Lowell Thomas Net Worth
Lowell Thomas Net Worth is
$1.9 Million
Lowell Thomas Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Lowell Thomas filmed Major T.E. Lawrence and his Arab army fighting the Ottoman Turks in the deserts of Palestine in early 1917 during WWI. It was he who coined the phrase "Lawrence of Arabia"' and with his film and the following publicity made Lawrence perhaps the greatest legend of the Twentieth Century. Lawrence and the Arabs were betrayed by ... | Date Of Birth | April 6, 1892 |
| Died | 1981-08-29 |
| Place Of Birth | Woodington, Darke County, Ohio, U.S. |
| Profession | Actor, Writer, Director |
| Star Sign | Aries |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the major motion Lawrence Of Arabia (1962), Arthur Kennedy's portrayal of Newspaper Reporter & Film Maker, Jackson Bentley is a fictionalized name for Mr. Lowell Thomas; who both "discovered" T.E. Lawrence, coined the phrase 'Lawrence of Arabia' and made his exploits known to the world in his book and film, With Lawrence in Arabia (1919). |
| 2 | In the major motion Lawrence Of Arabia (1962), Arthur Kennedy's portrayal of Newspaper Reporter & Film Maker, Jackson Bentley is a fictionalized name for Mr. Lowell Thomas; who both "discovered" T.E. Lawrence, coined the phrase 'Lawrence of Arabia' and made his exploits known to the world in his book and film, With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia (1919). |
| 3 | He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 1752 Vine Street and for Motion Pictures at 6433 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. |
| 4 | Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 786-788. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998. |
| 5 | As a boy, his Sunday school teacher was future actress and 1920's nightclub queen Texas Guinan. |
| 6 | Raised in the small town of Victor, Colorado, there is a Lowell Thomas Museum in this former mining town to this day. |
| 7 | He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Some Call It Greed | 1977 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Amelia Earhart | 1976 | TV Movie | Broadcaster |
| Sunday Showcase | 1961 | TV Series | Host / Narrator |
| Fireside Theatre | 1952 | TV Series | Narrator |
| Driven to Kill | 1948 | Short | Narrator |
| Holiday in South Africa | 1947 | Short | Commentator |
| To the Shores of Tripoli | 1942 | Opening Narrator (voice, uncredited) | |
| A Great Railroad at Work | 1942 | Short | Narrator |
| The Lion Has Wings | 1939 | Narrator, US version | |
| I'll Tell the World | 1939 | Short | Narrator (voice) |
| Titans of the Deep | 1938 | Narrator | |
| Five of a Kind | 1938 | Movietone News Reporter (uncredited) | |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas No. 60 | 1938 | Short | Narrator |
| America Marching On | 1937 | Short | Host / Narrator |
| Schlitz on Mount Washington | 1935 | Short | Narrator (voice) |
| Inklings | 1933 | Short | Narrator (voice) |
| The Blonde Captive | 1931 | Lowell Thomas |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search for Paradise | 1957 | Documentary | |
| Out of This World | 1954/II | Documentary written by | |
| The World Today: The Man from Missouri | 1946 | Documentary short | |
| Titans of the Deep | 1938 | story and narrative | |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas No. 60 | 1938 | Short script | |
| Italian Libya | 1937 | Documentary short narrative | |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #39 | 1937 | Documentary short narrative | |
| Mussolini Speaks | 1933 | Documentary | |
| The Blonde Captive | 1931 | narrative | |
| It's a Bird | 1930 | Short |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Out of This World | 1954/II | Documentary | |
| Italian Libya | 1937 | Documentary short | |
| With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia | 1919 |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seven Wonders of the World | 1956 | Documentary producer | |
| Out of This World | 1954/II | Documentary co-producer | |
| This Is Cinerama | 1952 | Documentary executive producer |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search for Paradise | 1957 | Documentary lyrics: "Happy Land of Hunza", "Shalimar", "Kashmir Street Song", "Search for Paradise" |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| You Can't Get Away with It | 1936 | Short documentary | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #22 | 1936 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #21 | 1936 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #20 | 1936 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #18 | 1936 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #13 | 1935 | Short documentary | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #14 | 1935 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #15 | 1935 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #16 | 1935 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #17 | 1935 | Short documentary | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #12 | 1935 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #11 | 1935 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #10 | 1935 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #9 | 1935 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #8 | 1935 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #4 | 1934 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #2 | 1934 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #3 | 1934 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #1 | 1934 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Mussolini Speaks | 1933 | Documentary | Commentator |
| Himatschal - Der Thron der Götter | 1931 | Documentary | Himself - Narrator: USA |
| Africa Speaks! | 1930 | Documentary | Himself (narrator) |
| It's a Bird | 1930 | Short | Himself, Lowell Thomas |
