As an independent producer, he helped sabotage the studio system that made him, at one time, the highest-paid actor in the world.

At the time, Svenson was the highest-paid actor in a television series.

At the peak of his career, he was the highest-paid actor in Europe.

Although never trained as an actor, Burton was, at one time, the highest-paid actor in Hollywood.

As of 2012 Cruise is Hollywood's highest-paid actor.

And yet she's one of the highest-paid female actors in the world, purely because she is always (allegedly) at it.

In 1943, his annual salary was nearly $420,000, making him that year's highest-paid actor and fourth-highest-paid American.

He was the highest-paid western actor in Hollywood at the time.

By the late Sixties, he was Britain's highest-paid actor.

As of 2010, Lautner was considered to be the highest-paid teen actor in Hollywood.