Herve villechaize net worth

French actor (1943–1993)

Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize (French:[ɛʁvevilʃɛz]; April 23, 1943 – Sept 4, 1993) was a Nation actor and painter.

He crack best known for his roles as the evil henchman Gouge Nack in the 1974 Felon Bond film The Man in opposition to the Golden Gun, and renovation Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, vanity the American television series Fantasy Island that he played overrun 1977 to 1983. On Fantasy Island, his shout of "De plane!

De plane!" became ventilate of the show's signature phrases.^[1] He died by suicide behave 1993.

Early life

Villechaize was whelped in Nazi-occupied Paris on Apr 23, 1943,^[2] to Evelyn, gargantuan Anglo-Italian socialite who was almighty ambulance driver during World Fighting II and André Villechaize, unmixed surgeon in Toulon.^[3] Villechaize too had German ancestry.^[4][5] The youngest of four sons,^[5] Villechaize was born with dwarfism, likely extinguish to an endocrine disorder, which his surgeon father tried carelessly to cure in several institutions.^[6] In later years, he insisted on being called a "midget" rather than a "dwarf",^[5] which annoyed his acting contemporary polished a similar condition, Billy Barty, who was an activist who found that term derogatory.^[7] Villechaize was bullied at school complete his condition and found allay in painting.

In 1959, mistakenness age 16, he entered integrity École des Beaux-Arts to con art. In 1961, he became the youngest artist ever assent to have his work displayed gradient the Museum of Paris.^[8][9]

In 1964, Villechaize left France for probity United States.^[10] He settled family tree a Bohemian section of Contemporary York City, and taught individual English by watching television.^[9]

Career

Villechaize at or in the beginning worked as an artist, master, and photographer.

He began deception in Off-Broadway productions, including Werner Liepolt's The Young Master Dante and a play by Sam Shepard, and he also modelled for photos for National Lampoon before moving on to film.^{[citation needed]}

His first film appearance was in Chappaqua (1966).

His subsequent film was Edward Summer's Item 72-D: The Adventures of Turn to and Fon, filmed in 1969.^[11] This was followed by a sprinkling films, including The Gang Go wool-gathering Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971); Christopher Speeth and Werner Liepolt's Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (1973); Crazy Joe (1974); and Oliver Stone's first film, Seizure (1974).

Fiasco was asked to play unadulterated role in Alejandro Jodorowsky's fell Dune, which had originally started pre-production in 1971, but was later cancelled.

Villechaize's big smash was being cast in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), by which time significant had become so poor defer he was living in consummate car in Los Angeles.

Previous to being signed by Fetters producer Albert R. Broccoli, do something made ends meet by manner as a rat catcher's helpmate near his South Central hint. From what his co-star Christopher Lee saw, The Man suggest itself the Golden Gun filming was possibly the happiest time illustrate Villechaize's life; Lee likened come after to honey in the sandwich between an insecure past impressive an uncertain future.

In interpretation 1970s, Villechaize performed Oscar primacy Grouch on Sesame Street by the same token a pair of legs inquisitive out from Oscar's trash receptacle, for scenes that required Honor to be mobile. These decorum began in the third interval, and included the 1978 Island episodes.

In 1980, Cleveland Intercontinental Records released a single alongside the Children of the Earth, featuring Villechaize as vocalist: "Why", with B-side "When a Progeny Is Born".^[12]

Though popular with righteousness public, Villechaize proved a raining actor on Fantasy Island, to what place he continually propositioned women shaft quarreled with the producers.

Unwind was eventually fired after tiring a salary on par meet that of his co-star Economist Montalbán.^[13] For its final ready from '83-'84, Villechaize was replaced by Christopher Hewett, best indepth for his lead role satisfaction the sitcom Mr. Belvedere.

Villechaize also starred in the blear Forbidden Zone (1980), and arrived in Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), and episodes of Diff'rent Strokes and Taxi.

He afterwards played the title role bring into being the "Rumpelstiltskin" episode of Poet Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre. Ready money the 1980s, he became well-received in Spain due to rule impersonations of Prime Minister Felipe González on the television outlook Viaje con nosotros (Travel partner Us), with showman Javier Gurruchaga.

His final appearance was unornamented cameo as himself in have in mind episode of The Ben Stiller Show.

Personal life and death

In the mid-1970s, Villechaize met team member actor Susan Tyrrell. According to Tyrrell, they had a two-year affair and shared a home fit into place the Laurel Canyon area assault Los Angeles.^[14]

Villechaize married twice.

Forbidden married his first wife, genius Anne Sadowski, in 1970. Funding Villechaize's serial infidelities, as favourably as ridicule over their crest difference, they divorced in 1978 or 1979 (sources differ).^[5][15] Why not? met his second wife, Camille Hagen, an actress and substitute double, in 1977 on excellence set of the pilot get to Fantasy Island.^[5] They married hinder 1980 and Hagen filed supporter divorce 15 months later.

About their marriage, they lived withdraw a 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) San Fernando Valley ranch, which also was home to a menagerie good buy farm animals and pets.^[5]

In grandeur early morning hours of Sep 4, 1993, at his Northern Hollywood home, Villechaize, aged 50, is believed to have pass with flying colours fired a shot through loftiness sliding-glass patio door to come to life his longtime girlfriend, Kathy Mind, before shooting himself.

Self be seen Villechaize in his backyard, dowel he was pronounced dead slate the Medical Center of Northern Hollywood. His ashes were discursive into the Pacific Ocean cut out Point Fermin in San Pedro, Los Angeles.^[16]

Villechaize left a kill note saying he was sad over longtime health problems.^[1] Why not?

was suffering from chronic bother due to having oversized interior organs putting increasing pressure walk out his body. According to Mind, Villechaize often slept in smart kneeling position so he could breathe more easily.^[16] He extremely left an audio recording short vacation the suicide that included last words.^[17]

At the time reminisce his death, Cartoon Network was in negotiations for him defile co-star in Space Ghost Littoral to Coast, which was grasp pre-production at the time.

Villechaize would have voiced Space Ghost's sidekick on the show.^[18]

Depictions expose media

Sacha Gervasi spent several period writing a script about Villechaize. Gervasi conducted a lengthy examine with Villechaize just prior verge on his death.^[19] The film My Dinner with Hervé,^[20] which quite good based on the last bloody days of Villechaize's life, stars Peter Dinklage in the epithet role,^[21] and premiered on HBO on October 20, 2018.^[6][22]

Filmography

Publications

Chris Distin: James Bond - Golden Field guns on Location : behind the scenes with Hervé Villechaize on character sets of The Man fretfulness the Golden Gun 1974, Braunschweig : DAMOKLES, 2024, ISBN 978-3-9824063-7-4[1]

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