History Main / HeAlsoDid

* Before Creator/JamieVsTheVoid was making storytime animations, they ran a somewhat-popular art channel on [=YouTube=] called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/@CinnamonMewMew Cinnamon Mew Mew]]'', where they made mostly horse-related content. They also worked as an animator and illustrator in a professional capacity before becoming a YouTuber. Among their clients were Ford, Heineken, Burberry and CBBC.

** Also from ''Wheel'', co-host Vanna White (1982-present) has written several books on crocheting and sells her own line of yarn when she's not lighting up letters. She also played the lead role in the 1980's MadeForTVMovie ''Goddess of Love'' - the less said about it the better.

** They also created the games ''VideoGame/{{Nibblers}}'', ''Amazing Alex'', ''Retry'', ''Small Town Murders'', ''Battle Bay'' and ''Sugar Blast''.

** Before ''Angry Birds'', Rovio made several games for early mobile platforms (mainly Java ME), many of which were DarkerAndEdgier than their post-''Angry Birds'' work. Such games include the ''Darkest Fear'' trilogy, the ''War Diary'' trilogy, the ''Bounce'' sequels and mobile ports of ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedCarbon'', ''VideoGame/{{Burnout]]'' and ''Burger Rush''.

* Before Creator/JAMIErightmeow was making storytime animations, they ran a somewhat-popular art channel on [=YouTube=] called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/@CinnamonMewMew Cinnamon Mew Mew]]'', where they made mostly horse-related content.

* Creator/SaulBass may be best known for his modernistic movie posters and widely-imitated {{Artistic Title}}s, but his design office was at many times more involved in ongoing "corporate identity" programs for a wide variety of American companies and a few Japanese ones, from food companies to paper products companies to airlines (Continental, United, Frontier) to gas stations (Exxon/Esso, Sohio/BP, JOMO). He also directed a number of short documentary/non-fiction films, including the 1968 UsefulNotes/AcademyAward winner "Film/WhyManCreates". He was [[OneBookAuthor One Film Director]] when it came to feature films, but the film in question, ''Film/PhaseIV'', is considered a ScienceFiction CultClassic.

* Creator/SaulBass may be best known for his modernistic movie posters and widely-imitated {{Artistic Title}}s, but his design office was at many times more involved in ongoing "corporate identity" programs for a wide variety of American companies and a few Japanese ones, from food companies to paper products companies to airlines (Continental, United, Frontier) to gas stations (Exxon/Esso, Sohio/BP, JOMO). He also directed a number of short documentary/non-fiction films, including the 1968 UsefulNotes/AcademyAward winner "Film/WhyManCreates."

* Moe Berg, a journeyman catcher with a degree from Princeton, spoke seven foreign languages[[note]](Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Sanskrit)[[/note]] and, as the joke went, could not hit in any of them. During the Second World War, he was a spy for the OSS; footage of Tokyo harbor he had taken during a goodwill tour in the 1930s was reportedly used to help plan Doolittle's Raid. In 1943 he parachuted into occupied Yugoslavia to evaluate the various resistance groups there (he reported that [[UsefulNotes/JosipBrozTito Tito's partisans]] were the most effective). Later on, he hopped around Europe while trying to convince scientists to defect to the Allies and investigating the various Axis nuclear projects. He even attended a conference in Geneva where Werner Heisenberg lectured with the authorization to assassinate him if anything in his speech indicated the Nazis were close to a working atomic weapon (fortunately for the physicist, Berg correctly determined they were not). He was the original [[IncrediblyLamePun spy catcher]].

Related to PlayingAgainstType, IAmNotSpock, RetroactiveRecognition, GenreAdultery and WTHCastingAgency. Compare SameFaceDifferentName, where the creator hides the fact that they's doing something different under a new name, and AdvertisingByAssociation, where the creator's portfolio is used to hype the work. In music, BlackSheepHit is a special case in which the ''aberration'' becomes famous. The OneHitWonder is an exaggerated version of this.

* While it's somewhat well-known that boxing promoter Don King had a DarkAndTroubledPast before getting involved with the sport (he served a prison term for second degree murder, and previously killed someone else in what was ruled a justifiable homicide), he also was a minor player in ''Mapp vs. Ohio'', the 1961 landmark Supreme Court case that limited the ability of states to use illegally-obtained evidence in trials--the case ultimately stemmed from the prosecution of rival kingpins in UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}'s gambling underground trying to shake King down for money, and the heavy-handed tactics the police used in an attempt to coerce one particular witness to cooperate.

