What are examples of showbiz has-beens moving on to non-showbiz careers?

didnt,Spacey Cis Check move on from acting?

Helen Lawson became the sheriff of a small town in Alabama in 1981.

Hayden Christensen is a farmer now, I think.

The fat midget chick from Hairspray is now a hairstylist

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Drew Roy who played Connor Jessup's older brother on Falling Skies runs a restaurant with his wife

I'm making a fortune selling vagine scented candles.

Helen Reddy became a hypnotherapist. Pamela Stephenson became a psychologist.

Jessica Alba has her frau baby products brand.

I thought Rex Smith went into real estate.

It's the X-rays that got small!

Michael Schoeffling from Sixteen Candles and Mermaids is now a carpenter.

Matt Keeslar from The Last Days Of Disco, Urbania, Dune etc is now a nurse type person.

Bobby Sherman became an EMT

Ken Osmond became a police officer

Antonio Sabato Jr is now working in construction

It was reported in 2008 that Marlon Jackson was broke and stocking shelves at a Vons market in San Diego.

OP is one of those "I get a quarter per thread" traffic stimulators.

John Kerr, (Tea and Sympathy, South Pacific)

Chad Allen (TV)

Melania Mercouri (Never on Sunday)

Bobby Sherman (Teen idol, Here Come the Brides)

Michael McGuire (Les Miserables)

Matt Cavenaugh left Broadway for the business world.

Don "A Chorus Line" Correia now works in real estate/flips houses.

R11, Rex Smith went into numerous venues.

David Lee Roth became a paramedic, at least for a while.

Jamie Walters (Ray Pruitt from the original BH90210) is a paramedic/firefighter in LA.

Sylvia is now a life coach, whatever the fuck that is.

Veronica Lake was a housekeeper at the Martha Washington Hotel in New York.

Nancy Allen became executive director of a breast cancer advocacy non-profit after DL fave Wendie Jo Sperber succumbed to the illness.

[quote]Helen Lawson became the sheriff of a small town in Alabama in 1981.

Who are you fags callin' a has-been?

The other Sprouse twin (Dylan?) is a hipster making mead in Brooklyn.

Lorenzo Lamas is now a private helicopter pilot. He spoke out after the helicopter with Kobe crashed earlier this year and said something to the effect of he used to work for that company and they didn't maintain the helicopters well.

The actress who played Cindy Walsh has been a family therapist for some time. She showed up on 'BH90210' series last summer playing herself, as a therapist for the actors doing the reunion.

I feel like plenty of actor types transition into real estate, but I can't think of any off the top of my head.

No mention of me? You bitches are slipping.

Tori Spelling will pretty much shill for anything as long as she gets $5 and a bag of chips. The chips are for her kids, of course.

Gopher from 'The Love Boat' became a politician, as did the butch girl from 'Dobie Gillis'.

Joe Dallesandro has been an apartment handyman for years.

We just don't have the proper phrase for extreme, super-duper has-been Con.

-Staci Keanan (My Two Dads, Step by Step, Lisa) is now a lawyer.

-So is former child actor Charlie Korsmo (Men Don't Leave).

-As it Jackie Fox of The Runaways.

-Leila Kenzle (Mad About You) is a therapist.

-So is Gwynne Gilford (Satan's School for Girls, Chris Pine's mom).

-Michael C. Maronna (Big Pete from The Adventures of Pete and Pete) is an electrician.

Sonny Bono

R28 DL fave Michael Bergin is in real estate as is former high fashion model Trish Goff.

"Lorenzo Lamas is now a private helicopter pilot. He spoke out after the helicopter with Kobe crashed earlier this year and said something to the effect of he used to work for that company and they didn't maintain the helicopters well."

He also highly praised the pilot's abilities.

R34, Can you imagine how often he's asked about Carolyn Bessette?

Leland Palmer from "All that Jazz" became a rabbi!

Will Wheaton f "Star Trek" worked in IT and was "a total gamer geek" according to a friend who met him at a con, before going back into showbiz.

Angus Jones, the kid from "Two and a Half Men" is an event planner.

Danny Lloyd, the kid from "The Shining", is a professor of biology at a Kentucky community college.

