Still, what did he do with the money he earned from the cosby show? Unless cosby was the only one really well paid.
If you go back to shows like this...Little House on the Prairie...etc, most of the folks never made that much.
I don’t know who got paid well for that show but this guy was a third banana at best. A son in law that was brought in at the end of the show’s run when it wasn’t really good anymore. I’m guessing he didn’t get a fortune from the work.
For most in that line of work, starvation isn’t ever more than a few meals away.
Key actors did okay back then but secondary and so on; no so much. A living wage but not a small fortune to buy apartment buildings so they would have income for life.
That’s what I’d do with a largish sum of money anyway. People will always need a place to live and the income from them goes up with the times. A win win. In fact I’d work it out so others managed and took care of the place(s) so I could be anywhere and not shackled to the apartment building(s).