* While it's somewhat well-known that boxing promoter Don King had a DarkAndTroubledPast before getting involved with the sport (he served a prison term for second degree murder, and previously killed someone else in what was ruled a justifiable homicide), he also was a minor player in ''Mapp vs. Ohio'', the 1961 landmark Supreme Court case that limited the ability of states to use illegally-obtained evidence in trials--the case ultimately stemmed from rival kingpins in UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}'s gambling underground trying to shake King down for money, and the heavy-handed tactics the police used to coerce one particular witness to cooperate.

* Creator/ShotaroIshinomori, the creator of manga series such as Manga/Cyborg009 and even Nintendo Power's ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' comic, is also responsible for Franchise/KamenRider and Franchise/SuperSentai. That's right - The creator of Manga/SkullMan is the grandfather of Franchise/PowerRangers.

* Ofer Alon, the lead programmer of the {{Vaporware}} ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' game ''VideoGame/SonicXTreme'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn, would later found Pixologic, the developer of the digital sculpting software [=ZBrush=].

* Toys for Bob, best known for developing the first two ''VideoGame/StarControl'' games and some ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' games, also made licensed games for the first two ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} Madag]][[WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa ascar]]'' movies, as well as ''Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure''. They also made ''Majokko Daisakusen: Little Witching Mischiefs'', a crossover game featuring a couple of MagicalGirl[=s=] [[NoExportForYou released only for Japan in February 4, 1999]]...in spite of the fact that Toys for Bob is an American video game developer.

* Jun'ya "ZUN" Oota of ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fame had a hand in a few Creator/{{Taito}} games. He is credited as a software designer for ''VideoGame/{{Exit}}'' and had a hand in ''VideoGame/GraffitiKingdom'', even having Reimu make a [[TheCameo cameo]] as the "Flying Maiden".

* WebAnimation/{{YouTube Poop}}er Electricthecheese helped develop ''VideoGame/LEGOCityUndercover''.

* Creator/NeilCicierega has done massive amounts of work that is popular online. In his very early years of being active online, he created the WebAnimation/{{Animutation}} genre of flash animations, helping to kickstart flash animation online. He also made the famous ''WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals'' series of videos that is popular within the Harry Potter fandom. Albino Black Sheep fans might know him as the creator of the song "Music/TheUltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny". He also is the creator of the "Mouth" series of mashups which mainly use "Music/SmashMouth" samples in almost every song in two out of three albums, namely "All Star".

* Dan Salvato, a developer of ''VideoGame/ProjectM'' and a competitive Link player of both ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'' and ''Project M'', is also the lead developer of the popular DatingSim[[spoiler:/[[SurpriseCreepy horror game]]]] ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub''. He also made a legendarily difficult ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uqND6ioBbs level]] that drove Creator/{{Egoraptor}} to near-insanity in an episode of ''WebVideo/GameGrumps''.

* Both World Wars pretty much ensured that a large number of famous people from two generations also served in the military or related fields in addition to the main source of their fame. Among these can be cited of note: Creator/ChristopherLee (Commando in WWII), Creator/KurtVonnegut (WWII private and Dresden flattening survivor), Creator/WilliamButlerYeats (volunteer in WWI), Creator/ErnestHemingway (volunteered as paramedic in WWI and spy in WWII), longtime cartoon and anime voice director Wally Burr (WWII tank commander), BMovie director Creator/EdWood (WWII, was in the United States Marine Corps), Creator/IanFleming (WWII), Creator/JonPertwee (was a Royal Navy intelligence agent), Creator/DavidNiven (was a soldier in the Highland Light Infantry for 4 year until he bought himself out and went to Hollywood, '''then''' in WWII was a tank commander ''and'' wrote part of the training notes on tank-infantry co-operation in WWII), painters Otto Dix, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and lots of other Germans/Austrian young poor artists (drafted in WWI), Russian writer Creator/AleksandrSolzhenitsyn (tank commander in the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Great Patriotic War]], decorated twice), B-25 bomber gunner Creator/CharltonHeston (WWII), machine gun squadron staff sergeant [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charles Schulz]], Creator/JDSalinger (took part in the D-Day landings), a number of notable Frenchmen and expats living in France enlisted in LaResistance (mime MarcelMarceau; philosopher Simone Weil; writers [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Duras Marguerite Duras]], Creator/AlbertCamus, [[Theatre/WaitingForGodot Samuel Beckett]], [[{{Surrealism}} Paul Eluard]], [[{{Surrealism}} Louis Aragon]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Malraux#World_War_II André Malraux]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Tzara#World_War_II_and_Resistance Tristan Tzara]], etc.). Technically, Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII also served in WWII, though not in a fighting capacity - she volunteered for the British women's auxiliary force, thus making her the only current head of state who was a veteran of that war. (A fact which caused some controversy when she wasn't invited to the D-Day commemoration in 2010.)

