alan thicke

Please improve this article if you can. (September 2006) Alan Thicke

Born March 1, 1947 (1947-03-01) (age 61)

Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada Occupation Actor, songwriter, game show host, and talk-show emcee Spouse(s) Gloria Loring (1970-1983)

Gina Tolleson (1994-1999)

Tanya Callau (2005-present)

Alan Thicke (born March 1, 1947) is a Canadian actor, songwriter, game show host and talk-show emcee. He is best known for his role as Jason Seaver, the patriarch on the ABC television series Growing Pains. Contents [hide] 1 Biography 1.1 Personal life 1.2 TV appearances 2 Music from game shows 3 Music from sitcoms 4 Books 5 References 6 External links //

Biography

Personal life

Thicke was born Alan Willis Jeffery in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, the son of Joan, a nurse, and William Jeffrey, a stockbroker.[1] His mother later re-married to Brian Thicke, a physician. He graduated from Elliot Lake Secondary School in 1965 as the homecoming king. He attended the University of Western Ontario, where he worked as a disc jockey. He is a member of the Delta Upsilon international fraternity. Alan is an avid hockey fan and player.

Thicke has been married three times. His first marriage to Days of our Lives actress, Gloria Loring, (1970 to 1983) produced two sons: Brennan and Robin Thicke. His second marriage to Miss World 1990 pageant winner, Gina Tolleson, (1992 to 1999) produce a third son – Carter Willam. He is currently married to Tanya Callau.[2] His son, Robin Thicke, is a platinum-selling musician and his son Brennan was a voice actor for cartoons when he was younger.

TV appearances

A clip of what appeared to be a Thicke-hosted Canadian game show from the early '70s, Face the Music, was screened when Thicke was a guest on Later with Bob Costas. He also hosted a Canadian game show out of CFCF-TV in Montreal called First Impressions in the late '70s. In the 1980s, he hosted a Saturday morning game show called Animal Crack-Ups. Then in 1997, he also hosted a television version of the board game Pictionary. In the early 2000s, he hosted All New 3's a Crowd on Game Show Network.

Thicke was also the host of his own popular talk show in Canada during the early 1980s, called The Alan Thicke Show. The show at one point spawned a prime time spin-off entitled Prime Cuts, which consisted of edited highlights from the talk show. Based on the success of his talk show, Thicke was signed to do an American late night talk show Thicke of the Night. "Thicke of the Night" was FOX-TV's first late night show. Although it helped launch the careers of Arsenio Hall and Louie Anderson, it was a spectacular failure against The Tonight Show.

Thicke also made a cameo appearance in a holiday Lexus commercial in the late '90s where he played various characters, including a golden retriever and a black woman.[citation needed] He also appeared on the American television series Hope