A wick check made for He Also Did. It's a Trivia entry with the definition of "A creator does something far beyond what they're most known for." It has fallen into misuse, however, with most entries having "Creator also did this work" or "Creator has had another career". I'm doing this Wick Check to see if there are any correct examples and see if it's bound for TRS:
Correctly used (9/50)
- Trivia.What Its Like Being Alone: Would you believe that the creator of this show went on to direct San Andreas and Rampage (2018)?!
- Film.Morning Glory: Co-produced by J. J. Abrams, of all people.
- Film.Three Ninjas: Three of the four films were produced by Shin Sang-ok (as Simon S. Sheen), most known for directing Pulgasari. Yes, it's that guy!
- Creator.Nick Park: Directed the music video for "Plain Song" by Native and The Name. Park and frontman Joe Rose had long been family friends beforehand.
- Trivia.Poohs Grand Adventure: No, your eyes are not decieving you, Kyoto Animation did help with some of the animation in this film, listed as an "Additional Production Facility".
- Trivia.Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird: Curtis Clark, the film's cinematographer, previously worked on the very different The Draughtsman's Contract. He was hired specifically to give the film an unquestionably cinematic look that would immediately distinguish it from the TV show.
- Trivia.San Francisco International Airport: Given the notable dullness of this movie, you may surprised to see that writers William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter were heavily involved with Mission: Impossible and wrote for quite few of Irwin Allen's TV shows.
- Trivia.New Super Mario Bros 2: Interestingly, the game's director was Yusuke Amano, who afterwards worked on both Splatoon and Splatoon 2 in the same capacity.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: This Very Wiki's page on Sylvester Stallone describes him as "an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter and former porn star."
Creator also did this work (26/50)
- Trivia.Talking Heads: Chris Frantz played on Robert Palmer's "Looking for Clues" during the recording of Remain in Light. Palmer returned the favor by playing percussion on that album.
- Trivia.Animator Vs Animation: Alan has done other stick figure animations along his famous work Animator vs. Animation such as Pink Army, The Law Shack, Stick Texting, and Revolt TV Animation.
- Trivia.Curious George 2006:
- Co-writer Chuck Tately also wrote for the cartoon.
- Director Norton Virgien also worked on Rugrats, and would go on to be the supervising director for Doc McStuffins and Vampirina.
- Director Phil Weinstein worked on Aladdin: The Series, Hercules: The Animated Series, House of Mouse, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Hell Boy Animated, and Mickey and the Roadster Racers.
- YMMV.The Brave Of Gold Goldran: Shinji Takamatsu also directed the Animated Adaptation of Gintama, which resulted in the retroactive recognition of Goldran, formerly the collective black sheep of the Yuusha franchise, as a funny show that showcased his comedic talent to its' fullest. The subs also helped things.
- Trivia.Animalympics:
- Michael Fremer, who went on to become a notable figure in the vinyl collecting community, was one of the four voice actors in the film, and also co-wrote the film and supervised the soundtrack. This example might have fit under correct usage if it were standalone
- If you look at the opening credits, you'll find, among others — Brad Bird, a lot of future Pixar employees, and The Lion King (1994) director Roger Allers — credited among the animators.
- This was Steven Lisberger's first major project, and he used it to raise money to pitch for a certain film called TRON. The backlighting effects in Animalympics were the basis for the visual effects in Tron. Many of those who worked on Animalympics would also work on Tron.
- Trivia.Zip Zip: Think the art style looks familiar? That's because the show was created by Aurore Damant, who designed the sequence in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water where Plankton enters SpongeBob's brain. Damant also helped to create Commander Clark, another GO-N animated series.
- Trivia.Empty Nest:
- Richard Mulligan (Harry Weston) is also best known for playing Burt Campbell on Soap.
- Dinah Manoff (Carol Weston) also co-starred on Soap as Elaine Lefkowitz and is also best known for playing Marty Maraschino in Grease.
- Marsha Warfield (Dr. Maxine Douglas) is also best known for playing Roz Russell on Night Court. She joined the cast of this show right on the back of that show's cancellation, in fact.
- In addition to her work on The Golden Girls, Empty Nest, and Nurses, creator and executive producer Susan Harris is known as creator and executive producer of Soap and Benson.
