Harry Anderson Net Worth

Harry Anderson's Quotes

• The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find a worker who can climb a ladder after lunch.
• I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
• Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
• I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
• I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

Interesting Facts about Harry Anderson

1. The son of Harry Anderson and Suzanne Johnson, magician-turned-actor Harry Anderson was reportedly once a Three Card Monte dealer in New York City. He graduated in 1970 as the valedictorian of North Hollywood High School. Before he became an actor, he taught a course on how to detect fraudsters and confidence ("con") artists.
2. His first wife, Leslie Pollack, is reportedly a certified witch. The couple had two children before divorcing: Eva Fay Anderson (Eva Anderson) (born 1981) and Dashiell William Anderson (Dashiell Anderson) (born 1985).
3. When appearing on Saturday Night Live (1975) in 1982, he performed a "geek trick" by sticking a long needle through the skin of his forearm. He said to some squeamish audience members "It's just a trick!" Then to show that it wasn't "real," he moved the needle back and forth and blood began to pour out of the "wound".
4. Before television and movies, was a live performer for the Green Show at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon.
5. In the summer of 2005, he opened a nightclub in the French Quarter of New Orleans called "Oswald's Speakeasy," where he is often featured as a performer.
6. Anderson and wife, Elizabeth Morgan, survived Hurricane Katrina by remaining in New Orleans, where they owned a store called Sideshow and a nightclub called Oswalds, but later relocated to Asheville, North Carolina in 2006.