Robert Krimmer (Rev. AndrrwCaroenter oltl) is an environmental law attorney).

Alex James of Blur makes artisanal cheeses. HIs bandmate Dave Rowntree is a politician.

Soap Queen and DL fave Marcy Walker is a youth minister.

DL favorite Constance McCashin (Knots Landing) is a therapist (and she's very nice, you cunts).

Sean Paul Lockhart AKA Brent Corrigan is a chemical engineer.

Ilan Mitchell-Smith - the cute guy (Wyatt) from Weird Science is now an English professor, and does lots of gaming events as well.

Ilan is a hot daddy now!!!

I hear Ann is picking up some hours down at the Piggly Wiggly!?

I thought Angus Jones was a major biblethumper and wanted to become a preacher or something??

Italian actress Elsa Martinelli did very well for herself away from acting. As early as 1961 she started purchasing apartment buildings in Paris and Rome.

By the time film roles dried up In the early 70s she became a successful interior designer in Rome.

Rhonda Shear was around in the 80's as a big-busted airhead blond who hosted the music video show "Up All Night", which was an MTV-like show. She also was in a few B/C movies back in the day. Now she has a lingerie line that is sold on one of the TV shopping channels - I've seen her garments on there for at least 15 years, so it must be a good moneymaker. I imagine she has made some coins on that, maybe millions.

Chris Owen (the ginger who played The Sherminator in the American Pie films) is/was a waiter at a sushi restaurant.

Chunk from Goonies is a lawyer.

Jonathan Knight (NKOTB) is a realtor in MASS.

Haviland Morris, Jake's party girlfriend in Sixteen Candles, is a realtor but she still acts occasionally.

This thread was made for soap actors. Most can't find other acting work other than bit parts after they end a contract run (or it is ended for them), especially now with only 4 soaps left.

Rick Hearst works in his family's restaurant in Atlanta. He recently did an interview with some of his former co-stars on one show and was missing a tooth.

Beth Ehlers works in public policy for the NJ state house.

Kurt McKinney is vice president of a home repair shop in his town of Pleasantville, NY.

Jonathan Gilbert (Willie Oleson from Little House on the Prairie and Sara and Melissa's brother) is a Stockbroker. He is estranged from his family for reasons unknown to Melissa as per her autobiography.

Matt Keeslar is no longer a nurse. He got his medical degree as an M.P.A.S., and he's now a physician's assistant (not quite the same thing as a nurse) and an instructor of urology at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland.

When Sir Daniel Day-Lewis has taken hiatuses from acting before, he worked as a cobbler--I'm not sure if he's doing it now that he;'s claimed he retired in 2017.

vice president of a home repair shop

Ellen DeGeneres became a big successful world-class cunt.

I worked with Michael McGuire. Great voice, total asshole. Not surprised he lost his performing career.

Henry Cavill is now in computer repairs.

[quote]Joe Dallesandro has been an apartment handyman for years.

Good LORD, can you imagine Joe being your handyman?

I’d be busting shit up left and right just to get him into my place.

My no-no place.

Joe actually managed the property. Not sure how much "handymanning" he did.

I have to be a bitch and say that one of my favorite tv episodes was South Park and JLo ended up working at a taco joint.

Corey Haim is pushing up daisies.

[R61] Joe is dumb as a bag of rocks and being an apartment manager/handyman is a decided step up from his previous career as a hustler/dope fiend who appeared in unwatchable Paul Morrissey dreck.

Dearest Glenn left acting years ago. No one is quite sure what she's been up to since.

I saw Haviland Morris in a SATC rerun I watched the other night. It was an earlier season and I kept looking at the actress thinking "I know her". It took awhile to place her and I had just watched Sixteen Candles again a few nights earlier.

The kid who played Charlie in the original WIllie Wonka movie (Peter Ostrum) is a veterinarian.

Didn't the guy who played Mr. Bingley in BBC's 90's version of Pride and Prejudice become a teacher? Bit of trivia, he's supposedly extremely well endowed as they were constantly trying to hide his junk in those tight fitting Regency britches.