- James Widdoes directed an episode. Widdoes is best known for playing Stan Pembroke on Charles in Charge and Robert Hoover in Animal House.
- Trivia.Moville Mysteries: Series creator Guy Vasilovich would later create another obscure Canadian cartoon, Iggy Arbuckle. He also wrote several children's books and comics, and was a director for many other cartoons, including ChalkZone, Growing Up Creepie, the Geronimo Stilton animated series, and The VeggieTales Show.
- YMMV.The Baby Sitters Club: David Levithan was introduced to Scholastic and got his start in writing by ghostwriting for this series.
- Trivia.Donut County: Developer Ben Esposito is also a member of Arcane Kids, the collective behind the (in)famous game Sonic Dreams Collection, just to name one example.
- Trivia.Vangelis:
- He was the percussionist and keyboardist of Aphrodite's Child, a band of London-based Greeks, before he became world-famous as the instrumental musician Vangelis.
- He was one half of the synth-pop duo Jon & Vangelis; Jon Anderson of Yes was the other half.
- Fanfic.Wig Ok Bruh: Wig Ok Bruh
is a Total Drama fanfiction by Scalene_Waffles (who also wrote Summer Camp Wawanakwa). - Trivia.Jingaroo: Animation company DNA Productions also made Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Olive, the Other Reindeer, and The Ant Bully.
- Stripperiffic.Video Games: Xenoblade Chronicles 2: A lot of the Blades fall into this. The designer for Pyra and Mythra is known for erotic art, and many of the rare Blades were designed by guest artists with little guidance or creative oversight, leading to a lot of Author Appeal in their designs. The human characters mostly avoid this.
- Trivia.GWAR: They made the songs for the Codename: Kids Next Door episode Operation F.O.O.D.F.I.T.E. They essentially altered the lyrics of The Private Pain of Techno Destructo and Gor Gor.
- Trivia.Peeking Through The Fourth Wall: Mr. TyeDye also wrote Birthday Breakfast, Boys and Girls, Irrational Fear, A Load of Bulk, Mall Rats (TLH), The Nightmare House, Pride in Her Chest, Shrinkin' Lincoln, and Sunday Skivvies.
- Trivia.Kacey Musgraves: She also wrote Miranda Lambert's hit "Mama's Broken Heart" and several songs for the TV series Nashville.
- Trivia.River City Girls Zero: The re-release's cover art, character designs and animated intro have been supervised and/or done by David Liu, who previously drew the cover art for Panzer Paladin.
- VideoGame.Wangan Midnight: While the RUF vehicles were in the older Genki-developed titles, they were replaced by Gemballa in the first three-ish titles. It wasn't until 4, which Genki began providing additional assistance on, bringing back RUF vehicles before they were replaced by Porsche in 6.
- Trivia.I Accuse My Parents: The film's writer, Arthur Caesar, had ten years earlier won an Oscar for Manhattan Melodrama, the movie that bank robber John Dillinger saw just before he was gunned down in front of Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934.
- Trivia.The Go Gos: Charlotte Caffey and Jane Wiedlin co-wrote Keith Urban's first #1 hit, "But for the Grace of God".
- YMMV.Titanic 1953": Edmund Purdnom has an uncredited role in this film as Officer Lightoller. The second-to-last role of his career would be voicing Jeremy in Titanic: The Legend Goes On. He was also Griba in Ator: The Fighting Eagle, which served as the Season 12 Finale of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
- City Pop: He may be known as the face/father of City Pop, but Tatsuro Yamashita was already known for making songs for anime movies like Summer Wars and Mirai of the Future, as well for the series like Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple and And Yet the Town Moves.
- Trivia.Bigtop Burger: Alex and Lindsay Small-Butera (who play Conrad and Penny respectively) are also the creators behind Baman Piderman.
- Trivia.The B52s:
- Kate Pierson has guest vocals on two R.E.M. songs: "Me in Honey" and "Shiny Happy People", both on Out of Time; she would also provide backing vocals on "Fretless", recorded during the same sessions and included on the soundtrack for Until the End of the World. She also guest starred on Iggy Pop's "Candy" from Brick By Brick.
- Kate Pierson also sang vocals on "Let's Spend Half A Day", a song from the Phineas and Ferb episode "Perry The Actorpus".
