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* [[Steve Martin]], the Wild and Crazy Guy? He's also an accomplished banjo player who's performed with Earl Scruggs. He also wrote the serious novella ''[[Shopgirl]]'', which he starred in the adaptation of. He also did writing on the thriller ''Traitor''.
* Herbert "Zeppo" Marx of the [[Marx Brothers]] invented a type of watch with a built-in heart-rate monitor, as well as a new kind of heating pad.
* [[Leonard Nimoy]] directed ''[[Three Men
** Many ''[[Star Trek]]'' alumni have made the jump to the director's chair. Jonathan Frakes has directed episodes of ''[[Burn Notice]]'', ''[[Leverage]]'', ''[[Persons Unknown]]'', and most recently ''[[Covert Affairs]]''; Robert McNeill has directed many episodes of ''[[Chuck]]''; and Roxann Dawson has directed ''[[The Closer]]''. Dawson also has an incredibly prolific career as a TV Producer.
** Gates McFadden—Doctor Crusher from ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''—was also a choreographer for the Jim Henson Workshop, who worked on such films as ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' and ''[[Labyrinth]]''. For the latter, she was credited with her first name as Cheryl McFadden.
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* Nancy Walker played Ida Morgenstern on ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' (and its spinoff ''Rhoda''), and appeared in Bounty paper towel commercials. Much of her earlier career was in Broadway musicals, and it was perhaps for this reason that she was chosen to direct the infamous movie musical ''Can't Stop the Music''.
* In addition to voice acting, Paul Winchell was also a puppeteer, an acupuncturist, and an inventor—his most famous inventions being the artificial heart and the blood plasma defroster.
* Ian Ziering, aka Steve Sanders from ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]'', played Edison Trent from ''[[Freelancer]]''. Same goes for John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and Tobias from said game.
* [[Jennifer Tilly]], she of the big-boobed bimbo roles, has also won a bracelet in the World Series of [[Poker]]. In fact, this is a subgenre, as many actors are at least passable in poker (notably Gabe Kaplan, Dick Van Patten (whose son Vince calls the World Poker Tour), and Lou Diamond Phillips, just to name a few).
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* Sidemen for Joey Dee and the Starlighters ("The Peppermint Twist") included, at one time or another, [[Joe Pesci]] (on guitar!), [[Jimi Hendrix]], Charles Neville of the Neville Brothers and members of The Young Rascals. Often the Ronettes would dance and sing back-up at the Peppermint Lounge.
* Charles Ives is famous now for his innovative musical works, but had the habit of not trying hard to have his stuff performed or published in his lifetime. He was known in his day for his innovative business practices as the head of an insurance company, where he wrote such books as ''Life Insurance with Relation to Inheritance Tax''.
* [[Jeremy Soule]] - best known for his work on the soundtracks for ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'', ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'', ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic]]'', ''[[Guild Wars]]'' and ''[[Secret of Evermore]]'' also did the music for... many ''[[Putt-Putt]]'', ''[[Freddi Fish]]'', and ''[[Pajama Sam]]'' games.
* Devo is best known as a one-hit wonder with flower-pot hats. However, most people have heard a few of their other works: all of the music on "Rugrats" and most Wes Anderson movies, firstly. They've been composing as Mutato Muzika since the mid-90's.
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* Thriller novelist [[Dean Koontz]] has scripted (but not drawn) ''In Odd We Trust'', a manga-style comic book prequel to his ''Odd Thomas'' series.
* Mikhail Lermontov, a Russian 19th-century poet, was also a talented landscape painter.
* [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]] wrote a few travelogues, despite usually being considered a recluse who rarely left his home (which isn't true. While he did spend most of his life in Providence and didn't socialise much, he did often travel to meet his friends in other parts of the country). He also wrote the comic short story [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sweet_Ermengarde Sweet Ermengarde], a parody of romantic melodrama, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130206151443/http://www.lovecraftlibrary.org/hpl/waste/ Waste Paper], a painfully spot-on parody of "[[The Waste Land]]." In a vaguely related vein, he responded to a friend's teasing about his teetotaling by writing "Old Bugs", a parodically exaggerated [[Scare'Em Straight]] story about alcohol.
* Vladimir Mayakovskiy, a famous Soviet poet, was also a [[wikipedia:Futurism|futuristic]] artist when he was young.
* R.L. Stine, well known for his horror books such as the ''[[Fear Street]]'' and ''[[Goosebumps]]'' series, also published various humor books (such as the [[Novelization]] of ''[[Spaceballs]]'') and was the creator and writer for [[Nickelodeon]] show ''[[Eureeka's Castle]]''.
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* [[Shel Silverstein]] wrote children's poetry such as [[The Giving Tree]] and ''Where the Sidewalk Ends''. He also wrote novelty songs such as: "The Great Smoke Off", "The Cover of Rolling Stone", "A Boy Named Sue" and its sequel "The Father of a Boy Named Sue".
* In addition to writing ''[[The Jungle]]'', Upton Sinclair also wrote the Children's book ''The Gnome-Mobile''.
* [[Dr. Seuss]] used to be [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924165439/http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/politicaldrseuss/seuss_fla.html a political cartoonist] during [[World War II]], creating many hilarious cartoons about the defeat of Hitler and more than a few [[Unfortunate Implications|horrifying caricatures of Japanese people]].
* Walter Tevis, author of ''[[The Hustler (film)|The Hustler]]'' and ''[[The Color of Money]]'', also wrote ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]''.
* [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] is most famous for his fantasy novels, but his day job was as a philologist, translator, and university professor; he wrote one of the seminal articles on the subject of the Old English poem ''[[Beowulf]]'', translated part of the Jerusalem Bible, did one of the best-known translations of ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', and contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary. On the side, he was also an amateur philosopher and Catholic apologist.
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