John Alan Lasseter, usually named John Lasseter, is a well known personality in the entertainment industry. John Lasseter has been accumulating his net worth since 1978, and it has been estimated that his net worth is as high as 100 million dollars. John has earned his net worth as a film and television director, producer and screenwriter. Lasseter has added a significant amount to his net worth as a CEO of Disney Toon Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar. In addition to this, he has been working as an animator and actor. He is the winner of two Academy Awards.
John Lasseter Net Worth $100 Million
John Alan Lasseter was born on January 12, 1957 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States. He is a graduate of Pepperdine University, California Institute of the Arts. It has been stated that John was influenced by Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, Chuck Jones and Walt Disney.
John began his career in Walt Disney Feature Animation where he worked as the animator. Later, he has been working on CGI animation in Lucasfilm. Since 1991, John added much to his net worth working as an executive producer. His works include the following films: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (1991), ‘Monsters, Inc.’ (2001), ‘Spirited Away’ (2002), ‘Finding Nemo’ (2003), ‘The Incredibles’ (2004), ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ (2005), ‘Tales from Earthsea’ (2006), ‘Meet the Robinsons’ (2007), ‘Ratatouille’ (2007), ‘WALL-E’ (2008), ‘Tinker Bell’ (2008), ‘Bolt’ (2008), ‘Up’ (2009), ‘Ponyo’ (2009), ‘Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure’ (2009), ‘The Princess and the Frog’ (2009), ‘Toy Story 3’ (2010), ‘Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue’ (2010), ‘Tangled’ (2010), ‘Winnie the Pooh’ (2011), ‘Secret of the Wings’ (2012), ‘Brave’ (2012), ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ (2012), ‘Planes’ (2013), ‘Monsters University’ (2013), ‘Frozen’ (2013), ‘The Pirate Fairy’ (2014) and ‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’ (2014).
Most of the films were commercially very successful and have significantly increased the total amount of Lasseter’s net worth and wealth. Currently, he is working as an executive producer on the following upcoming films: ‘Big Hero 6’ (2014), ‘Legend of the NeverBeast’ (2015), ‘Inside Out’ (2015), ‘The Good Dinosaur’ (2015), ‘Zootopia’ (2016) and ‘Finding Dory’ (2016). As a director and story creator he worked on the animated films ‘A Bug’s Life’ (1998), ‘Toy Story 2’ (1999), ‘Cars’ (2006), ‘Toy Story 3’ (2010) and ‘Cars 2’ (2011). Since 1983, John Lasseter has been working on short films, too. At the very beginning of his career he worked as a creative talent, later, he pursued a career as a writer, director, producer and animator. Since 1997, he has mostly been working as an executive producer of the short films.
John Lasseter is married to Nancy Lasseter since 1988. He met his wife at a conference of computer graphics. John’s wife has been working at Apple Computer as a computer graphics engineer. The family has five sons Sam Lasseter, Bennett Lasseter, Joey Lasseter, Jackson Lasseter and Paul James Lasseter. The family currently resides in Glen Ellen, California, United States where they also have the Lasseter Family Winery.
