Paul Lynde Net Worth

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Paul Lynde net worth is
$1.5 Million

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Paul Edward Lynde (/lɪnd/; June 13, 1926 – January 10, 1982) was an American comedian and actor.A noted character actor with a distinctively campy and snarky persona that often poked fun at his barely in-the-closet homosexuality, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and the befuddled father Harry MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie. He was also the regular "center square" guest on the game show Hollywood Squares from 1968 to 1981, and he voiced Templeton the gluttonous rat and The Hooded Claw in the Hanna-Barbera productions Charlotte's Web and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, respectively. 
Full NamePaul Lynde
Net Worth$1.5 Million
Date Of BirthJune 13, 1926
DiedJanuary 11, 1982, Beverly Hills, California, United States
Place Of BirthMount Vernon, Ohio, USA
Height1.8 m
OccupationActor, comedian, TV personality
ProfessionComedian, Character Actor
ResidenceBeverly Hills, California
EducationNorthwestern University
NationalityAmerican
ParentsHoy Lynde, Sylvia Bell
SiblingsHelen Lynde, Richard Lynde, Cordon Lynde, Grace Lynde, John Lynde
NicknamesPaul Lynde, Lynde, Paul
IMDBhttp://imdb.com/name/nm0001489
NominationsGolden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, Primetime Emmy Award for Special Classification Of Outstanding Program Achievement, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Daytime Programming - Individuals
MoviesBye Bye Birdie, Charlotte's Web, The Glass Bottom Boat, Send Me No Flowers, The Villain, Son of Flubber, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Journey Back to Oz, Hugo the Hippo, New Faces, For Those Who Think Young, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, Gidget Grows Up, Gidget Gets Married, Beach Blanket Bingo, How ...
TV ShowsHollywood Squares, Temperatures Rising, The Paul Lynde Show, Bewitched, Where's Huddles?, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, The Pruitts of Southampton, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, Cattanooga Cats, It's The Wolf, The Jonathan Winters Show, The Red Buttons Show
Star SignGemini
#Quote
1[to a traffic cop who had flagged him down for drunk driving] I'll have a double cheeseburger and a chocolate shake.
2I always wanted to be Anna May Wong. She seemed so much more exotic and exciting than plain ordinary folk. But no-go. I wasn't fated to be Wong, just white.
3I had a drag scene in Doris Day's The Glass Bottom Boat (1966). An elegant gown. Actually, it was more expensive than any of the ones Doris had to wear. That day that I came in fully dressed and coiffed, I was the belle of the set! Everybody went wild! Doris came over and looked me up and down and told me, 'Oh, I'd never wear anything that feminine.'
4I was in 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway - played the father. I was in the film version, but they should have retitled it 'Hello, Ann-Margret!' They cut several of my and the other actors' best scenes and shot new ones for her so she could do her teenage-sex-bombshell act.
5Sometimes, I think you're better off not being married today. When you see your married friends split up, it's devastating. Call it scared! Call it an obsession. But I took it for granted I was going to marry a girl I went with for nine years. That is, until I received her wedding invitation. [in 1974]
6I don't meet enough women outside show business, and I wouldn't marry anyone in this field. [in 1969]
7I'm used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I'd make a terrible husband anyway.
8I have so many friends who were lovers. After they got married, it was over.
9I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me. An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.
