Humphrey Bogart was born on the 25h December 1899, in New York City, USA, and was an iconic, Oscar-winning screen and stage actor, best known for such movies as “The Maltese Falcon” (1941), “Casablanca” (1942), “The Big Sleep” (1946), and “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948). Bogart’s career started in 1921 and ended in 1956. He passed away in 1957.
Have you ever wondered how rich Humphrey Bogart was, at the time of his death? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Bogart’s net worth was as high as $5 million, an amount earned through his successful acting career. In addition to being a major star on the big screen, Bogart played in theatre and on the radio, which also improved his wealth.
Humphrey Bogart Net Worth $5 Million
Humphrey Bogart was the eldest child of Belmont DeForest Bogart and Maud Humphrey, and was raised in an English-Dutch (father) and British (mother) family alongside his sisters Frances and Catherine Elizabeth. He went to Delancey School before moving to the prestigious Trinity School. Bogart’s well-situated family used its connections to send him to the elite boarding school Phillips Academy, with the plan to continue his education at Yale, but Humphrey was expelled in 1918, so he enlisted in the United States Navy that spring.
In 1921, Bogart debuted in a play called “Drifting”, and until 1935, he appeared in more than 15 Broadway productions. In 1930, Humphrey debuted on film in John Ford’s “Up the River”, and he continued with roles in such movies as “A Devil with Women” (1931) and “Body and Soul” (1931). In 1936, Bogart caught the eye in “The Petrified Forest” with Leslie Howard and Bette Davis, and then starred in the Oscar-nominated “Black Legion”. Humphrey was quite busy in 1937 as he played in “Marked Woman” again alongside Bette Davis, in “Kid Galahad” with Edward G. Robinson and Bette Davis, and in William Wyler’s Oscar-nominated “Dead End”. Bogart ended the ‘30s with roles in “The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse” (1938), and in Michael Curtiz’s Oscar-nominated “Angels with Dirty Faces” (1938) with James Cagney and Pat O’Brien. He also starred in Edmund Goulding’s Oscar-nominated “Dark Victory” (1939) alongside Bette Davis, and in “The Roaring Twenties” (1939) with James Cagney and Priscilla Lane. His net worth was well established by this time.
Bogart started the ‘40s with parts in such movies as “Brother Orchid” (1940), “They Drive by Night” (1940), and “High Sierra” (1941), but then starred in John Huston’s Oscar-nominated “The Maltese Falcon” (1941) which helped him to become an international star. The movie grossed over $1.7 million worldwide, which was very lucrative at the time and helped Humphrey to increase his net worth significantly. He then played in “All Through the Night” (1942) and in Michael Curtiz’s Oscar-winning “Casablanca” (1943) alongside Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid; this masterpiece secured him a first Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role and made him a lot of money. These two movies launched Bogart as a Hollywood star, and he continued to work in very notable films.
In 1943, he starred in Oscar-nominated “Action in the North Atlantic”, while his next two movies also received Academy Award nominations: Zoltan Korda’s “Sahara” and David Butler’s “Thank Your Lucky Stars” (1943). In the mid-40s, Humphrey played alongside Lauren Bacall in Howard Hawks’ “To Have and Have Not” (1944), in “Conflict” (1945), and in “The Big Sleep” (1946). He and Bacall starred in “Dark Passage” (1947), and then he had lead roles in John Huston’s Oscar-winning films “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948) and “Key Largo” (1948) alongside Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall.
Bogart’s medical conditions didn’t allow him to appear as frequently on the screen as in the ‘50s as he did earlier in career, but he did play in several notable movies. In the early ‘50s, Humphrey had roles in “In a Lonely Place” (1950) and “The Enforcer” (1951), before earning his first and only Oscar for John Huston’s “The African Queen” (1951) with Katharine Hepburn. The film grossed over $10 million at the box office, and it was one of the most lucrative in Bogart’s career. He continued with “Deadline – U.S.A.” (1952), was nominated for an Oscar in Edward Dmytryk’s “The Caine Mutiny” (1954), and then in Billy Wilder’s Oscar-winning “Sabrina” (1954) with Audrey Hepburn and William Holden. Humphrey’s last films were Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Oscar-winning “The Barefoot Contessa” (1954) alongside Ava Gardner, in “The Desperate Hours” (1955), and in Mark Robson’s Oscar-winning “The Harder They Fall” (1956).
Regarding his personal life, Humphrey Bogart was married to Helen Menken from 1926 to 1927, and then to Mary Philips from 1928 to 1938. His third wife was Mayo Methot from 1938 to 1945, and was then married to fellow actress Lauren Bacall – 24 years his junior – from 1945 to the moment of his death and had two children with her.
A lifelong smoker, Bogart was diagnosed with a cancer of the oesophagus in 1956, and died on the 14th January 1957 in Los Angeles, USA after falling into a coma.
