Laurence Tureaud was born on 21 May 1952, in Chicago, Illinois USA, one of 12 children to a church minister. As Mr. T he is one of the most famous actors in the film industry. I doubt that there is a person that has not seen a movie with Mr. T in it, with some of the most famous including “Rocky III”, “The A-Team”, “Freaked”, and “Spy Hard”.
So how rich is Mr. T? It is estimated that Mr. T’s net worth is $1.5 million. The main source of this sum of money, is, of course, his acting career. In addition to this, Mr. T has also worked as a bouncer and bodyguard. What is more, he has released several albums. All additional activities also made Mr. T’s net worth higher. We can see that Mr. T is a very active and talented personality, who is still continuing his career and remains very famous among his fans.
Mr. T Net Worth $1.5 Million
Mr. T studied at the Dunbar Vocational High School, where he showed interest in different sports. He then registered at Prairie View A&M University, but didn’t graduate, instead enlisting in the United States Army, after which he began working as a bouncer, which was the start of Mr. T’s net worth growth especially as he then became a bodyguard, including to famous people such as Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Leon Spinks, Muhammad Ali and others. This change in his career had a huge influence on the growth of Mr. T’s net worth, but it also required a lot of patience and determination.
In 1982 Mr. T began his acting career. One of his first roles was in the movie called “Rocky III”, where he had an opportunity to work with Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young, Talia Shire and others. One year later Mr. T began acting in one of his most famous shows on TV, called “The A –Team”. This show gained a lot of success and acclaim in the industry and it was one of the main sources of Mr. T’s net worth.
During his career, Mr. T has appeared in over 40 films and TV shows. He has been nominated for Razzie Award and TV Land Award and has won the People’s Choice Award. Although there are not so many prestigious awards in this list, we can still admit that Mr. T is a really well known actor, whose talent and quite unusual looks HAS gained him the attention of many fans all over the world.
In addition to all the activities discussed above, Mr. T was also involved in professional wrestling. The proof that he has achieved a lot in this sphere as well is that in 2014 he was included in the WWE Hall of Fame.
In his personal life, Mr. T married Phyllis Clark in 1971, but they divorced after having two children. Undoubtedly, Mr. T is a person of many talents and he would probably be able to tell many interesting stories and secrets that he became aware of during his career of having different jobs and meeting various people. Let’s hope that we will continue hearing more about Mr. T in the future and that he will soon appear in other projects.
“Rocky III” (1982), The A-Team (1983-1987), I pity the Fool (2006), Cloudy with a Chanceof Meatballs (2009)
TV Shows
“The A –Team”
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Trademark
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Distinctive, gruff, dramatic voice
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Mohawk haircut and beard
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Wearing gold chains
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Frequent line "I pity the fool..."
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Quote
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As an actor, I'm more versatile than most people realize. I could play Hamlet, even though I look more like King Kong.
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[on the new movie version of The A-Team (2010)] There is only one A-Team. That's why me or any of the other guys won't do it. It won't be like the original. When we did it no one got hurt. There will be people dying in this one and there will be sex. Not R-rated sex but sex scenes. They are going in a different direction. If they don't want me as B.A., then I'm not going to settle for second best.
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[on appearing in The Expendables (2010)] I'm waiting for the call. But it sounds like a "Dirty Dozen" type of movie. Besides, why would I want to be in another team? I was in the best one.
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[on Rocky Balboa (2006)] I was asked to do it. Not do a fight scene but appear in a cameo. But it wouldn't work out scheduling wise. I thought it was good but the fighter in it was weedy. The first Rocky (1976) and Rocky III (1982) are the best.
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Today's action stars, they're not a team. They're in it for themselves. They may be A-Listers but they are not The A-Team (1983).
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I pity the fool who don't read it [the Mr T Comic]! It's gonna be pure gold!
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You're arguing over $45? My lunch cost $45!
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I think about my father being called 'boy', my uncle being called 'boy', my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called 'boy'. So I questioned myself: "What does a black man have to do before he's given the respect as a man?" So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody's mouth is 'Mr.' That's a sign of respect that my father didn't get, that my brother didn't get, that my mother didn't get.
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As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.
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When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.
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I pity the fool... [his trademark quote]
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I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules.
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[Playboy magazine - September 1983] I am the best bodyguard, because I'll take a bullet, I'll take a stab wound, I'll take a hit upside the head; I'm like a Kamikaze pilot; The President got shot because his men relaxed.
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Played The Bearded Lady in Freaked. During filming, he left production and took a plane back home to Chicago. The filmmakers called him and asked why he left the set. His answer was "I don't wanna wear the dress no more.".
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WWE Hall of Famer.
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Fans often dubbed his "Sgt. B.A. Baracus" from The A-Team (1983) as standing for "Bad Ass" or "Bad Attitude".
Has frequented Harry Caray's restaurant in Chicago. One waiter described Mr. T as a generous tipper who would bring his own golden eating utensils. Often, he'd bring his mother with him. While Mr. T was friendly toward would-be autograph seekers, there was one cardinal rule: do NOT disturb him while he was eating.
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Derived his signature hairstyle when an attempt to shave his hair into a "T" failed. He adopted the mohawk look instead, taken from a National Geographic photo of a Mandika warrior in Mali.
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Stopped wearing his trademark gold chains as of 2005 because of the Katrina devastation.
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If you ask him what his real name, he will tell you, "My first name is 'Mr', my middle name is 'period', last name is 'T'".
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Was once parodied on the animated G.I. Joe series of the 1980s with a character called "Mr. C", who was a spokesman for the evil Cobra Cable Network (the character then joined G.I. Joe after the Cobra Cable 3 Network was destroyed).
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Compiled a 4-0 Shoot-Wrestling Record.
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"Rowdy" Roddy Piper mentioned that he and other fellow wrestlers legitimately disliked Mr. T, because he was an actor coming into wrestling, and had not paid his dues as a professional wrestler.
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Hulk Hogan wrote in his autobiography that Mr. T almost ruined the main event of the first Wrestlemania, because when he arrived, security would not let his entourage into the building. Mr. T was ready to skip the show until Hogan personally talked him out of leaving.
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When he and Hulk Hogan appeared in 1985 on Saturday Night Live (1975), they were promoting the World Wrestling Federation's WrestleMania (1985) pay-per-view show. They stayed mostly in character, but during a "Fernando's Hideaway" segment (Billy Crystal), were unable to do so during most of that skit.
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Voted by a BBC-run poll the fourth most influential American in history, behind Homer Simpson, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.
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Boxed "Ace" Cowboy Bob Orton on WWF's Saturday Night Main Event in 1985 and was subsequently whipped by Orton and Rowdy Roddy Piper with a belt.
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While a homeowner in Lake Forest, Illinois, he clearcut nearly 100 trees located on his 7 1/2 acre property, igniting a feud with neighbors and town officials. Because of his actions, landowners of the town are prohibited from cutting down trees, even on their own property, without a permit.