François Henri LaLanne Wiki Biography

Francois Henri LaLanne was born on 26 September 1914, in San Francisco, California USA, of part-French descent. Jack was a motivational speaker, nutrition and fitness expert, so well known for being the “Godfather of Fitness”. He is considered one of the first personalities to promote health benefits before celebrity promotions came in. All of his efforts helped put his net worth to where it was prior to his passing in 2011.

How rich was Jack LaLanne? As of early-2017, sources estimate a net worth that is at $15 million, mostly earned through a successful career in fitness. He hosted his own show and opened one of the first fitness gyms in the United States. He was also a successful bodybuilder, and all of these achievements ensured the position of his wealth.

Jack LaLanne Net Worth $15 million

At a young age, Jack was very fond of junk food and sugar; he had violent episodes and was miserable according to his writings, later attributing his negative childhood to the diet he had. He suffered from headaches as well, but after hearing a health food talk from Paul Bragg, was influenced to start focusing on diet and exercise. He later made his high school football team. After matriculating, he attended college in San Francisco, and worked his way to earn a Doctor of Chiropractic degree and focused a lot on bodybuilding as well as weightlifting.

In 1936, LaLanne opened the country’s first health and fitness club in Oakland, California, where he supervised training, gave nutritional advice, and was challenged by many doctors since clubs like these were almost unheard of during the period. He helped design many exercise machines that would become standard in the industry, helping increase his net worth significantly in the process. Membership of the club would grow, and this led him to a brief professional wrestling career two years later, as wrestlers would start to go to the health club regularly.

As his popularity grew, so did his net worth. He made regular appearances on television, and started his own show entitled “The Jack LaLanne Show” which would become the longest running television exercise program. During the show he promoted his gym and health products, stressing a minimalist style of fitness, even just using basic home objects to get people to exercise. Later on, he would publish several books and would make videos about nutrition. He also recorded a song, and would promote exercise equipment as well as vitamin supplements. At the age of 95 years old, he even wrote a book “Live Young Forever” in which he discussed how he maintained his health even at his age.

For his personal life, it is known that LaLanne was married to Elaine Doyle LaLanne for over five decades from 1959, and they had three children accumulatively, one from Jack’s first marriage to Irma Navarre (1942-48) while another was from Elaine’s first marriage, plus a third child they had together. In 2011, Jack passed away from respiratory failure due to pneumonia. He was sick but refused to consult a doctor during the final week of his life. Despite that, he still continued his daily workout routine.

Full Name	Jack LaLanne
Net Worth	$15 Million
Date Of Birth	September 26, 1914
Died	January 23, 2011, Morro Bay, California, United States
Place Of Birth	San Francisco, California, USA
Height	5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
Profession	Fitness expert
Education	Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Nationality	American
Spouse	Irma Navarre
Children	Elaine LaLanne (m. 1959–2011), Irma Navarre (m. 1942–1948)
Parents	Jon LaLanne, Yvonne LaLanne, Janet LaLanne, Daniel LaLanne
Siblings	Norman LaLanne, Ervil LaLanne
IMDB
TV Shows	The Jack LaLanne Show

Trademark
1	His blue tight-fitting jumpsuit

Quote
1	You are a slave to your own body. You want to do things, but your body won’t let you because your body has you slaved. You are in shackles and bondage… You can actually be reborn again because I was reborn again.
2	You eat every day, you sleep every day, and your body was made to exercise every day.
3	Living is a pain in the backside, because you have to work at it. Dying, now that’s easy.
4	Exercise is king and diet is queen; put them together and you’ve got an empire.
5	Whereas Billy Graham is all about the hereafter, I’m all about the here and now.
6	If man made it, don’t eat it.
7	[on his refusal to consume dairy products]: Am I a suckling calf? No other creature uses milk after they wean!
8	Would you get your dog up in the morning and give him a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a doughnut?
9	I can’t die. It would ruin my image.

