Bob Crane - Famous Disc Jockey

Bob Crane Net Worth

$150,000

Famous American actor and disc jockey Bob Crane had a net worth of $150 thousand at the time of his death. Throughout his career, he appeared in various television shows and movies, including ‘Hogan’s Heroes,’ for which he garnered two Emmy Award nominations.

Key facts:

  • Bob Crane was a famous American actor and disc jockey best known for his role in the television show 'Hogan's Heroes' where he appeared in all 168 episodes and was later nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series in 1966 and 1967.
  • During his career, Crane transitioned from radio broadcasting to television appearances and starred in various TV shows such as 'The Twilight Zone,' 'General Electric Theater,' 'The Donna Reed Show,' and 'Police Woman' before moving on to films such as 'Return to Peyton Place', 'Man-Trap', 'The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz,' and 'Gus' among others.
  • At the peak of his career, Bob Crane was earning an then-unprecedented salary of $75,000 per year, which today, after adjusting for inflation, would be same as earning nearly $800,000 per year.
  • After acting on television, Bob Crane became a fixture on the dinner theater scene, but his career began to cool slightly in the 197s. Crane starred as Bob Wilcox on 'The Bob Crane Show' in 1975, which was cancelled after 13 episodes due to poor ratings.
  • Bob Crane's murder on June 29, 1978 at the age of 49 led to revelations of sordid activities he had engaged in prior, making him a subject of public scrutiny long after his death.

Basic Information About Bob Crane

CategoryCelebrities β€Ί Actors
ProfessionsActor, Disc jockey
Net worth$150,000
Date of birth1928-07-13
Place of birthWaterbury
Date of death1978-06-29 (aged 49)
NationalityUnited States of America
SpouseSigrid Valdis - (16 OctoberΒ 1970 - 29 JuneΒ 1978)Β (his death)Β (2 children)
20 May - Anne Terzian (Β 1949 - 17 JuneΒ 1970)Β (divorced)Β (3 children)
GenderMale
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Social Mediaβ†—οΈŽ Wikipedia β†—οΈŽ IMDb

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Bob Crane roles

Movie / Series Role
The Lucy ShowSelf 1 episode, 1966
The Doris Day ShowBob Carter 1 episode, 1971
Love, American Style(segment "Love and the Logical Explanation") / ... 3 episodes, 1969-1971
Police WomanLarry Brooks 1 episode, 1974
The Love BoatEdward 'Teddy' Anderson 1 episode, 1978
TattletalesSelf 10 episodes, 1974-1976
The Alfred Hitchcock HourCharlie Lessing 1 episode, 1963
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew MysteriesDanny Day 1 episode, 1977
Hogan's HeroesCol. Hogan / ... 168 episodes, 1965-1971
The Dick Cavett ShowSelf - Guest 1 episode, 1970
Laugh-InGuest Performer 2 episodes, 1972

Bob Crane's Quotes

  • I don't smoke, I don't drink. Two out of three ain't bad.
  • The first station I started out with was a 250-watt station. I went to a 1,000-watt station, which was the Bridgeport station... And from the 1,000-watt, I went to the 50,000-watt, which is quite a jump, and it has happened to a lot of people. It's a fortunate thing to be in the right place at the right time.
  • It's not a concentration camp. It's a POW camp. We're not making light of atrocities. We're just trying to show how darn clever the Americans were. It was easy to see which letter writers hadn't watched the program. No one could see "Hogan's Heroes" and think we were making fun of war. Our comedy is done with characterization. It's outsmarting the boss; it's the kid with a snowball when the top hat goes by; it's getting the best of authority.
  • When I was a kid, I fell in love with Spencer Tracy in "Captains Courageous." That, to me, was the ideal. A good man, a brave man. What I would want to be. I'm still in love with that.
  • Eventually, what you're looking for is gonna happen, and by the time it does happen, you'll be that much better along the way to what you should be. Don't get discouraged, and just keep on plugging along, and what you want will eventually be yours. You know, there's nothing to stop it if you just keep on working hard. And by working hard, I mean doing the best job you possibly can. Everything happens for the best, and I believe it completely.

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Interesting Facts about Bob Crane

  1. He was one of the first disc jockeys in the country to earn in excess of $100,000 per year (1960).
  2. He discovered singer Marilyn McCoo on the 1960s show Hollywood Talent Scouts (1965).
  3. 2002: Was the subject of a "noise opera" by the experimental band Facetious (released on CD under the title "Raw Biscuits: The Bob Crane Story").
  4. Hobby was playing the drums. He was a life-long jazz buff who played with several amateur jazz groups over the years.
  5. Originally buried at Oakwood Memorial Park in Chatsworth, Los Angeles County. In 2003, many years after his death, he was moved to the prestigious Westwood Memorial Park on Glendon Avenue in Los Angeles. His marker is very elaborate and beautiful with writings and photographs of him and his widow Sigrid Valdis. It is located in the middle of the memorial park.
  6. Father of Robert David Crane, and Scott Crane.
  7. The cause of death was bludgeoning with a blunt instrument, which police suspected was a video camera tripod. However, since the murder weapon was never found, this could not be proved. A video cable was wrapped around his neck postmortem.
  8. Best remembered by the public for his starring role as Col. Robert Hogan in Hogan's Heroes (1965).
  9. On January 25, 1978, Bob Crane taped an episode of Celebrity Cooks (1975) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Crane's episode aired several times in Canada throughout the winter and spring of 1978 without incident. A network affiliate in the U.S. then purchased several episodes of "Celebrity Cooks" to run in syndication in the U.S. Crane's episode was supposed to lead off the U.S. syndicated run of the series, and it was scheduled to air in the U.S. on July 10, 1978. Immediately after Crane's murder on June 29, the episode was canceled. It was reported that Crane made numerous jokes about death, which would have made the episode too eerily prophetic. However, this claim was based on one network representative's uncorroborated opinion made just days after Crane's murder. "Celebrity Cooks" has officially gone on record to refute this false claim about Crane's appearance made by this network representative. Those who were there on the day of taping claim no such eerie or inappropriate behavior occurred, and that Crane was one of their best guests.
  10. Crane was basically bankrupt during the mid- to late-1970's and, shortly after his murder, his estate would come into millions of dollars from a new syndication deal for Hogan's Heroes (1965), which he owned a small part of.
  11. His last movie appearance was in the Walt Disney movie, Gus (1976), where he played an announcer named "Pepper Pot".
  12. Studied with acting teacher Stella Adler in 1964.
  13. Radio show ''zero hour '' 1974.
  14. Bob actually played the drums in the theme song at the beginning of the show.
  15. Played by Greg Kinnear in Auto Focus (2002), a movie about his life.

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