Entertainment For Lively Minds
People with *two* successful careers
Posted by David Hepworth on 15 February 2010 - 9:59am.
So farewell, then, Dick Francis. You were a top jockey. Then you were a best-selling writer of detective fiction. Who else can say that they got to the top of two professions?
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Bono...
Musician and preacher.
Jeff
Baxter...
Musician and defence consultant.
Slim Borgudd
ABBA sticksman and F1 driver.
Hedy Lamarr
Actress and inventor.
And don't forget State Attorney General in Rock Ridge
Eh?
Oh.
That's...
...Hedley!
Hey
It's 1874 - he can sue *her*
Orenthal James Simpson
American footballer and actor.
Vincent Jones
'Welsh' 'footballer' and 'actor'.
James Stewart
WW2 bomber pilot and actor.
Denis Compton
Arsenal footballer - Middlesex and England cricketer.
James Williamson
Guitarist in Iggy & The Stooges and VP with Sony Electronics
Gareth Edwards
International rugby player and magician
Assorted MPs...
... who not only draw their basic £65k salary but also have incomes from directorships on the boards of various companies, consultancies etc ...
www.theyworkforyou.com has the info
To be fair, a lot of them actually resigned directorships when the MPs expenses furore blew up last year, but William Hague, to pick a random example, was a director of a Rotherham-based engineering firm until 4-5 months back ... was parliamentary adviser for JCB Group til last summer ... even last Sep he was still picking up "£14,662.50 received for a speech given to the Denplan National Conference in Coventry" ...
My favourite for Hague: December 2009, "Royalty earnings of £250.03 from 2 Entertain Video Ltd, 33 Foley Street, London W1W 7TL from sales of 'Have I Got News for You' compilation DVDs" ...
Probably quite a few of these around Europe,
but Pete Garrett, Midnight Oil front man, Greenpeace activist and now politician, although no major success to speak of there.
And a heads up for the folks back there in Blighty - our very own fish and chip shop proprietrix, some-time politician and anti-immigration/BNP equivalent, Pauline Hansen is emigrating to the UK. Oh the irony. Good luck. I'd recommend taking out a D notice on anything she says.
Bros
Love or hate them, they all went onto have successfull other careers. I believe the two twins have done well as actors and the bass player Craig went onto become a music producer.
Mark King also runs a successful restaurant on the the Isle Of Wight.
Craig Charles, actor and now a pretty good DJ on BBC 6 Music.
Craig Charles
was originally a poet/stand up, so that's 3.
Mick Channon
international footballer and racehorse trainer
David Lovering from Pixies...
a brilliant drummer and Scientific Phenomenalist, a magician in other words.
Paul Newman had three...
Actor, salad dressing magnate and motor racing (Indy Car team boss and second place at Le Mans 1979).
I am a salad dressing magnet.
You should see the state of my shirts in the summer. Disgraceful.
Åke Karl Kalle Gustafsson Jerneholm...
Bassist with The Soundtrack of Our Lives also runs Svenska Grammofon Studion, one of Sweden's best recording studios and is a top producer and engineer too.
http://www.svenskagrammofonstudion.com/
George Harrison
Musician and film producer.
Tom Scholtz..3 careers
R+D for Kodak ,leader of hitmakers Boston and inventor of direct recording gadgets including The Rockman.
I believe the correct term for Boston is
the MTAFH.
John Surtees
Bike world champ and F1 world champ.
Francis Lee
Burly striker for Man. City and England. Then lavatory paper magnate.
Kid Chaos
aka Stephen Harris is training to be a doctor, as well as playing bass/guitar in Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Chaos
Glenda Jackson - actress and MP, (see also, Sebastian Coe, Giles Brandreth, Austin Mitchell, Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sonny Bono).
You remind me
Hank Wangford, alt-country singer and doctor (gynecologist?). Cant speak for 'success' in either of them though.
At least two sets
of stirrups, though.
Denny Zager...
..."In The Year 2525" hitmaker and guitar manufacturer.
Dirk Bogarde - Rank star, serious actor and writer.
Shirley Temple Black - child star and politician.
Tom Ford - designer of unwearable overpriced apparel and film maker.
Clement Freud - Chef, politician, light entertainer, gambler, etc.
Glenda Jackson - Actress, politician.
Martin Bell - Politician, media busybody, grubby-suit-wearing perv-resembler.
Stephen Fry - Gobshite, Apple fanboy, needy twitterologist.
Tom Ford - designer of unwearable overpriced apparel
Easy there, Pax...I have two Tom Ford sports jackets (one velvet, one in elephant cord, a leather coat and a car coat from his last collections for Gucci and YSL Rive Gauche and they are anything but unwearable, even for a big lump like me. Can't argue about the price, mind*, but the fabric and fit are unsurpassable. Tommy Boy's got a third string to his bow: a parfumier who reckons that EUR210 for 100ML of eau de cologne is a bargain. Shyeah. And immaculately groomed and clad monkeys will fly out of my butt.
*I pretty much cleaned out my rainy day fund in one crazy trip to Pacific Plaza in Hong Kong in 2005 on four jackets/coats
Neilo (3)
Big man, gonzo journalist and clothes horse. ;-)
You are too kind
But right on the money about Stephen Fry...'most intelligent man in Britain', my arse. The poor man's Robert Robinson. The poorer man's Melvyn Bragg. The poorest man's Joss Ackland. You know you're in a world of trouble when the name of the Frymaster is even whispered in the same breath as Kenneth Clark (the saints preserve him).
Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle
apparently they were both professional footballers before they became rock stars. I know, incredible isn't it?
John Barnes
before joining New Order, also played football.
