Marco St. John
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Marco St. John (born May 7, 1939) is an American actor who has starred in many films and on television. He is best known for his role as the perverted truck driver in the 1991 hit film Thelma and Louise. St. John is also well known in the horror fan community for playing Sheriff Tucker in the 1985 horror film Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.
St. John was born Marco John Figueroa, Jr. in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Iris (née Davidson) and Marco John Figueroa, Sr. He currently resides in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. St. John graduated from Fordham University in New York City and began acting professionally shortly after. He has appeared in eleven Broadway plays and has appeared in a number of films, including Monster, Thelma and Louise, Tightrope, The Punisher, The Package, Hard Target and Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. He has also had many tv roles, including a starring role on Search for Tomorrow in 1975 as Joey Kimball, as Paul Stewart in 1969-1970 on As the World Turns, and in All My Children.
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He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Ocean Springs based Mississippi Repertory Theater Company.
Filmography
- New Orleans Mon Amour (2009)
- Flakes (2006)
- At Last (2005)
- Things That Hang from Trees (2005)
- In (2005)
- Mr. 3000 (2004)
- The Punisher (2004)
- The Badge (2002)
- Runaway Jury (2000)
- The Rising Place (2001)
- The Dangerous (1994)
- Hard Target (1993)
- Thelma and Louise (1991)
- The Package (1989)
- Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
- Tightrope (1984)
- Cat People (1982)
- Night of the Juggler (1980)
- The Next Man (1976)