Yes -Crispin Bonham-Carter ^^^

[quote]Matt Keeslar is...an instructor of urology

*faints*

Already discussed heavily on here, but Danny Pintauro is a vet tech in Austin. I'm wondering if he'll be a part of the Who's the Boss reboot?

[quote] Matt Keeslar is no longer a nurse. He got his medical degree as an M.P.A.S., and he's now a physician's assistant (not quite the same thing as a nurse)

He’s no longer a Carol Hathaway and is now a Jeannie Boulet.

Former Beefcake Sam Jones runs some security company.

Late 60s child actor Sheldon Golomb (Opie's friend Arnold) is a dentist in Colorado.

Frankie Munoz (Malcom in the Middle) started an olive oil company.

Peter Ostrum (the kid from Willie Wonka) is a veterinarian.

These are the smart ones who realized their Hollywood careers were over and went and did something else with their lives instead of embarrassing themselves, like so many washed-up actors do.

Kristy McNichol worked as an acting teacher in a private high school in LA.

Aimee Mann is a house cleaner in Portland

Aimee Mann is a house cleaner in Portland

Bruno Campos became a lawyer.

Bruno Campos became a lawyer.

the guy at r43 is cute as hell.

R81 R43 I was so in love with Wyatt when I was a little kid. Anytime Weird Science would come on, I would watch it. He was so damn cute, and now so hot!

Madonna is soon-to-be a ride at Disney World.

[quote] OP is one of those "I get a quarter per thread" traffic stimulators.

So we now have a Someone Somewhere Gets A Quarter A Thread troll?

Danielle Spencer (Dee from What's Happening?) is a veterinarian.

Danica McKellar from The Wonder Years is a mathematician and author.

The chick in OP's photo served us a pizza in Connecticut last week.

My favorite is Alakina Mann, who was in “The Others” as a child.

Alakina is an artist illustrator and intimacy coach (Pyschosexual Somatics Therapy Coach (PST))

Peter Weller has a Phd in Art History and another degree. I think he still does some acting and voiceover work.

Bruce Vilanch is an NFL referee.

Angela Lansbury is a part-time Zumba instructor.

Matt Lauer works at a Baskin-Robbins.

I saw Uma Thurman behind the counter at a taxidermy shop.

Carlo Massi/Ruggero Freddi is a college professor teaching mathematics

[quote] I was so in love with Wyatt when I was a little kid. Anytime Weird Science would come on, I would watch it. He was so damn cute, and now so hot!

I taped Weird Science off of HBO and when I was alone in the house I'd pop that tape in the VCR and hit slo-mo on the scene where Wyatt gets out of bed in bikini underwear that was halfway up his ass crack, and then I'd go to town.

In that pre-Internet world, you had to take what you could get when it came to beat-off material.

R91 You don’t know it, but we came home early once. So dad and I knew you did this.

Impossible. The whole house shook when the garage door opened.

Jessica Lange wanted to became a falconer. Poor crazy Jess.

Louise Brooks worked as a salesgirl at Saks Fifth Avenue.

I'm teaching kids about the love of Jesus.

- Marcy Walker

I produce shows for right wing television while praising the Lord.

- Ellen Wheeler

Lara Jill Miller from Gimme a Break did work as an attorney for awhile before focusing on voice work.

Jeff Baxter, a member of the Doobie Brothers, has been a successful consultant for the US defense/ intelligence departments. As far away from rock star as one can get.

Dino Martin of Dino, Desi & Billy became an Air Force pilot. Didn’t end well.

The guy who played Blue Boy from the infamous LSD episode of Dragnet became a college professor of history.

[quote] Jeff Baxter, a member of the Doobie Brothers, has been a successful consultant for the US defense/ intelligence departments. As far away from rock star as one can get.

He’s a rightwinger.

Jill Townsend, who played Elizabeth Poldark in the 1970s production, went to the London School of Economics & wrote a financial column for the Daily Mail, then moved back to the US & became a “council trainer & facilitator” alternative school in California, then a “spiritual healer.” I remember reading an interview where she said she got permission to build a house & live in a national park in California.

Robin Ellis, the 1970s Star of Poldark moved to France with his American wife & became a cookbook author.

