Alan Thicke

Alan Thicke

Nacimiento : 1947-03-01, Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada

Muerte : 2016-12-13

Historia

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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Alan Thicke
Alan Thicke

Películas

Game Changers
Self
Alex Trebek hosts a documentary about television game shows featuring interviews with a number of game show hosts and producers.
The Clapper
Alan Thicke
Eddie Krumble es un hombre relativamente feliz. Su trabajo consiste en aplaudir como público de programas de televisión y sitcoms. Pero un día las tornas giran y Eddie aparece delante de las cámaras en un talk show, logrando que sus 15 minutos de fama le den una vuelta completa a su vida: pierde su trabajo y su relación en ciernes con Judy, la joven de la que está enamorado.
La última oportunidad
Paul Roberts
Eric, el novio de Chloe, todavía no ha madurado en su relación y ella decide dejarle con la intención de recuperarle totalmente cambiado. Pero para sorpresa de Chloe, seis meses después, Eric le da la noticia una sorprendente noticia.
It's Not My Fault and I Don't Care Anyway
Patrick Spencer
A rich and famous self-help guru's controversial philosophy of extreme selfishness is put to the ultimate test when his only daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Que detengan esta boda
Sean Castleberry
A Anna le disgusta la noticia de que su tía Belle vaya a casarse con Martin, un veterano y mujeriego actor. Por ello no dudará en regresar a Seattle para detener la boda. Allí conocerá a Clay, el hijo de Martin, quien también quiere impedir el enlace.
Mi deseo por Navidad
Mr. Pierce
Cuando la ejecutiva comercial Amelia regresa a casa para ayudar a una empresa familiar de adornos, los empleados la ven como su salvadora que viene a rescatar a la empresa. Están desconsolados y consternados al enterarse de que su plan para encaminar a la empresa implica despidos masivos. Mientras Amelia se prepara para los 'adornos' navideños, se encuentra reavivando un viejo romance con su novio de la escuela secundaria Jesse, quien también es el dueño de la empresa. Pronto también comienza a ver el encanto del negocio local, pero ¿podrá salvarlo a tiempo?
Being Canadian
Self
¿Qué significa ser canadiense?
Mi dulce Navidad
Chef Krueger
Dos profesoras rivales desde su infancia se disputan la amistad de James, el atractivo padre de una nueva alumna. En víspera de Navidad, ambas quieren conseguir su objetivo, aunque para ello tengan que hacer el ridículo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Bank$tas
Peter Hoss
Life could not be better for best friends Neal and Isaac. They just graduated college and landed their dream job with a top investment bank. But when they discover their boss is planning a crooked student loan deal, their lives are thrown into turmoil. Determined to stop the corrupt plan, they concoct a crazy scheme of sex, drugs and espionage resulting in a wildly chaotic adventure.
Blanca Navidad
Ted Beck
El propietario de una cadena de hoteles envía a su hija Stephanie, que detesta la Navidad, al resort Snow Valley, un hotel que acaba de adquirir en Suiza. En él se alojan muchas familias que siempre pasan allí las navidades, y dicen que el lugar posee el tradicional secreto de Santo Tomás: la chica que realice el ritual soñará con el hombre con quien se va a casar. (FILMAFFINITY)
Notes from Dad
Pops
Trumpet player Roy Allen starts anew as a music teacher in a school full of kids with little exposure to music. Roy connects with a talented virtuoso in need of a father figure. Through the journey of launching a school band and learning to reach kids on their own terms, Nate reconnects with his own estranged son, becoming the father he always wanted to be.
Sperm Donor
Richard
A very rich and lonely dying man discovers the sperm he sold to help get through college has resulted in three children. He is determined to get this dysfunctional group together - whether they like it or not.
Hemingway
Paul Hemingway
When a wealthy publisher dies, leaving behind the family fortune, his son and heir apparent is shocked to discover that the business has been left in the hands of the man s trusted lawyer, who has been instructed to divide the wealth equally among the family members under the condition that they resolve life-long family issues within eight hours or the company will be sold, and the proceeds given to charity. In the aftermath of this shocking revelation, secrets and conflicts are exposed, and a family s love and faith are put to the test.
RoboDoc
Dr. Roskin