- John Lennon was reportedly a fan of the band's debut album. He told Rolling Stone that "Rock Lobster" reminded him of Yoko's music, citing it as his inspiration to "'get out the old axe and wake the wife up!'"
- Yoko also became a fan of the band and later a friend - and the band were inspired by her for their song "Don't Worry", to the point where her lawyers thought it was a cover of Yoko's song "Don't Worry, Kyoko" (it wasn't).
- The band performed the second theme song for Rocko's Modern Life.
- Ricky played guitar in "Breaking in My Heart" on Tom Verlaine's debut album. He's also rumoured to have played on XTC's album Drums and Wires though the album credits never listed him as someone who played on the record, and the band had two guitarists who at the time played in a style similar to his, so it's unlikely that it's true.
- This also applies behind the scenes as well. David Byrne, who produced Mesopotamia, was previously lead vocalist and guitarist for the Talking Heads, while Nile Rodgers and Don Was, who produced Cosmic Thing and co-produced Good Stuff, were, respectively, lead guitarist for Chic and bassist for Was (Not Was).
- Trivia.Daffy Duck And Porky Pig Meet The Groovie Goolies:
- Larry Storch (Drac, Hagatha and Claude Chaney) previously voiced Cool Cat and Merlin the Magic Mouse in the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts era.
- Warner Bros. Animation veteran Virgil Ross was an animator in this production, though his signature style isn't very evident (though it's likely he handled the scenes where Sylvester and Yosemite Sam were the most on-model, since he generally worked in Friz Freleng's unit.) LaVerne Harding and Ed Solomon, both of whom worked at Warner Bros. Animation in the late 1960s (i.e. the Seven Arts era), were also animators in this.
Creator has had other career (9/50)
- Trivia.Katey Harvey: She worked as a stunt woman on Vikings.
- Trivia.Takeshi Kitano: Outside of filmmaking and TV producing, Kitano is also a writer, a painter, and a one-time video game designer.
- Creator.Paul Newman: Aside from his acting work, Newman was also well known as a professional car racer — unlike Steve McQueen, with whom he maintained a friendly offscreen rivalry, he actually raced in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and even finished second — and owner in IndyCar, and for his philanthropic work.
- Wrestling.Jim Ross: Outside of wrestling, he sells his own brand of barbecue sauce, has written cookbooks, and opened a barbecue restaurant.
- Trivia.Ruby Riott: She was a rock climbing instructor when she was in college.
- Music.Charles Ives: Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954), was an American composer, organist, and insurance salesman.
- Trivia.Abdullah The Butcher: Played Samson/Spartacus in 1982's Hoero tekken and even had lines.
- Trivia.Carnival Of Souls: Sidney Berger (John Linden) went on to become the longtime chair of the drama department at the University of Houston, training many notable actors, including Dennis Quaid, Brent Spiner and Jim Parsons.
- Trivia.She Wolf Of London: Randi in She-Wolf mode was played by then-future Gladiator Diane "Jet" Youdale.
ZCE/Uncertain/Murky/Unsorted (6/50)
- Trivia.Pink Panther And Pals: Inverted, as the Ant is voiced by Kel Mitchell of Kenan & Kel. Aside from the fact Trivia can't be played with, I don't really get what this is saying
- Characters.Universal Wrestling Federation RINGS: Listed under various characters
- Was in Marco Ruas’ video instructional videos by Panther Productions.
- He provided the commentary to Volk Han's Command Sambo instructional tape.
- Was an event producer for Sengoku Raiden Championships (or World Victory Road). He is also part of the Ganryujima promotion's executive committee.
- He invented a striking bag which is a thin cylinder on a chain for fast kicking, punching, and avoiding simulated strikes called the “KO Bag.” It allows one to move around more freely than a standard, large heavy bag.
- He co-wrote Akira Maeda's autobiography, Power Of Dream.
- Characters.Doctor Who Seventh Doctor: He also played the spoons as a musical instrument.
- Trivia.Bambi Meets Godzilla The apartment that Marv rented out at the time belonged to Adriana Caselotti, better known as the voice of Snow White from the Disney movie. As a thank you, Marv made sure to credit her in the short.
- Characters.Bordertown: He's also voiced by Madstone Theater, see Angry Farmer Guy.
- Music.T Pain: He also happens to be a rather accomplished Call of Duty player.
