Short Biography

Alan Thicke (born Alan Willis Jeffrey; March 1st, 1947) is a Canadian actor, songwriter, and game and talk show host. He is best known for his role as Jason Seaver on the ABC television series Growing Pains.

Thicke was born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, the son of Joan, a nurse, and William Jeffrey, a stockbroker. His mother later married Brian Thicke, a physician. He graduated from Elliot Lake Secondary School in 1965, and was elected the homecoming king. He went on to attend the University of Western Ontario, where he joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity. Alan is an avid hockey and softball fan/player.
Thicke has been married three times. His first marriage to Days of Our Lives actress Gloria Loring from 1970 to 1983, bore him two sons, Brennan and Robin Thicke. His second marriage was to the Miss World 1990 pageant winner, Gina Tolleson, from 1992 to 1999, and produced a third son, Carter Willam. He has been married to Tanya Callau since 2005.
His son Robin is a platinum album-selling musician, and his son Brennan was a voice actor for cartoons when he was younger.

Thicke hosted a Canadian game show on CFCF-TV in Montreal called First Impressions in the late 1970s and the prime time celebrity game show Animal Crack-Ups in the late 1980s. In 1997, he hosted a television version of the board game Pictionary. In the early 2000s, he hosted the All New 3`s a Crowd on the Game Show Network.

Norman Lear hired Thicke to produce and head the writing staff of Fernwood 2-Night, a tongue-in cheek- talk show based on characters from Lear`s earlier show, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
Thicke was also the host of his own popular talk show in Canada during the early 1980s, called the The Alan Thicke Show. The show at one point spawned a prime time spin-off titled Prime Cuts, which consisted of edited highlights from the talk show.
Based on his success of his talk show, Thicke was signed to do an American late night talk show Thicke of the Night.

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