Paul Fix Net Worth is
$7 Million

Mini Biography

Paul Repair, the well-known film and TV personality acting professional who played “Marshal Micah Torrance” on it series The Rifleman (1958), was created Peter Paul Repair on March 13, 1901 in Dobbs Ferry, NY to brew-master Wilhelm Repair and his wife, the previous Louise C. Walz. His mom and dad had been German immigrants who experienced left their Dark Forest house and found its way to NEW YORK in the 1870s. (The name “Repair” is definitely of Latin/Germanic source, and comes from St. Vitus and means “cartoon” or “essential”). Besides Peter Paul, the Repair family contains two ladies and three kids, the youngest of whom was 6 years more than the future acting professional. Peter Paul’s child years was a content one. He and his family members lived within the 200-acre house which the Manilla Anchor Brewery, where his dad was brew-master, was located. Such was the need for Fix towards the brewery that whenever he passed away at age 62 over the eve of America’s entrance in to the First Globe War (2 yrs after his 54-calendar year old wife acquired passed away), the brewery shut. The orphaned Peter Paul, who kept to himself a whole lot and had a vivid imagination, was delivered to live along with his married sisters, first person who lived nearby in Yonkers, and to some other in Zanesville, Ohio. The just-turned-17-year-old Peter Paul Repair joined up with the U.S. Navy on March 12, 1918, and spent his state-side provider time during Globe Battle I in Newport, Rhode Isle and Charleston, SC. He initial tread the planks as an professional while a sailor stationed in Newport, when the baby-faced sodium (who looked very much youthful than his age group) was among six gobs selected to play feminine assignments in the Navy Comfort Present “HMS Pinafore”. The Navy staging from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta was a big strike and chalked up a operate of weeks in Providence and Boston. Repair was assigned while an able-bodied seaman towards the troopship U.S.S. Support Vernon, that was torpedoed with a German U-boat from the coastline of France but didn’t sink since it was operate aground. The others of Fix’s naval profession was less thrilling, and he was demobilized on Sept 5, 1919. After his release, Fix returned to his sweetheart Frances (Taddy) Harvey, whom he previously left out in Zanesville. He and Taddy had been wedded in 1922 plus they shifted to California as Repair had always wished to reside in a warm weather. Repair and his bride-to-be settled in Hollywood, not really much because he previously set ideas on the subject of becoming an acting professional but because he didn’t know very well what he wished to carry out with the others of his existence. He liked composing and performing in local takes on, and quickly became friends using the fellow tyro acting professional Clark Gable, who was simply his own age group. Repair and Gable had been discovered from the stage celebrity Pauline Frederick, who employed them to become people of her touring troupe that journeyed by train the distance of the Western world Coast gaining plays. In every, Repair – who acquired informally renamed himself Paul Peter – made an appearance in 20 has with Gable. Paul Repair had one of is own earliest acting assignments on celluloid in the mid-1920s, showing up within a silent American starring William S. Hart. The Traditional western genre ultimately would end up being the one he was most discovered with. He performed uncredited little bit parts and little assignments in silents before obtaining his first acknowledged role within an early talkie (that was part-silent and part-talking), The Initial Kiss (1928), which starred upcoming Hollywood superstar Gary Cooper as well as the dame that drove Ruler Kong ape, Fay Wray. In every, Fix made an appearance in 300-400 movies. The Western developers from the silent and early talkie times could possibly be shot in under a week. In 1925, Taddy gave birth with their daughter Marilyn Carey, who eventually would marry Harry Carey Jr., the boy of one from the first great European superstars. They might have three even more children and be area of the prolonged family gathered across the movie director John Ford. In his profession, Paul Fix seems with another European tale, John Wayne, in 26 movies, beginning in 1931 with Three Women Shed (1931). Urged on by Loretta Youthful, Repair became an performing trainer for the youthful acting professional, and Wayne later on paid him when he became a superstar with Fix come in his films. (The Duke also was an integral part of the close-knit group that gathered around John Ford). Using the Duke’s patronage, the types of assignments that Fix performed changed. He previously been typed as villains in the 1930s but, in the 40s, he started assaying an improved class of personality. Paul Repair was also a screenwriter, and it is credited seeing that the article writer on three movies: High in the Saddle (1944), Band of Dread (1954) as well as the Notorious Mr. Monks (1958). His favorites parts included playing the stricken traveler in the John Wayne picture The Great as well as the Mighty (1954), Elizabeth Taylor’s dad in George Stevens’ traditional Large (1956), the grandfather from the eponymous The Poor Seed (1956) as well as the judge directly into Destroy a Mockingbird (1962). His last display appearance is at the Brooke Shields film Wanda Nevada (1979), but he’s most well-known for showing up in the repeating part of “Marshal Micah Torrance” in the favorite Western Television series The Rifleman (1958). By 1981, the 80-yr old Repair was still obtaining mail from all around the globe from “Rifleman” enthusiasts. Paul Repair died Oct 14, 1983 of kidney failing. He was survived by his girl Marilyn Carey and son-in-law Harry “Dobe” Carey, three grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Paul Fix
Died	October 14, 1983, Los Angeles, California, United States
Height	1.82 m
Profession	Actor, Screenwriter
Nationality	American
Spouse	Beverly Pratt, Frances Harvey
Children	Marilyn Carey
Parents	Wilhelm Fix, Louise C. Walz
Movies	To Kill a Mockingbird, El Dorado, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Bad Seed, Tall in the Saddle, Red River, The High and the Mighty, Zabriskie Point, Hondo, Night of the Lepus, Blood Alley, Wanda Nevada, The Sea Chase, The Undefeated, Back to Bataan, Ring of Fear, Giant, The Desert Trail, Jet Pilot, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Wake of the Red Witch, Nevada Smith, Shenandoah, Johnny Guitar, The Notorious Mr. Monks, Lucky Star, Somewhere in Sonora, Force of Evil, In Old Oklahoma, Flame of Barbary Coast, Grayeagle, Ride Beyond Vengeance, Night Passage, Man in the Vault, Young Billy Young, Hitler – Dead or Alive, The Outrage, Welcome to Hard Times, The Ghost Breakers, Incident at Phantom Hill, Bulldog Courage, Star Reporter, Escape from Crime, South of Santa Fe, The Fargo Kid, Bar 20 Rides Again, Angel in Exile, The Crimson Trail, The Plot Thickens, Valley of Wanted Men, Glamour for Sale
TV Shows	The Rifleman