Connie Booth, Rx-wife of John Cleese who played the waitress Polly on Fawlty Towers married Cowardly Lion Bert Lahr’s son John (former drama critic of the New Yorker) and became a psychotherapist.

Btw, Townsend, Ellis & Booth all came from wealthy families. I doubt they worried about having to sell toilets or become a school cafeteria worker for a living after their careers ended.

‘Fast Times’ bikini babe Phoebe Cates runs a ritzy children’s toy shop on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

One-hit wonder (“Hold on”) and occasional 90210 actor Jamie Walters became a fireman.

Gary Coleman was working as a parking lot security guard at Home Depot before he died.

Tito Jackson bags groceries or pumps gas, can’t remember which.

The last queen consort of Romania (Queen Anne) was working at Macy’s Herald Square for a bit, on the sales floor. Then continued her exile in Europe where she died

[quote] He got his medical degree as an M.P.A.S., and he's now a physician's assistant

That’s not a medical degree. It’s a degree in health sciences.

Wayne Rogers (Trapper John - MASH) left acting to become a successful money manager.

Danielle Spencer from "What's Happening" is a vet, although she still acts sometimes.

Sean Six, who played Buck on Alien Nation, left acting and, ISTR, was working as an E.M.T.

Meghan Markle is duchess and social influencer of the highest order.

McKeller is still acting. She's part of the Hallmark stable.

Claudia Lamb, who played Heather Hartman on 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman', was a radio journalist for many years. She left it when Clear Radio or Clear Channel (I don't recall what they were called, some conglomerate) destroyed the industry, and is now retired and occasionally posts on her blog.

Remember the great old story about Barbara Harris working at a perfume counter in Chicago until someone recognized her and she ran out of the store screaming?

R83 except Madonna is worth between $700-$1.1 BILLION dollars, if she didn't tour or release anything like this year, she still makes millions a year

She's more wealthy than any woman in music history

R112 Nope, never heard it.

Janet Jackson works as a model for bad plastic surgery, she trots around from one plastic surgery office to the next to show what COULD go wrong to potential patients

Gene Tierney worked behind a perfume counter at a department store when she was getting psychiatric help after her big breakdown, and that became the basis for the Bette Davis movie The Star.

Quinn Cummings, the child actress from "Family" and "the Goodbye Girl," has worked in casting, and she also invented a kind of infant carrier for moms and dads.

Gene Tierney was so fucked up.

Susan Richardson, welfare recipient.

Jaime Foxworth. She really made a successful transition from child actress to adult film star...teeheehee.

Glenda Jackson becoming a politician.

Bill Cosby makes license plates at a Pennsylvania prison.

Kirstie Alley left a long, distinguished acting career to become a real cunt.

[quote]Tito Jackson bags groceries or pumps gas, can’t remember which.

Are you sure he doesn't park cars too?

Jessica Harper ([italic]Suspiria[/italic]) still acts occasionally but also became a food blogger and cookbook author.

Alberta Hunter was a jazz singer from the 1920s through 1950s before becoming a nurse and working for 20 more years, finally retiring at age 82. Her employers forced her out thinking she was 70. She had lied about her age to get into nursing school. She returned to show biz and I saw her perform at age 83 in a Greenwich Village club in 1977. She was fabulous.

Alberta Singing after returning to show biz. Here she is singing My Handy Man.

Chris Stafford, who was the lead in the gay film Edge of Seventeen, left acting shortly after and went to law school. He practices law in Florida.

If you want to see Ilan Mitchell-Smith at his hottest, find a terrible movie he did for Melvin Van Peebles in the late 80s called Identity Crisis. He's frequently nude in it and was surprisingly (and deliciously) furry.

R99 MIchael Burns played Benjy Carver aka "Blue Boy".

Jennifer Jones founded the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation For Mental Health and Education, which she ran until 2003. She was also director Norton Simon Museum until 2003 and supervised a major renovation by architect Frank Gehry.

Jean Arthur taught acting at Vassar.

Dana Plato robbing a video store.

Weird Science - Wyatt's panties.

Dolores Hart became a nun.

Gladys Knight - Chicken and waffle restauranteur

Gene Barry owned a small chain of one hour photo shops.

R133 Yes! Delores became a nun AFTER kissing Elvis!