Plagued by uninsured patients, greedy insurance companies, heartless health care conglomerates, and stressed out doctors, the health care delivery system is on the verge of a total breakdown - and Jake Gorman couldn't be happier as suing doctors has made Jake a famous and very wealthy man. Jake never met a doctor he couldn't sue, until now.
Quemando ruedas
Stu Harding
Don Ready (Piven), un hombre que se presenta como vendedor profesional, amante y autor, es contratado para rescatar a un concesionario local de la bancarrota. Ready y su equipo de vendedores llegan al pequeño pueblo de Temecula, donde pasarán los días vendiendo, bebiendo y visitando un club de strippers, hasta que sucede lo impensable: Don encuentra al amor de su vida y su alma al mismo tiempo.
Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget
Self
The aggravatingly amiable star of "Full House," "America's Funniest Home Videos"
Summer Dreams
El diecisieteañero Robbie Zirpollo tiene un problema. Su madre le lleva hacia su nuevo trabajo de verano.
Alpha Dog
Douglas Holden
Johnny es un muchacho de 19 años, de buena familia, que vive pasando droga en Los Angeles. Es el dueño de su propia casa y de varios coches, tiene una vida de lo más acomodada y le encanta irse de juerga. Cuando Jake, uno de sus colegas, no le pague un dinero que le debe, Johnny secuestrará a su hermano de 15 años, Butch y a pesar de que Butch tendrá diversas oportunidades para poder escaparse, decidirá no hacerlo porque se lo está pasando en grande con Johnny… todo parecerá ir dentro de cierto orden, hasta que sucede algo terrible.
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
Jason Seaver
Jason and Maggie Seaver are ready to start a new chapter in their lives. The nest is finally empty, they've put the family home up for sale, and they're preparing to spend their retirement years traveling. But all that's easier said than done as Mike and a very pregnant Carol, each with their own agenda for wanting their parents to stay put, team up to sabotage the move. At the same time, little brother Ben, now a realtor, needs the big sale of his parents' home to please his boss. Meanwhile, Chrissie, an aspiring singer, just wants to get out from under her parents' watchful gaze so she can launch her career as a rock star.
Childstar
J.R.
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
Mamá a la fuerza
Hockey Cantor
Helen Harris ha alcanzado sus sueños: es una famosa modelo de una importante agencia de Manhattan. Su vida transcurre entre los desfiles de moda, durante el día, y los clubs más "in" de la ciudad, por la noche. Pero, un día, recibe una llamada que la obligará a abandonar su despreocupado estilo de vida: tendrá que hacerse cargo de los tres hijos de su hermana.
Hollywood North
Peter Casey
The making of a serious, Canadian art house film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his drug-addled star, his leading lady and his venal backers.
Carolina
Chuck McBride - Perfect Date Host
Carolina es una veinteañera californiana, que trabaja como productora en un concurso televisivo. Con un padre borracho y mujeriego, fue su excéntrica abuela quien se encargó de cuidarla, y lo hizo en un ambiente caracterizado por la libertad de espíritu.
Teddy Bears' Picnic
Alan Thicke
In Harry Shearer's tongue-in-cheek comedy, a waiter at Zanbesu Glen (a chi-chi Northern California resort) uses his movie camera to spy on the annual communal vacation of a group of rich, white U.S. government and business leaders who drink and carouse to excess while plotting their next move on the global stage. His goal? To sell the embarrassing and incriminating footage to the media and expose the "leaders" for what they really are.
SportsCentury Greatest Athletes: Wayne Gretzky
Himself
Los problemas crecen, la película
Jason Seaver
Tras abandonar su cargo como secretaria de prensa del diputado por Nueva york, Maggie decide presentarse a las elecciones, enfrentándose a su jefe. Cuenta con el apoyo de un equipo muy especial: su familia, aunque algunos, como Carol, colaboran a disgusto.
Ice Angel
Coach Parke
The film tells the story of Matt, a male hockey player who dies in a game and comes back to life as Sara Bryan, a female figure skater due to an accident made by an angel that caused the hockey player to die. Both share the dream of competing in the Winter Olympics. The male hockey player specified that if he returned to earth, he wanted to have a chance to win an Olympic Gold medal on ice leaving the detail that he wanted to be on the hockey team implied. With time running short Matt has to get skating lessons from Sara's one-time rival if he wishes to earn gold.
Two of Hearts
Hank Powers
A veterinarian (Gail O'Grady) and a sportscaster (Rob Stewart) meet at the wedding of their former spouses (Corbin Bernsen, Marla Maples).
The Windsor Protocol
Senator Joplin Hardy
