# Celebrities remembered for incidental career points **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 1, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688 "2015-01-01T17:18:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/1 "2015-01-01T17:18:33Z")
Brought to mind by Edward Hermann’s death. News leads usually mention “Gilmore Girls,” 'but he had a long and successful career in more distinguished projects. Similarly: Joe DiMaggio, Mr. Coffee George Foreman - Foreman Grill William Daniels - Wonder Years Who else occurs to people? ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/2 "2015-01-01T17:28:23Z")
Bob Dole - Depends ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/3 "2015-01-01T18:27:30Z")
> [@seal\_cleaner](#): > > William Daniels - Wonder Years I’d suggest doing the voice of KITT on _Knight Rider_ was his incidental career point. ---
**Author:** ![Idilia\_Dubb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@Idilia\_Dubb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idilia_Dubb)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/4 "2015-01-01T20:11:39Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > Bob Dole - Depends Didn’t Dole do ads for a limp willy pill? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/5 "2015-01-01T20:21:41Z")
> [@seal\_cleaner](#): > > William Daniels - Wonder Years What is the connection here? ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/6 "2015-01-01T20:24:03Z")
Jessie White had a long distinguished career… but he will always be The Maytag Repairman as did Dick Wilson… AKA Mr. Whipple ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/7 "2015-01-01T20:26:17Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > What is the connection here? He had a great scene on Boy Meets World, with that kid from Wonder Years who plays a professor who makes inappropriate advance to Topganga. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/8 "2015-01-01T20:45:57Z")
Harry Von Zell, died in 1981 after a long and distinguished career in radio and TV announcing. The first sentence of his obit? Recalled how in 1931 he introduced the then-President of the United States as “Hoobert Heever”. Fifty years, and he STILL hadn’t lived it down. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/9 "2015-01-01T21:07:58Z")
Ben Stein isn’t really an actor. (Well, duh.) He’s a lawyer, political commentator, writer, etc. He used to write speeches for Nixon and such. He still does the hack talking heads shows. After that Bueller thing (his second role), he sort of became an actor. Mainly voice work. But also a game show host. For which he co-won an Emmy.😕 ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/10 "2015-01-02T00:19:29Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > What is the connection here? Sorry. Boy Meets World, Wonder Years, I get them mixed up. I never watched either one. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/11 "2015-01-02T00:29:55Z")
Art Linkletter, Ed McMahon and Alex Trebek for pimping life insurance for geezers. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/12 "2015-01-02T01:45:10Z")
I’ve been watching a lot of daytime television during this holiday week and wonder why someone like Alex Trebek would do those commercials. I know that Ed McMahon had financial issues, so he needed the money but presumably Alex Trebek is well compensated by the game show. (BTW, another such person is Fred Thompson, who does commercials for reverse mortgages aimed at seniors.) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/13 "2015-01-02T06:58:28Z")
John Wilkes Booth – Assassinating Lincoln Charlton Heston – NRA ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/14 "2015-01-02T07:25:48Z")
What’s the connection between Joe DiMaggio and Mr. Coffee? ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/15 "2015-01-02T08:06:53Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > What’s the connection between Joe DiMaggio and Mr. Coffee? Joltin’ Joe did ads for Mr. Coffee, back in the 1970s IIRC. Joltin’ Joe for a cup of Joe - my line, not from the commercial. I’m trying to be clever. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/16 "2015-01-02T16:49:37Z")
> [@Tread](#): > > Jessie White had a long distinguished career… but he will always be The Maytag Repairman Sad but true. For many of us he will always be Marvin Wilson. (The Egg & Onion Sandwich aficionado in _Harvey_.) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/17 "2015-01-02T21:41:28Z")
David Carradine will always be the guy who choked himself while choking himself. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/18 "2015-01-02T22:03:47Z")
Robert Vaughn may have been acting since the 60s but I always remember him as Joe Bornstein/ Mark E. Salomone. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/19 "2015-01-02T22:40:07Z")
Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter. This became an in-joke in _Witness_. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688/20 "2015-01-02T23:05:42Z")
Wilford Brimley has had a long and distinguished Hollywood career, but an entire generation only knows him for [Diabeetus](https://www.google.com/search?q=brimley+diabeetus&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=wSOnVKX_K8moyATD-4KgAw&ved=0CB8QsAQ&biw=1674&bih=776). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-remembered-for-incidental-career-points/708688.md?page=2)