[quote]Claudia Lamb, who played Heather Hartman on 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman', was a radio journalist for many years. She left it when Clear Radio or Clear Channel (I don't recall what they were called, some conglomerate) destroyed the industry, and is now retired and occasionally posts on her blog.

Claudia also is on Twitter and posts frequently, as does 90-year-old Mamie Van Doren. Both loathe Trump and are sharp as tacks.

My favorite example is Shelley Smith, the gorgeous model who was on a lot of 1980s shows but left Hollywood to become the founder of a fertility clinic. Her game show appearances ensured a lot of people earned a lot of money -- she was fast and brilliant.

Grace Kelley married a prince.

...and became a drunk.

How many gays express interest in a Michael Bergin or Rex Smith real estate listing just to meet them?

R136 She tells her story in the DL book fave Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women.

Paul Land started his own construction business.

Michael Tylo teaches at The University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Karen Allen owns a couture knitwear shop in Vermont.

R77 I don't get the Aimee Mann joke. Help me out, please?

Doris Day owned Cypress Inn in Carmel CA.

Dolores Hart became a nun.

Joan Crawford moved on to Pepsi Cola. For whatever can be said of her, she hawked Pepsi like her life depended on it.

Lots of showbiz types also move on to advocating for animals...Tippi Hedren, Stefanie Powers and William Holden, and it seems like Pamela Anderson at some point advocated for PETA before turning all her attention to Julian Assange.

R14, see "Portlandia". Inside joke/sketch.

Ann Miller had to pick up some hours as a grocery clerk, because Hollywood stopped making tap dancing pictures.

r146 Really? Who knew?

wow, that video at R149 is horribly unfunny

I find threads like this fascinating. One of the main actors from the soap “Santa Barbara” is a realtor here in Dallas. I forget his name.

Didn't Valerie Bertinelli become a chef and she ended up getting a cooking show out if it?

Also people like Oprah, Mccartney, Madonna, Streisand etc are empires and are so rich, that even if you consider them "has beens", they make millions of dollars every year just by breathing

Both Madonna and Oprah are on Forbes Richest Self Made Women list

R153, I accidentally stumbled upon Valerie's cooking show the other morning. I thought to myself, "It can't be that bad." It was by far the frau-iest thing I've ever watched. I'm talking frau-ier than Paula Deen, Barefoot Contessa, Rachael Ray, and Giada. Valerie is either playing herself on the cooking show (likely), or she knows who the target audience is and just goes with it. She--like many child actors/actress--seems to have a severe case of arrested development. Everything was, "yummers, delish, or--best yet--Let Me Have a Valerie Moment to Myself."

[quote]Paul Land started his own construction business.

Who?

[quote] Didn't Valerie Bertinelli become a chef and she ended up getting a cooking show out if it?

More like she had good TVQ and she got a cooking show out of it. Valerie probably can't boil water.

Boiling water is easy, boiling eggs not so easy.

Krista Errickson from Hello, Larry and Little Darlings became a reporter and journalist, and helped negotiate the release of a kidnapped Italian journalist from the Taliban.

Melissa Francis from Little House on the Prairie got an economics degree from Harvard and is a business commentator on Fox.

Crystal McKellar from the Wonder Years went to Yale and then Harvard Law, was an associate at Morrison & Foerster at one point, and most recently founded a venture capital firm.

Valerie was probably uber wealthy before the cooking thing fell in her fat lap. She got 50% of Eddie Van Halen’s money, after all. Plus she was a working actress from her early teens until her 30s, she probably doesn’t need the money, just wants the attention.

She was a working actress up til about 8 years ago. She had Hot in Cleveland for several years. Hosting cooking shows on the Food Network is not a non-showbiz career. She's basically become a game show host.

true, she basically is still performing. I think that’s why in some ways her cooking program is a hit. she grew up in from the camera so she knows how to take direction, she doesn’t need to know how to cook she just needs to know how to rehearse.

She doesn't just have a cooking show, she and Duff Goldman co-host the Kids Baking Championship on FN too.

R68 Crispin Bonham-Carter.....................nice package

[quote] Valerie probably can't boil water.

