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It’s been half a century since Steven Speilberg<\/strong>‘s groundbreaking movie Jaws first made audiences afraid to step foot in the ocean…but one actor is still making thousands of dollars from his extremely brief (if highly memorable) appearance in the film.<\/p>\n As Alex Kintner (otherwise known as \u201cSecond Child Killed by Shark\u201d), Jeffrey Voorhees<\/strong> was only in Jaws for one very bloody minute. Even so, as the now 62-year-old actor recently told The Independent<\/a>, he’s making more money than ever from the gruesome cameo thanks to the highly lucrative fan convention circuit.<\/p>\n \u201cI used to say, \u2018I don\u2019t have time for this,\u2019 and then I said: \u2018OK, I\u2019ll try it once,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe first one I ever did was in New York, and someone\u2019s at the airport holding your name up and the photos. You make good money at those things and you go all over the world and meet up with real actors,” Voorhees continued.<\/p>\n As for what exactly constitutes “good money,” Voorhees says he gets paid $10,000 per convention appearance. And that’s not the only way he continues to profit from his childhood role, either. On his website<\/a>, Voorhees sells an assortment of Jaws-themed memorabilia including inflatable life rafts with a shark bite mark ($289), posters ($35) and t-shirts ($45 to $70).<\/p>\n Business, apparently, is booming: Voorhees, who worked in the restaurant business, said he “kind of retired because it’s like I make more money off of\u00a0Jaws\u00a0stuff now.”<\/p>\n The former child actor has been surprised by how popular his character is with fans, even 50 years later.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll be walking down the street sometimes and I can hear people saying, \u2018That\u2019s the dead Alex Kintner over there!\u2019 It\u2019s surreal,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cThere was a 14-year-old girl crying because her parents drove her five hours down from Chicago and she was so moved to see me. I\u2019m in the movie for one minute!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou get a little high off of that,\u201d Voorhees continued. \u201cYou make some good money, and you make some people really happy, so why not?\u201d<\/p>\n Voorhees isn’t the only actor cashing in at fan conventions, with good reason. According to the Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, many stars are making more money at conventions than they did from the roles that make them famous, with A-listers like Norman Reedus<\/strong> (The Walking Dead), Mark Hamill<\/strong> (Star Wars) and Matt Smith<\/strong> (Doctor Who) easily making hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single weekend.<\/p>\n \u201cIf somebody wanted to do a convention every weekend, they could make more on the convention circuit than their episodic fee,\u201d said\u00a0Arrow\u00a0star Stephen\u00a0Amell<\/strong>, whose success on the circuit inspired to start his own talent agency,\u00a0WFA\u00a0Entertainment.<\/p>\n Related: Popular ’80s Actress’ Net Worth Is So Huge Even Taylor Swift Doesn’t Stack Up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Sep 4, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been half a century since Steven Speilberg‘s groundbreaking movie Jaws first made audiences afraid to step foot in the ocean…but one actor is still making thousands of dollars from his extremely brief (if highly memorable) appearance in the film. 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