Alan Thicke
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After abandoning plans to be either a minister or a doctor, Canadian-born singer/actor Alan Thicke turned to sports writing, then typed out comedy material for the CBC television network. He moved to Hollywood, where he became a writer and sometime performer on the syndicated Norman Lear series Fernwood 2-Night. He returned to Canada in 1980 to replace talk host Alan Hamel on a popular daytime chatfest. He was successful enough in this endeavor to be invited by onetime network executive Fred Silverman to star in Silverman's first non-network effort, a nighttime variety show titled Thicke of the Night (1983). Despite an enormous publicity buildup, the show was a disaster, for which Thicke adopted a "mea culpa" stance. Also during this period, his marriage to singer/actress Gloria Loring broke up; thus Thicke felt himself a failure on all counts. He has credited his comeback to producer Ilene Berg, who cast Thicke in the 1984 TV movie The Calendar Girl Murders, which proved to skeptics that the man had talent as a straight actor. In 1985, Thicke originated the role of psychiatrist Jason Seaver in Growing Pains, a popular ABC sitcom which ran until 1994. The following year, Thicke showed up as a preening, bombastic talk show host (could this have been an act of attrition for Thicke of the Night?) on the NBC comedy series Hope and Gloria. Additionally, Thicke has hosted the children's series Animal Crack-Ups (1987-1990), and has composed the theme songs for several other TV series, notably The Facts of Life. Although he worked steadily in a variety of less than noteworthy projects, he did score a cameo as himself in the satire Teddy Bears' Picnic, and landed supporting roles in the comedies The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, and the 2012 Adam Sandler laugher That's My Boy.Alan Thicke's son is actor Brennan Thicke, best known for providing the voice of the TV cartoon character Dennis the Menace, and his other son, Robin Thicke, followed his father's musical interests and became a pop star. Thicke died in 2016, at age 69.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
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No Score Yet | Love's Last Resort |
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No Score Yet | Stop the Wedding |
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No Score Yet | Wish Upon a Christmas |
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No Score Yet | Actor? A Documentary |
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No Score Yet | A Cookie Cutter Christmas |
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No Score Yet | Bank$tas |
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No Score Yet | Let It Snow |
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No Score Yet | Fatherhood 101 |
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20% | That's My Boy |
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$37M | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Hemingway |
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No Score Yet | National Lampoon Presents: Robodoc |
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No Score Yet | Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget |
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54% | Alpha Dog |
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$15.2M | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Copper Mountain: A Club Med Experience |
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No Score Yet | The Surfer King |
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No Score Yet | Comedy Gold: The Hilarious Story of Canadian Comedy |
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No Score Yet | Bear with Me |
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78% | Childstar |
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25% | Raising Helen |
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$37.4M | 2004 |
44% | Hollywood North |
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No Score Yet | Carolina |
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0% | Teddy Bears' Picnic |
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No Score Yet | Anarchy TV |
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No Score Yet | Ice Angel (On Thin Ice: Going for the Gold) |
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No Score Yet | Two of Hearts |
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— | 1999 |
17% | Casper Meets Wendy |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Any Place but Home |
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No Score Yet | Open Season |
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No Score Yet | Demolition High |
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No Score Yet | Windsor Protocol |
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No Score Yet | Rubdown |
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— | 1993 |
0% | Stepmonster |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Betrayal of the Dove |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Still Not Quite Human |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Lightning on Ice: The History of Hockey |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Jury Duty: The Comedy |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Not Quite Human II |
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No Score Yet | Obsessed |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | 14 Going on 30 |
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No Score Yet | Dance 'til Dawn |
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No Score Yet | Not Quite Human |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Scene Of The Crime |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Calendar Girl Murders |
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TV
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Chopped
2009
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Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry
2016-2019
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93% |
This Is Us
2016
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Celebrity Family Feud
2015-2020
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Chopped Junior
2015-2019
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The Eric Andre Show
2012
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Keeping Up With the Kardashians
2007
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75% |
Scream Queens
2015-2016
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The Wendy Williams Show
2008-2020
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Who Gets the Last Laugh?
2013
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Celebrity Wife Swap
2012-2015
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The Chew
2011-2018
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The View
1997
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83% |
How I Met Your Mother
2005-2014
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Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
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The Talk
2010
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I'm in the Band
2009-2011
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57% |
La La Land
2010
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Comment je l'ai rencontrée
2005-2013
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Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!
2007-2010
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'Til Death
2006-2010
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Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
2004-2007
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Half & Half
2002-2006
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Yes, Dear
2000-2006
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My Wife and Kids
2001-2005
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Just Shoot Me
1997-2003
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Son of the Beach
2000-2002
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7th Heaven
1996-2007
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Married...With Children
1987-1997
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Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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Growing Pains
1985-1992
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Star-ving
2009
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