Based on her show and some of the recipes I've tried, she's an excellent cook. And her repertoire is MUCH more adventurous than Trisha Yearwood's or Ree Drummond's.

Honey, who do you think actually writes those books? Some ghost chef/baker. Valerie is the face that sells them.

[quote] She doesn't just have a cooking show, she and Duff Goldman co-host the Kids Baking Championship on FN too.

As I said- she's a game show host.

Richard Coles, one half of the 80s group The Communards, is now an Anglican priest.

It was OK for punks to slag off uber-punk Jimmy Somerville and 'The Communards' in the 80s but police will now investigate you for being nasty towards a public figure

The kid from Dick Tracy, Charlie Korsmo, is a law professor.

It's especially heartening to see child actors make something of themselves rather than descend into drug abuse or worse.

It is r169. The smart ones know that they'll never have an acting career as an adult so they go do something else with their lives.

Shame Korsmo is a republicunt. I love Can't Hardly Wait, and one of the minor characters lives in my neighborhood.

The McKellar sisters are extraordinarily accomplished.

Former child actress Lucy Deakins is now a lawyer in Colorado

Marshall Colt, who played Bobby Slade in Jagged Edge and had an ill-fated pilot in the 80’s called Lottery, is now a psychologist and executive coach in San Diego.

Yes My preteen self had a thing for him.

I think Val said she comes from a family of restaurant owners, if i’m not mistaken.

r175 Val Bertinelli? No. Her father was a GM executive.

R125 -- Jessica Harper married one of the evil studio barons -- Tommy Rothman -- so she hardly has to work at all. She packed up her things and moved to Beverly. Hills, that is.

Mayim Bialik (Blossom) became a neuroscientist. But then after a decade or so, she went back to acting. It pays better, I guess.

Jolene Blalock (Star Trek: Enterprise) married the CEO of Live Nation and has never had to work another day in her life.

R143 - do you read your own links? The text mentions Great Barrington Massachusetts and the Berkshires elentyleven times! Which are not Vermont.

Vanilla Ice is actually a somewhat successful real estate developer.

What are examples of OP trolling to mine examples of people who have perceived to have "fallen" professionally?

At the very top of this thread.

People can excel in more than one profession in a lifetime. Sony booboo became a politician, mayor, and senator.

I don’t know if Vanilla Ice was a real estate developer in the traditional sense. He was buying shitty foreclosures and fixing them up and flipping them, and had a reality show while doing it. But who knows if that was all staged or not, or if he’s still doing it.

[quote]People can excel in more than one profession in a lifetime. Sony booboo became a politician, mayor, and senator.

He was never as senator.

As if.

I like seeing people who can read the handwriting on the wall when their show biz career falters or goes down the drain who follow a different path.

Maybe they just try acting for a while and decide they want a different kind of life.

Good for them.

Shows good mental health and I wish them well.

So much better than those sad stores about people, particularly about kid actors who were stars on a TV show who kept hoping that lightning would strike twice and that their grown up selves would shine once again.

Rusty Hamer comes to mind.

I read DL fave Luke McFarlane works as a carpenter now between starring on Hallmark Christmas movies. I guess when those jobs eventually dry up he will be a full time carpenter.

DL fave Luke Pegler has some sort of rustic glamping catering thing going on. He has an Instagram page called “Pegs Kitchen. I think that he does this between acting gigs. Balding, but still adorable.

[quote]wow, that video at [R149] is horribly unfunny

R151 Wow, the one person who doesn't think Punchy Players videos are funny.

Kate Pierson of the B-52s runs a small rural resort somewhere, the gimmick is that everything is furnished with actual mid century pieces. So I guess she has this to fall back on when she’s too fat and tired to perform, which is less and less frequent now.

Former Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar runs a tequila distillery and restaurant and I think sells hot sauces.

Al Franken. Sheila Kuehl (Zelda, from Dobie Gillis), actor/dancer George Murphy (became GOP Senator from CA), Gopher from The Love Boat - went into politics.

I worked at a dry cleaners and it was wonderful to be around real people!

R189 I adore the Punchy Players

Matthew and Mitchell Laurance, the identical twins who were all over TV in the late '80s and early '90s, pulled the plug and moved to South Carolina with their wives. One of them is a sportscaster now.

