At that: Dick Calkins did other stuff after he left it behind, but ”is best known for being the first artist to draw the Buck Rogers comic strip.”
Switching oeuvres by half-a-step, I’ll note that Katey Sagal’s dad Boris Sagal directed THE OMEGA MAN after years of television work — MIKE HAMMER and PETER GUNN and THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. and T.H.E. CAT and tons of other work. I mean, granted, he also did plenty of movie work — an Elvis Presley flick, a Charles Bronson flick, a Sophia Loren flick, you name it — but it’s all the Emmy nominations he earned that really tell the story. (RICH MAN, POOR MAN was a classic, y’know?)
Xavier Roberts really got his name out there with the Cabbage Patch Kids.
Pierre Richard got leading-man work in plenty of movies that folks in America have maybe heard of. Well, maybe not “heard of”; but as close as possible. Like, even if you haven’t heard of The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe, you maybe saw the remake with Tom Hanks as The Man With One Red Shoe. Or if you never heard that Richard and Gérard Depardieu did Les Fugitifs, you still maybe saw Martin Short and Nick Nolte in Three Fugitives; Richard and Depardieu also did La Chèvre, which also got a Martin Short remake (with Danny Glover, that time) as well as Les Compères (which got the Billy-Crystal-and-Robin-Williams treatment).
Plus he did a movie that got an Antonio Banderas remake, and also did one that got a Richard Pryor remake, and that’s kind of a weird juxtaposition, there.
Since it’s Christmas Eve: Eric Christmas. Some may remember him as the Senator in The Andromeda Strain; others, the Senator in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes; and some may of course remember him as the Principal in Porky’s (and, for that matter, in Porky’s II); or as the genius behind The Philadelphia Experiment — billed third after the leading man and the leading lady — or from Harold and Maude, or from Johnny Got His Gun, or from any one of a hundred other credits over the years.
And since it’s now Christmas, I’ll mention some RANKIN/BASS productions: there’s RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, with Burl Ives; FROSTY THE SNOWMAN, with Jimmy Durante; SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN, with Fred Astaire; and plenty of other stuff too — the ‘70s animated take on THE HOBBIT, the ‘80s big-screen movie THE LAST UNICORN, and everything else from THUNDERCATS on — but really zeroing in on the holidays, from TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS with Joel Grey all the way over to THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS with Mickey Rooney.
And while Jules Bass doesn’t count, Arthur Rankin presumably does.
Let me now make quick mention of how Bob Bell “was an American announcer and actor famous for his alter-ego, Bozo the Clown” and as a result “was inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in 1996.”
Miriam Margolyes — Professor Sprout, from the Harry Potter movies — has won awards for her acting on stage, and won other awards for her acting on screen.
Different folks may remember Reed Diamond from plenty of different things: there’s his long run on HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREETS, and there’s his run on DOLLHOUSE and on THE MENTALIST and on AGENTS OF SHIELD and a dozen other recurring roles here and there — even if we leave aside the way that, this year, Diamond went from playing FBI Director John Forstell on DESIGNATED SURVIVOR to playing Albert Stanton, one of the new founding fathers of America, on THE PURGE.
(Sizable number of movie roles, too…)
Arvydas Sabonis won Olympic gold for the Soviets in ‘88, sparking America’s reply of, “okay, that’s enough of this; in ‘92, we’re sending Michael Jordan.”
It also sparked an NBA career, and Hall of Fame spot, for Sabonis.
Award-winning author Joseph Finder has written a number of bestsellers, and he’s seen a number of them go the Hollywood way — namely, this one with Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, and that one with Harrison Ford and a Hemsworth.
Horace Silver “was one of the most popular and influential jazz musicians of the 1950s and ’60s”: after working “with some of the biggest names in jazz, Mr. Silver began leading his own group in the mid-1950s and quickly became a big name himself, celebrated for his clever compositions and his infectious, bluesy playing.”