Before becoming the studio host for The NFL on NBC in 1984, Costas did play-by-play of NFL games with analyst Bob Trumpy.

Before use, hanks are wound into balls in which the yarn emerges from the center, making crocheting easier by preventing the yarn from becoming easily tangled.

Before becoming public, the movement was secretive and held closed meetings in what was known as Sessions of Wisdom.

Before becoming member a party needs to have been observer of the EFA for at least one year.

Before becoming president, Madero published another book, this one under the pseudonym of Bhima ( one of Arjuna's brothers in the Mahābhārata ) called a Spiritualist Manual.

Before he dies, Heracles throws Lichas into the sea, thinking he was the one who poisoned him ( according to several versions, Lichas turns to stone, becoming a rock standing in the sea, named for him ).

Before becoming a full-time actor, Spader held a variety of jobs including being a yoga instructor, busboy, truck driver, stable boy, and railroad-car loader.

Before becoming the UN Ambassador he was the Attorney General of Missouri and United States Senator from Missouri.

Before knitting, the knitter will typically transform a hank into a ball where the yarn emerges from the center of the ball ; this making the knitting easier by preventing the yarn from becoming easily tangled.

Before becoming a manga artist, Asamiya graduated from the Tokyo Designer School, then worked as a character designer for a number of anime series, and even designed models for some of the later Godzilla films ( 1980s ).

Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U. S. Navy and served in the Korean War.

Before becoming Pope, he spent time at the then very liberal and cosmopolitan University of Padua, which maintained considerable independence from the Church and had a very international character.

In the episode " Before and After ", Kes participates in Voyager's year-long battle with the Krenim, becoming infected with particles from a chronoton torpedo.

Before becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels.

Before becoming President, Taft was selected to serve on the Ohio Superior Court in 1887.

Before becoming a Christian, he was an orator, " pleader in the courts ", and a teacher of rhetoric.

Before entering politics, he had been a classical scholar, becoming a full Professor of Ancient Greek at the age of 25.

Before becoming a polka artist, and founding Chicago-based Bel-Aire Records in 1963, Eddie Blazonczyk recorded under the name Eddy Bell for Mercury Records and Lucky Four Records, both labels also based in Chicago.

Before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a cavalry rider in Mexico, and a documentary filmmaker during World War II.

Before becoming king he was 4th Duke of York, 7th Earl of March, 5th Earl of Cambridge and 9th Earl of Ulster.

Before becoming an actor, Milland served in the Household Cavalry.

Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education.

Before becoming a Roman deacon, Hormisdas was married, and his son became pope under the name of Silverius.

Before becoming king, Harald spent a period in exile as a military commander in Kievan Rus ' and in the Byzantine Empire.

Before he was forced abroad for political reasons, director Jules Dassin made two classic noirs that also straddled the major / independent line: Brute Force ( 1947 ) and the influential documentary-style The Naked City were developed by producer Mark Hellinger, who had an " inside / outside " contract with Universal similar to Wanger's.

Before the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act was passed in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the FBI director would directly brief the President of the United States on any issues that arise from within the FBI.

Before leaving Hollywood for Europe in 1952, following the problematic production The Crimson Pirate for Warner Bros., his third and last film with Burt Lancaster, Siodmak had directed some of the era's best film noirs, more than any other director who worked in that genre, twelve in all.

For the second pilot, " Where No Man Has Gone Before " ( 1966 ), Roddenberry accepted director James Goldstone's decision to have Paul Fix play Dr. Mark Piper.

Before Irving Leonard died, he and Eastwood had discussed the idea of Malpaso producing Play Misty for Me, a film that was to give Eastwood the artistic control he desired, and his debut as a director.

Before he began his writing career he worked as an illustrator in New York and, in 1960, as an art director in a London advertising agency.

* Henry Selick ( 1952 – ) American director and animator: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline

Before The Search for Spock was released, its director Leonard Nimoy was asked to return to direct the next film in the franchise.

* Henry Selick ( born 1952 ), stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing both The Nightmare Before Christmas, and James and the Giant Peach.

* Henry Selick ( born 1952 ), stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline.

Delpy may be best-known internationally for her co-starring role with Ethan Hawke in director Richard Linklater's 1995 film Before Sunrise, for which she has stated she wrote a lot of her own dialogue uncredited.

Before retirement he became a professor of psychiatry at New York University, a senior psychiatrist in the New York City Department of Hospitals, and a psychiatrist and the director of the Mental Hygiene Clinic at the Bellevue Hospital Center.

Before casting him as King Théoden, director Peter Jackson considered Hill for the part of Gandalf.

" Before long, Buñuel was working for Epstein as an assistant director on Mauprat ( 1926 ) and La chute de la maison Usher ( 1928 ), and also for Mario Nalpas on La Sirène des Tropiques ( 1927 ), starring Josephine Baker.

Before entering Parliament he worked for N M Rothschild & Sons, the investment bank, and became director of Rothschild Asset Management.

Before delivering a keynote speech, Marko is approached by a film director who inquires whether he would allow Natalija to play a role in the film based on his own memoirs.

Before the camera stabilizing system, a director had two choices for moving ( or " tracking ") shots:

Before The Crystal Method was formed, Ken and Scott started working on music while working at the grocery store and while Ken was a local DJ in Las Vegas as well as the college radio program director at UNLV.

Before becoming a full-time legislator, he worked in various positions, including at the Minntac taconite plant, as a logger and a naturalist at the Ironworld Discovery Center in Chisholm, Minnesota, and as an assistant director at Giants Ridge Ski Area.

Before shooting began, William Bendix replaced actor Murray Alper when Alper became ill, and after two weeks of shooting, director of photography Arthur Miller was replaced by Glen MacWilliams because of illness.

Before becoming a public official, Achtenberg worked for more than 15 years as a civil rights attorney, nonprofit director and legal educator.

") Before long, she became fashion editor, collaborating with photographers Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Richard Avedon and, later, art director Henry Wolf.

Before taking up journalism, Bonner worked as a staff attorney with Ralph Nader's Public Citizen Litigation Group, as the director of the West Coast office of Consumers Union, and as director of the consumer fraud / white collar crime unit of the San Francisco District Attorney's office.