Actor Jonathan Tiersten attends Wizard World's Philadelphia Comic Con 2011 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on June 18, 2011 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagic)

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Jonathan Tiersten, who starred in the 1980s cult horror movie hit Sleepaway Camp, has died.

The actor’s brother, William Tiersten, told TMZ that Jonathan Tiersten died at his home in New Jersey last week and that a medical examiner is investigating his cause of death. He was 60.

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Born Aug. 11, 1965, in Queens, N.Y., Tiersten’s screen debut came in an uncredited role in a 1981 episode of the NBC daytime drama Another World.

In 1983, Tiersten starred as Ricky Thomas in writer-director Robert Hiltzik’s slasher horror thriller Sleepaway Camp. In the film, Ricky and his cousin, Angela (Felissa Rose), are sent away by Ricky’s eccentric mother to Camp Arawak. Before too long, teen campers at Arawak begin suffering gruesome fates, hence Sleepaway Camp’s tagline, "You won’t be coming home.”

In a 2013 interview with Horror Society, Tiersten said he was surprised by the fans’ long-lasting love for the film.

“It is amazing to be remembered for something you were a part of,” Tiersten told Horror Society. “It doesn’t matter when you did it. I have spent my life figuring that out. I have continued to seek out new challenges and new ventures, but Sleepaway Camp will probably be my legacy. I am OK with that.”

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Tiersten reprised the role for the 2008 sequel Return to Sleepaway Camp and appeared in archive footage in the 1992 sequel Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor.