Producers

Burt Sugarman Net Worth

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1 month ago

March 10, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Burt Sugarman's Net Worth as of 2024
$25 Million

Burton Roy Sugarman was born on the 4th January 1939, in Los Angeles, California USA, and is a television and film producer who, as Burt Sugarman, is most famous for producing the NBC’s 1970s iconic musical variety TV series – “The Midnight Special”. Apart from this, he is also widely recognized for producing the 1986 romantic drama “Children of a Lesser God” which earned him a prestigious Academy Award nomination.

Have you ever wondered how much wealth this moviemaking industry veteran has accumulated so far? How rich Burt Sugarman is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total of Burt Sugarman’s net worth, as of May 2015, exceeds the sum of $25 million, acquired through his career in the entertainment industry which was active for nearly three decades, between 1969 and 1999.

Burt Sugarman Net Worth $25 million

Burt Sugarman’s professional career began in 1969 when he was hired as the executive producer on the “Dionne Warwick – Souled Out” one hour TV special. This was followed by work on another TV music special “The Switched-On Symphony” in 1970, for which he was honored with a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Later that year, Sugarman began serving as the executive producer of “Changing Scene”, a TV special which combined equal parts of music, dancing and comedy as well. He also worked on all three of its sequels, aired in late 1970 and 1971, respectively. All these engagements provided the basis for Burt Sugarman’s current net worth.

Sugarman’s big screen debut occurred in 1971, when he produced the critically booed thriller with Mickey Rooney in the leading role – “The Manipulator”. However, the real breakthrough in Sugarman’s career occurred in 1972, when he began his work on “The Midnight Special” for which he served not only as its producer but was the creator as well. It was a late-night, pop and rock music program which featured live performances, occasionally mixing in comedy acts. It aired on NBC in the early 1980s, andtt is certain than the latter venture massively helped Burt Sugarman to establish himself as a prominent producer in the entertainment industry, which later led to him earning millions.

Some other notable projects of Burt Sugarman certainly include TV game shows such as the 1973 “The Wizard of Odds” as well as “Celebrity Sweepstakes” which aired on NBC between 1974 and 1976. During the 1970s, Burt also produced “The Richard Pryor Show” and “The Richard Pryor Special?,” while in 1980 he served as the executive producer of CBS’s game show “Whew!”. Doubtlessly, all these engagements contributed to the total size of Burt Sugarman’s net worth.

Apart from television, Sugarman has also produced several big screen motion pictures such as, besides all those already mentioned above, “Kiss Me Goodbye” (1982), “Extremities” (1986) as well as “Crimes of the Heart” (1986) and “Mary Hart Presents Love in the Public Eye” (1990). All these accomplishments helped Burt Sugarman to significantly increase his income.

When it comes to his personal life, Sugarman has married three times- from the marriage with Pauline Schur which lasted from 1957 to 1961 when they divorced, he has one child. In 1962, he was engaged to Swedish-American actress Ann-Margaret, while between 1975 and 1980, Burt was married to actress Carol Wayne. Since 1989, he has been married to Mary Hart, an actress, producer and television personality with whom he has welcomed a son.

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Celebrities

Paul Heyman Net Worth

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6 hours ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Paul Heyman was born on 11 September 1965, in Westchester County, New York City USA, and is an entertainment producer, performer, marketing guru, and a businessman. In particular, he is a vital member of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (a.k.a. the WWE). Heyman’s versatility has made a great impact on his net worth.

So just how rich is Paul Heyman? The latest information from authoritative sources as of mid-2016, estimates that Paul’s net worth is over $10 million, accumulated during his working life now spanning 30 years.

Paul Heyman’s Net Worth $10 Million

Paul was born into the Jewish family of personal injury attorney Richard, and Sulamita Heyman, actually a holocaust survivor. At 11 he started his first business attempt, selling celebrity and sports memorabilia. His educational background comes from Suny Purchase, New York, and Westchester Community College, where he was also employed as a radio station host and later a producer, and was famous/notorious even then for his bold, controversial and opinionated statements.While still a teenager, Heyman hustled his way as a photo journalist into a World Wide Wrestling Federation event at Madison Square Garden, and was paid by the company for several photos he had taken. This is considered as a first step into his later career, and which talent he expanded into the creation of a wrestling magazine “The Wrestling Times Magazine^“, and wrote for wrestling publications such as “Pro Wrestling Illustrated”.

