Michael Douglas and Rob Reiner are both sons of rich-and-famous fathers who had the usual struggling actor/4th floor walk-up dump with roommate in NYC experience for a while. I think Douglas got more of a helping hand than Reiner since his dad handed him the rights to Cuckoo’s Nest, but I respected their dads for not just renting them an apartment and paying for lessons.
I remember during Jim Carrey’s fairly bitter divorce battles with his first wife she wanted a ridiculous amount of child support for their daughter (Carrey’s only child IIRC) because, per the mother, the girl wanted to be an actress and this required acting lessons, headshots, lots of grooming and a fancy wardrobe and ‘networking’ at expensive places. Carrey, who grew up broke and lived in a van (not sure whether it was down by the river) and did the other starving entertainer path, responded with what I remember as a well worded argument to the effect of “I love my daughter but I’m not going to make it easy for her because talent and hard work are what get you a career in show business”. I’m not sure how the court ruled (though his daughter’s not a famous actress and made him a fairly young grandfather).
Burt Reynolds did ads for some auto detailing chain a few years back. Whatever money he made off it can’t be worth announcing to the world how indiscriminate he’d become.
Daltrey has always been pretty straight-edge as well, so he’s never had a monkey on his back spending his money. On the other hand, he never made as much money as Townshend did since he rarely wrote any songs of his own, and he probably needs a steady income as opposed to just living off royalties, which would explain some of his B-list acting roles and his continuing to tour as a solo act now that Pete is pretty much deaf.
He doesn’t have a lot of choice. He needs every cent he can get; at one point even the “little people” creditors like his pool cleaner and a company that did fence repair were suing him. More fans would probably turn against him for owing his cleaning lady $400 than for owing his credit card company $400,000.
This was what I was about to post. Daltrey wrote about two Who songs in their entire career, neither of which was a hit, so he’s never been getting the songwriting royalties. He probably also was not as wealthy from The Who’s heyday as one might guess, partially because the band was deeply in debt (all those smashed instruments cost money to repair/replace) before the massive success of Tommy and partially because in later years they were having to cover some of Keith Moon’s excesses with the band’s profits.