Jeffrey Tambor Net Worth

Jeffrey Tambor's Quotes

• [on attending San Francisco State University] I am positive I am an actor because of that place.
• [on what has guided his career] Go where your heart is, not the dollar sign.
• [2008, on Mr. Mum (1983)] Yes, and I loved that role. I remember driving that first day in the car, Michael Keaton and I, and Stan Dragoti was in the camera truck in front of us... No one had any idea it was gonna be a runaway hit. And that's an actor's life. I thought Meet Joe Black was gonna be one of the big changes for me, and it was gonna be a runaway hit-and it wasn't. And with Mr. Mom, I said, "There's just no way." And it turned out to be a huge hit. Huge!
• [2008, on Meet Joe Black (1998)] That scene that I have with Brad [Pitt]-that one out by the sea where I confess to him that I really screwed up and I've sort of betrayed them-is one of my favorite scenes that I've ever done. He was just so wonderful. He's great. I mean, this was years ago, but he's very modest. He's a real hardworking actor. I think he was going through something difficult at that time, and he never brought his personal stuff-not once!-on the set. He was a real pro. I remember doing that scene, and as I was acting, I thought, "I understand why this guy's a movie star." Because there was just something that he did when the cameras rolled. There was some kind of energy that was really magnificent, a real aura about him. Those movie stars, they have that "thing."
• [2008, on The Larry Sanders Show (1992)] Changed my life. I am so thankful that-I mean, go figure. Most people are lucky to get one good series, but I got two groundbreakers. I just knew when I read that "Hey Now" script that something was afoot. Those were seven of the greatest years of my life. I learned so much, and it affirmed everything I thought comedy was. It was really a tremendous experience. And I loved (my character) Hank Kingsley, he was very real to me. There was just something about that character. I really believed him. I didn't think he was a buffoon. I understood the inner workings of him, so I sort of felt sorry for him, the poor guy. He was very important to me.

Interesting Facts about Jeffrey Tambor

1. Was a teacher at Milton Katselas' Beverly Hills Playhouse.
2. In spite of his typically obnoxious or exasperating characters, Tambor is one of the most respected and well-liked character actors working today.
3. Has played multiple characters on the situation comedy Three's Company (1976).
4. Directed a production of "Burn This" at the Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles and is the co-owner of Skylight Books in the Los Feliz area.
5. He originally played Tom Abernathy in Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005). However, when the scene needed to be reshot, he was shooting Arrested Development (2003), so the scene was reshot with Stephen Tobolowsky. The version of the scene with Jeffrey can be seen on the DVD.
6. Children: Molly Tambor (b. 1975); Gabriel Kasper (b. December 10, 2004), Eve Julia (December 10, 2006), Hugo Bernard and Eli Nicholas (twins b. October 4, 2009) with wife Kasia. Daughter Molly gave birth to his grandson (Mason Jay Moore) four days before his son Gabriel was born.
7. He was nominated for a 1974 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Principal Role for his performance in "The Play's the Thing", at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
8. He was awarded the 1982 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance in "A Flea in Her Ear", at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
9. In 2007, he sold his five-bedroom, Cape Cod-style house in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades neighborhood for $3.3 million. In early 2005, he had purchased the house for $2,749,000.
10. In 2008, he purchased a four-bed, five bath, 3,591 square foot home in Topanga, California for $1.675 million.
11. His paternal grandparents, Ignatz and Mollie, were Hungarian Jewish immigrants. His maternal grandparents, Joseph and Gertrude, were Ukrainian Jews (from Kiev).
12. Teaching fellow/graduate assistant at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan in the late 1960s.
13. He appeared in Phil Collins' music video of his song "I Wish It Would Rain Down" (1990).
14. Reportedly, the first actor to use the C-word on TV which he did on The Larry Sanders Show: The Hankerciser 200 (1993) when referring to Larry's wife as "that c--t". Jeffrey was supposed to say "bitch", but in rehearsals he improvised and Garry Shandling opted for the C-word instead.
15. In February 2018, Amazon Studios fired Tambor from the series Transparent after multiple allegations of sexual harassment against the actor arose. Amazon, who owns and produces the Soloway series, had been investigating the actor and made an official decision for Tambor not to have any role in Season 5.