Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas

Birthday: 1949-05-20

Place of Birth: St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Biography: David "Dave" Thomas (born May 20, 1949) is a Canadian comedian and actor. He was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, but moved to Durham, North Carolina where his father, John E. Thomas, attended Duke University and earned a PhD in Philosophy. Thomas attended George Watts and Moorehead elementary schools. The family moved back to Dundas, Ontario in 1961 where he attended Dundas District high school and later, graduated with an honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Thomas was granted an honorary doctorate from McMaster University November 20, 2009.

Movies

Brother Bear 2
Brother Bear 2

Kenai finds his childhood human friend Nita and the two embark on a journey to burn the amulet he ga...

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Brother Bear
Brother Bear

When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in an...

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Just Me and You
Just Me and You

A salesman travels cross country with a quirky New Yorker....

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Beethoven's 5th
Beethoven's 5th

When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, t...

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From Cleveland
From Cleveland

Bob and Ray play two late night deejays, introducing sketches performed by several members of the SC...

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Santa's Slay
Santa's Slay

Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an angel, so he became the giver of toys and hap...

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Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking

Pippi Longstocking is an extraordinary little girl who lives alone in her house, while her father sa...

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Strange Brew
Strange Brew

Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug McKenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan...

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Follow That Bird
Follow That Bird

Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker, who thinks it would be bet...

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Public Enemy #2
Public Enemy #2

Second City Television alumnus Dave Thomas stars in this hilarious spoof of "America's Most Wanted."...

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The Aristocrats
The Aristocrats

One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke--one shared privately by...

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Sing Along Songs: Brother Bear - On My Way
Sing Along Songs: Brother Bear - On My Way

Join hosts Rutt and Tuke for musical numbers from Brother Bear, Treasure Planet, 101 Dalmations II, ...

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Love on the Side
Love on the Side

Small town waitress Eve Stuckley is stuck. She has spent years pining for testosterone saturate loca...

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The Last Polka
The Last Polka

A mockumentary that depicts the final concert of Yosh and Stan Shmenge aka the Happy Wanderers....

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The Adventures of the Get Along Gang
The Adventures of the Get Along Gang

The Gang participates in the annual scavenger hunt to win their own ice cream flavor but the stakes ...

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Uncle Gus in: For the Love of Monkeys
Uncle Gus in: For the Love of Monkeys

This cartoon follows the journey of a wily unemployed geezer and his rag-tailed bunch of friends as ...

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Uncle Gus: Not So Fast!
Uncle Gus: Not So Fast!

In the second Uncle Gus short, Gus enters his loyal horse, Flapjack, in a horse race to win a bet wi...

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Cold Sweat
Cold Sweat

Mark Cahill is a good family man with a loving wife and two wonderful children. Mark also happens to...

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Picture Perfect
Picture Perfect

Two teenagers (with single parents) join their families together in order to win the grand prize in ...

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MVP: Most Valuable Primate
MVP: Most Valuable Primate

Jack is a three-year-old chimpanzee who has been the subject of a long-term experiment by Dr. Kendal...

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The New Beachcombers
The New Beachcombers

John Constable and his family return to Gibsons to find a new cast of characters who will battle ove...

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A Beachcombers Christmas
A Beachcombers Christmas

While Donna MacGonigal is tempted by a business offer by an old love, her father and friends decide ...

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Angel Wars: Blue Moon
Angel Wars: Blue Moon

The sequel in the acclaimed animated series, Angel Wars Guardian Force 2, draws us deeper into the c...

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Angel Wars: About Face
Angel Wars: About Face

Eli and Kira, two junior members of the Guardian Force must grow up in a hurry when their first miss...

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White Coats
White Coats

Follows the misadventures of a group of young interns at a hospital/medical school - dealing with th...

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Misery Loves Comedy
Misery Loves Comedy

Do you have to be miserable to be funny? More than sixty comedians—including stand-ups, writers, act...

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Fancy Dancing
Fancy Dancing

A composer finds love with a co-worker after taking a job at his uncle's advertising agency....

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Bob & Doug McKenzie's Two-Four Anniversary
Bob & Doug McKenzie's Two-Four Anniversary

In 1980, the SCTV crew had a request from their broadcaster, the CBC, for distinctively Canadian con...

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Love at Stake
Love at Stake

Salem, 1692. The mayor and judge are accusing land owner of witchery in order to grab their land. No...

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Christmas with SCTV
Christmas with SCTV

Spend the holidays with the hilarious and beloved SCTV crew, starring John Candy, Rick Moranis, Mart...

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Double Negative
Double Negative

Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer....

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I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!
I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!

This documentary short tells the story of cartoonist David Boswell and his greatest creation: Reid F...

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My Man Adam
My Man Adam

A young man meets the girl of his dreams, whereupon he finds himself involved in a murder mystery....

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Who's Your Daddy?
Who's Your Daddy?

An adopted Ohio high school senior discovers he is the inherited heir to a porn empire. Dropped into...

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Angel Wars: Grace and Glory
Angel Wars: Grace and Glory

With his angel hostage in tow, the archangel Michael on his tail, and a symbiotic stone taking contr...

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Kidz in the Wood
Kidz in the Wood

A class field trip to the Oregon Trail that results in the class and teacher getting lost....

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The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood
The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood

A college professor wishes he could live in Victorian England. Through a scientific experiment that ...

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Boris and Natasha
Boris and Natasha

Sent by Fearless Leader to America to find an important microchip, dastardly Pottsylvanian spies Bor...

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The Rocket Boy
The Rocket Boy

In this Sci-fi Comedy a gentle video clerk has a secret double life as an intergalactic crime-fighte...

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The Canadian Conspiracy
The Canadian Conspiracy

A mockumentary illustrating a supposed conspiracy to infiltrate American culture through employing C...

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As Seen on TV: The K-Tel Story
As Seen on TV: The K-Tel Story

Documentary about K-Tel - the "As Seen on TV!" company that was hugely successful in the 1970s and 8...

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Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas
Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas

A made for Showtime network comedy special with numerous skits and music starring Martin Short and f...

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Home to Stay
Home to Stay

A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited but...

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Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke becomes the Sheriff of Daisy Town and runs out all the criminals. Then the Dalton brother...

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Moving
Moving

Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that mo...

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The Best of SCTV
The Best of SCTV

Guy Caballero and Edith Prickley try to persuade the FCC to renew SCTV's license....

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I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood
I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood

In this HBO special, comedian Martin Short appears in a series of sketches, vignettes and musical pe...

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Dave Foley's The True Meaning of Christmas Specials
Dave Foley's The True Meaning of Christmas Specials

Dave Foley hosts a Christmas Special to convince himself through music, friends, and counsel from th...

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Coneheads
Coneheads

A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shap...

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Andrea Martin... Together Again
Andrea Martin... Together Again

Nightclub performer makes a comeback....

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Stripes
Stripes

Hard-luck cabbie John Winger, directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfri...

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You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...

A documentary about the legendary 1972 Toronto production of the musical about the life of Jesus, wh...

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For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close
For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close

Comedy guru Del Close, mentor to everyone from Bill Murray to Tina Fey, sets out to write his autobi...

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Riel
Riel

A film about the actions of the Metis rebel leader who opposed the Canadian government in two sepera...

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Friends of Gilda
Friends of Gilda

Friends of Gilda was a 1993 ninety-minute television special made by CBC Television to benefit the G...

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John Candy: I Like Me
John Candy: I Like Me

Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-be...

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Rat Race
Rat Race

In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon...

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