Steven Seagal
Actor and lawman
http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/shows/steven-seagal-lawman/videos...
... and Mojo Priest
Dieter Maier
Pop star, golfer, raconteur, artist, bon vivant, international playboy, writer, connoiseur..
I've always found his lifestyle to be somewhat aspirational.
Jeremy Clarkson
TV presenter and columnist.
David Hepworth
TV presenter and publishing svengali.
Chris Evans
TV presenter, media business magnate and radio presenter. That's 3...
Brian Cox *
90s pop star (D:Ream) and CERN scientist. Well, thing could only get better ...
(* No, not the actor).
Gordon Ramsey
Footballer + Michelin starred chef.
Wayne Rogers
Actor and Fox News financial expert/pundit...
Jack Sonni (Dire Straits)
Second guitar for Dire Straits during their tours for Brothers in Arms. Subsequently director of Marketing Communications for Line 6, who make digital guitar effects & amp modelling gear.
Hal Lindes
David Knopfler's replacement on rhythm guitar on the Making Movies and Love Over Gold tours and now a TV soundtrack purveyor for some years.
Lindes
Pretty sure I saw him acting in something around the time he left 'ver Straits. A UK TV drama I think, he may also have done the soundtrack.
Me dear ole' mam,
has worked in the aircraft industry,the film industry and is now a recluse.A bit like Howard Hughes but a whole lot less successfully.
Maconie, Collins, Radcliffe, Giles Smith etc etc
Music journalists, DJs turned "best-selling" autobiographical authors.
JPR Williams
Orthopaedic surgeon and rugby legend.
'Twas the time of amateurism
JPR would probably take the right arse if you'd described rugby as his profession.
Peter Ustinov.
He might never have been at the very top of any particular 'game' but he was within shouting distance of the apex of many a discipline...
Bert Camus
you know this one...
Posh Spice
"accomplished" warbler and fashion designer
Ginger Spice - pop tart and buke writer
Katie Price - horse botherer, "serious" wordsmith and Jordan
Mark Ellen - journalist and Love Trouser
How about Bruce Dickinson.
1. Lead vocalist with a major heavy metal band.
2. Fully qualified airline pilot, working for a charter airline.
3. Radio DJ for BBC 6Music and occasionally BBC Radio 2.
4. Director of a fencing (i.e. sword-fighting) supply company.
And he's a novelist
He wrote at least one book featuring the character "Lord Iffy Boatrace".
Steve Morse
Deep Purple's long-standing Ritchie Blackmore replacing guitar strangler and qualified airline pilot.
Was also in Dixie Dregs many years ago whose 'Take It Off The Top' was the theme to Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show.
I know too much bollocks.
The Queen boys
Haven't they all got science degrees or something? Wish they'd stayed at school.
Dr. May
Brian May completed his astrophysics PhD a couple of years ago - it had been on hold since the early 1970's. I believe he is also a theatre producer with Angie Dobson.
Arnold Schwarzenegger...
Bodybuilder, film star, real estate magnate and politician.
Skunk Baxter
Guitar player with Steely Dan, and now a leading US Defense consultant - speciality missile defense systems.
Now that is a switch. Though no more than Hedy Lemarr I suppose.
Craig Johnston went from playing for Liverpool to designing the Predator football boot, and more unusually automatic billing systems for hotel mini-bars. Well I guess he spent a lot of time in hotels. Oh and he wrote the Anfield Rap, but you shouldn't hold that against him.
Lyrical Genius
"Well I came to England looking for fame
So come on Kenny man, give us a game
'Cause I'm sat on the bench paying my dues with the blues
I'm very big down under, but my wife disagrees"
It shows how things have changed in 20 years. Nowadays that'd be...
"Well I came to England looking for fame
I refuse to train if you don't give us a game
I refuse to sit on the bench either, speak to my agent
I'm very big down under, despite what you saw on that tape"
Amelia Fletcher
'80s indie hero (Tallulah Gosh, Heavenly, The Wedding Present) + now Chief Economist at the OFT.
Rupert Hine
Artist/Producer & stuntman
James Allan
Former professional footballer and Glasvegas frontman.
Humphrey Littleton -
Humphrey Littleton - Musician, writer, presenter. Barry Horne, professional footballer (rtd) & genuine rocket scientist.
"Hey, Barry.. say something in Russian"
Said the reporter (I think from Radio Solent when Bazzer was at Pompey)
"Eh?" said Barry.
"You've got a degree in Russian haven't you, Barry?"
"No.. chemistry."
I believe a coat was called for.
Confusion sorted
It was Tony Galvin (ex Spurs winger) who had a degree in Russian wasn't it?
Inevitably
nicknamed Prof - which is the fate of any footballer who can brandish more than one GCSE
Barry Horne, has a PHD. Very
Barry Horne, has a PHD. Very clever bloke who sounds quite thick, a bit like Brian Moore.
More 'Profs'
Slaven Bilic (law) and Steve Coppell (economics) also hold degrees.
Ah, Stevie Coppell...
full time decent bloke and management genius (well Man City fans might disagree...) aswell as a nifty winger too!
Tom Lehrer
Singer-songwriter and mathematician
Brix Smith
Guitar player, and fashionistahhh!
Michael Palin
Beyond his obvious talents as a hyphenate: actor-writer-producer, he managed to forge a new career and identity after the gang hung up their dead parrot. Comedic character actor/performer versus travelling presenter and diarist.
Although
(1) I would live him to do something hugely funny again
(2) He's responsible for all those sub-par post-Palin travelshows, eg Paul Merton Goes to SW4.
Julian Cope
Musician, Druid, mind expanding substance tester, Author and "professor" of Neolithic Stone Circles and general hippyness.