| War Stories with Oliver North | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Ike: The War Years | 1979 | TV Mini-Series | Himself |
| The Lions of Capitalism | 1977 | Documentary | Narrator |
| Yesterday's Witness: A Tribute to the American Newsreel | 1976 | Documentary | Himself / Narrator |
| The Mike Douglas Show | 1971-1976 | TV Series | Himself - Broadcaster / Himself - Writer / Broadcaster |
| The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War | 1975 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| No Substitute for Victory | 1970 | Documentary | Himself |
| Patton | 1970 | Himself - Movietone News Narrator (voice, uncredited) | |
| Around the World of Mike Todd | 1967 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| What's My Line? | 1964 | TV Series | Himself - Mystery Guest |
| Red China | 1964 | Short documentary | Narrator |
| The Jack Paar Program | 1964 | TV Series | Himself |
| Best of Cinerama | 1963 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The Challenge of Ideas | 1961 | Documentary short | Himself |
| This Is Your Life | 1959 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Five Mile Dream | 1958 | Documentary short | Himself - Narrator |
| Search for Paradise | 1957 | Documentary | Narrator, Himself |
| Seven Wonders of the World | 1956 | Documentary | Himself |
| Person to Person | 1954 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Out of This World | 1954/II | Documentary | Narrator |
| The Ford 50th Anniversary Show | 1953 | TV Movie | Himself |
| This Is Cinerama | 1952 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| World's Middleweight Championship: Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Randy Turpin | 1951 | Himself - Audience Member | |
| The Chicken of Tomorrow | 1948 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Cradle of Liberty | 1946 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Along the Rainbow Trail | 1946 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| The World Today: The Man from Missouri | 1946 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Memories of Columbus | 1945 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Alaskan Grandeur | 1945 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| United We Stand | 1942 | Documentary | Himself, Narrator (voice) |
| Magic Carpet No. 8: India the Golden | 1942 | Documentary short | Himself - Narrator |
| Magic Carpet No. 6: Heart of Mexico | 1942 | Documentary short | Himself - Narrator |
| About Faces | 1941 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Red Cross Trailer | 1941 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Arctic Springtime | 1941 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Star Dust | 1940 | Himself - Fox Movietone News Narrator (uncredited) | |
| Aghileen Pinnacles | 1939 | Documentary short | Himself (orchestra conductor) |
| For Auld Lang Syne | 1939 | Documentary short | Himself - Narrator |
| Color Harmony | 1938 | Documentary short voice | |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #35 | 1937 | Short documentary | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #36 | 1937 | Documentary short | Himself (narrator) |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #37 | 1937 | Documentary short | Himself (narrator) |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #38 | 1937 | Short documentary | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #40 | 1937 | Short documentary | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #41 | 1937 | Documentary short | Himself (narrator) |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #42 | 1937 | Documentary short | Himself (narrator) |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #43 | 1937 | Documentary short | Himself (narrator) |
| Italian Libya | 1937 | Documentary short | Commentator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #39 | 1937 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Borneo | 1937 | Documentary | Serious Narrator |
| Killers of the Sea | 1937 | Documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| Seeing Green | 1937 | Documentary short voice | |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #23 | 1936 | Short documentary | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #24 | 1936 | Documentary short | Himself (narrator) |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #25 | 1936 | Documentary short | Himself (narrator) |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #26 | 1936 | Short documentary | Narrator |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #27 | 1936 | Documentary short | Himself (narrator) |
| Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #31 | 1936 | Short documentary | Narrator |
| Men and Machines | 1936 | Documentary short | Himself - Narrator |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Eyes | 2014/I | Himself | |
| Jon Boschen's Classic Industrial Film Showcase | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck | 2013 | Documentary | Newsreel Narrator (uncredited) |
| Journey to Palomar, America's First Journey Into Space | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Good Shepherd | 2006 | Himselr (uncredited) | |
| I'm King Kong!: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper | 2005 | Documentary | Himself |
| War Stories with Oliver North | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Cinerama Adventure | 2002 | Documentary | Himself |
| 20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Biography | 1993 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Newsreel Narrator |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At 6433 Hollywood Blvd. |
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Radio | On 8 February 1960. At 1752 Vine Street. |
Known for movies
It's a Bird (1930)
as Writer
Yesterday's Witness: A Tribute to the American Newsreel (1976)
as Himself / Narrator
Seven Wonders of the World (1956)
as Producer
Out of This World (1954)
as Narrator