Based on the novels by Jack Higgins, Sean Dillon is a maverick British agent who uncovers a plot to take over the presidency of the United States.
Casper y la mágica Wendy
Baseball Announcer
Huyendo del envidioso brujo Desmond, Wendy y sus tías, tres brujas perversas y alocadas llamadas Gert, Gaby y Fanny, se esconden en un centro vacacional situado en plena montaña. Allí es donde inesperadamente se encontrarán con Casper y el trío fantasmal Látigo, Tufo y Gordi. La diversión sobrenatural llega al máximo cuando los fantasmas y las brujas unen sus fuerzas para salvar a Wendy y frustar los planes del malvado brujo Desmond.
Anarchy TV
Reverend Wright
A group of anarchists use their public-access TV show to satirize the government until a right-wing preacher attempts to shut them down.
Shadow of the Bear
William Andrich
Three young teens are stranded in the wilderness without their parents.
Any Place But Home
August Danforth
Amenaza en el instituto
Slater
Un grupo de terroristas asalta un instituto para utilizarlo como base de lanzamiento para su misil. Para poder conseguir su cometido, tomarán como rehenes a los chicos del instituto. A todos menos a uno, quien intentará por su cuenta y riesgo enfrentarse solo a los terroristas, mientras la policía intentará hacer lo suyo desde el exterior del edificio.
Lamb Chop's Special Chanukah
Alan
Shari Lewis, Lamb Chop, and the gang discover the true meaning of Chanukah in this special holiday program. The story of the special holiday and all its traditions are celebrated with music and song along with Alan Thicke and Pat Morita.
Open Season
Xanex
When the television ratings machines suddenly malfunction, public television suddenly, but mistakenly, soars to #1 in this humorous satire.
Lamb Chop in the Haunted Studio
Alan
Shari, Lamb Chop, and the gang visit a studio haunted by a mysterious phantom.
Rubdown
Raymond Holliman
A rich man offers his masseur, a former baseball player with damaged knees, $50,000 to have an affair with his wife so she'll be in violation of their pre-nuptial agreement and he can divorce her without losing his fortune. The masseur agrees although he is already having an affair with the wife, and they together work out a way to set up her husband in order that she does get his fortune. But when the client is murdered and the real wife shows up the masseur has to clear his own name, and as he begins to piece together the evidence he realises that he's been played by yet another man who still holds a grudge from years before.
Divorcio mortal
Jack West
Ellie es una mujer separada, que vive junto a su hija. Durante la noche oye unos ruidos provenientes del jardín que la atemorizan, pero nunca encuentra nada fuera de lo común. A causa de una operación a la que tiene que someterse, surgen unos extraños problemas y uno de sus amigos descubre que alguien quiere asesinarla. (FILMAFFINITY)
Stepmonster: ¡Vaya Monstruo de Madrastra!
George Dougherty
Todd tiene una imaginación increible fomentada por su hobby preferido: las historietas de monstruos. a tal punto de llegar a creer que su futura madrastra es un monstruo carnivoro. Por supuesto nadie cree en el, en particular su padre. pero cuando algunos vecinos comienzan a aparecer muertos, Todd pone en practica un plan de acción para evitar el matrimonio de su padre.
The Trial of Red Riding Hood
The Wolf
Red Riding Hood is tried for the murder of The Wolf.
Still Not Quite Human
Jonas Carson / Bonus
In the final film of the series, Chip and his "father" attend a robotics convention. Here, Dr. Carson is kidnapped and replaced by an android. Can Chip and his newfound friends save Dr. Carson from a dangerous competitor?
Y tú creías que tus padres eran raros
Matthew Carson / Newman (voice)
Dos jóvenes genios de la electrónica planean hacer el robot perfecto. Inexplicablemente, cuando el trabajo está acabado, el espíritu de su padre fallecido, así como su voz, parecen haberse reencarnado en los circuitos del artefacto.
Night Of 100 Stars III
Self
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Voices That Care
Self - Choir Member
Behind the scenes making of the charity single "Voices That Care".
The Great American Sex Scandal
Phil Beckman
Film highlighting the courtroom antics of the jury.
Not Quite Human II
Jonas Carson
Chip, the android boy is back. This time, he is off to college, suffering from a computer virus and in love with Roberta, another android. Will there be a happy ending?
The Opening of SkyDome: A Celebration
self
The Opening of SkyDome: A Celebration - Andrea Martin and Alan Thicke co-hosted the 90-minute event on June 3, 1989, complete with songs written specifically for the celebration with over 5,000 performers which was broadcast nationwide on the CBC,
Bailando hasta el amanecer
Jack Lefcourt
