Randolph Mantooth Net Worth

Randolph Mantooth's Quotes

• People tell me this all the time...they come up to me and say, 'You're my hero,' I say no. I'm just the face. You're the body. You do the work. You're on the front line. Believe me, when I tell you from the bottom of my heart -- if you're a firefighter...an EMT...a paramedic -- you're my hero.
• [When he arrived from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles to become an actor]: This town let me be an actor. They've always said, 'Randy? Yeah, let's see what he can do.' Hollywood never said, 'Let's see what he can do,' they said, 'I know what he can do. I don't need to see him.'
• [on playing someone else besides "Johnny Gage"]: I got recognized when I was on Emergency! (1972), but nothing like I do now as "Clay". People seem to have a tendency to take the soaps much more seriously and reality identify on a personal basis much more than they do on prime-time. I'll be riding home on the subway and these ladies will come up to me and lecture me about how I should deal with "Ava".
• My son's up to no good, and really no good, and I'm sorta [I guess] in a state of denial. I can't believe that my son's doing something like this, and I've been pretty much hiding him out and financing him, behind my wife's back, and turns out that was a big mistake on my part.
• [on his Loving (1983) character]: I don't want to make him a villain. First of all, I don't think anyone is all bad or all good; there are shades of human behavior and I think a character is more interesting and more credible if you show those shadings.

Interesting Facts about Randolph Mantooth

1. Forced to cut his hair in compliance with real LA County Fire Department standards, Mantooth added the phrase: "Make room for a long-haired fireman" to his autograph on technical advisor Jim Page's copy of the pilot script.
2. He is half Seminole Indian.
3. His 7th out of his 9th year participating in an Annual All-Star-Game in Szot Park in Chicopee, Massachusetts. [July 2000]
4. In 1997, he made a guest appearance on Diagnosis Murder (1993) starring Dick Van Dyke, which reunited him with former Emergency! (1972) co-star Robert Fuller.
5. Has been actively involved in several charitable causes such as The Make-A-Wish Foundation Western & Central Massachusetts Chapter and has served as a board member of Project 51.
6. Bought a 13-1/2 acre ranch in the Lobo Canyon area of Agoura, California in the mid-1970s that was later destroyed by the devastating "Malibu Fire" on October 15, 1978.
7. One of his first jobs in the entertainment industry was being an NBC Page at their television studios at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
8. His old friend and Emergency! (1972) co-star, Kevin Tighe, was Best Man at his 2002 wedding to Kristen Connors.
9. The eldest of four children of Sadie Ernestine (née Neddenreip; died April 2, 2013, aged 90) and Donald Delois "Buck" Mantooth (born June 1, 1919 - died October 28, 2001, aged 82), the actor's siblings are Don Mantooth, Tonya Mantooth, and the late Nancy Mantooth (who died on August 26, 2015 following a long battle with cancer).
10. Appeared onstage with Don Knotts and Rue McClanahan in the play, "The Man with The Dirty Mind".
11. Best known by the public for his starring role as Paramedic Johnny Gage on Emergency! (1972).
12. Serves as Honorary Chairman and Spokesperson for the Non-Profit County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association, and recently received an award for his efforts from the International Association of Fire Chiefs' EMS section.
13. Was raised in Santa Barbara, California, after living in 24 states.
14. As a teenager, he was a fan of The Andy Griffith Show (1960) and The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961).
15. Before he was a successful actor he used to be a newspaper boy for the local paper, the Coatesville Record, in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
16. Mantooth was considered for the part of Seismologist "Walt Russell" in Earthquake (1974). In the end, however, Kip Niven won the part.
17. After Emergency! (1972), he was considered together with Harrison Ford for an television show about Canadian Mountain Rangers. The show was was never made.
18. He created a television show about the Urban Search and Rescue Unit called "USAR-1".
19. He wrote a screenplay called "Pipeline" with Kevin Tighe.
20. He was considered for one of the leading parts in the short-lived WB show "Hyperion Bay".