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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.

** 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.

* 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.

* [[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).