Fiesta de promoción en el Instituto Hoover. Todos los asistentes, jóvenes dispuestos a desfasar, ligar y pasarlo en grande, tendrán su oportunidad durante la larga noche. Los más apuestos y populares quizá encuentren a chicas hasta entonces desconocidas, y viceversa. Y los adultos también tendrán su ración de fiestecita.
Hitting Home
Conrad Vaughan
Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to New York, only to discover that the crime is not covered by the extradition treaty between Canada and the US. She becomes obsessed with bringing the criminal to justice.
De 14 a 30 en 15 segundos
Real Harold Forndexter
Danny está perdidamente enamorado de su maestra Peggy Noble. Por supuesto, ella ni siquiera lo nota mientras planea casarse con el desagradable entrenador Roy "Jack-jaw" Kelton. El amigo de Danny inventa un acelerador de crecimiento de las frutas y verduras para "resolver el hambre mundial"; es entonces cuando Danny lo usa sobre sí mismo y se convierte en un adulto para así intentar mostrale a Peggy su verdadera personalidad. Sin embargo, en su primera aparición en la escuela como un adulto, es confundido con otra persona...
Un robot en la familia
Jonas Carson
¡Ha nacido el hijo perfecto! Y si no, que se lo cuenten al doctor Jonas Carson, un excéntrico científico que, deseoso de darle un hermano a su hija Becky, crea un androide adolescente al que llama Chip. Dispuesto a poner a prueba su última invención, Carson se traslada a una nueva ciudad, donde envía a Chip al instituto. La presencia del androide en el centro provocará un montón de problemas, ya que Mr. Vogel, el ex-jefe de Carson, llevado por su ambición, intentará secuestrar al sorprendente robot.
Perry Mason: El caso de la estrella asesinada
Steve Carr
Un cómico trama una gran broma: planea una matanza falsa en directo por televisión. Utiliza una pistola con balas de fogueo y dispara a su cómplice en un programa de entrevistas. Se marcha feliz con el éxito de su broma, sin saber que su cómplice está realmente muerto y que casi un millón de espectadores ha visto como apretaba el gatillo.
The Canadian Conspiracy
A mockumentary illustrating a supposed conspiracy to infiltrate American culture through employing Canadians in the U.S. entertainment industry.
Los crímenes de las chicas del calendario
Alan Conti
Inexplicablemente, las chicas que la revista Paradise publica en sus calendarios mensuales van apareciendo asesinadas. Las correspondientes a Enero y Febrero han muerto ya, por lo que las medidas de seguridad se extreman alrededor de las dos siguientes...
Copper Mountain
Jackson Reach
Dos amigos viajan a una estación de esquí, uno busca las pistas, mientras que el otro pasa el tiempo tratando de recoger mujeres.
Olivia Newton-John: Hollywood Nights
Writer
In this variety special, Olivia shares the evening with Andy Gibb, Elton John, Ted Knight, Gene Kelly and Toni Tennille. The special included songs from Grease and the Totally Hot album as well as some other artists' covers : the Eagles, Bob Seger, Elton John and Buddy Holly. Olivia also performed a parody of the jazz/blues classic Makin' Whoopee with Gene Kelly, changing the lyrics to Makin' Movies and dealing with Olivia's dream of producing a musical. The show was aired internationally and did very well in the ratings, as did her two previous US television specials on the same network. It is to be noted that Tina Turner's appearance on Olivia's special helped her sign a contract with then Olivia's manager Roger Davies, who ultimately helped her to go back into the spotlight.
The Barry Manilow Special
Writer
Join Barry "live" on-stage at Ravinia Music Festival in Chicago...and "live" on the streets of New York City with special guest star Penny Marshall. The special was broadcast to record-breaking ratings on ABC in 1977 when more than 34 million people tuned in to see Barry's first national TV showcase. At the 1977 Emmys, Manilow and the program won Outstanding Special - Comedy-Variety or Music.
The Point
Narrator / Father (third telecast)
Years ago, there was a place called The Land of Point, because everything in The Land of Point had one: the barns, the houses, the cars, everything, even the people. Everyone in The Land of Point had a point at the top of its head. Everyone, that is, except Oblio, who was born round-headed. Since he had no point, Oblio, along with his trusty dog, Arrow, was banished to the Pointless Forest. Join them to see what wonders await these two intrepid travelers as they make their way on their amazing, song-filled journey of discovery!
Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
The fifth annual Walt Disney World Christmas parade. Hosted by Joan Lunden and Alan Thicke, with Regis Philbin (1987).