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Victor Miller, the writer of the original Friday the 13th, died at 86. His career spanned Manny's Orphans, A Stranger Is Watching, and TV soaps, with later work including Rock, Paper, Scissors (2017). He was also an executive producer on the Crystal Lake prequel series for A24, set to stream on Peacock.
Victor Miller, the screenwriter behind the original Friday the 13th, has died at 86, his son Ian confirms, with a celebration of life planned for November on a Friday the 13th. Miller’s career spanned film and TV, earning Daytime Emmys for All My Children, and his legacy continues through Crystal Lake, the A24/Peacock prequel series to the Friday the 13th films, which debuts October 15.
Victor Miller, the screenwriter behind the 1980 horror classic Friday the 13th, died in Alameda, California at age 86. Miller’s screenplay helped launch a lasting franchise and popularized the summer-camp setting and slasher tropes, and he later wrote for TV soaps including All My Children, One Life to Live, Another World, Guiding Light and General Hospital (with All My Children earning three Daytime Emmy Awards for writing). He is survived by his wife Tina Thurston Miller and two sons, Ian and Josh.