George Maharis Net Worth

George Maharis's Quotes

• You learn to draw from your own life experiences and allow that to serve you as you play a character. It encourages you to be daring, fresh, not repetitive, and it draws you away from imitating. The end result is that your work is honest and believable because you're connected to what you're doing. -- GM, on the positive aspects of "Method" acting
• Nelson Riddle was terrific, he really was. And I always loved that theme. It was based on, I think, somebody told me, an old Jimmy Dorsey thing which was called "Oodles of Noodles," but I'm not sure about that. I love that theme, you know. Ba-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da-daa. It's just a traveling song. -- GM, on the theme song from the series Route 66 (1960)

Interesting Facts about George Maharis

1. Brother of Robert Maharis
2. He left the popular series Route 66 (1960) almost near the end of its third season in an uproar over some contract dispute and was later replaced by Glenn Corbett as Martin Milner's new sidekick. The series wasn't quite the same thereafter, and since Corbett didn't have the chemistry Maharis had with Milner, it lasted a little over a season.
3. Bared all for a 1970s Playgirl centerfold spread.
4. His career was damaged a few years after he left "Route 66". A lover of his died and one of the tabloids published a sensational story about their gay union. George claimed that the casting offices stopped calling after that.
5. Homes in New York City and Beverly Hills -- still painting [2008]
6. "George Maharis Arrested in Men's Room", Gay Scene, December 1974: "Famous Hollywood actor George Maharis was arrested November 21 and charged with committing a sex act with a hairdresser in the men's room of a gas station in Los Angeles... He was booked on a sex perversion charge along with Perfecto Telles, 33, the hairdresser, and released on $500 bail, according to police.".
7. George Maharis plead guilty for a Hollywood lewd conduct arrest on 15 December 1967 with a male. Maharis blamed this incident for damaging his career.
8. Only four years younger than Katy Jurado, who played his mother in A Covenant with Death.
9. He is a lifelong Republican and supported George W. Bush in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.
10. From birth was raised at 19-18 24th Drive, Long island City, New York. After his father opened a restaurant in Port Washington, New York, he moved the family to 33-71 155th Street Flushing, New York.
11. Served in the US Marine Corps after high school rising to the rank of corporal.