John J. Vogel
Actor

John J. Vogel Net Worth

John J. Vogel is an actor, producer, camera department, director, and special needs community activist. He was born in Akron, Ohio on September 29, 1964, and studied with Alfred Molina and Sal Romeo to pursue a career in entertainment. He started as a musician and then got his first acting job on the HBO series The Larry Sanders Show. He has since acted in Soldier of Fortune, Inc, Sightings, Jesus 2000, Tempting Fate, and Color of Love. He has also directed and hosted the food show The Mix Masters and produced Michael Connelly's documentary Blue Neon Night. His commercials have resulted in over $10,000,000 in sales. He has also dedicated his time to the Special Olympics of Northern California/Nevada, raising over $350,000 in services and donations. He has trained a group of athletes to work with him on set when he is directing.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor, Producer, Camera Department

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1863

John W. Vogel was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, May 16, 1863. Vogel’s first introduction to show Business was working with the Sells Brothers' “Millionaire Confederation of Stupendous Shows” circus in March 1882. That same year he became the assistant agent for Thatcher, Primrose and West’s Minstrels in Cleveland, Ohio. He excelled to such a degree that he was made manager of the show.

1887

John W. Vogel went on to manage the McIntyre and Heath Minstrels (1887–88), organized in Kenosha, Wisconsin. as well as other troupes before piloting many of his own well-known companies including McNish, Johnson and Slavin’s; Mcnish, Ramza and Arno’s; Primrose and West’s and McIntyre and Heath’s. Vogel most notably owned and managed the successful companies Vogel's Afro-American Mastodon Minstrels and John W. Vogel’s Big City Minstrels, of which the latter traveled and performed for over a dozen seasons. He also managed the Al. G. Field Minstrels for seven years. “In 1898, John W. Vogel’s Concert Company was considered “the greatest band of colored Musicians in America”.

1897

A review from an 1897 mainstream daily paper provides a summarial description of 1890s plantation minstrelsy through description of the show: “In Darkest America” as presented... by Mr. John Vogel’s large and in every way meritorious company, was perhaps the best presentation of scenes intended to be depicted, taking the performance in all its details, that could be exhibited. The actors are in the main colored people, and from the fidelity which the scenes of the plantation in slavery times are produced, one would be justified in imagining that they had all served at least a liberal apprenticeship among the slaves of the past.”.

2019

Through his success in minstrel shows, Vogel amassed such a fortune that he was able to own a winter home in Columbus, Ohio as well as a Summer home on his eponymous property, Vogel’s Beach, Buckeye Lake, Ohio.

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