10Upon telling his family he wanted to go into show business: "My dad hit the roof and I hit the road, simultaneously."
#Fact
1Paul had two sisters.
2One of only a handful of actors to have appeared on both "magic" television shows Bewitched and I Dream Of Jeannie.
3His father's name was Hoy Lynde, and his mother's name was Sylvia Bell. He had three brothers: Richard, Cord, and John.
4Portrayed Mr. MacAfee in the original Broadway stage version of "Bye Bye Birdie" which opened April 14, 1960 and ran for 607 performances. He reprised the role in the film Bye Bye Birdie (1963).
5Was an accomplished cook.
6Lynde and long-term companion, Bing Davidson were staying at the Drake hotel in San Francisco, California on July 17, 1965. The two went out the next day for a good time and got very drunk. Davidson decided to show Lynde a trick and dangled off the hotel balcony by his fingers. He was slipping and Paul desperately tried to help him in, but Davidson fell to his death. They are buried next to each other in Amity Cemetery in Ohio.
7The sign proclaiming Mount Vernon, Ohio, as the birthplace of Paul Lynde was recently changed to read: "Home of Daniel Decatur Emmett, Author of [the song] 'Dixie.'"
8In "Center Square: The Paul Lynde Story," biographers Steve Wilson and Joe Florenski lay to rest rumors that there was something suspicious about Lynde's death at the age of 55. Dismissing such rumors that the comedian was murdered by a hustler who robbed Lynde's house and left him dead and naked, the authors say that Lynde did die of a heart attack, as the coroner's report contended he did. Lynde expired at almost the same age as his father, who also died from a heart attack. The authors express surprise that Lynde didn't have a heart attack sooner, what with his transgressive lifestyle. Lynde was heavily into alcohol and also used drugs. He claimed to have quit these habits cold-turkey not long before his death, having been transformed by a personal event that he never revealed.
9Holds a unique place in show business history - he actually got to sing on "The Ed Sullivan Show" the song he performed nightly in the Broadway musical "Bye Bye Birdie" about the excitement of appearing on the iconic "Ed Sullivan Show".
10When he first went to New York, he lived in an apartment building that housed many other struggling actors. The building had communal kitchens, kitchens shared by all the tenants of a floor. One of the other actors in the building claimed that Lynde used to steal his food from the refrigerator. That actor was a young Marlon Brando.
11He had a weight problem that he fought to control his entire life.
12His classmates at Northwestern University included Cloris Leachman, Charlotte Rae, Jeffrey Hunter, Claude Akins, Martha Hyer, Patricia Neal, and Agnes Nixon.
13Explained his lifelong bachelorhood to fans (in the days before "coming out") by telling them his high-school sweetheart had broken his heart, and he was still too hurt to give other women a chance.
14Lynde left The Hollywood Squares (1965) in 1979, in a dispute over his salary. When tabloids ran stories claiming he had been fired for his drinking as well as on-set problems, he sued them for libel, seeking $10 million in damages.
15His older brother Cordon died in World War II.
16A fan once set up a museum full of Paul Lynde memorabilia in his home town on Mount Vernon, Ohio
17Long-time "center square" and court jester in residence on the original The Hollywood Squares (1965), Paul Lynde's quips on that show are still quoted, and laughed at, to this day.
18Told his agent shortly before his death that he had given up cigarettes and alcohol.
19The coroner who examined his body said he had the heart of an 88-year-old man.
20Posthumously "outed" by Boze Hadleigh, who has written extensively about previously closeted Hollywood actors/actresses.
21Attended Northwestern University (Evanston, IL).

