Alan Thicke

Alan Thicke

Birthday: 1947-03-01

Place of Birth: Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada

Biography: Alan Willis Thicke (né Jeffrey; 1 March 1947 – 13 December 2016) was a Canadian-American actor, songwriter, and game/talk show host. He was the father of singer Robin Thicke. Thicke was best known for playing Dr. Jason Seaver on the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains on ABC. In 2013, he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. Thicke was born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley "Joan" Isobel Marie (née Greer), a nurse, and William Jeffery, a stockbroker. They divorced in 1953. His mother remarried to Brian Thicke, a physician, and they moved to Elliot Lake. Thicke graduated from Elliot Lake Secondary School in 1965, and was elected homecoming king. He went on to attend the University of Western Ontario, where he joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity.

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Not Quite Human
Not Quite Human

Dr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, an android teenager. Dr. Carson sends Chip to school wi...

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RoboDoc
RoboDoc

Plagued by uninsured patients, greedy insurance companies, heartless health care conglomerates, and ...

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Sperm Donor
Sperm Donor

A very rich and lonely dying man discovers the sperm he sold to help get through college has resulte...

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Childstar
Childstar

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious s...

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Not Quite Human II
Not Quite Human II

Chip, the android boy is back. This time, he is off to college, suffering from a computer virus and ...

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Voices That Care
Voices That Care

Behind the scenes making of the charity single "Voices That Care"....

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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

Don Ready is many things, but he is best-known as an extraordinary salesman. When a car dealership i...

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Shari's Passover Surprise
Shari's Passover Surprise

Trouble brews as Charlie Horse's campaign for class president leads him to invite the whole class to...

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Still Not Quite Human
Still Not Quite Human

In the final film of the series, Chip and his "father" attend a robotics convention. Here, Dr. Carso...

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Copper Mountain
Copper Mountain

Two friends travel to a ski resort, with one looking to hit the slopes, while the other spends time ...

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Hollywood North
Hollywood North

The making of a serious, Canadian arthouse film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is f...

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The Surfer King
The Surfer King

New kid is town Robbie Zirpollo gets a job at a local water park and meets a motley crew of co-worke...

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Anarchy TV
Anarchy TV

A group of anarchists use their public-access TV show to satirize the government until a right-wing ...

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Demolition High
Demolition High

When a group of terrorists (led by Luther) take over a high school making the students in it their h...

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Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers

The Seaver parents try to sell their house to retire but Mike and his sister Carol try to block the ...

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The Growing Pains Movie
The Growing Pains Movie

When the Seaver family reunites in Washington, D.C. to celebrate Jason and Maggie's 30th wedding ann...

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Hemingway
Hemingway

When a wealthy publisher dies, leaving behind the family fortune, his son and heir apparent is shock...

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Teddy Bears' Picnic
Teddy Bears' Picnic

In Harry Shearer's tongue-in-cheek comedy, a waiter at Zanbesu Glen (a chi-chi Northern California r...

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That's My Boy
That's My Boy

While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18...

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star

An actor rigs a fake shooting on TV with the connivance of his friend, the show's host, but the prac...

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Ice Angel
Ice Angel

The film tells the story of Matt, a male hockey player who dies in a game and comes back to life as ...

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Bank$tas
Bank$tas

Life could not be better for best friends Neal and Isaac. They just graduated college and landed the...

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Any Place But Home
Any Place But Home

A businessman's son is kidnappped, but the kidnapper's sister-in-law and her husband are opposed to ...

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And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird!
And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird!

Two boys follow in their late fathers foot steps by inventing weird and wonderful gadgets. Trouble l...

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Two of Hearts
Two of Hearts

A veterinarian (Gail O'Grady) and a sportscaster (Rob Stewart) meet at the wedding of their former s...

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Stepmonster
Stepmonster

Todd Dougherty has an imagination driven by comic books. So when he accuses his soon-to-be stepmothe...

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Let It Snow
Let It Snow

A resort executive is sent to a newly purchased lodge in Maine with instructions to turn it in to an...

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A Cookie Cutter Christmas
A Cookie Cutter Christmas

Two longtime rivals and elementary school teachers duke it out during the holidays in a Christmas co...

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Betrayal of the Dove
Betrayal of the Dove

A divorced mother fears for her life after a friend gets her a blind date with a doctor....