* Both World Wars pretty much ensured that a large number of famous people from two generations also served in the military or related fields in addition to the main source of their fame. Among these can be cited of note (takes breath) Creator/ChristopherLee (Commando in WWII), Creator/KurtVonnegut (WWII private and Dresden flattening survivor), Creator/WilliamButlerYeats (volunteer in WWI), Creator/ErnestHemingway (volunteered as paramedic in WWI and spy in WWII), longtime cartoon and anime voice director Wally Burr (WWII tank commander), BMovie director Creator/EdWood (WWII, was in the United States Marine Corps), Creator/IanFleming (WWII), Creator/JonPertwee (was a Royal Navy intelligence agent), Creator/DavidNiven (was a soldier in the Highland Light Infantry for 4 year until he bought himself out and went to Hollywood, '''then''' in WWII was a tank commander ''and'' wrote part of the training notes on tank-infantry co-operation in WWII! Phew!), painters Otto Dix, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and lots of other Germans/Austrian young poor artists (drafted in WWI), Russian writer Creator/AleksandrSolzhenitsyn (tank commander in the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Great Patriotic War]], decorated twice), B-25 bomber gunner Creator/CharltonHeston (WWII), machine gun squadron staff sergeant [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charles Schulz]], Creator/JDSalinger (took part in the D-Day landings), a number of notable Frenchmen and expats living in France enlisted in LaResistance (mime MarcelMarceau; philosopher Simone Weil; writers [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Duras Marguerite Duras]], Creator/AlbertCamus, [[Theatre/WaitingForGodot Samuel Beckett]], [[{{Surrealism}} Paul Eluard]], [[{{Surrealism}} Louis Aragon]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Malraux#World_War_II André Malraux]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Tzara#World_War_II_and_Resistance Tristan Tzara]], etc.). Technically, Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII also served in WWII, though not in a fighting capacity - she volunteered for the British women's auxiliary force, thus making her the only current head of state who was a veteran of that war. (A fact which caused some controversy when she wasn't invited to the D-Day commemoration in 2010.)

* Rebecca Ann "Burger Becky" Heineman is known for being one of the founders of Interplay Entertainment, where she programmed many games, and is also famously known for having only ten weeks to program a port of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' for the UsefulNotes/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer. Outside of her video game programming work, she also wrote {{Fanfic}}, with several of them being RecurviseFanfiction to the FukuFic ''Webcomic/SailorRanko'', where she also is writing for the webcomic adaptation.

* Hugh Hefner was a fairly prolific movie producer, in addition to being the founder and CEO of the Magazine/{{Playboy}} adult entertainment empire. Predictably, the majority of the producer credits on his resume were pornographic films released under the Playboy label, but he also produced Creator/RomanPolanski's ''Film/{{Macbeth|1971}}'' and [[Film/TheLastPictureShow Peter Bogdanovich]]'s ''Saint Jack'' (which Bogdanovich considers to be one of his best movies), and he more recently produced several documentaries about the history of Hollywood.

* Walter Tevis, author of ''Film/TheHustler1961'' and ''Film/TheColorOfMoney'', also wrote well-regarded science fiction novels with ''Literature/TheManWhoFellToEarth'' and ''Mockingbird''.

* Creator/WilbertAwdry published Our Child Begins to Pray in 1951, a guide to parenting and a wild departure from his ''[[Literature/TheRailwaySeries Railway Series]]'' of children's books.

* The Philip Reeve who wrote the ''Literature/MortalEngines'' quartet (a [[SlidingScaleLongName cynical]], BlackAndGreyMorality-laden UsedFuture set AfterTheEnd) and ''Here Lies Arthur'', a {{Demythification}} that [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructs]] Arthurian legend, also wrote ''Literature/{{Larklight}}'' and sequels, a hilarious and [[SlidingScaleOfSeriousnessVersusSilliness absurd]] AffectionateParody of things like ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' which runs on BritishStuffiness, RuleOfFunny, and occasional RuleOfCool. And good always wins. Yes...yes, they are by the same person.