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Alfred Hitchcock Net Worth

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1 year ago

February 13, 2023

Daniel Wanburg

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock's Net Worth as of 2024
$10 Million

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on the 13th August 1899, in London, England, UK and died on the 29th April 1980 in Los Angeles, USA. He was an iconic film director, screenwriter and producer, in particular a pioneer of the psychological and suspense thriller genres. Hitchcock was nominated for various awards 67 times, 32 of them won, including the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, American Film Institute Award, British Academy Film Award, Directors Guild of America Award among many others. The director also has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Moreover, Hitchcock was appointed a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II. He was active in the entertainment industry from 1919 to 1980.

How rich was the legendary director, screenwriter and producer? Authoritative sources have estimated that the outright size of Alfred Hitchcock’s net worth was as much as $10 million.

Alfred Hitchcock Net Worth $10 Million

To begin with, he started his working life as a draftsman, then in 1920 from British silent film labels he drew for Famous-Players Lasky’s London office/studio. He soon became a mix of screenwriter, art director, and assistant director on a series of films for director Graham Cutts. In 1922, he started his first film “Number Thirteen”, but never finished. His first release was the short film “Always Tell Your Wife” (1923). In 1925, the enterprise completed the first self-recorded film “The Pleasure Garden”. The first masterpiece “The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog” was released in 1927. Alfred himself regarded this film as the first true “Hitchcock film”. The above mentioned film introduced topics that would run through Hitchcock’s works later: the fetishistic sexuality as well as the innocent man on the run, hunted down by a self-righteous society. His first sound film, “Blackmail” was released in 1929, with the director becoming recognized as he took advantage of the inherent tension-prone voice technology options. His net worth was rising.

In 1934, the film “The Man Who Knew Too Much” achieved success overseas – the 1956 remake version of the same film was, according to the director a professional artwork, while the first was a piece of talented amateur works. In 1938, “ The Lady Vanishes” was recognized as the best picture of the year.

In 1939, Hitchcock was growing, and he moved to the USA. He liked the American style, and learned the basics of film-making in a US company – it was not a coincidence that in the USA he prepared his greatest masterpieces. From the 1940s onwards, Hitchcock returned to his favourite genre, the espionage and thriller. He directed the film “Spellbound” (1945) which presents an interesting method of psychoanalysis. After two failures with “Under Capricorn”(1949) and “Stage Fright”(1950) he came back again with an ambitious film; “Dial M for Murder” (1954) was the first film with Grace Kelly, with whom he collaborated later. The works he created in the 1950s and 1960s are considered the best known and are regarded to be the best, including “Rear Window” (1954), “Vertigo” (1958), “North by Northwest” (1959), “Psycho” (1960) and “The Birds” (1963). “Psycho’s” famous shower scene was filmed over seven days and 70 different camera angles used. His films often depict everyday people who are stuck in their incomprehensible or uncontrollable circumstances. Another common theme is the man who is guilty. Films of fear and fantasy are added to characteristic humour.

Hitchcock was involved in over 80 films and TV productions over a period of more than 60 years, many as the director in which role he was regarded as the absolute best of the genre. To emphasise his supposed dark sense of humour, he often made brief cameo appearances in his films – for example, he was the dead body floating by….

Finally, in the personal life of the iconic film-maker, he married Alma Reville in 1926, and they were together until his passing at the age of 81 in April 1980; his body was cremated.. They had one child, Pat Hitchcock.

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Ben Stein Net Worth

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8 hours ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Benjamin Jeremy Stein is an American lawyer, speechwriter, actor, writer and commentator on economic and political issues, but he is also known for participating in many other activities. For example, Ben Stein has even tried himself as a game show host. This famous person in American economics and politics was born on November 25 in 1944 in Washington, D.C., United States during World War II. He attended Columbia College and later Yale Law School. After graduation Ben Stein started to write columns and articles for different US magazines such as Newsmax, Los Angeles Magazine, Penthouse, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Magazine, The American Spectator and even for The New York Times.