Helen Lawson runs a sex toy shop on Christopher Street. She even designed a double ended dildo she calls the “Wham, Bam BAM”!

Danielle Dax became a garden designer

R196 interesting, and unexpected.

She’s a fascinating artist and musician. I adore BLAST THE HUMAN FLOWER. Wonder what her gardens are like?

Jason Mraz has been a full time farmer for years.

Janice Rule became a psychotherapist.

3/5 of *NSYNC now do something unrelated to performing arts.

Joey is a tv host, contestant, and guest. Lance produces docudramas, and has side-hustle gimmicks for social events & gatherings. Chris...well, I don’t know what he does - probably pro dumpster-diving.

We lost the beauty of Steve/Max Sandvoss to organic goat dairy farming.

Speaking of farmers Emilio Estevez is or was an organic farmer and grape...grower of whatever it is. Though not a has been, still a writer and director.

Cyndi Lauper does commercials bfor psoriasis

R199 so did DL fave Constance McCashin...

June Allyson - Depends

The Donna Murphy stan who calls everyone a racist on here (and worse) said he won a Tony.

Not sure what he's doing now. From the erratic tone of his posts, I'd say drugs!

R189 I think the Punchy Players are talent free, there are many of us who can't stand them.

Michael Jackson became a pedophile.

R208 wins the thread

Jessica Alba is now a businesswoman. Gave up making crappy films. Now makes crappy products. For fraus.

Chris Fitzpatrick is retired and lives in a beautiful gated community in Florida, he’s passionate about playing golf.

Not everyone who makes a pot of gold wants to stay in the limelight and live large. Some people take the money and run. I’d LOVE to have been retired in my 40s.

WTF is Jill Whalen doing?

Mitchell Anderson, best known for playing Ross, Claudia’s gay violin teacher on PARTY OF FIVE, left acting in 2002 to become a chef. Anderson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his partner of many years Richie Arpino, and owns a restaurant called MetroFresh. He returned to acting after a 15-year absence to appear in the digital drama AFTER FOREVER a with Kevin Spirtas.

I really find this thread kind of fascinating. Not in a bitchy, let me shit on people who made more money than be at one point, but in human behavior.

Quite a few of these examples made really good money at the time. Some just left acting for more "regular" careers like lan Mitchell-Smith at R43. It was a one time break out, and he looks like he saw that acting may not be a full time gig.

Geoffrey Owens at R6 though.. I would have thought he would have made a substantial amount of money on the Cosby Show over the years, but maybe not. I know agent fees, taxes, etc. can take their toll. I certainly don't piss on him like some here for working a regular job. It is what 99.9% of us do every day.

I just wonder if it was bad planning? Did he piss away his money (Armie Hammer style)? You see the same scenario with athletes a lot, and it is almost always piss poor planning/outlandish spending.

MC Hammer style, not Armie Hammer.

I'm drunk.

"Cyndi Lauper does commercials bfor psoriasis"

That's kinda showbiz... isn't it?

Jill Whalen!!

Do you mean Jill WHELAN?

Arch Hall Jr.

After appearing in his last film in 1965, Hall became an airline pilot (his father had flown with the Army Air Force during the Second World War). In 1967 he went to work for cargo carrier Flying Tiger Airlines as an apprentice co-pilot on the L-1049H, and eventually became a captain flying the Boeing 747. In 1989, Flying Tiger was purchased by FedEx and Hall flew the DC-10 until he retired in 2003. He later flew for a private company with businesses in the U.S. and Japan.

Hall wrote the novel Apsara Jet, which was published in 2001 under the pen name Nicolas Merriweather (a name often used by his father). The book draws on Hall's knowledge of both commercial airlines and Southeast Asia in telling the story of a Vietnam War vet who gets involved in the illegal drug trade.

Peter Ostrum is a vet, after winning that golden ticket.

[quote]Danica McKellar from The Wonder Years is a mathematician and author.

She's also done a ton of Hallmark Christmas movies, and has a new one out this month.

[quote] MC Hammer style, not Armie Hammer.

Thank god you corrected that. The last thing we need is a trigger for another Armie Hammer thread.