Paul then successively worked for Capitol Wrestling Corporation, Championship Wrestling from Florida, Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling, and Extreme Championship Wrestling, in various guises including promoter, producer, trainer, and manager, and then with World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as a commentator and broadcaster from the turn of the century. Additionally, he is also the manager of such famous wrestlers as Brock Lesnar and a group of wrestlers called Paul Heyman Guys. The training career income is considered to be one of the main flows into Heyman’s account as well.

Paul Heyman pursues a separate career as a businessman as well, as he has also co-founded and co-owns a branding and advertising marketing firm The Looking4Larry Agency, based in New York City. The company is mostly known for its activities in viral video production as well as social media marketing. Heyman employed award winning NYC ad executive Mitchell K. Stuart of HQ-Creative Services and their very first client was EA Sports. After successful viral campaigns with EA, The Looking4Larry Agency became the agency of record for THQ video games, where Heyman and Stuart wrote, directed, and produced viral videos for THQ games such as All Stars, WWE ’12, and WWE ’13.

Heyman also launched a multimedia project called The Heyman Hustle, featuring a video of him interacting with celebrities from several areas of entertainment on the streets of New York City, and articles about professional wrestling.

Additionally, Heyman was cast by producer Michael Tadross as “Gino” in the film adaptation of the off-Broadway show “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding”, and Heyman also made a cameo appearance in the WWE Studios film, “Countdown”.

In his personal life, Paul Heyman married Maria, but is reputed to be raising their two children as a single father. There is little other private information available to the media.

Actors

Tony Dow Net Worth

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6 hours ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Tony Lee Dow was born on 13 April 1945 in Hollywood, California USA. He is a well-known person in the Hollywood movie industry because of his long-lasting involvement as a film producer, director and an actor.

So how rich is Tony Dow? Sources estimate his current net worth to be $4 million. Most of it he has accumulated by working as a professional Hollywood actor for more than 50 years.

Tony Dow Net Worth $4 Million

Tony Dow’s interest in the film industry might have been related to the fact that his mother, Muriel Virginia Dow, was a stunt woman and a film double at the time Tony was a child and teenager. However, Tony undoubtedly had some acting talent which was proven when he managed to win the audition for a role in the sitcom “Leave It to Beaver” in 1957, despite having no experience in acting at that time. This was the role that had perhaps the most influence in building a solid foundation to Tony Dow’s acting career, even though he received only one award – Young Artist Award in nomination of “Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award” in 1988, after working in the show for six years. It was also a solid start to his net worth.

In the next few years after “Leave It to Beaver”, Tony appeared in several episodes of other TV shows, such as the sitcom “My Three Sons” (in 1964), drama series “Mr. Novak” (between 1963 and 1965) and teen soap opera “Never Too Young” (in 1965). Tony continued working in television up until the late 90s and his net worth continued to grow, for example in 1975 he starred in the popular medical TV drama “General Hospital”.

While Tony Dow is mostly known as a television actor, he has appeared in a few films during his career, including the television horror film “Death Scream” in 1975, comedy film “The Kentucky Fried Movie” in 1977, television comedy film “High School USA” in 1983, comedy “Back to the Beach” and comedy film “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star” in 2003.

Acting aside, Tony Dow is also known as a producer, director and visual effects specialist, especially in the science fiction genre, and these involvements have undoubtedly contributed to building up his net worth. Tony contributed to the visual effects of the 1996 season of the phenomenal British science fiction TV series “Doctor Who”, and a few episodes of the space opera TV series “Babylon 5”. He also directed an episode of the American science fiction TV series “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” in 1998.

Interestingly though, some people might also recognize Tony Dow as a sculptor who is well known for his brilliant abstract pieces depicting surreal figures.

In his personal life, Tony Dow has never been married and has no children. He is known to have suffered from depression during some periods of his life, which on a positive note has encouraged him to participate in self-help videos, including the production “Beating the Blues” (1998). However, the negative effect is that Tony hasn’t participated as an actor in any film since 2003.