Ben Stein Net Worth $20 Million

In his writings Stein usually speaks about the economic situation and political issues, and even gives financial advices to individual investors. However, in the mid-60s he also got the job of a poverty lawyer and later continued as a lawyer for the Federal Trade Comission. After few years of hard work, Ben Stein decided to try himself in acting too, but before starting to get roles he became a Hollywood consultant. Stein got his first comedy role and had to play a boring and monotonous economics teacher in the movie called Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which was released in 1986. As an actor Ben Stein has since appeared in many other movies, such as The Mask, No Intelligence Allowed, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, The Emperor’s New School, Full House, Casper: A Spirited Beginning, The O’Reilly Factor, Maried… with Children, Duckman, The Emperor’s New Schol, Earthworm Jim, Casper Meets Wendy, Family Guy and Richie Rich.

The famous actor and commentator is also recognized thanks to the Comedy Central channel where he was the main face of the show called “Win Ben Stein’s Money” for which he has even received an Emmy award. Ben Stein was earning $5,000 per episode, but money that contestants won was subtracted from actor’s salary. However, these earnings are just nothing if we compare them with Stein’s net worth, which reached $20 million in 2012.

Ben Stein is well known thanks to his ability to harmonize all his activities and show himself as a talented person in every job he does. But maybe one of his most successful, but not so well-known activities is writing speeches for American presidents. Ben Stein was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Until now Ben Stein has published 15 books, the first written together with Herbert Stein and released in 1978. In 2012 his last book appeared in stores – “How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio”.

Nowadays Ben Stein lives with his wife Alexandra Denman in Beverly Hills and Malibu, California. The couple married in 1968 and divorced after 6 years, but in 1977 they got back together again. With his wife Ben Stein adopted their son Tom in 1987. As well as his property in Beverly Hills, Ben Stein also owns a summer home in Sandpoint, Idaho and an apartment in the Watergate complex in Washingtton, D.C., which was inherited from his parents.

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Mikey Teutul Net Worth

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8 hours ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Michael Joseph was born 26 November 1978, in Montgomery, New York State USA, and widely known as Mikey Teutul, is a reality television personality, the youngest son of Orange County Choppers founder Paul Teutul, Sr. Mikey began his working life at 14, in the family business.

So just how rich is Mikey Teutul, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Mikey has a net worth of over $3 million dollars, largely earned by working at his father’s and older brother Paul Jr,’s company Orange County Choppers (OCC), and Orange County Iron Works, and through his TV appearances.

Mikey Teutul Net Worth $3 Million

Little is known of Mikey’s early life or education – it seems to have always revolved around the family business. Helping out his family in his teens, theoretically he worked as Assistant General Manager. but his main duties were to answer ‘phones, and clear-up and take out the trash. He was on rare occasions given the chance to build bikes, until he was competent to build his own. He also attended events for promoting OCC.

In 2002, the family was invited to take part in a reality show, Discovery Channel’s “American Chopper”, and subsequently “American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior”, in the course of which the youngest son was thrown out of the business – the middle son is Daniel, and younger sister Cristin. The reason for Mikey’s exclusion was that Mikey tried to be a mediator between his father and his brother, but his father seemed to be offended that his younger son did not take his side, and so threw him out of the business. During the filming of the show, Mikey was somethoing of a comedy relief to his father’s workers, and that comedy streak helped gain him popularity in TV shows. Mikey then joined his brother’s post-OCC venture, -Paul Jr Designs – along with most of their father’s employees; obviously the work atmosphere with Paul Teutul, Sr. was not a particularly happy one. Mikey’s eldest brother Paul Jr. was the former chief fabricator of OCC.

So actually the main source of Mikey Teutul’s wealth is not his father’s business, but the shows he eventually took part in. These have included ‘The Late Show with David Letterman”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, and also “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. The shows became very popular and Mikey’s appearances earned him a significant amount of money. To say the least, the family drama did not go without consequences – according to rumours, Mikey Teutul was suffering from an addiction problem, and consequently admitted himself to rehab, and managed to overcome the bad habits which were apparently hindering his progress in life, obviously including business.

In his life away from the businesses already referred to and the limelight of TV, Michael loves to paint, and is apparently respected for his productions, as he opened “The Wolfgang Gallery” gallery in Montgomery, New York, where he has sold or auctioned his paintings, adding somewhat to is net worth, although rumours suggest that the gallery may now be closed. Most recently, Mikey is now trying to enter the market under the moniker LLC FarQueue Products with his line of gourmet pasta sauces. Good luck, Mikey!

In his less-than-private personal life, Mikey is apparently still single – there aren’t even any rumours of romantic liaisons.