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Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Patty Duke Show1963TV SeriesMr. Snell
Bye Bye Birdie1963Harry McAfee
Son of Flubber1963Sportscaster
Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine1962TV SeriesGary Snead
Play of the Week1960TV Series
The Phil Silvers Show1958-1959TV SeriesRudy the Doctor / The Desk Clerk
Producers' Showcase1957TV SeriesBelknap-Jackson
Stanley1956TV Series
The Good Fairy1956TV MovieDr. Metz
The Red Buttons Show1952TV SeriesRegular performer (1955)
The Villain1979Nervous Elk
Rabbit Test1978Dr. Roger Vidal, M.D.
'Twas the Night Before Christmas1977TV MovieClark Cosgrove
Hugo the Hippo1975Aban-Khan (voice)
The New Temperatures Rising Show1973-1974TV SeriesDr. Paul Mercy
The Paul Lynde Show1972-1973TV SeriesPaul Simms
Charlotte's Web1973Templeton (voice)
Journey Back to Oz1972Pumpkinhead (voice)
Gidget Gets Married1972TV MovieLouis B. Latimer
Love, American Style1970-1971TV SeriesStanley (segment 'Love and the House Bachelor') / (segment "Love and the Pregnancy") / Grisdale (segment "Love and the Nervous Executive")
Bewitched1965-1971TV SeriesUncle Arthur Harold Harold
Where's Huddles?1970TV SeriesClaude Pertwee / Uncle Pertwee Famouse
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop1969-1970TV SeriesThe Hooded Claw Sylvester Sneekly
The Kraft Music Hall1970TV SeriesDoctor Zodiak
Gidget Grows Up1969TV MovieLouis B. Latimer
The Jackie Gleason Show1969TV SeriesWorthington Kenmore
Cattanooga Cats1969TV SeriesMildew Wolf (voice)
That's Life1968-1969TV SeriesClerk
The Flying Nun1968TV SeriesFather Lundigan
The Mothers-In-Law1968TV SeriesWally Logan
How Sweet It Is!1968The Purser
I Dream of Jeannie1966-1968TV SeriesPorter / Allen Kerr / Harry Huggins
The Beverly Hillbillies1967TV SeriesPassport Clerk
Hey, Landlord1967TV SeriesMr. Gregory
That Girl1967TV SeriesNate Caswell
The Phyllis Diller Show1967TV SeriesHarvey
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre1966TV SeriesJudge
F Troop1966TV SeriesSgt. Ramsden
The Glass Bottom Boat1966Homer Cripps
Gidget1966TV SeriesHerman Marshall
The Farmer's Daughter1965TV SeriesTony / Tony Parrish
Beach Blanket Bingo1965Bullets
Burke's Law1963-1965TV SeriesGuy Hawthorne Jr. / Dr. McCoy / Arthur Clark
The Munsters1964-1965TV SeriesDr. Edward Dudley
Two's Company1965TV MoviePaul Greg
The Cara Williams Show1964TV SeriesCharles Crump
The Jack Benny Program1964TV SeriesVeterinarian
Send Me No Flowers1964Mr. Akins
For Those Who Think Young1964Sid Hoyt
Grindl1963TV SeriesPurvis Inchback
Under the Yum Yum Tree1963Murphy

