Dick Gauthier Net Worth
Dick Gauthier Net Worth is
$1.9 Million
Dick Gauthier Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Dick "Richard" Gautier (born October 30, 1931) is an actor, comedian, composer, singer and author. Among his most well-known television roles are for Hymie the Robot in the television series Get Smart, and Robin Hood in the short-lived TV comedy series When Things Were Rotten, a Mel Brooks send-up of the classic legend.Gautier also has a cult following for his role as Hal, the partner of Stanley Beamish in the short-lived 1967 sitcom series Mister Terrific; and for his various voice roles in the 1986 animated Transformers series (including the voice Rodimus Prime). | Date Of Birth | October 31, 1931 |
| Place Of Birth | Culver City, California, USA |
| Height | 6' (1.83 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Writer, Producer |
| Spouse | Barbara Stuart |
| Star Sign | Scorpio |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [on his short-lived series Mr. Terrific (1966)] That was a piece of crap! I didn't even audition or read or do anything. They had seen me on The Patty Duke Show (1963) where I played a musician. Kind of a good part that was very showy and I was fast-talking and glib and stuff. They saw it at Universal and said, "Man, he'd be great for the other guy in 'Mr. Terrific'." ['Willliam Schifrin'], my agent, called and said, "You wanna do it?" I said, "I don't know, it's about a guy who takes a pill and becomes a superhero . . . It sounds like shit." He said, "Yeah, it's a piece of shit, but we're guaranteed 13 episodes. Could you use the money?" I said, "Yeah." We did 13 and that was it. Goodbye . . . The guy who starred in it, Stephen Strimpell, had delusions of grandeur. He thought he was doing the Cherry Lane Theater. I mean, really. He went into a producer's office and said, "I won't say this crap!" And he threw the script in his face. I said to him, "Jesus, man, this is a kiddie show! What are you doing? Get your money, button your lip and go home." God, that's all that was, a kiddie show. I don't know what he wanted, but he was very hard to get along with. |
| 2 | [on William Schallert] . . . there isn't a nicer guy around. A very sweet guy. |
| 3 | [on Buddy Hackett] Buddy Hackett was mean from the ground up. I did his show [Stanley (1956)] when I was flailing around in New York trying to get something going, when I was working clubs. He was never nice. He was just never nice. But when I got his television show I had very little to do. I was almost like an extra. Carol Burnett was in it. I tell you, he was just impossible to work with, even for Carol. Carol Burnett never knocks anybody but, boy, she does not like Buddy Hackett. When I was in Philadelphia trying out "Bye Bye Birdie", Buddy was doing a show called ["Viva] Madison Avenue". And it was getting killed. Just gettin' killed. When he found it was me who had been like an extra on his show and I was now playing the lead in "Bye Bye Birdie" and getting great reviews, it really pissed him off. So much so that one night when he was eating at Harvey House, I walked by and said hello and he took his keys and he threw them at me. He said, "Hey, Dick, bring my car around, would ya!" I said, "Certainly, Mr. Hackett." I took the keys and went back to my theater and dressing room and back to rehearsal. He looked around everywhere for his keys and couldn't find them. Four hours later he comes storming in, "Where are my fucking keys!" That's the kind of guy he was. He was . . . just . . . awful. Mean. Always an angry man. |
| 4 | [on Ronnie Schell] Ronnie Schell is one of the cheapest men in the world. [Stand-up comic] Thom Sharp's line: "Ronnie Schell is so cheap that when he eats alone he asks for separate checks." |
| 5 | [on Jack Carter] Yeah, I've worked with Jack a lot. He played my father in a television show. The first 15 minutes of every day we'd sit and wait for him to finish complaining. "God, Jesus Christ, my coffee was cold, for fuck's sake. I had to send it back and the cream was sour." All he did was complain for 15 minutes and then he would finally settle down and we would get to work. Jack is kind of manic. I love him, but I hate him. He's really hard to take and it's too bad, but I have known him forever. |
