History Main / HeAlsoDid

** UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, known as a dictator responsible for the deaths of millions, started as an artist. Some of his paintings are actually pretty good. In fact, if he had swallowed his pride and gone into ''commercial'' art (advertising and postcards) we may be talking of a massive case of WhatMightHaveBeen....

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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' (1989), ''Film/BrideOfReAnimator'' (1990), ''Film/BeyondReAnimator'' (2003) and ''{{Film/Necronomicon}}'' (1993).]]

[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' (1989), ''Film/BrideOfReAnimator'' (1990), ''Film/BeyondReAnimator'' (2003) and ''Necronomicon: Book of the Dead'' (1993).]]

->''"Let's take a look at ''Home Alone 1'' for the NES first. What...? This game is made by Creator/{{Bethesda}}? Like... ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' Bethesda? [Shows Bethesda's Website/{{Wikipedia}} page of game lists, zooming in on ''Home Alone'' (1991) for the NES] Yeah, it actually is!"''

* Francesco Marciuliano, the writer of the widely lambasted family-friendly syndicated comic strip ''ComicStrip/SallyForth'', is also the author of ''[[http://mediumlarge.wordpress.com/ Medium Large]]'', a significantly more [[DarkerAndEdgier off-beat]] comic that is surprisingly funny. Although ''Sally Forth'' [[GrowingTheBeard got rather more clever]] when he took it over too.

* After wrestling, Wrestling/{{Madusa}} also became a driver in the UsefulNotes/MonsterJam series.

* Chad Fortune later moved on to becoming a UsefulNotes/MonsterJam driver, driving trucks like the WCW Nitro Machine, Superman, Captain America, and (currently) Soldier Fortune.

* The Creator/PhilipReeve who wrote the ''Literature/MortalEngines'' quartet (a [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism cynical]], BlackAndGreyMorality-laden UsedFuture set AfterTheEnd) and ''Literature/HereLiesArthur'', a {{Demythification}} that [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructs]] Myth/ArthurianLegend, 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.

* 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 Creator/{{CBBC}}.

* Mark "Jacko" Jackson had a decent 6-year career as a journeyman UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball player. In Australia he became better-known for acting, advertisements and even had a novelty hit as a singer with a song called "I'm an Individual". In America, he's familiar to anyone who watched TV in the latter part of TheEighties as "that big, loud Australian guy who did the Energizer commercials before they debuted the Bunny and was in some NBC action-adventure show" (''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Highwayman_(TV_series) The Highwayman]])''.

* Both Wrestling/MikeAdamle and Wrestling/{{Rico|Constantino}} were involved in ''Series/AmericanGladiators'' prior to their stints in the WWE: Adamle as the main play-by-play man, and Rico as a contender. Adamle was also a [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL running back]] for a few years in UsefulNotes/TheSeventies and later a sportscaster for Creator/{{NBC}} and Creator/{{ABC}}.

* Mike Curb has had one of the oddest career arcs of anyone in the entertainment field. At age 18 in 1963 he started the indie record label Sidewalk Records ([[PunnyName Sidewalk[=/=]Curb]], geddit?), then began doing ExploitationFilm soundtracks, then became president of Creator/MGMRecords in 1969, in a contentious tenure that saw him very nakedly use the label as a vehicle for his political ambitions. But in the meantime he signed himself as an artist to the label, as the mogul behind the Mike Curb Congregation, a soft rock vocal chorus that had some minor hits. As for those political ambitions, he was mentored by UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and was elected to a (once again) contentious single term as Lieutenant Governor of California in 1978, as a conservative Republican who frequently clashed with liberal Democratic Governor UsefulNotes/JerryBrown. Meanwhile, he became a UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} owner, with UsefulNotes/RichardPetty driving for him at one point. By TheEighties he moved to Nashville and turned his focus to CountryMusic, with his Curb Records becoming a giant label in the genre, as well as owning the GospelMusic label Word Records.

** Crystal Lewis was a cast member for the first season, before leaving the show to foster her budding music career... and went on to become one of the biggest Christian music stars of TheNineties and early 2000's. She and her husband Brian Ray founded the Metro One record label (the same year ''Roundhouse'' debuted), which represents a wide range of Christian music such as hip-hop and alternative. In addition, Lewis wrote the book ''Gold: A Devotional'', was one of the featured vocalists on Music/KirkFranklin's Grammy-nominated song "Lean On Me", performed rockabilly music with the Screamin' Rays, played Mary in the Nativity musical ''Child of Promise'', voiced Star on the animated series ''Musicland Band'', and played a gatekeeper in ''The Wilds'', a film that also featured her son Solomon (and an AwardBaitSong from her daughter Izzi). She's also recorded some of her hits in Spanish, even winning the inaugural Dove Award for Best Spanish Album.

* Former ''Series/{{Today}}'' weatherman Willard Scott started off as a network page for WRC, the Creator/{{NBC}} affiliate in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, and then moved on to host local kids TV shows like ''Barn Party'' and ''Bozo the Clown'' in TheFifties[[note]]The former show is best known for being one of Creator/JimHenson's early TV gigs[[/note]]. Between both mentioned shows he also hosted ''Afternoon'', a local news and variety show also cohosted by another "he also did" alumnus, Mac [=McGarry=] (the former host of the LongRunner quiz show ''It's Academic''). After the DC-based ''Bozo'' met its end in 1963, he modified the Bozo design and came up with the character now known as [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Ronald McDonald]]. In addition, Willard also wrote two murder mystery novels (in addition to 3 nonfictions, 2 quote-based books and a cookbook), hosted a TalentShow on Creator/ABCFamily and several "Christmas Across America" specials for HGTV, as well as a TV show called ''Willard Scott's Home and Garden Almanac'' on the latter channel, was one half of [[http://www.thejoyboys.com/ "The Joy Boys"]] radio team for 20 years, and played Mr. Poole, a bit character on ''Series/TheHoganFamily''. He had also taken over as the announcer for the Smucker's commercials after the death of Mason Adams. A sampling of Willard's "he also did" gigs up to around 2000 can be found [[http://kidshow.dcmemories.com/willard.html here.]]

* After [[UsefulNotes/TheRoaringTwenties Prohibition]] went into effect, many beer manufacturers started making other products to stay afloat financially, realizing the equipment they had on hand could be repurposed for other uses. Many opted to focus on dairy, which allowed them to keep using their refrigeration devices. Pabst produced the Pabst-ett brand of processed cheese, which earned several million dollars a year and made them a serious challenger to Kraft's domination of the cheese market; after Prohibition ended, they sold their cheese line to Kraft. Stroh's and Yuengling started making ice cream, and the brands still exist (though the breweries sold them to other companies after a while). Coors partnered with a local pottery and ceramics firm to produce industrial ceramics, and kept the unit (now called [=CoorsTek=]) going after Prohibition. The company has been valued at around $2 billion today.