As one of the most talked-about figures, Jeffrey Tambor has built a significant fortune. In this article, we dive deep into the assets and career highlights.
What Is Jeffrey Tambor's Net Worth and Salary?
Jeffrey Tambor is an American actor and author who has a net worth of $8 million. Jeffrey Tambor is probably best known to television audiences for playing not just one, but two, of the funniest and most admired sitcom characters of all time: Hank Kingsley on HBO's "TheLarry SandersShow" (1992–1998) and George Bluth Sr. on the Fox/Netflix sitcom "Arrested Development" (2003–2006; 2013; 2018–2019) Tambor also played George's twin brother, Oscar, on "Arrested Development," and he won several awards, including two Primetime Emmys and a Golden Globe, for his performance as Maura Pfefferman on Amazon Prime Video's "Transparent" (2014–2017). Jeffrey has more than 200 acting credits to his name, including the films "Mr. Mom" (1983), "City Slickers" (1991), "There's Something About Mary" (1998), "Girl, Interrupted" (1999), "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (2000), "Malibu's Most Wanted" (2003), "Hellboy" (2004), "The Hangover" (2009), and "Mr. Popper's Penguins" (2011) and the television series "The Ropers" (1979–1980), "Hill Street Blues" (1981–1987), "Mr. Sunshine" (1986), "Max Headroom" (1987), "American Dreamer" (1990), and "The Good Wife" (2013–2014).
Tambor has lent his voice to numerous animated projects, such as "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" (2004), "Monsters vs. Aliens" (2009), "Tangled" (2010), "Trolls" (2016), "WordGirl" (2007–2015), "Archer" (2010–2017), "Star vs. the Forces of Evil" (2015–2018), and "Tangled: The Series" (2017). He has also performed on Broadway, appearing in productions of "Sly Fox" (1976–1978), "Glengarry Glen Ross" (2005), and "La Cage Aux Folles" (2011). In 2017, Jeffrey published the book "Are You Anybody?: A Memoir."
Early Life
Jeffrey Tambor was born Jeffrey Michael Tambor on July 8, 1944, in San Francisco, California. He is the son of homemaker Eileen Salzberg and flooring contractor Bernard Tambor. Jeffrey was raised in a Conservative Jewish household, and he attended Abraham Lincoln High School. After graduation, Tambor studied acting at San Francisco State University and earned a master's degree from Detroit's Wayne State University.
Career
In the '70s, Jeffrey appeared in the films "The Summertime Killer" (1972) and "…And Justice for All" (1979), guest-starred on "Kojak" (1977), "Starsky & Hutch" (1978), and "Taxi" (1979), and played Jeffrey P. Brookes III on the "Three's Company" spin-off "The Ropers" (1979–1980). He then appeared in films such as "The Dream Chasers" (1982), "The Man Who Wasn't There" (1983), "Mr. Mom" (1983), "No Small Affair" (1984), and "Lisa" (1989), and from 1981 to 1987, he had a recurring role as Judge Alan Wachtel on the NBC police procedural "Hill Street Blues." Tambor guest-starred on "The Love Boat" (1981; 1983), "Barney Miller" (1981), "Three's Company" (1981–1982), "9 to 5" (1982), "M*A*S*H" (1982), "The Twilight Zone" (1985–1986), "Murder, She Wrote" (1988), "L.A. Law" (1988), "The Golden Girls" (1989), and "Doogie Howser, M.D." (1989), and he played Paul Stark on "Mr. Sunshine" (1986), Murray on "Max Headroom" (1987), and Lionel Goodman on "Studio 5-B" (1989). From 1992 to 1998, he starred as Hank Kingsley on HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show" alongsideGarry Shandling. "The Larry Sanders Show" aired 90 episodes over six seasons and earned Jeffrey four Primetime Emmy nominations.
In the '90s, Tambor also appeared in the films "Life Stinks" (1991), "City Slickers" (1991), "Radioland Murders" (1994), "Heavyweights" (1995), "Dr. Dolittle" (1998), "There's Something About Mary" (1998), "Meet Joe Black" (1998), "Muppets from Space" (1999), "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" (1999), and "Girl, Interrupted" (1999) and guest-starred on "Empty Nest" (1991) and "Tracey Takes On…" (1999). He played Jake Gorelick on the 1999 NBC sitcom "Everything's Relative," and in 2003, he teamed back up with the show's creator,Mitch Hurwitz, to star as George Bluth Sr. and Oscar Bluth on the critically-acclaimed Fox sitcom "Arrested Development." The Emmy-winning series was cancelled by Fox after three seasons and revived by Netflix in 2013, and Jeffrey earned two Emmy nominations for his performance. He appeared in the films "Pollock" (2000), "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (2000), "Malibu's Most Wanted" (2003), "My Boss's Daughter" (2003), "Hellboy" (2004), "Superhero Movie" (2008), "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" (2008), and "The Invention of Lying" (2009), and he played Sid Garner in the hit comedies "The Hangover" (2009), "The Hangover Part II" (2011), and "The Hangover Part III" (2013).
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