| 6 | [on Irwin Corey] Enrico Banducci [owner of the Hungry I nightclub in San Francisco] called me and my collaborator Larry Tucker. He said, "Hey guys, I'm here in New York and I'm looking for some new acts. Would you guys come over and tell me what you think about the new crop?" So we said sure and we're sitting at a big table. Irwin Corey walks in with his manager. His first words were, "What the fuck are these guys doing here! Goddamn leeches who come in here and eat your fucking food! What the fuck!". I mean, that's how we were greeted. I tell you, I had had it. I used to be very strong in those days. I grabbed him by the lapel and I picked him up off the floor. I said, "You are such a cocksucker, Irwin. Keep this up and I will throw you out the window--and I can do it." There was an open window and I carried him over to it. From then on he'd say, "Hi Dick, how are you?" It's funny how you have to push some people, but that's what a bastard he was. |
| 7 | [on Irwin Corey] The Professor Irwin Corey is incredibly brilliant and I knew him pretty well, but he is a terrible human being. Honestly. He's the lowest kind of prick you would ever want to meet. God, is he awful. I was working there [in Las Vegas] and he came in. All he did was say bad things about me, my act and my talent. Just dreadful. But I found out that it was kind of a Napoleonic thing. He was very small and I was probably a foot taller than him. |
| 8 | [on his iconic role as Hymie the Robot in Get Smart (1965)] Hymie never stifled my career. He only enhanced it. I know kids who were named Hymie because they looked like me. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Write books on acting and drawing [1999] |
| 2 | Became a regular on the series Get Smart (1965) as Hymie the robot. |
| 3 | Has three children with his ex-wife, Barbara Stuart: Chrissie, Randy, Denise Gauthier. |
| 4 | Of French-Canadian ancestry. |
| 5 | Voiced the unstable villain "Serpentor" on G.I. Joe (1985) and the reluctant second leader of the Autobots, "Rodimus Prime", on The Transformers (1984). |
| 6 | Was nominated for Broadway's 1961 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) for "Bye, Bye Birdie." |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Baileys of Balboa | 1964 | TV Series | Tani |
| Ensign Pulver | 1964 | Stefanowski | |
| The Eleventh Hour | 1963 | TV Series | Ollie Merrill |
| Nip/Tuck | 2010 | TV Series | Marshall Ayers |
| You Animal | 2004 | Short | Alfred Claggart (voice, as Dick Gautier) |
| Cow and Chicken | 1997-1999 | TV Series | Butts / Rhode Island Red / Red's Dad |
| Detective Barbie: Mystery of the Carnival Caper | 1998 | Video Game | Bert (voice) |
| Captain Planet and the Planeteers | 1995 | TV Series | Okey Pinehead |
| The Addams Family | 1992-1993 | TV Series | Additional Voices |
| The Pirates of Dark Water | 1991-1993 | TV Series | Additional Voices |
| The Golden Palace | 1993 | TV Series | Bobby |
| Tom & Jerry Kids Show | 1990-1993 | TV Series | Spike |
| Silk Stalkings | 1992 | TV Series | Sonny Carlisle |
| Garfield and Friends | 1992 | TV Series | |
| The Naked Truth | 1992 | The Bartender (as Dick Gautier) | |
| Batman: The Animated Series | 1992 | TV Series | Teddy Lupus / Cop / Lawyer |
| The Munsters Today | 1991 | TV Series | Manny Glickstein |
| Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone | 1990 | TV Series | |
| Wake, Rattle & Roll | 1990 | TV Series | Malcolm Milkem (1990) (voice, as Dick Gautier) |
| Charles in Charge | 1988-1990 | TV Series | Karl Higler / Harry Hileman |
| Freddy's Nightmares | 1989 | TV Series | Charlie Nichels |
| The Smurfs | 1985-1989 | TV Series | Additional Voices |
| Get Smart, Again! | 1989 | TV Movie | Hymie (as Dick Gautier) |
| Glitch! | 1988 | Julius Lazar (as Dick Gautier) | |
| The New Yogi Bear Show | 1988 | TV Series | Additional Voices |
| A Pup Named Scooby-Doo | 1988 | TV Series | Additional Voices (voice, as Dick Gautier) |
