Bill Randolph

Randolph attended Lincoln High School where he acted in school plays.{{cite news |newspaper=The Sacramento Bee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51968206/the-sacramento-bee/ |accessdate=15 July 2020 |title=Stockton Play is Scheduled |date=12 July 1970 |page=A13}} Afterwards, he attended Allan Hancock College and studied at its PCCA theater training program.{{cite news |last1=Myler |first1=Randal |title=Everywhere you look, there's PCPA Santa Maria makes it big on Broadway |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49605005/santa-maria-times/ |accessdate=23 May 2020 |newspaper=Santa Maria Times |date=19 May 1979}} Subsequently, he graduated from SUNY Purchase with a bachelor's degree in fine arts.{{cite book |last1=Bracke |first1=Peter M. |title=Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday The 13th |date=1 October 2006 |publisher=Titan Books (US, CA) |isbn=978-1-84576-343-5 |language=en}}

He starred with Mercedes Hall (mother of Anthony Michael Hall) in Lanny Meyer and Arthur Morey's social protest disco musical St. Joan of the Microphone, which played in New York City parks and festivals, including the Lincoln Center Outdoor Festival, in the summer of 1977. He created the role of the club heart-throb, Supersonic Phil Harmonic.

On Broadway, he starred in the long-running play Gemini for two years.{{cite news |last1=Edgar |first1=Henry |title='Friday The 13th Part 2' Brings Back The Blood |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49592682/daily-press/ |accessdate=23 May 2020 |newspaper=Daily Press |date=10 May 1981 |archive-date=14 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614014102/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49592682/daily-press/ |url-status=dead }}

Randolph's first feature film was the horror movie Dressed to Kill (1980), but he is best known for his role in the 1981 horror movie Friday the 13th Part 2 as Jeffrey.[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/friday-13th-part-ii-star-revisits-bloody-death-horror-article-1.2635398 "'Friday the 13th Part II' star Bill Randolph revisits bloody death in 1981 horror classic"] New York Daily News. Retrieved 2017-05-30. He also starred in the 1989 movie Penn & Teller Get Killed, and his most recent movie appearance was in the 1991 film Guilty as Charged.

He made guest appearances on TV shows such as Hill Street Blues and As the World Turns. Randolph starred in the short lived TV series Comedy Zone in 1984, and in the series Trauma Center.{{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Clarke |title=COMEDY ZONE' TAPS THEATER TALENT |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51968844/the-los-angeles-times/ |accessdate=23 May 2020 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=14 August 1984 |url-access=subscription}}{{cite news |last1=O'Connor |first1=John J. |title=TV: 2-Hour Prremiere of 'Trauma Center' Series |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/22/arts/tv-2-hour-prremiere-of-trauma-center-series.html |accessdate=23 May 2020 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=22 September 1983 |url-access=subscription}}

Randolph retired from acting in the early 1990s to pursue a more steady career as a graphic designer and would work for the New York Daily News.{{cite news |last1=Sacks |first1=Ethan |title=Bill Randolph, 'Friday The 13th Part II' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49592907/daily-news/ |accessdate=23 May 2020 |issue=29 October 2006 |newspaper=New York Daily News| page=27}}

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