Wes Craven is known to his wide audience as a great American flm producer, director, screenwriter, TV producer, film editor, actor and even as a teacher who has estimated net worth as high as $40 million. He is also known as Wesley Earl Craven, “Wes” Craven and Abe Snake. He has directed many extremely popular movies, such as “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare”, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, and furthermore, he is a co-writer of many other movies, such as “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors”. Today he is one of the richest actors and TV producers not only in the United States, but also all around the world.
Wes Craven Net Worth $40 Million
Wesley Earl Craven was born on August 2, 1939, in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. His parents were Paul Craven and Coraline Miller (Craven after marriage). As a young man Craven attended Wheaton College, where he majored in English, and later graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with a Psychology degree.
After finishing his studies, Wes Craven didn’t start increasing his net worth in the film industry immediately. At first he worked in Clarkson College of Technology in New York. Of course, there Craven’s net worth increased a little bit, but then no one could even think about how rich Wes Craven was going to be when he changed the direction of his work.
Craven appeared in the show business industry as a sound editor in New York, and later was even involved in filming pornography, however, in 1972 he directed a movie entitled “The Last House on the Left”. This horror movie was considered to be successful and increased Craven’s net worth, so he could continue working as a film director and take-on many other projects.
Wes Craven was also building up his net worth as an actor. He made many notable appearances in movies, such as “Shadow Zone: The Unded Expires”, “The Fear”, “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back”, “The American Nightmare”, “Scream” series, “Diary of the Dead” and others. Of course, nowadays he is mostly known as the director of the famous “Scream” – the first movie was released in 1996. It was definitely a successful film as it starred Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Neve Campbell and Drew Barrymore. Craven’s net worth increased even more after “Scream 2” appeared, and since then he is known as one of the greatest film directors thanks to his works, such as “Paris, je t’aime” released in 2006, “My Soul to Take” released in 2010, and many others.
The “Scream” movie brought Craven the highest popularity and increased his net worth much more than any other movie could, but his popularity increased with some of his other works, such as “Red Eye”, “The Hills Have Eyes” and “The Hills Have Eyes 2” or “The People Under the Stairs”. Nowadays W. Craven remains one of the greatest film directors in the world, and we can only expect many other great works from him in the future.
