Joe Turkel
Actor

Joe Turkel Net Worth

He has been active in the entertainment industry since the 1950s and has appeared in numerous films and television shows. He is best remembered for his roles in Blade Runner and The Shining.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor
Birth Day July 15, 1927
Birth Place  Brooklyn, New York, United States
Age 96 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Leo
Occupation Actor, screenwriter
Years active 1949–1998
Political party Democratic

💰 Net worth: $16 Million (2024)

Joe Turkel, a well-known actor in the United States, has an estimated net worth of $16 million as of 2024. Throughout his successful career in the entertainment industry, Turkel has portrayed remarkable characters that have resonated with audiences worldwide. With his talent and dedication to his craft, he has earned not only critical acclaim but also substantial financial success. Turkel's impressive net worth is a testament to his enduring impact on the acting scene and his ability to consistently deliver captivating performances.

Biography/Timeline

1948

His first film appearance was 1948's City Across the River. Other film appearances include Bert I. Gordon's The Boy and the Pirates as Abu the Genie, and Tormented (both 1960); The Sand Pebbles (1966) as Bronson; The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) as Chicago gangster Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik; and the 1988 horror feature The Dark Side of the Moon.

1956

On November 13, 1956, Turkel appeared on the ABC/Desilu western television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Jim Rellance, a young Texas cowhand who is infatuated with Dora Hand, a dance hall singer in Dodge City, Kansas, played by Actress Margaret Hayes. Rellance, actually an historical person, clashes with Dora's older suitor, Mayor James H. "Dog" Kelley, played by Paul Brinegar in the episode entitled "So Long, Dora, So Long". Rellance sets out to kill Kelley but instead shoots Dora to death in a cabin where Rellance believed Kelley, rather than Dora, to be sleeping.

1957

Turkel's other television appearances include Sky King (in the 1957 episode "Mystery Horse"), Frontier Doctor, U.S. Marshal, The Asphalt Jungle, Mackenzie's Raiders, Kojak, Tales from the DarkSide, and Miami Vice (in the episode "Indian Wars"). He played the creepy janitor in the season 5 episode, "And Then There was Shawn" of Boy Meets World.

1961

He also appeared on Bonanza three times, including the 1961 episode "The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch", playing one of two of Bullet Head Burke's right-hand men, the other played by Robert "Bobby" Jordan.

1982

His most famous roles are Dr. Eldon Tyrell, the eccentric god-figure in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), and Lloyd, the ghostly bartender in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). He has the distinction of being one of only two actors (the other being Philip Stone) to work with Kubrick as a credited character three times: in The Killing (1956, as "Tiny"), in Paths of Glory (1957, as the doomed Private Arnaud), and in The Shining.

1999

Turkel was born in Brooklyn, New York. When he was sixteen years old he joined the United States Army and served in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. In 1999 he lived in southern California, and wrote screenplays.

2014

When he attended a 2014 rally in "Occupy Seattle", he referred to himself as a "Liberal Progressive Democrat".

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