Or how about this fellow who has an undergraduate degree in Chemistry, a PhD in law, and was an Olympic swimmer but is best known for his movies where he gets into fights with other guys (pretty much everybody in my age bracket in Germany and some other European countries knows him).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Spencer

Edit: He is also a jet pilot, helicopter pilot, holder of multiple patents, and a startup founder with a successful exit as Wikipedia shows! :)

I also say, 'Wow'. Pretty much everyone in Australia in my age bracket knows him too. Funny that Terrence Hill was always cast as the smart guy and Bud as the dumb companion.

I'm lost for words.

Kind of ironic to be so gifted in so many areas, and yet be famous for something you're not even good at.

One bad movie pays more than a year in the lab.

That's not fair, he has been in tons of bad movies!

Directs some of them, too.

And that none of the above information appears in the wikipedia page...

Edit: I just can't read... it's there as mentioned below.

It's all in the third paragraph of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_lundgren#Early_life. Here is a permalink in case of future edits to the version I am viewing: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dolph_Lundgren&...

I don't know, he was pretty good at pretending to be a Russian boxer.

Oh, you mean acting.

You forgot "European karate champion". My favorite Dolph story is that he put Stallone in the ICU for 8 days:

> Sylvester Stallone has stated that the original punching scenes filmed between him and Dolph Lundgren in the first portion of the fight are completely authentic. Stallone wanted to capture a realistic scene and Lundgren agreed that they would engage in legitimate sparring. One particularly forceful Lundgren punch to Stallone's chest slammed his heart against his breastbone, causing the heart to swell and his breathing to become labored. Stallone, suffering from labored breathing and a blood pressure over 200, was flown from the set in Canada to St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica and was forced into intensive care for eight days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_IV

Man people like this make me feel so inadequate.