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Night of 100 Stars III
Night of 100 Stars III

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy....

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The Secret She Carried
The Secret She Carried

Ellen, a happily married young teacher is raped and beaten by a man who threatens her and her husban...

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Disorder in the Court: A 60th Anniversary Tribute to the Stooges
Disorder in the Court: A 60th Anniversary Tribute to the Stooges

Alan Thicke hosts this syndicated special as a tribute to the legendary Three Stooges with help from...

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Lamb Chop's Special Chanukah
Lamb Chop's Special Chanukah

Shari Lewis, Lamb Chop, and the gang discover the true meaning of Chanukah in this special holiday p...

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Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget
Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget

The aggravatingly amiable star of "Full House," "America's Funniest Home Videos"...

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Being Canadian
Being Canadian

What does it actually mean to be Canadian? This humorous documentary, featuring interviews with a wh...

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Wish Upon a Christmas
Wish Upon a Christmas

When business executive Amelia returns home to help a family-run ornament company, the employees see...

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Carolina
Carolina

A young woman escapes her wildly eccentric family in search for a life of normalcy....

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Alpha Dog
Alpha Dog

Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug deale...

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Stop the Wedding
Stop the Wedding

A meddling man and woman determined to stop a wedding for the good of the bride and groom instead wi...

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Casper Meets Wendy
Casper Meets Wendy

When a warlock threatens Wendy the Good Little Witch, she and her aunts hide out at a resort where C...

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The Clapper
The Clapper

Eddie Krumble works as a paid audience member for infomercials and experiences a whirlwind of overni...

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The Point
The Point

Years ago, there was a place called The Land of Point, because everything in The Land of Point had o...

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SportsCentury Greatest Athletes: Wayne Gretzky
SportsCentury Greatest Athletes: Wayne Gretzky

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Calendar Girl Murders
Calendar Girl Murders

During the launch party of a nude calendar, one of the models is thrown to her death by a black glov...

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It's Not My Fault and I Don't Care Anyway
It's Not My Fault and I Don't Care Anyway

A rich and famous self-help guru's controversial philosophy of extreme selfishness is put to the ult...

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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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Lamb Chop in the Haunted Studio
Lamb Chop in the Haunted Studio

Shari, Lamb Chop, and the gang visit a studio haunted by a mysterious phantom....

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Love's Last Resort
Love's Last Resort

After ten years of dating, Chloe’s boyfriend Eric still hasn’t matured. Hoping to give him the push ...

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The Trial of Red Riding Hood
The Trial of Red Riding Hood

Red Riding Hood is tried for the murder of The Wolf....

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Hitting Home
Hitting Home

Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hi...

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Jury Duty: The Comedy
Jury Duty: The Comedy

Mild and meek accountant Sanford Lagelfost has been charged with embezzling $3 million dollars from ...

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Game Changers
Game Changers

Alex Trebek hosts a documentary about television game shows featuring interviews with a number of ga...

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14 Going on 30
14 Going on 30

Danny is hopelessly in love with his teacher Peggy Noble. Of course she doesn't even notice him whil...

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Raising Helen
Raising Helen

Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies....

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Dance 'Til Dawn
Dance 'Til Dawn

The seniors of Herbert Hoover High School hold a prom they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley d...

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Rubdown
Rubdown

A rich man offers his masseur, a former baseball player with damaged knees, $50,000 to have an affai...

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Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade

The fifth annual Walt Disney World Christmas parade. Hosted by Joan Lunden and Alan Thicke, with Reg...

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Notes from Dad
Notes from Dad

Trumpet player Roy Allen starts anew as a music teacher in a school full of kids with little exposur...

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Open Season
Open Season

When the television ratings machines suddenly malfunction, public television suddenly, but mistakenl...

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The Opening of SkyDome: A Celebration
The Opening of SkyDome: A Celebration

The Opening of SkyDome: A Celebration - Andrea Martin and Alan Thicke co-hosted the 90-minute event ...

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Shadow of the Bear
Shadow of the Bear

Three young teens are stranded in the wilderness without their parents....

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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....

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The Windsor Protocol
The Windsor Protocol

Based on the novels by Jack Higgins, Sean Dillon is a maverick British agent who uncovers a plot to ...

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When Your Parent Drinks Too Much
When Your Parent Drinks Too Much

Featuring Alan Thicke, the film explores the struggles faced by children of alcoholic parents, highl...

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