how much did he make on friends?
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green-cat — 18 years ago(January 06, 2008 01:51 PM)
According to Helen Baxendale (Emily, one of Ross's wives) she was only paid 1000 ($2000) per week.
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_liv e/article3099881.ece
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jasonk88 — 18 years ago(February 07, 2008 02:38 AM)
Here's some info about actors and the money they make in TV.
Most Guest Stars in half-hour TV made a minimum of around $3,500 back then for an episode. Since Tyler starb68ted as an extra, he probably only made about $600 for a day's work on Friends. I would bet that after a couple years, Tyler started getting raises, but nothing compared to that of the big 6, of course.
There are complex formulas that SAG has worked out for how much actors get paid when episodes are rerun. They get paid the most for reruns on major networks like NBC. They get paid a smaller fraction on cable stations like TBS. But they still make a good deal of money.
But keep in mind, not only is Friends being rerun nationwide on TBS, it is also syndicated on local stations all over the world. AND the DVDs (and downloadable episodes) are still being sold right and left. Actors get nice residuals from direct sales like DVDs and downloads.
I think it's safe to say that Tyler is set for life thanks to his work on Friends.
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andysaddy — 17 years ago(June 18, 2008 10:21 PM)
He also probably didn't have a contract ei2000therso when the character became popular and they wanted to keep him on, I'm sure he got a decent pay raise. But I'm sure most of his dough comes from residualshe was on 99 episodes, so he's pretty much set for life with the money from not only first-run episodes but syndication in the US and all over the world.
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TomLangley — 17 years ago(September 15, 2008 02:43 AM)
Towards the end he was probably on about $50'000 an episode (in which he had lines.)
In terms of his appearances as an extra (with no speaking parts) I think its fair to say he's probably the highest-paid extra of all time.
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stephh88 — 17 years ago(March 10, 2009 05:02 PM)
i dont know exactly how much he gets paid for reruns, but i'm pretty positive he gets paid. my uncle had a very small part in the movie mystic river with sean penn, he only had one line, and he still gets paid every time the movie is shown on tv. so, if he gets paid for having one line in a movie i'm pretty sure he gets paid for friends.
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trubluxx — 17 years ago(October 02, 2008 10:06 PM)
maybe he made salary vs per episode, since he was in quite a few they may have paid him a salary a year for the fact he be avaliable just to show up. i mean i bet they could have afforded to pay him around 100,000 a yeari bet that is way out there, but you never know. gunther was to me a big part of the show, i mean really every time they went to the coffee house he was there, and he really did have a fan base, you see the coffee house you expected to see gunther. if i was an extra like how he was i would much perfer to have an annual salary vs per episode.
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collinsjamesl — 10 years ago(August 25, 2015 09:55 PM)
Trust me, since "Friends" is a colossal hit in syndication, "Gunther" (James Michael Tyler) is not hurting in the residual departmenteven if he's only getting the low end of the scale. Featured actors and principal performers (in Canada a principal player is anything over 5 lines) still get a nice piece of the pie if a show is a huge hit in syndication. Clearly, "Friends" is one of the biggestso James hit the jackpot with this one, as a continuity character.