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Jack Couffer was born on 7 December, 1924 in Upland, California, USA, is a cinematographer,director,assistant_director. Discover Jack Couffer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 97 years old?

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Occupation cinematographer,director,assistant_director
Age 97 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 7 December 1924
Birthday 7 December
Birthplace Upland, California, USA
Date of death 30 July, 2021
Died Place Costa Mesa, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Jack Couffer Height, Weight & Measurements

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Who Is Jack Couffer's Wife?

His wife is Joan Burger (December 1947 - ?) ( divorced) ( 1 child), Marchesa Sieuwke Bisleti (? - ?) ( her death)

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Wife Joan Burger (December 1947 - ?) ( divorced) ( 1 child), Marchesa Sieuwke Bisleti (? - ?) ( her death)
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Jack Couffer Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Jack Couffer worth at the age of 97 years old? Jack Couffer’s income source is mostly from being a successful Cinematographer. He is from United States. We have estimated Jack Couffer's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Source of Income Cinematographer

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1924

Jack Couffer was born on Dec 7, 1924, in Upland, California. While growing up near the foothills in Glendale, he became fascinated with natural history and raised hawks, owls, squirrels, skunks and coyotes. During his high school years he worked afternoons as a student assistant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

1943

As part of this team Jack was drafted into the army in June 1943, a few months before high school graduation. Half of his military service was spent on this seemingly nutty, but surprisingly valid, idea. Jack has written of this bizarre scheme in his book "Bat Bomb, World War II's Other Secret Weapon". The remainder of his military duty was as a crewman on high-speed PT-type air-sea rescue boats. After the war he worked for a few years as a commercial fisherman and paid crewman on yachts.

1947

In December 1947 he married Joan Burger. Shortly thereafter, while living aboard their schooner, he enrolled at the University of Southern California to major in zoology. However, he attended a lecture in the new Department of Cinema Studies and fell to the exciting teaching gift of department head Slavko Vorkapich. Jack collaborated with two fellow students, Conrad Hall and Marvin R. Weinstein, in a class project that won the first (now annual) ASC student film award and sold to TV. Flush with this success, the partners formed a production company, Canyon Films, and became entrepreneurs while still university students. At USC Jack became friends with practicing filmmaker/instructors Irving Lerner, Andrew Marton, Laslo Benedek and Stirling Silliphant.

1958

Lerner employed the partners of Canyon Films as the production team on a feature shot in South Carolina called Edge of Fury (1958). There Jack met young actress Jean Allison, who 45 years, three husbands (and two wives) later he would meet again.

1962

His son, Mike Couffer, now a biologist, was born January 7, 1962, and, as a teenager, collaborated with his father on a series of natural history adventure books for children. With his abilities as both a naturalist and film maker, Jack joined Walt Disney Studios as a cameraman on the early "True-Life Adventure" series. One of the great experiences of their early careers was a Disney assignment in what was then one of the most remote and least-visited spots on earth. Jack and Conrad and a helper sailed a 32-foot ketch to the Galapagos Islands where they lived off the land and filmed wildlife for nearly a year. Jack worked at Disney for more than ten years in a variety of functions--writer, director, producer, cameraman--and participated there in the making of more than two dozen movies.

1972

His travels took him to Africa in 1972, where he fell in love with the country and a lady at the same time.

1975

He separated from Joan in 1975. Since then, he has worked on TV and feature films for most of Hollywood's major production companies and many independents. He has published 11 books of both fiction and non-fiction.

2012

Interview featured in the book "Walt's People - Volume 12" (2012) by Didier Giaz, Xlibris Corp. Pg. 318-343.

2017

It was on his 17th birthday, during a museum collecting trip to California's Channel Islands, that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The museum party was marooned for two weeks on Santa Rosa Island, as all West Coast ports were immediately closed following the attack. At the museum Jack's mentor, an expert on bats, was approached by the War Department to research a secret project that would use bats as carriers of miniature incendiary bombs.