Long-time Hollywood actress Joan Benedict Steiger, popular for her roles in the hit American daytime medical drama General Hospital and the hidden camera reality TV show Candid Camera, has passed away at 96, leaving behind an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Benedict Steiger, who lived in Malibu, California, passed away on June 24, 2024, at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles due to stroke-related complications.
Although the veteran actress may not have had as many roles in her twilight years, she was a well-paid celebrity in Hollywood in her heyday!
General Hospital has been a grand commercial success from the beginning. Actress Laura Frances, who has been in the show since 1977, is estimated to have the highest net worth among the cast members at $25 million.
Given these stats, many can safely assume Joan Benedict Steiger and the rest of the cast members received a hefty paycheck for their role in it back then, contributing to her significant net worth.
Benedict Steiger was in show business for almost 70 years, starting in the 1950s!
Even though her first film credit would come much later, Benedict Steiger had already performed once at the Brooklyn Academy of Music at the age of 7.
She trained at the Rome Opera Ballet School and later studied with acting coaches and founders of the Acting Studio in New York, Robert Lewis and Stella Adler.
She started her career in the 1950s when she joined the ensemble cast of the original Steve Allen Show (1956).
Benedict Steiger’s more recent credits include a minor role in The Theory of Everything (2006), a starring role in Dead Border (2013), and another small role in Opus of an Angel (2017).
With a successful 70-year career in show business spanning not only films and television but theater as well, it is no surprise that Joan Benedict Steiger’s net worth at the time of her passing was apparently $5 million!
Joan Benedict Steiger had 3 partners during her life, all of whom passed away before her!
Benedict Steiger did not seem to have the best of luck when it came to her partners, as all three of her long-term partners passed before her.
She married actor John Myhers, known for his role in the theater musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and their marriage lasted 30 years, from 1962 until Myhers’ demise in 1992. Even though Myhers was a notable figure in Hollywood during his prime, his net worth is unknown today.
However, since he and Benedict Steiger stayed married for so long, it is reasonable to presume that she received a significant share of his wealth after his demise.
From 2000 to his passing in 2002, she was married to Academy Award-winning actor Rod Steiger. She and Steiger starred in two films together, A Month of Sundays and The Flying Dutchman.
Mort de Joan Benedict Steiger, l’actrice vue dans General Hospital, Hulk ou Dollhouse: L'actrice américaine Joan Benedict Steiger s'est éteinte à l'âge de 96 ans à Los Angeles, le 24 juin dernier. Cette dernière avait joué dans de nombreuses séries… https://t.co/CTLd3ksbx8 pic.twitter.com/9cYtlwIIPK
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Steiger was Hollywood royalty and had an estimated net worth of a massive $8 million at the time of his demise. Benedict Steiger might also have received a share of Steiger’s wealth as she was his wife when he passed away.
She kept Steiger’s last name after his demise, even when she was with her next partner, seasoned Hollywood actor Jeremy Slate. Slate and Benedict Steiger were together for four years until he passed away in 2006.
Inspired by her relationships, she wrote and starred in her one-woman show, The Loves of My Life. Benedict Steiger’s other stage credits include The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories, The Octette Bridge Club, The Traveling Lady, and several others.
Additional Information
- Benedict Steiger has a daughter, Claudia, with her first husband, John Myhers, and two granddaughters, Hanna and Ashley.
- General Hospital, her best-known credit, holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running American soap opera in production.
