Dolph Lundgren went from chemical engineering and an MIT-bound future to Ivan Drago, Hollywood fame, and decades of action movies. Here’s how the unlikely transformation happened behind one iconic career.

Ted Danson became a television legend as Sam Malone on Cheers, but his career was far from finished. From Becker to The Good Place, here’s how Danson kept reinventing himself for decades.

Nicholas Colasanto made Coach Ernie Pantusso the warm heart of Cheers, bringing humor, kindness, and unforgettable charm to the sitcom before his death in 1985.

For millions of TV viewers, Nanette Fabray will always be Katherine Romano, the funny, outspoken mother of Bonnie Franklin’s Ann Romano on One Day at a Time. But behind that incredible career were two absolutely terrifying moments when everything could have ended very differently. And when we say “inches,” we mean it.

Everyone remembers Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis. But they were only standing at the very top of an enormous 1980s action-movie pyramid. Below them was a whole army of ninja masters, muscle-bound warriors, martial artists and cable-TV legends whose faces once seemed impossible to escape. Seriously, how many of these actors do you remember?