Fact
1	As a Pioneer, Lifelong Instructor and Living Example of the Physical Fitness Life Style, he was inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame in 2005; that being the inaugural class of inductees for that organization.
2	Daughter Yvonne Lalanne, with first wife Irma Navarre, was born in 1944.
3	Inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2008.
4	Son, Jon Lalanne (born in 1961), has his own pool maintenance company, which cares for stars’ pools.
5	He has a TV star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.
6	Started his own gym in 1936, which included a health food store and a juice bar.
7	Hasn’t had dessert since 1929.
8	For his 70th birthday, he pulled 70 boats across the Long Beach, California harbor with one person in each of them, swimming while shackled and handcuffed.
9	Adopted his wife Elaine’s two children, Daniel and Janet as his own.
10	His show, The Jack LaLanne Show (1951) debuted in 1951 and was the first ever television exercise program. It ran until 1985, in spite of the fact that critics said the show would be off the air in six weeks.
11	LaLanne was named Professional Mr. America in 1955.
12	Appeared on You Asked for It (1950), where he performed 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes.
13	Opened the nation’s first health club in 1936.
14	Some of his amazing feats of strength include: at age 41 proving it possible to escape from Alcatraz by swimming to Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco while wearing handcuffs; at 45, completing a thousand push-ups and a thousand chin-ups in an hour and twenty-two minutes with blisters under his calluses; at sixty, swimming from Alcatraz to Fisherman’s Wharf handcuffed, shackled and towing a thousand-pound boat, and at seventy, battling currents while handcuffed and shackled, towing seventy boats holding seventy people for a mile and a half across Long Beach Harbor.

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Year Without a Santa Claus	2006	TV Movie	Hercules
The Wilton North Report	1987	TV Series	Health and science editor
More Wild Wild West	1980	TV Movie	Physical Fitness Trainer (as Jack La Lanne)
Bridget Loves Bernie	1973	TV Series	Gaylord
Here’s Lucy	1969	TV Series	Jack LaLanne
Batman: The Movie	1966	Exercise Leader (uncredited)
Mister Ed	1961-1963	TV Series	Jack LaLanne / Instructor
Peter Gunn	1960	TV Series	Jack LaLanne

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status	Character
Peter Gunn	TV Series performer – 1 episode, 1960 writer – 1 episode, 1960

Miscellaneous

Title	Year	Status	Character
Hollywood’s Magical Island: Catalina	2003	Documentary stock footage provider – as Jack Lalane

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
That Little Monster	1994	special thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
You Bet Your Life	1959	TV Series	Himself – Physical Fitness Expert
The Jack LaLanne Show	1951	TV Series	Himself – Host (1951-1985)
Muscle Beach Then and Now	2011	TV Movie documentary	Himself
When the World Breaks	2010	Documentary	Himself
How to Live Forever	2009	Documentary	Himself
The Early Show	2009	TV Series	Himself
The Jay Leno Show	2009	TV Series	Himself
Where Muscles Were Born	2009	Himself
The Bonnie Hunt Show	2008	TV Series	Himself
Today	2008	TV Series	Himself
Jimmy Kimmel Live!	2007	TV Series	Himself
The Tony Danza Show	2004-2005	TV Series	Himself
As Seen on TV: Fifty Years of Fitness	2005	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Howard Stern	1995-2004	TV Series	Himself
McEnroe	2004	TV Series	Himself
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!	2004	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Wayne Brady Show	2004	TV Series	Himself
Life with Bonnie	2003	TV Series	Himself
Hollywood’s Magical Island: Catalina	2003	Documentary	Himself – Fitness Pioneer
The Man Show	2003	TV Series	Himself
Arli$$	2002	TV Series	Himself
The Simpsons	1999	TV Series	Himself
Beefcake	1998	Himself
Crook & Chase	1996	TV Series	Himself
The 35th Annual Thalians Gala	1990	TV Movie	Himself
Repossessed	1990	Himself
The Geraldo Rivera Show	1989	TV Series	Himself
Fame, Fortune and Romance	1986	TV Series	Himself
KTLA at 40: A Celebration of Los Angeles Television	1986	TV Movie	Himself
Late Night with David Letterman	1982	TV Series	Himself
The David Letterman Show	1980	TV Series	Himself
The Mike Douglas Show	1979	TV Series	Himself – Fitness Expert
The Chevy Chase Show	1977	TV Movie	Himself – Advertising Spas for the Dead
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In	1971	TV Series	Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	1970	TV Series	Himself
The Fountain of Groovy	1970	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The David Frost Show	1970	TV Series	Himself
The Happy Ending	1969	Himself on Television (uncredited)
The Joey Bishop Show	1968	TV Series	Himself
The Addams Family	1966	TV Series	Himself
The Ladies Man	1961	Himself
Here’s Hollywood	1961	TV Series	Himself