Jonathan Harshman Winters III was born on the 11th November 1925, in Bellbrook, Ohio USA, and was an actor, comedian, author and artist who received 11 nominations for Grammy Awards, and won the Grammy for the Best Album for Children for contributions to the “Little Prince” (1975) and the Grammy award for the Best comedy album “Crank (y) Calls” (1996). Jonathan Winters had been active in the entertainment industry from 1949 to 2013, when he passed away.
How much was the net worth of Jonathan Winters? It had been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth was as much as $5 million, converted to the present day.
Jonathan Winters Net Worth $5 Million
To begin with, Jonathan Winters was raised in the town Bellbrook. His childhood was overshadowed by the alcoholism of his father and subsequent divorce of his parents. With his mother Alice Kilgore, he moved first to Springfield and then to Dayton. At the age of 17, Jonathan went to the school for sailors, and served two years in the Navy, taking part in the fighting in the Pacific during World War II. When he returned, he enrolled at Kenyon College, and then studied at the Dayton Art Institute, where he showed artistic talent as a cartoonist.
Winters career in the entertainment industry began in 1948, when he unexpectedly won a local talent show with comic sketches. He was noticed and invited to work in radio transmission in a variety of capacities, starting with weather reports and moving to comedy numbers. Then, Winters was invited to Columbus’ WBNS-TV channel, although he refused because he was dissatisfied with the proposed salary, and decided to move to New York. Winters managed to get a job in a nightclub, and at the same time he was looking for an opportunity to get onto the central TV channels. In 1952, Winters managed to get a small role in the television series “Omnibus”, after which the young actor’s career developed quickly.
Concerning a long spanned career, Winters created characters in a number of series and television movies – “The Jonathan Winters Show” (1956 – 1957), “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” (1963), “The Garry Moore Show” (1968), “The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters” (1972-1974), “Mork & Mindy” (1981) and “Spaced Out!” (1991) among many others. He also voiced Grandpa Smurf in the film “The Smurfs” (1986-1989) and Papa Smurf in “The Smurfs” (2011). In 1991, Winters won an Emmy for his role in “Davis Rules”, and in was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for the show “American Humor”. In 2002, he earned an Emmy nomination as a guest star in a comedy series, actually “Life with Bonnie” – this recognition certainly helped his net worth grow.
Moreover, Winters is also known as an artist, having painted and drawn sketches which were published in many collections. He authored several books too, including short stories entitled “Winters’ Tales” (1988) which is on the list of best-selling books. His last film was dubbed “The Smurfs 2” in 2013.
Finally, in the personal life of Jonathan Winters, he was married to Eileen Schauder from 1948 until her death in 2009; they had two children. Winters died at the age of 87 of natural causes on the 11th April 2013 in Montecito, California.
