Lynch had become interested in painting and drawing from an early age, becoming intrigued by the idea of pursuing it as a career path when living in Virginia, where his friend's father was a professional painter.

His father Carmine, a composer and professional musician, co-wrote much of the music in The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now.

His father was a lawyer and his uncle was a doctor, and many other of his family members maintained professional degrees.

His father, Daniel Levitch, was a Master of Ceremonies and vaudeville entertainer who used the professional name Danny Lewis, His mother, Rachel (" Rae ") Levitch ( Brodsky ), was a piano player for a radio station.

Whale's last professional engagement was directing Pagan in the Parlour, a farce about two New England spinster sisters who are visited by a Polynesian whom their father, when shipwrecked years earlier, had married.

His mother, a devout Catholic from Corscia, was once a professional singer, while his father, an assimilated Jew who had converted to Protestantism, ran a successful wine-export business.

Therefore, like his father and his brothers, Grace chose a professional career in medicine, though because of his cricketing commitments he did not complete his qualification as a doctor until 1879 when he was 31 years old.

Casta's father said she went to London for professional reasons ; on a TV show, she also said that she rented a flat in London to be near her boyfriend.

Emilio Estévez and his sister Renee chose not to take their father Martin Sheen ’ s professional name and use their birth names ; however, their brother Carlos chose to use their father's professional name, and took the name Charlie Sheen.

Overcoming opposition from his clergyman father, Waller became a professional pianist at 15, working in cabarets and theaters.

He was one of four Bach children to become a professional musician ; all four were trained in music almost entirely by their father.

In an age of royal patronage, father and son alike knew that a university education helped prevent a professional musician from being treated as a servant.

* Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) an American professional wrestling promotion is founded by Jeff Jarrett and his father Jerry Jarrett.

He learned golf from his father, Milford ( Deacon ) Palmer who had suffered from Polio at a young age, and was head professional and greenskeeper at Latrobe Country Club, allowing young Arnold to accompany his father as he maintained the course.

In later interviews, McCormack listed five attributes that made Palmer especially marketable: his good looks ; his relatively modest background ( his father was a greenskeeper before rising to be club professional and Latrobe was a humble club ); the way he played golf, taking risks and wearing his emotions on his sleeve ; his involvement in a string of exciting finishes in early televised tournaments ; and his affability.

Since 1971 he has owned Latrobe Country Club, where his father used to be the club professional.

The video ran constantly on MTV and featured professional wrestling manager " Captain " Lou Albano as Lauper's father, and her real-life mother, Catrine, as her mother.

Mark Bakshi produced the film, This Ain't Bebop, his first professional collaboration with his father.

Since Escobar turned professional while he was still legally a minor, his father had to sign the unbinding agreement.

Bobby and Brett are the only father and son combination in any professional sport to both have their numbers retired.

* Charlie Berry ( 1860 – 1940 ), former professional baseball player, Union Association, and father of Charlie Berry.

Added to these professional troubles were the death of his father in June 1869, and the financial responsibility for his younger sisters resulting from it.

At the young age of 17, Boucher was apprenticed by his father to François Lemoyne, but after only three months he went to work for the engraver Jean-François Cars.

Pierre Brissaud ( 23 December 1885 – 1964 ) was a French Art Deco illustrator, painter, and engraver whose father was Docteur Edouard Brissaud.

In art, Myrrha's seduction of her father has been illustrated by German engraver Virgil Solis, her tree-metamorphosis by French engraver Bernard Picart and Italian painter Marcantonio Franceschini, while French engraver Gustave Doré chose to depict Myrrha in Hell as a part of his series of engravings for Dante's Divine Comedy.

His son Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi, born in 1757, was also an engraver, and the father of Madame Vestris.

He was the father of engraver Leonard Charles Wyon.

* February – Víctor Grippo, painter, engraver and sculptor, the father of conceptual art in Argentina ( b. 1936 )

The brother of William Bell Scott, he was born at Edinburgh, where he attended the Royal High School, and studied art under his father, Robert Scott, the engraver.

His father was an engraver, and his mother worked for the phone company.

His father was an engraver and landscape artist, and young Parrish's parents encouraged his talent.

His father was an engraver.

Born in Paris, his father, a poor engraver, sent him to study art under the painter David, but his own tastes were literary, and he became a student in the Collège de France, where it is said he used to exercise his already strongly developed critical faculty by correcting old translations of Greek authors and afterwards comparing the results with the latest and most approved editions.

With his wife Susan, Martin had six children who survived to adulthood: Alfred ( who worked with his father as a mezzotint engraver and later became a senior tax official ), Isabella, Zenobia ( who married the artist Peter Cunningham ), Leopold ( who became a clerk ), Charles ( who was trained as a painter by his father, copying a number of his father's works-he later became a successful portrait painter and lived in America-his last exhibit at the Royal Academy was in 1896 ) and Jessie ( who married egyptologist Joseph Bonomi ).

Hans Collaert ( c. 1525 / 1530 – 1580 ) was an early Flemish engraver, father of the engravers Jan Collaert II ( Antwerp 1561-1620 / 1628 ), who married Elisabeth Galle, and Adrian Collaert ( Antwerp c1555 / 65-1618 ) who married Justa Galle, both daughters of the engraver and publisher Philip Galle.

However, noticing his talent for art, his father secured an apprenticeship with the notable wood engraver, Ebenezer Landells, where he worked on illustrations for Punch magazine and the Illustrated London News.

He was apprenticed to his father, Thomas Wyon ( 1767 – 1830 ), the chief engraver of the King's seals, who taught him the art of engraving on steel ; subsequently he studied at the sculpture school of the Royal Academy in London, where he earned silver medals in both the antique and the life class.

Born in Salford Priors, he was placed by his father in a solicitor's office at Evesham, where he remained for two years ; but ultimately he decided, on his own responsibility, to abandon the legal profession and became a pupil of a line engraver at Worcester.

His son William ( 1656 – 1686 ), mezzotint engraver, at an early age gave promise of attaining great excellence, but became idle and dissipated, and involved his father in money difficulties.

John Raphael Smith ( 1752 – 2 March 1812 ) was an English painter and mezzotint engraver, son of Thomas Smith of Derby, the landscape painter, and father of John Rubens Smith, a painter who emigrated to the United States.

His father was against his becoming an artist, and he was first put to train in a business office ; then as a compromise he was allowed to train with copperplate engraver, Georg Hoffmann.

His father, James Smillie ( 1807 – 1885 ), a Scottish engraver, emigrated to New York in 1829, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, did much, with his brother William Cumming ( 1813 – 1908 ), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an excellent landscape-engraver.