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- One of the few Star Trek actors who didn’t find themselves typecast after the show, he has enjoyed a rich career on stage and screen – and had extensive writing credits. Majel Barrett, $60 million-plus
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Mar 20, 2021 · Updated Mar 20, 2021 at 12:01pm. YouTube Series creator Gene Roddenberry. When Star Trek’s creator, Gene Roddenberry, died in 1991, he left behind a sizeable estate. According to Celebrity Net...
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Jul 21, 2016 · Majel Barrett, $60 million-plus. As Nurse Chapel on Star Trek, Barrett was hardly a star. But as the wife of show creator Gene Roddenberry, she inherited his fortune after his death in 1991.
Jul 21, 2016 · Majel Barrett, $60 million-plus. Majel Barrett as Nurse Christine Chapel (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)
- What Was Gene Roddenberry's Net Worth?
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- Early Life
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Gene Roddenberry was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist who had a net worth equal to $500 million at the time of his death. That amount, which is after adjusting for inflation, includes the estimated value of the future rights and intellectual property value (merchandise, licensing) of the "Star Trek" franchise. That franchi...
At the time of his death, Gene Roddenberry's liquid estate (real estate, financial accounts, short-term assets) was worth $30 million. That's the same as around $60 million after adjusting for inflation today. Gene was married twice. His first marriage, to Eileen-Anita Rexroat, lasted from 1942 to 1969. His second marriage, to Majel Barrett, lasted...
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry was born on August 19, 1921 in El Paso, Texas as the first child of Caroline and Eugene. As a baby, he moved with his family to Los Angeles, where his father was given a police commission. In LA, Roddenberry attended Los Angeles City College as a young adult, majoring in political science and developing an interest in aero...
After obtaining a pilot's license through the Civilian Pilot Training Program, Roddenberry enlisted in the US Army Air Corps in late 1941, just after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He graduated in the summer of 1942 as a second lieutenant. Roddenberry was subsequently stationed in Hawaii with the Thirteenth Air Force. In 1943, the plane he was piloti...
Following his military service, Roddenberry flew for Pan American World Airways. In 1947, he was involved in his third plane crash, which occurred over the Syrian Desert and killed about 14 people. Roddenberry left Pan Am in the spring of 1948. Early the next year, he applied for a position with the Los Angeles Police Department, and was assigned t...
Roddenberry did his first writing for television while working as the LAPD liaison for "Dragnet." He subsequently served as a technical advisor and scriptwriter for the show "Mr. District Attorney." Roddenberry also wrote scripts for the series "Highway Patrol," "The West Point Story," "Bat Masterson," and "Jefferson Drum," among many others. Meanw...
In the early 60s, Roddenberry came up with the idea of a multiethnic crew on a traveling airship, a concept based on the film "Master of the World." Deciding to render the idea as science-fiction, he put together a pitch in 1964 that he sent to the Writers Guild of America; it was called "Star Trek," and it would tell the adventures of the starship...
After the end of the first "Star Trek" series, Roddenberry wrote and produced the 1971 sexploitation film "Pretty Maids All in a Row." Meanwhile, he supported himself financially by giving presentations at colleges and science-fiction conventions. In 1973, Roddenberry created the television film "Genesis II," and the year after that created the ser...
In 1942, Roddenberry married Eileen-Anita Rexroat, whom he had met in college. They had two daughters named Darleen and Dawn. While married, Roddenberry had affairs with many women, including LAPD secretaries and his future "Star Trek" actors Nichelle Nichols and Majel Barrett. After divorcing Rexroat in 1969, he married Barrett, with whom he had a...
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Mar 31, 2022 · Majel Barrett passed away in December of 2008, but she’ll get another send-off in the upcoming space flight for Celestis later in 2022. Barrett’s ashes will travel to space alongside Gene ...
Apr 27, 2022 · by Rod Roddenberry. April 27, 2022. Most people don’t know that my mother — “The First Lady of Star Trek” — loved horror movies. When I was a very young kid in the ‘70s, my mom, Majel ...
Feb 23, 2011 · Majel Leigh Hudec – better known as Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, the First Lady of Star Trek – was born on this day in 1932, in Columbus, Ohio. Though she succumbed to cancer in December, 2008, at the age of 76, Barrett-Roddenberry lives on in the hearts of Trek fans worldwide and can still be seen (as Number One, Nurse Christine Chapel or Lwaxana Troi) and/or heard (as the voice of ship ...
