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David "Dave" Thomas (born May 20, 1949) is a Canadian comedian and actor. He was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, but moved to Dundas, Ontario with his family where he attended elementary and secondary school.[1] He attended Dundas District high school and graduated with honours from McMaster University in nearby Hamilton, Ontario.[2]
BiographyFamily lifeHe is the eldest son of John and Moreen Thomas. John E. Thomas (1926-1996) was a noted medical ethicist, head of the Philosophy Department at McMaster University, and the author of several books. Moreen Thomas was a church organist for 30 years and noted composer of church music. He is the older brother of Canadian singer-songwriter Ian Thomas. Thomas is married and has four children Johnathan, Emily, Harrison, and Charlie. His wife is Kimberly and they live in Malibu, California. Acting career
He was a cast member of the Toronto production of Godspell along with Victor Garber, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, and Andrea Martin. Paul Shaffer of Late Night with David Letterman was the musical director. He first achieved fame as a cast member of the Canadian syndicated comedy series SCTV, where he portrayed, among other characters, Doug McKenzie of Bob and Doug McKenzie fame. Bob is protrayed by Rick Moranis. Other memorable characters included angry, if succinct editorialist Bill Needle, Scottish scone-chef/bluesman Angus Crock, speedy ad announcer Harvey K-Tel, Lowery organist/curio pitchman Tex Boil and the unforgettable "Cruising Gourmet". Thomas' first movie was Home to Stay directed by Delbert Mann where Thomas played in a scene with Hollywood legend Henry Fonda.
Thomas tried his hand at network television hour-long shows in 1986 when he wrote and co-executive produced Steel Collar man for CBS. The pilot was produced but did not go to series. In 1988 Thomas wrote another hour long show for CBS entitled B Men. This show was produced and the series was back ordered but Thomas took a directing job at Paramount which caused the network to abandon the show. He introduced John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston when he put them together for the first time in the Paramount film Thomas directed entitled The Experts (1989), while filming in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. He wrote for, produced, and starred in the 1990 CBS TV series The Dave Thomas Comedy Show. In 1991 Dave officially starred in the critically acclaimed Showtime comedy, Public Enemy #2 which made Time Magazine's 10 Very Best list for Television that year. In 1992 Thomas tried his hand at reality TV and co-executive produced ABC's America's Funniest People with Vin Di Bona. Thomas left the show after thirteen weeks to play a role in Coneheads at the request of buddy Dan Aykroyd. Starting in 1993 he officially co-starred in ABC's Grace Under Fire with Brett Butler and Tom Poston and continued with the show for 5 seasons. In 1996, Thomas wrote the book SCTV: Behind the Scenes. He appeared in the Red Green Show as Ben Franklin, the American expatriate brother of Dougie Franklin, played by his brother, Ian Thomas. In 2000, Dave Thomas was chosen to host the first annual Canadian Comedy Awards in Toronto. As of 2001, Thomas has been the Executive Creative Director of Animax Entertainment [1], an animation studio based officially in Culver City, CA. In 2003 Thomas directed a hospital comedy feature film entitled Whitecoats which he also wrote. The movie starred a group of young Canadian talents including Carly Pope, Peter Oldring, Pat Kelly, Christine Chatelain, and Ingrid Kavelaars. Also rounding out the cast were Thomas himself along with comedy bets Dan Aykroyd, Dave Foley, Matt Frewer, Maury Chaykin, Linda Boyd and Saul Rubinek. As of 2004, Thomas was on the official Advisory Committee for the Comedy program at Humber College, the only such diploma program in the world. In 2003 Thomas and Moranis reprised the voices of the McKenzie Brothers in Disney's animated feature Brother Bear. Thomas has had a long career doing voices for animation including Animaniacs, Duckman, Catdog, The Adventures of Tarzan, Justice League of America and multiple roles on The Simpsons. In 2005, Thomas had a guest stint as Charlize Theron's Uncle Trevor on Fox's Arrested Development. In 2006 Thomas reprised his voice role in Brother Bear 2 and appeared as himself in the feature film The Aristocrats. He also started production on ArnoldSpeaks.com a video blog as the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2006, Thomas' animation company Animax won an Emmy for a broadband animated series produced for ESPN entitled Off Mikes. Awards
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TriviaCelebrities impersonated by Thomas on SCTV include:
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