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Don Siegel (Donald Siegel) was born on 26 October, 1912 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, is a director,producer,editorial_department. Discover Don Siegel'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 78 years old?

Popular As Donald Siegel
Occupation director,producer,editorial_department
Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 26 October, 1912
Birthday 26 October
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, USA
Date of death 20 April, 1991
Died Place Nipomo, California, USA
Nationality United States

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Don Siegel Height, Weight & Measurements

At 78 years old, Don Siegel height is 5' 9" (1.75 m) .

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Height 5' 9" (1.75 m)
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Who Is Don Siegel's Wife?

His wife is Carol Rydall (24 April 1981 - 20 April 1991) ( his death), Doe Avedon (1 February 1957 - 1975) ( divorced) ( 4 children), Viveca Lindfors (10 August 1949 - 27 May 1954) ( divorced) ( 1 child)

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Wife Carol Rydall (24 April 1981 - 20 April 1991) ( his death), Doe Avedon (1 February 1957 - 1975) ( divorced) ( 4 children), Viveca Lindfors (10 August 1949 - 27 May 1954) ( divorced) ( 1 child)
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Don Siegel Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Don Siegel worth at the age of 78 years old? Don Siegel’s income source is mostly from being a successful Director. He is from United States. We have estimated Don Siegel's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Table Tennis (1936)$600
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)$10,000
The Shootist (1976)$250,000
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)$2,000,000

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1890

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945." Pages 997-1001. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

1934

Began in the film business in 1934. His uncle, Jack Saper, was a producer at Warner Brothers and arranged for Siegel to get an interview with production chief Hal B. Wallis, who gave him a job in the film library at that studio.

1942

Was eager to direct movies as early as 1942, but his contract with Warner Brothers kept him restricted to doing editing and montage sequences. Studio chief Jack L. Warner refused to let Siegel out of his contract because he wanted to utilize his exceptional montage skills.

1945

Don Siegel was educated at Cambridge University, England. In Hollywood from the mid-'30s, he began his career as an editor and second unit director. In 1945 he directed two shorts (Hitler Lives (1945) and Star in the Night (1945)) which both won Academy Awards.

1946

His first feature as a director was 1946's The Verdict (1946).

1954

Siegel and producer Walter Wanger had been desperately trying to persuade the warden of San Quentin Prison to allow the use of the facility to film Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954), but the warden had adamantly refused. After the final meeting in the prison, when the warden had said there was nothing Siegel or Wanger could do to persuade him to allow filming there, Siegel turned to speak to his assistant, Sam Peckinpah. When the warden heard Peckinpah's name, he asked, "Are you related to Denver Peckinpah?" Sam replied that Denver was his father. It turned out that Denver Peckinpah was a well-known jurist in northern California who had a reputation as a "hanging judge" and the warden had long been an admirer of his. He immediately granted the company permission to shoot the movie in San Quentin.

1956

He originally intended for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) to end with the hero, Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) on the highway shouting to the motorists, "You're next! You're next!" but Allied Artists wanted a happier ending that assured the audience the hero's efforts had not been in vain. Siegel subsequently added the opening with Miles in the hospital recounting his story to the other two doctors, who find out at the end of the film that the pod people are real and contact the FBI.

1958

He made his reputation in the early and mid-'50s with a series of tightly made, expertly crafted, tough but intelligent "B" pictures (among them The Lineup (1958), Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)), then graduated to major "A" films in the 1960s and early 1970s. He made several "side trips" to television, mostly as a producer.

1960

While filming Flaming Star (1960) starring Elvis Presley, he drove Presley's new Rolls-Royce for two weeks.

1964

Contains spoilers. Don Siegel directed, in their last film roles, Ronald Reagan (Browning) in The Killers (1964) and John Wayne (Books) in The Shootist (1976) in which both their characters were killed in their final scenes as actors.

1969

Siegel was the first director to be credited by the Director's Guild of America's universal pseudonym Alan Smithee, for Death of a Gunfighter (1969). Siegel wished to remain uncredited because he felt the film's star, Richard Widmark, ruined the picture by insisting on creative control that usurped Siegel's authority as director, and also because Widmark had fired original director Robert Totten, who completed most of the picture, and Siegel felt that if anyone should be credited for the film it should have been Totten and not him.

1971

During filming of Dirty Harry (1971), Siegel fell ill with the flu, and Clint Eastwood stepped in temporarily as director, during a critical scene involving a suicide jumper. This was Eastwood's first unbilled credit as director.

1972

Siegel and screenwriter Stephen Geller (The Valachi Papers (1972), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)) once collaborated on a script of "The First Deadly Sin" (based on the novel), to be directed by Siegel. The project fell through, however, and a different version was filmed several years later.

1973

In Charley Varrick (1973) and Telefon (1977), a yellow Lincoln Continental sedan is used as part of a major plot in the film. In both films, the Continental sedan is involved in a front-end collision and subsequently totalled.

1977

In Telefon (1977), where Houston, Texas, is the location of a subplot in the story, the interior of the Hyatt Regency is not in the one in Houston but actually the one located at 5 Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, which is the same location for the disaster epic The Towering Inferno (1974). San Francisco was also the setting for three other Siegel films: The Lineup (1958), Dirty Harry (1971) and Escape from Alcatraz (1979).

1992

Was mentor to Clint Eastwood. Eastwood dedicated his film Unforgiven (1992) to him.

1997

Interviewed in Peter Bogdanovich's "Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dwan, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Sidney Lumet, Leo McCarey, Otto Preminger, Don Siegel, Josef von Sternberg, Frank Tashlin, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh." NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.