Ken Maynard Net Worth is
$1.3 Million

Mini Biography

Picture is everything in Hollywood. Few celebrities had been ever as disliked within the business enterprise but kept in such high respect by followers as Ken Maynard. Never to have fulfilled Maynard was apparently a blessing. And despite his countless character shortcomings, no additional western celebrity of the time had a lot of opportunities tossed his method. Maynard’s pr announcements would have you think he was a circus performer, WWI veterinarian, tournament rodeo rider and indigenous Texan. In reality, he was certainly none of the things; he was created into a huge Indiana family members (three sisters and his truly affable younger sibling Kermit Maynard who adopted him, much less effectively, to Hollywood). Ken spent his boyhood around Columbus, Indiana and finally attended, however, not graduated from, Indiana University or college. Just how he became a specialist horseman is not actually known, but he were able to become quite achieved within the saddle. His first appearance on film is at a non-western with William Fox’s studio room and scored great notices with a second part in Janice Meredith (1924) as Paul Revere. Figuring it had been preferable to be considered a big seafood in a little pond, Ken authorized with impartial low budget maker, J. Charles Davis and became a celebrity in its low quality produces, $50,000 Incentive (1924) as well as the Gray Vulture (1926). Following that he authorized with Fox’s First Country wide Pictures and continued to be with it after it had been sold off to Warner Brothers, starring in a few 20 silent westerns. Ken, at this time is at his primary and near the top of his video game with audiences. Along with his palomino Tarzan, he was celebrated. Regrettably, he also experienced a massive ego having a temper to complement, and he previously an unfailing habit of alienating everyone he caused. Unlike his sibling Kermit, Maynard was broadly regarded as an arrogant jackass – he drank greatly and spent his huge salary just like a drunken sailor. He lavished a lot of money on women, elegant cars and also had his personal aircraft. In 1929, he approved a profitable present from Carl Laemmle to leap to Common. Uncle Carl provided Ken his personal company and innovative control, which place him in to the rates of Hoot Gibson (after that rating as Universal’s leading western celebrity), the ageing Tom Blend and his forerunner, the fantastic William S. Hart. He became a member of Universal through the sound changeover period and produced eight respectable photos there. For the 1931-32 creation season, the studio room, riding high using its homegrown monster trend, opted to ditch westerns completely and Ken, who Laemmle experienced quickly produced to dislike, found out himself on the incorrect side from the studio’s gates (Gibson as well found out himself unemployed and his profession would wane substantially). Along with his name still a secured asset, Ken came back to Poverty Row, training of Tiffany for suppliers William Saal and Phil Goldstone. Regardless of the considerable lack of creation ideals, the eleven movies he floor out there have been popular Sunday matinée entries that pleased the a huge selection of impartial theaters that then-existed over the U.S. and Canada. Regrettably for Ken, he hitched his long term to a dropping celebrity: Tiffany was floundering and sank beneath the excess weight of its sub-par non-western item and proceeded to go under in 1932. Its previous manager, Samuel Bischoff became a member of causes with Saal and maker Burt Kelly to create K.B.S. Film Co. (with distribution by WORLDWIDE Productions) using the express reason for generating Ken Maynard westerns. These entries had been somewhat better budgeted than those at Tiffany but nonetheless hampered by way of a notable insufficient creation values. The corporation was short-lived, biting the dirt within a 12 months. Common, which abruptly came back to westerns in 1933, made a decision to provide Ken another shot. Between 1933 and 1934, Ken starred in eight generously budgeted oaters and, moreover, gave him monetary control over his device. This set up became a adobe flash stage with Laemmle, since Ken regularly exceeded the $100,000 roughly allotted for every film (approximately ten occasions what his Tiffany and K.B.S. produces had price). Cost overruns led to angry, profanity-laden conferences with Universal’s front side office staff. Laemmle’s deep dislike for Ken strike the breaking stage and he was demonstrated the door another time, changed by Buck Jones because the studio’s reigning sagebrush celebrity. He was most likely oblivious to the actual fact that his profession experienced peaked since he quickly authorized with Nat Levine’s flinty Mascot Photos, where he produced the feature In Aged Santa Fe (1934) along with a serial, Secret Hill (1934). As Mascot’s biggest celebrity, he started to stay his nasal area in areas which were unappreciated by Levine. His celebrity cussed out casts and crews as well; his ego was uncontrollable and he was loathed by everyone. A movie director reportedly demonstrated Levine outtakes in one of his profanity-laden outbursts and Maynard was terminated. Once again, destiny sided with Maynard as this event coincided with Tim McCoy’s departure from Columbia Photos. The studio experienced only recently damaged from the rates of Poverty Row position and manager Harry Cohn wished to remain a new player in the profitable western genre. Dealing with veteran maker Larry Darmour, Ken starred in eight Columbia oaters, you start with Traditional western Frontier (1935) aimed by Al Herman and the others by Spencer Gordon Bennet. Following that he authorized with Monogram, just recently reformed following its manager’ short interlude within Republic (observe Trem Carr). Functioning at low-budgeted Monogram displeased Ken greatly and he produced everyone alert to its many actual and recognized shortcomings. By 1938 his excess weight ballooned and his recognition nosedived and his potential film function was limited. With the amount of bridges figuratively burnt during his profession, his acting profession came to a finish by the middle-40s. With nowhere else to visit, Ken considered the big best, doing work for the Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty Circus, playing off his previous film glory. Having blown through a lot of money, later years and alcohol didn’t deal with him kindly. Wedded multiple occasions, Ken’s last wife, Bertha passed away in 1968 and he discovered himself living mainly off meager Sociable Security inspections. His last years had been tainted by his association having a sweetheart who motivated him to market phony memorabilia. He resided in an inexpensive trailer recreation area, drank greatly and experienced ill wellness. Ken died mainly overlooked and in poverty in the Woodland Hillsides Motion Picture House on March 30, 1973.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Ken Maynard
Died	March 23, 1973, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States
Profession	Film producer, Screenwriter, Stunt Performer
Nationality	American
Spouse	Bertha Maynard
Parents	William H. Maynard, Emma May Maynard
Siblings	Kermit Maynard, Bessie Maynard, Willa Maynard, Trixie Maynard
Movies	Whistlin' Dan, In Old Santa Fe, Honor of the Range, Tombstone Canyon, The Two Gun Man, Six Shootin' Sheriff, Mystery Mountain, Whirlwind Horseman, Death Valley Rangers, Dynamite Ranch, Drum Taps, Harmony Trail, Phantom Rancher, Branded Men, Death Rides the Range, The Law Rides Again, Phantom Thunderbolt, The Cattle Thief, Wild Horse Stampede, Hell Fire Austin, Blazing Guns, Lightning Strikes West, Sons of the Saddle, The Fiddlin' Buckaroo, Gun Justice, Fargo Express, Come On, Tarzan, The Marshal of Windy Hollow, Janice Meredith, The Fighting Legion, Boots of Destiny, Bigfoot, Trailing Trouble, Alias the Bad Man, Texas Gun Fighter, The Trail Drive, Arizona Whirlwind, Arizona Terror, Range Law, Avenging Waters, King of the Arena, Parade of the West, Lucky Larkin, Heroes of the Range, Mountain Justice, Fighting Thru, Song of the Caballero, The Lone Avenger, The Fugitive Sheriff, $50,000 Reward, Between Fighting Men