Name: Jeffrey Voorhees.<\/p>\n
Age: 62.<\/p>\n
Appearance: Just the one.<\/p>\n
Occupation: Child actor.<\/p>\n
Pretty old for a child actor. He\u2019s a former child actor.<\/p>\n
Has he been in anything I would have seen? Jaws.<\/p>\n
Wow. Anything else? No, not really.<\/p>\n
Oh. Well, Jaws is pretty good. I\u2019ve seen it dozens of times. Jeffrey Voorhees will be pleased to hear that.<\/p>\n
Why? Because, despite his very small role as shark victim Alex Kintner when he was 12, Voorhees is still being paid residuals \u2013 royalties \u2013 50 years later. Every time Jaws<\/a> is on TV, he earns money.<\/p>\n Nice work if you can get it. \u201cIt pays to die,\u201d is how he put it in a recent interview with Syfy.<\/p>\n Even so, he can\u2019t be pulling in that much after all this time. It\u2019s not just residuals. After hiding from fame for years, Voorhees \u2013 who still lives on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, where Jaws was filmed \u2013 has found ways to embrace the full earning capacity of his brief turn as victim number two.<\/p>\n How? By attending fan conventions for \u201c\u00a310,000 a time\u201d, selling autographed merch online and making personalised videos on Cameo.<\/p>\n People pay him for that? It helps that Jaws fans are a little obsessive. One woman brought Voorhees an inflatable yellow raft identical to the one on which Alex Kintner met his demise. \u201cShe was in tears and I signed the raft for her,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n That sounds more than a little obsessive. He\u2019s even been presented with his old discarded royalty statements \u2013 bought by fans on eBay for thousands \u2013 to sign. \u201cI don\u2019t throw them away any more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Are there any other child actors still raking it in after all these years? Yes, if not to the same extent. Jason Weaver, who provided the singing voice for young Simba in the original animated version of The Lion King, reportedly received, and still receives, far more than the $2m (\u00a31.5m) upfront Disney originally offered him before his mother insisted on a reduced fee plus royalties from soundtrack sales.<\/p>\n Well done, Jason\u2019s mum. Are there any more actors with cameos as brief as Voorhees\u2019? Casey Margolis, who fleetingly played a young version of Jonah Hill\u2019s character in the 2007 film Superbad<\/a>, recently revealed he\u2019s still getting cheques.<\/p>\n The kid who draws penises on everything? That\u2019s him. While the amounts vary from $10,000 to 12 cents, he reckons he\u2019s collected about $100k<\/a> (\u00a374,000) in total.<\/p>\n What a racket! How can I get my kid killed in something huge? Actually, that ship has probably sailed. Streaming services don\u2019t tend to pay residuals in the same way, as their content is always available to watch \u2013 and young actors have reported receiving minuscule amounts<\/a> for their work.<\/p>\n Do say: \u201cThese eye-watering sums are a symptom of how out of control fan culture has become.\u201d<\/p>\n Don\u2019t say: \u201cYou\u2019re gonna need a bigger bank account.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Name: Jeffrey Voorhees. Age: 62. Appearance: Just the one. Occupation: Child actor. Pretty old for a child actor.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-76522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}