Are MC and Armie Hammer related?

Yes.

The set up Arm & Hammer together.

The late Wayne Rogers from MASH and HOUSE CALLS gave up acting for business.

I read on DL that has-been (and eldergay icon) Barbara Streisand now runs some tacky mall. In the basement of her house.

Tracie Spencer: Had her first hit, [italic]Symptoms of True Love[/italic] in the late eighties; had several minor hits on the R&B and Pop charts. Let the record industry in 1999 or 2000, got her degree as a music teacher, married a Danish record producer (unconfirmed) and changed her last name. She really wanted to get away from show business.

[quote] Helen Lawson became the sheriff of a small town in Alabama in 1981.

That's only after Universal canceled plans to have her play Mrs. Buford T. Justice in [italic]Smokey and The Bandit Part III[/italic] when she told Jackie Gleason "lose the love handles, fatso."

[quote] DL favorite Constance McCashin (Knots Landing) is a therapist (and she's very nice, you cunts).

She's been wonderful to the snack food industry!

I'm more interested in the ones who left show biz because they didn't like it.

[quote]Geoffrey Owens at [R6] though.. I would have thought he would have made a substantial amount of money on the Cosby Show over the years, but maybe not. I know agent fees, taxes, etc. can take their toll. I certainly don't piss on him like some here for working a regular job. It is what 99.9% of us do every day.

The agent fees and taxes do take a toll on an actor's income. Another thing is that residuals from syndication reduce over time.

R116, “The Star”, with Bette Davis, was released in 1952. Gene Tierney was still working, as an actress, for 20th Century Fox. She was still starring in feature films.

In 1955, she entered a psychiatric facility. She didn’t fully recover until the late 1950s. At that time, she worked as salesperson in a woman’s clothing store. She was hospitalized for nearly five years. The job was therapeutic, to acclimate her to society.

Frances Farmer was released from HER five years in the state loony bin and got a job working in a motel in Indiana. Someone noticed her and they wrote a newspaper story, which led to her getting a deal with a CBS affiliate in Indiana hosting a daily show, she held onto the gig for about 10 years and then became artist in residence at the theater department of some college before succumbing to cancer. Not bad for someone who never intended to work as an actress ever again, and who was happy enough folding laundry and answering phones at a motel.

The late Dana Plato working at a dry cleaners.

Cary Guffey (Close Encounters) lives near me and I see him around sometimes. He's a CPD/Banker type

R233, Frances also had a couple of husbands during those years.

Alfred Lobley

​(m. 1954; div. 1958)​

Leland Mikesell

​(m. 1958; div. 1963)

[quote]I'm more interested in the ones who left show biz because they didn't like it.

Stephen Hill (Adam Schiff on Law & Order) left showbiz in the 60s because he was an observant Jew and had trouble observing the Sabbath because of shooting schedules. He worked in real estate for years, returning to acting in the 70s.

Paul Lynde was a self/made urologist specialist in Guatemalan foreskin before things went terribly awry.

Dana Plato became a glass blower.

A crack glass blower.

Michael St. Gerard (Elvis: the Early years, Hairspray) became a youth pastor.

Michael Schoeffling (Sixteen Candles, Mermaids) became a carpenter

Daniel Day-Lewis often works as a cobbler in Italy when he has long periods of having retired from acting.

Janine Turner (Northern Exposure) is what you might call a sort of practical nurse to wealthy elderly gentlemen.

And the winner is . . .

Shit, Steve/Max Sandvoss is still hot. I would love to play with him on his sheep farm.

Jenette Goldstein from Aliens, Near Dark, and Terminator 2, now designs and sells a collection of bras for larger women.

I met her at a con (my friend's a huge Cameron fan) and she was so sweet. I told her how I love the scene where she killed Xander Berkeley's character in T2 and she just giggled.

Phoebe Cates owns a shop on the UWS and Freddie Prinze Jr is a chef. Geoffrey Owens is an accomplished stage actor and works at TJs between jobs. Many actors works as salespeople, servers and office temps between gigs. It’s not unusual.

Alan Autry, who played Bubba on [italic]In the Heat of the Night[/italic], became mayor of Fresno in the early aughts.