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Post by spiderwort on Feb 6, 2020 1:20:05 GMT
This thread is specifically about actors/writers/directors - any film people - who leave the business and begin a whole new career. There may not be many contributions to be made to this, but I recently came across one in particular that interested me, so I'll start with that.
Actor Michael Burns, whom I remember best from Altman's film, The Cold Day in the Park (1969), had an acting career from his early teens in 1960 until 1977. In 1976 he graduated Phi Beta Kappa summa cum laude from UCLA with a B.A. in history, then obtained his Master's in European history there, and in 1977 entered Yale University where he received his Ph.D. in Modern European history.
He taught history at Mount Holyoke College from 1980 until 2001 and now is a professor Emeritus there. He's also the author of several scholarly volumes about French history.
Since 2002 he and his wife have lived in Danville, Kentucky, where they've restored the Cambus-Kenneth Estate, a crop, cattle, and thoroughbred horse farm listed on the National Register of Historic Places. He's a member of the Thoroughbred Club of America, Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders, and the Kentucky Cattlemen's Association.
I would say that that is quite a live well lived after nearly two decades in Hollywood.
Young teen actor
Young adult actor
Professor Emeritus
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 6, 2020 1:36:50 GMT
Great idea.
Michael Sacks starred or had major parts in The Sugarland Express, Slaughter House Five, Hanover Street, and The Amityville Horror. He left Hollywood for Wall Street.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 6, 2020 1:43:18 GMT
How about a return to a former occupation?
A relative of his said Niall MacGinnis (appeared in many films from the 40s-70s --Night of the demon, Jason and the Argonauts, the Kremlin Letter etc) went back to his earlier profession, a physician after retiring from acting.
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 6, 2020 1:56:56 GMT
Edward Clements had a major role in his debut in "Metropolitan" (1980). This netted him a "Promising Young Actor" mention in John Willis' Screen World volume for that year. The next year he appeared as Young Crewman in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country." Then nothing. Career over. He quit to go into religious work and is currently Associate Pastor for Ministry at Church on The Queensway in Toronto.
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Post by london777 on Feb 6, 2020 2:21:23 GMT
Great idea for a thread. I know I know I have come across two or three such cases recently but with my memory ...
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 6, 2020 2:40:29 GMT
Robinson Stone
Relatively short career. He played Joey .. the shell shocked soldier who played the ocarina in Stalag 17 and was in a few TV episodes. Under the name Robert Stone, he taught classes at Fordham University's College at Lincoln Center in New York City during the 1970s and 1980s. One of his students was Denzel Washington.
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Post by london777 on Feb 6, 2020 2:47:38 GMT
By the 50s, he turned to TV directing and producing working for an ad agency that promoted such shows as The Andy Griffith Show and many soap operas. With respect, PaulsLaugh, spider specified "who leave the business and begin a whole new career." If we include washed-up actors who turn to directing, producing, or teaching drama or film-making, we could fill twenty pages within a day. I recently read about one well-known actress who became a successful whore, though I am not sure that you could consider that "an entirely new career" from working in Hollywood. Several, like Shirley Temple, became politicians, but the same caveat applies.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 6, 2020 2:48:23 GMT
Richard Eyer"Born in Santa Monica, California, in 1945, Richard Eyer was the kid with the clean-cut, all-American look who won a number of "personality contests" and other competitions before he made his film debut in the early 1950s. Mainstream audiences may remember Eyer best as the youngster who runs "afowl" of the nipping goose in director William Wyler's Friendly Persuasion (1956), while sci-fi fans will recall that he had star billing and the title role in The Invisible Boy (1957), producer Nicholas Nayfack's independently-made follow-up to MGM's popular Forbidden Planet (1956). Eyer now lives in a small town East of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains and teaches elementary school."
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Post by london777 on Feb 6, 2020 13:03:53 GMT
Pardon me for living. I’ll delete it. Sorry. No offence intended. Keep on living and laughing!
