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Brother Theodore Net Worth
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The main source of income: Actors
Total Net Worth at the moment 2024 year – is about $198,1 Million.
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Brother Theodore information Birth date: November 11, 1906 Death date: 2001-04-05 Birth place: D?sseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Profession:Actor, Writer Spouse:? Children:Thomas Lonner
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How tall is Brother Theodore – 1,67m.
How much weight is Brother Theodore – 51kg
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Biography,Early yearsGottlieb was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Dusseldorf, in the Rhine Province, where his father was a magazine publisher. He attended the University of Cologne. At age 32, under Nazi rule, he was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp until he signed over his familys fortune for one Reichsmark. After being deported for chess hustling from Switzerland he went to Austria where Albert Einstein, a family friend and alleged lover of his mother, helped him escape to the United States.To AmericaHe worked as a janitor at Stanford University, where he demonstrated his prowess at chess by beating 30 professors simultaneously, and later became a dockworker in San Francisco. He played a bit part in Orson Welless 1946 movie The Stranger. This was one of the several movie appearances he made beginning in the 1940s and continuing into the 1990s. These were mostly small parts in B-movies, although he did provide the voice of Gollum in the 1977 made-for-television animated version of The Hobbit and the follow-up adaptation of The Return of the King (1980). He also voiced Ruhk, Mommy Fortunas assistant and carnival barker in The Last Unicorn (1982).SuccessTheodores career as a monologuist began in California in the late 1940s, with dramatic Poe recitals. He moved to New York City, and by the 1950s his monologues, now darkly humorous, had attracted a cult following. In 1958 he presented a one-man show that promoted the idea that human beings should walk on all fours. Jay Landesman booked him at St. Louis Crystal Palace during the 1960s. In the early 1960-s he frequently performed at the Cafe Bizarre in New Yorks Greenwich Village (106 W 3rd Street). He reached a wider audience through television, with 36 appearances on The Merv Griffin Show in the 1960s and 70s, and was also a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Dick Cavett Show, and The Joey Bishop Show. After his nightclub and TV appearances in the 1950s and 60s waned, he retired in the mid-1970s.ComebackHe was pulled out of retirement and booked by magician Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brooks in the Magic Towne House on the affluent Upper East Side of Manhattan for special weekend midnight performances. Years earlier, Brooks had remembered seeing Brother Theodore drawing packed crowds at small, funky and eclectic clubs all across the Lower East Side (Greenwich and the East Village) and sought him out for his new club. This resulted in a resurgence of interest in Brother Theodore that brought him success in his later years starting with Tom Snyders Tomorrow Show in 1977 followed by more TV appearances and movies. According to Brooks, it took multiple calls to Theodore to convince him to make a comeback. Theodores attitude was very bleak, and he felt his career was over. Brooks wanted to charge ten or more dollars, but Theodore insisted on four dollars, so as not to scare people away. The show was a success and ran for several seasons. A picture of the Magic Towne House ad appeared in local New York newspapers such as the Village Voice and The New York Post.Theodore made 16 appearances on NBCs Late Night with David Letterman in the 1980s. In the early 1980s, he was a regular on the Billy Crystal Show. He also did voice work, including the voice-over to the American trailer for Lucio Fulcis House By The Cemetery in 1981. In 1989 he appeared in the Joe Dante comedy film The Burbs. Up until the late 1990s, he was a guest actor in several episodes of Joe Frank: Work in Progress radio show on National Public Radio (NPR).An article on Theodore appeared in RAVE magazine with color photos. Segments from it are in the book Whos Who in Comedy. Just prior to his death from pneumonia, he recorded several monologues for the controversial documentary series, Disinfo Nation. He appeared in Billy Crystals mockumentary Dont Get Me Started and voiced the character of an ointment expert on NPRs Weekend Edition Saturday version of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer in 1995.DocumentaryIn early 2001, from the encouragement of his long-time friend & confidant, Jack Finelli, Theodore requested to meet with film artist Jeff Sumerel to consider the possibility of him producing a documentary about Theodore. After an in-person meeting, Sumerel received Theodores approval, and they agreed to proceed with the film.Theodore was cautious, because of past documentary attempts that were aborted because of his eventual suspicions and distrust of the filmmaker(s). Sumerel was too, hearing of Theodores tendencies to self-sabotage past efforts. In February, preliminary shooting began, with informal interviews with Theodore in his apartment, however, in April, Theodore became ill with pneumonia and died.Nevertheless, Sumerel was encouraged by Theodores family and friends to continue with the documentary. Since no funding was available, Sumerel continued the project as a labor of love, when time and financing allowed. It was his interview with Henry Gibson that began to lead to other notable performers who were Theodore devotees. Gibson connected Sumerel with Penn & Teller (friends of Gibsons) who were long-time, avid Theodorians. Over the next 5 years Sumerel was able to capture interviews with Dick Cavett, Eric Bogosian, Tom Schiller, Len Belzer, Joe Dante, Mark Shulman, and Woody Allen, among others. All of them gave no hesitation to participate, because of their admiration of and respect for Theodore. Sumerel spent the next 2 years gathering archival materials and working with editor, Jeter Rhodes, to sift through the vast amount of content conveying Theodores personal and professional life. In the end, Sumerel & Rhodes wove both stories into a non-traditional documentary fitting for Theodore and titled To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore. The film was selected for premiere, February 13, 2008 at the opening night of The Museum of Modern Arts Fortnight Series.DeathTheodore died in New York City on April 5, 2001, at the age of 94 in Mount Sinai Hospital, and is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.His headstone reads: Known as Brother Theodore / Solo Performer, Comedian, Metaphysician / As Long as There Is Death, There Is HopeQuotesGet down on all fours and look your neighbor straight in the eyes.I cant do it alone my friends. I am not the reincarnated Joan of Arc or something. I am just plain folks.Life is filled with the clutter of dishes and flushing of water closets.Oleo canus, oil of dogs.I am looking for a rich widow of 13, the perfect portable mistress.All the great spiritual leaders are dead …. Moses is dead …. Muhammed is dead …. Buddha is dead …. and I’m not feeling so hot myself!What this country needs, and I am not joking, is a dictator. I feel the time is right, and the place congenial, and I am ready. I will be strict but just. Heads will roll, and corpses will swing from every lamppost.My mumsy and my popsy both died years before I was born, and my sister and my uncle were identical twins, which is probably more than you can say for yourself!I hallucinate on tap water.I find it hard to sit in one spot and impossible to sit still in two spots.Unfortunately the urge to eat is widespread.The human race to which so many of you belong looks to me like a bad joke.The success of others always rubs me the wrong way.It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from a strange stock. The members of my family were mostly epileptics, vegetarians, stutterers, triplets, nailbiters. But weve always been happy.Only what we have lost forever do we possess forever. Only when we have drunk from the river of darkness can we truly see. Only when our legs have rotted off can we truly dance. As long as there is death, there is hope.The only thing that keeps me alive is the hope of dying young.The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people.I am in the prime of my senility.I’ve gazed into the abyss and the abyss gazed into me, and neither of us liked what we saw.Dear God, if you exist, please help me! And if you don’t exist . . . help me anyway!What do we know about the beyond? Do we know what’s behind the beyond? I am afraid some of us hardly know what’s beyond the behind.I should have known better than to sell roses in a fish market!I am what you call a “controversial figure”. People either hate me or they despise me.There are those who would rather shake the Devil by the tail than me by the hand.
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