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special1976TV Special performer: "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", "Deck the Halls", "Here Comes Peter Cottontail", "My Funny Valentine", "Dixie I Wish I Was in Dixie" - uncredited
Charlotte's Web1973performer: "A Fair is a Veritable Schmorgasboard-orgasboard-orgasboard"
Bewitched1965-1969TV Series performer - 2 episodes
Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers1968TV Series performer - 3 episodes
Bye Bye Birdie1963performer: "Hymn for a Sunday Evening" aka "The Ed Sullivan Song", "Kids"

Writer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
New Faces1954additional sketches

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America2009TV Series documentary
Bob Hope for President1980TV Special
The Hollywood Squares1966-1979TV SeriesHimself - Center Square / Himself - Panelist / Himself -The Center Square / ...
Dinah!1975-1979TV SeriesHimself
Paul Lynde Goes MA-A-A-AD1979TV MovieHimself - Host
Paul Lynde at the Movies1979TV SpecialHimself / Maurice Darlyrimple
Donny and Marie1975-1979TV SeriesHimself
A Mac Davis Special: Christmas Odyssey - 20101978TV SpecialHimself
The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour1978TV MovieHimself - Host
America 2-Night1978TV SeriesHimself
ABC's Silver Anniversary Celebration1978TV SpecialHimself
The 29th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards1977TV SpecialHimself
Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Peter Marshall1977TV SpecialHimself
The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour1977TV MovieHimself - Host
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special1976TV SpecialHimself / Big Ruby Red / Sheik
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1964-1976TV SeriesHimself - Guest / Himself
Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Dean Martin1976TV SpecialHimself
The Second Annual Comedy Awards1976TV SpecialHimself
The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour1975TV MovieHimself - Host
Donahue1975TV SeriesHimself
The Mac Davis Show1975TV SeriesHimself - Guest
The Smothers Brothers Show1975TV SeriesHimself
The $10,000 Pyramid1975TV SeriesHimself
Sandy Duncan Special1974TV SpecialHimself
Perry Como's Summer of 741974TV MovieHimself
All-Star Baffle1973TV SeriesHimself
Password All-Stars1972TV SeriesHimself - Celebrity Contestant
The Jerry Reed When You're Hot You're Hot Hour1972TV SeriesHimself - Cameo
The 24th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards1972TV SpecialHimself
The Dean Martin Show1968-1972TV SeriesHimself
The Carol Burnett Show1970-1972TV SeriesHimself
Laugh-In1972TV SeriesHimself
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour1971TV SeriesHimself
This Is Your Life1971TV SeriesHimself
The Hollywood Squares1971TV SeriesCenter Square
Mantrap1971TV SeriesHimself
The Pet Set1971TV Series documentaryHimself
The Golddiggers1971TV SeriesHimself
The 25th Annual Tony Awards1971TV SpecialHimself
The Kraft Music Hall1968-1970TV SeriesHimself / Restaurant Critic
Name Droppers1970TV SeriesHimself
Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers1968-1969TV SeriesHimself
The 21st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards1969TV SpecialHimself
Stump the Stars1969TV SeriesHimself
The Jerry Lewis Show1968-1969TV SeriesHimself
The Jonathan Winters Show1967-1969TV SeriesHimself
Silent Treatment1968DocumentaryHimself
Funny You Should Ask1968TV SeriesHimself
Operation: Entertainment1968TV SeriesHimself
Personality1968TV SeriesHimself
Snap Judgment1968TV SeriesHimself
The Mike Douglas Show1964-1968TV SeriesHimself - Co-Host / Himself
Dream Girl of '671967TV SeriesHimself - Bachelor Judge
The Hollywood Palace1964-1967TV SeriesHimself
You Don't Say1967TV SeriesHimself - Panelist / Himself
Everybody's Talking1967TV SeriesHimself
The Steve Allen Comedy Hour1967TV SeriesHimself
P.D.Q.1967TV SeriesHimself
Gypsy1967TV SeriesHimself
The Bob Braun Show1967TV SeriesHimself (1967-1984)
The Bob Hope Show1966TV SeriesHimself
Crossword1966TV MovieHimself
The Celebrity Game1964TV SeriesHimself
The Jack Paar Program1964TV SeriesHimself
Fractured Flickers1963TV SeriesHimself
Arthur Godfrey Loves Animals1963TV MovieHimself
The Ed Sullivan Show1952-1962TV SeriesHimself / Harry McAfee - Scene from 'Bye Bye Birdie'
The Andy Williams Show1962TV SeriesHimself
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall1961-1962TV SeriesHimself
Henry Fonda and the Family1962TV SpecialHimself
The Jack Paar Tonight Show1957-1959TV SeriesHimself
The George Gobel Show1959TV SeriesHimself
The Lux Show1958TV SeriesHimself
Social Security in Action1958TV SeriesHimself
The Jerry Lewis Show1957TV SpecialPlayer in TV Production Skit
Frankie Laine Time1956TV SeriesHimself
The Martha Raye Show1954-1956TV SeriesHimself
The Saturday Night Revue1954TV SeriesHimself
The Colgate Comedy Hour1954TV SeriesHimself
New Faces1954Himself

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Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1976Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Individual Achievement in Daytime ProgrammingThe Hollywood Squares (1965)
1975Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Individual Achievement - Daytime ProgrammingThe Hollywood Squares (1965)
1974Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsSpecial Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual AchievementThe Hollywood Squares (1965)
1973Golden GlobeGolden Globes, USABest TV Actor - Comedy or MusicalThe Paul Lynde Show (1972)
1973Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Achievement by Individuals in Daytime ProgrammingThe Hollywood Squares (1965)
1972Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Achievement in Daytime Programming - IndividualsThe Hollywood Squares (1965)

Known for movies

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