| Murder, She Wrote | 1984-1988 | TV Series | Chaz Crewe / Mike Dupont |
| We Got It Made | 1988 | TV Series | |
| She's the Sheriff | 1987-1988 | TV Series | Special Agent Baker |
| DuckTales | 1987 | TV Series | |
| Foofur | 1986-1987 | TV Series | Louis |
| The Transformers | 1986-1987 | TV Series | Rodimus Prime Hot Rod Sweep ... |
| Matlock | 1987 | TV Series | Bobby Freemont |
| G.I. Joe: The Movie | 1987 | Video | Serpentor (voice, as Dick Gautier) |
| Sky Commanders | 1987 | TV Series | Mordax |
| InHumanoids: The Movie | 1986 | Video | Pyre Crygen Magnakor (voice) |
| InHumanoids | 1986 | TV Series | Pyre Crygen George Landisburg ... |
| G.I. Joe | 1986 | TV Series | Serpentor / Bon Appétit Lacarre / Buck McCann |
| Life with Lucy | 1986 | TV Series | Dunlap |
| Wildfire | 1986 | TV Series | Horse |
| G.I. Joe: Arise, Serpentor, Arise! | 1986 | TV Movie | Serpentor (voice, as Dick Gautier) |
| Transformers: Five Faces of Darkness | 1986 | Video | Rodimus Prime Sweep (voice, as Dick Gautier) |
| Jonny Quest | 1986 | TV Series | Additional Voices (voice) |
| GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords | 1986 | Brimstone / Bugsie / Klaws / ... (voice) | |
| New Love, American Style | 1986 | TV Series | |
| Yogi's Treasure Hunt | 1986 | TV Series | Additional Voices |
| Daniel and the Lion's Den | 1986 | Video short voice, as Dick Gautier | |
| Galtar and the Golden Lance | 1985 | TV Series | Additional Voices |
| Challenge of the GoBots | 1985 | TV Series | Sky Jack |
| This Wife for Hire | 1985 | TV Movie | Howard Greer |
| Alice | 1983-1985 | TV Series | Ted Marshall / Capt. Sacks |
| Knight Rider | 1984 | TV Series | J. Gordon Baxter, aka 'The Chameleon' |
| Fantasy Island | 1980-1984 | TV Series | Gordon Mills / Mike Collins / Denny Palumbo |
| Goodnight, Beantown | 1984 | TV Series | |
| Copper Mountain | 1983 | TV Movie | Sonny Silverton |
| Masquerade | 1983 | TV Series | |
| Zorro and Son | 1983 | TV Series | El Excellente |
| Quincy M.E. | 1983 | TV Series | Hal Bonner |
| Trapper John, M.D. | 1981 | TV Series | Andrew Ridley / Jake Donovan |
| Too Close for Comfort | 1981 | TV Series | Rich Holland |
| Happy Days | 1981 | TV Series | Dr. Ludlow / Mad Scientist |
| Charlie's Angels | 1980 | TV Series | Barry Kingsbrook |
| Marathon | 1980 | TV Movie | Bud (as Dick Gautier) |
| The Love Boat | 1978-1979 | TV Series | John Hurley / Curt Stansell |
| Mrs. Columbo | 1979 | TV Series | |
| Eischied | 1979 | TV Series | Delios |
| Stockard Channing in Just Friends | 1979 | TV Series | |
| $weepstake$ | 1979 | TV Series | Victor |
| Flying High | 1978 | TV Series | Bill Wilson |
| The Eddie Capra Mysteries | 1978 | TV Series | |
| Man from Atlantis | 1978 | TV Series | Duke |
| Wonder Woman | 1978 | TV Series | Cagliostro |
| Mulligan's Stew | 1977 | TV Series | Dempsey |
| Insight | 1977 | TV Series | Tommy Granville |
| Sex and the Married Woman | 1977 | TV Movie | Louie Grosscup |
| Kingston: Confidential | 1977 | TV Series | Clay Farnham |
| Billy Jack Goes to Washington | 1977 | Gov. Hubert Hopper | |
| The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | 1977 | TV Series | Tail Gunner |
| Switch | 1977 | TV Series | Rafe Kelso |
| Fun with Dick and Jane | 1977 | Dr. Will (as Dick Gautier) | |
| Benny and Barney: Las Vegas Undercover | 1977 | TV Movie | Will Dawson |
| Good Heavens | 1976 | TV Series | Rod |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | 1976 | TV Series | Vince Dager |
| When Things Were Rotten | 1975 | TV Series | Robin Hood |
| The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery | 1975 | Oscar Cornell (as Dick Gautier) | |
| Kolchak: The Night Stalker | 1974 | TV Series | Mel Tarter |
| The Rockford Files | 1974 | TV Series | Carl Brego |
| The New Temperatures Rising Show | 1974 | TV Series | Billy Joe |
| Thursday's Game | 1974 | TV Movie | John |
| Hawkins | 1974 | TV Series | Scotti |
| Diana | 1974 | TV Series | Benton Fowler |
| Banacek | 1973 | TV Series | Mario Fratelli |
| Mary Tyler Moore | 1973 | TV Series | Ed Cavanaugh |
