Gaston Leroux Net Worth is
$1 Million

Mini Biography

A local of Paris, France, a poet, journalist and novelist, Gaston Leroux is well known for his many creative horror tales, including “Rouilable”, “The Haunted Seat” and “The Polish Face mask”, but is most likely most widely known for his function “The Phantom from the Opera”, which became Leroux’s reward possession. He published the book in 1908 in regards to a disfigured guy who dresses in masks and capes and terrorizes the Paris Opera Home while falling deeply in love with the leading woman. “The Phantom from the Opera” was centered very much upon Leroux’s personal encounters. During his early years like a journalist in the past due 1800s, Leroux spent period heading the Paris Opera Home and watching shows, and was affected by Charles Gounod’s opera “Faust”, in regards to a guy who offers his soul towards the devil. Using one event, the chandelier which highlighted within the opera dropped into the market by accident. Merging the performers, Faust as well as the chandelier jointly, Leroux made “The Phantom from the Opera”. In 1923, Carl Laemmle, head of the brand new Universal Images in Hollywood, produced a film from the novel, The Phantom from the Opera (1925), with Lon Chaney within the lead. Leroux was impressed by this, but 2 yrs later he passed away. After that, “The Phantom from the Opera” is becoming so popular they have motivated five feature remakes, one in 1943 Phantom from the Opera (1943)), another in 1962 (The Phantom from the Opera (1962) and once again in 1989 (The Phantom from the Opera (1989)). A tv edition was also produced (The Phantom from the Opera (1983)) and a remake manufactured in 1999 (The Phantom from the Opera (1998)). The newest remake is normally Joel Schumacher’s The Phantom from the Opera (2004), created and cast by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum and Patrick Wilson, three quite unidentified actors, instead of Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman, the initial actors from the Broadway display. The novel was also converted to a significant London and Broadway stage musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Gaston Leroux will permanently be appreciated for “The Phantom from the Opera”.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Gaston Leroux
Died	April 15, 1927, Nice, France
Weight	88 kg
Profession	Journalist, Novelist
Nationality	French
Spouse	Jeanne Cayatte, Marie Lefranc
Children	Madeleine Aile
Parents	Dominique Alfred Leroux, Marie Bidault
Siblings	Hélène Leroux, Joseph Leroux, Henri Leroux
Movies	The Phantom of the Opera, The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, Song at Midnight, The Wax Mask, The Phantom of Paris, Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, Rouletabille joue et gagne, Compliments of Mister Flow, Flying Gold, Le Dîner Des Bustes, The Man Who Returns from Afar, Cheri-Bibi