Miner wanted a big man to play the role and subsequently hired British stunt man Richard Brooker, who would become the first actor to don the iconic Jason hockey mask. Brooker is a trained trapeze artist, which is what took him to the States initially. After Friday the 13th Part III, Brooker appeared in Deathstalker and Deep Sea Conspiracy in the 80s. Brooker went on to set up his own web design company and like his predecessors is a regular on the convention circuits.