| Love, American Style | 1971-1973 | TV Series | Robert Herridan (segment "Love and the Fractured Fibula") / (segment "Love and the Sexpert") / Bill (segment "Love and the Security Building") / ... |
| Here We Go Again | 1973 | TV Series | Jerry Standish |
| Wild in the Sky | 1972 | Diver | |
| Honeymoon Suite | 1972 | TV Series | |
| The Doris Day Show | 1971 | TV Series | Omar / Joe Garrison |
| The Debbie Reynolds Show | 1969 | TV Series | Joel Nimitz |
| The Flying Nun | 1969 | TV Series | Bruce |
| Get Smart | 1966-1968 | TV Series | Hymie |
| Maryjane | 1968 | Bearded prisoner (uncredited) | |
| Divorce American Style | 1967 | Larry Strickland (as Dick Gautier) | |
| Mr. Terrific | 1967 | TV Series | Hal Walters |
| Love on a Rooftop | 1967 | TV Series | Ben |
| Bewitched | 1966 | TV Series | Aubert |
| The Patty Duke Show | 1966 | TV Series | Gate Garrison |
| Gidget | 1965 | TV Series | Mark Hillman |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Love, American Style | 1972-1973 | TV Series 2 episodes | |
| Wild in the Sky | 1972 | as Dick Gautier | |
| Maryjane | 1968 | as Dick Gautier |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wild in the Sky | 1972 | producer |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dinah! | 1976 | TV Series performer - 1 episode |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Headmasters: Voicing the Robots in Disguise | 2009 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Inside TV Land: Get Smart | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| E! True Hollywood Story | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Celebrity Recordathon | 1996 | Video short | Himself |
| Family Feud | 1989 | TV Series | Himself |
| Super Password | 1984-1986 | TV Series | Himself - Celebrity Contestant |
| Body Language | 1984-1985 | TV Series | Himself |
| Password Plus | 1980 | TV Series | Himself - Celebrity Contestant |
| The Alan Hamel Show | 1979 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Merv Griffin Show | 1977 | TV Series | Himself |
| Match Game 73 | 1973-1977 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist |
| Celebrity Sweepstakes | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| Liar's Club | 1976 | TV Series | Himself / panelist |
| Break the Bank | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| Dinah! | 1975-1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| Celebrity Bowling | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| Word Grabbers | 1976 | TV Movie | Himself - Panelist (2nd Pilot) (as Dick Gauthier) |
| Tattletales | 1974-1975 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Mike Douglas Show | 1975 | TV Series | Himself - Comedian |
| New American Bandstand 1965 | 1975 | TV Series | Himself |
| Showoffs | 1975 | TV Series | Himself |
| Match Game PM | 1975 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist |
| Password All-Stars | 1973 | TV Series | Himself - Celebrity Contestant |
| It's Your Bet | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| Stump the Stars | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| Can You Top This | 1970 | TV Series | Himself / joke teller |
| Allen Ludden's Gallery | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| You Don't Say | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Joey Bishop Show | 1968 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Woody Woodbury Show | 1968 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Hollywood Squares | 1967 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist |
| The Lively Ones | 1963 | TV Series | Himself - Performer |
| The Jack Paar Tonight Show | 1960 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1960 | TV Series | Conrad Birdie |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | 2010 | Video documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Broadway: The American Musical | 2004 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Conrad Birdie (in 'Bye Bye Birdie') |
Known for movies
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
as Dr. Will
Tattletales (1974-1975)
as Himself
Mr. Terrific (1967)
as Hal Walters
Get Smart, Again! (1989)
as Hymie