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Post by delon on Feb 6, 2020 13:32:59 GMT
Ivan Jandl
He appeared in the 1948 film The Search as a nine-year-old Czechoslovak boy who had survived Auschwitz and was searching for his mother in post-war Germany. The movie was filmed on location in Germany and at a studio in Zurich, Switzerland, from June to November, 1947. The boy spoke no English and had to learn his lines phonetically. He was awarded an Academy Juvenile Award for his work, but was not permitted by the then communist government of Czechoslovakia to travel to the USA to accept it. Ivan couldn't attend the ceremony, so the Oscar was brought to him in Prague by some members of the academy. There he received many offers (films and contracts), but it was decided by the government that he was to be "preserved to be used by the Czech film industry," but ironically, he went on to make only 3 films: 1 in 1949, 1 in 1951, and 1 in 1955. After graduating from high school, Ivan wanted to study at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU), but he was told he should not have accepted an award from the American film industry and was thus turned down. He then changed careers many times, he worked in the Readers' Club, he was an art editor, bus line guide, a stage manager in a theater in Teplice, a radio announcer and a telephone technician. In 1987, Ivan died at the age of 50 of diabetic complications in his apartment in Prague.
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Post by teleadm on Feb 6, 2020 19:46:22 GMT
I was about to write about Enzo Staiola, the kid from Bicycle Thieves 1948, and that when he grew up to became a math teacher, but the subject is "Life after Hollywood". Well now you know anyway.
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Post by london777 on Feb 6, 2020 20:13:37 GMT
I was about to write about Enzo Staiola, the kid from Bicycle Thieves 1948, and that when he grew up to became a math teacher, but the subject is "Life after Hollywood". Well now you know anyway. Write about him, and be damned!
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Post by spiderwort on Feb 6, 2020 21:01:39 GMT
I was about to write about Enzo Staiola, the kid from Bicycle Thieves 1948, and that when he grew up to became a math teacher, but the subject is "Life after Hollywood". Well now you know anyway.
Tele, definitely write about anyone's life after after a career in film from any country! I'll adjust the thread title, if I can figure out how to say it right. I'm terribly interested in any stories like this from around the globe. And I love that the wonderful (young boy, as I know him) Enzo Staiola ended up leading such a useful and productive life.
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 6, 2020 21:05:54 GMT
At 10 years old, Carrie Henn made her only feature film appearance as Newt in "Aliens" (1986). She is married, has one child, and has been a school teacher in Northern California. She has recently surfaced and has been attending Comic Cons and the 2016 Aliens Cast Reunion. She expresses surprise that people want to know about her and what she has to say. Newt The 2016 Aliens Cast Reunion. Carrie is behind the alien in orange.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 6, 2020 21:18:12 GMT
Pamela Franklin I heard she quit acting at 30 and become a bookstore owner.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 6, 2020 21:34:07 GMT
Delores Hart Delores in King Creole
In 1963, Dolores Hart left Hollywood for good and became a nun. As the Rev. Mother Dolores Hart of the Benedictine order, she is prioress of the Roman Catholic abbey of Regina Laudis, in Bethlehem, Connecticut, USA. Holds the unique distinction of being the only nun to be a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She appeared in two movies with Elvis Presley: (When asked how she could go from kissing Elvis to becoming a nun): How much closer to Heaven can you get? [when asked what it was like to kiss Elvis Presley onscreen in Loving You] I think the limit for a screen kiss back then was something like 15 seconds. That one has lasted 40 years.
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 6, 2020 21:46:41 GMT
Brian Hutton directed Where Eagles Dare and Kelly's Heroes, then went into real estate.
Julie Newmar became a pantyhose entrepreneur and real estate investor, though she never entirely left show biz.
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 6, 2020 22:05:32 GMT
Didn't Ronald Reagan go into another line of work?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 6, 2020 22:08:03 GMT
Didn't Ronald Reagan go into another line of work? Sonny Bono and George Murphy too !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 6, 2020 22:19:38 GMT
and Fred Grandy from Love Boat too In 1986, he decided to run for Congressman as a Republican for the state of Iowa, and won. He received 3,000 votes. He served 4 consecutive terms (1986-1995). While in Congress, he was very much involved with Agriculture, Education, Workforce, Standards of Official Conduct, House Ways and Means. In 1994, he went ahead and entered the Governor's race but lost to his opponent, Terry Branstad. In 1995, he became both President and CEO for "Goodwill Industries", a position he held until 2000. Fred even became a political commentator on National Public Radio. He has also, as a guest, taught at the "University of Maryland" (School of Public Affairs) about non-profit organizations. Fred as "Gopher" Smith
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