{"id":1700,"date":"2016-12-13T22:29:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T03:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2016-12-13T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T04:00:07","slug":"growing-pains-dad-alan-thicke-has-died-at-age-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/growing-pains-dad-alan-thicke-has-died-at-age-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Pains dad Alan Thicke has died at age 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1698\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1698\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1698 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cfc_in_la_alan_thicke.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cfc_in_la_alan_thicke.jpg 550w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cfc_in_la_alan_thicke-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Thicke at a Canadian Film Centre &amp; Variety-hosted reception for the Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab. To learn more about the Canadian Film Centre, please visit: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/cfccreates.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">cfccreates.com<\/a> Photo by Mark Sullivan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A publicist says Alan Thicke, who played the likable father on the sitcom &#8220;<em>Growing Pains<\/em>,&#8221; has died at age 69.<\/p>\n<p>Carleen Donovan, who is a publicist for Thicke&#8217;s son, singer Robin Thicke, says the actor died from a heart attack while he was playing hockey with his 19-year-old son, Carter. He was transported to Providence St. Joseph&#8217;s Medical Center around noon today, and pronounced dead there.<\/p><div id=\"morty-2204968272\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Law enforcement sources told TMZ that a company that recovers organs was contacted, so some of Thicke&#8217;s organs could be donated.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s survived by his three sons &#8212; Robin, Brennan, Carter, and his wife, Tanya.<\/p>\n<p>Alan played hockey regularly at a rink in Burbank. He and Carter were on the ice around 11 AM when he started having chest pain, then got nauseous and vomited. The ambulance picked him up around 11:30 and took him to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Willis Thicke was a Canadian actor, songwriter, and game and talk show host. He is known for his role as Jason Seaver, the father on the ABC television series <em>Growing Pains<\/em>. He was the father of singer Robin Thicke. In 2013, Thicke was inducted into Canada&#8217;s Walk of Fame.<\/p><div id=\"morty-3646095032\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thicke was born born Alan Willis Jeffery in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada, on March 1, 1947, the son of Shirley &#8220;Joan&#8221; Isobel Marie (n\u00e9e Greer), a nurse, and William Jeffery, a stockbroker. His mother remarried to Brian Thicke, a physician.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h1>Game shows<\/h1>\n<p>Thicke hosted a Canadian game show on CFCF-TV in Montreal called <em>First Impressions<\/em> in the late 1970s and the Saturday morning celebrity game show <em>Animal Crack-Ups<\/em> in the late 1980s. In 1997, he hosted a television version of the board game <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pictionary<\/span>. In the early 2000s, he hosted the <em>All New 3&#8217;s a Crowd<\/em> on the Game Show Network.<\/p>\n<h1>Talk shows<\/h1>\n<p>Norman Lear hired Thicke to produce and head the writing staff of <em>Fernwood 2-Night<\/em>, a tongue-in-cheek talk show based on characters from Lear&#8217;s earlier show, <em>Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1970s, he was a frequent guest host of <em>The Alan Hamel Show<\/em>, a popular daytime talk show on Canadian TV, usually hosted by Alan Hamel. Thicke went on to host his own popular talk show in Canada during the early 1980s, called <em>The Alan Thicke Show<\/em>. The show at one point spawned a prime-time spinoff, <em>Prime Cuts<\/em>, which consisted of edited highlights from the talk show. Thicke was later signed to do an American syndicated late-night talk show, <em>Thicke of the Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h1>Theme song composer<\/h1>\n<p>Thicke had a successful career as a TV theme song composer, often collaborating with his then-wife Gloria Loring on these projects, which included the themes to the popular sitcoms <em>Diff&#8217;rent Strokes<\/em> and <em>The Facts of Life<\/em>. He also wrote a number of TV game show themes, including <em>The Wizard of Odds<\/em> (for which he also sang the vocal introduction), <em>The Joker&#8217;s Wild<\/em>, <em>Celebrity Sweepstakes<\/em>, <em>The Diamond Head Game<\/em>, <em>Animal Crack-Ups<\/em> (which he co-wrote with his brother Todd Thicke and Gary Pickus), <em>Blank Check<\/em>, <em>Stumpers!<\/em>, <em>Whew!<\/em>, and the original theme to <em>Wheel of Fortune<\/em>. Thicke was a popular songwriter. He co-wrote &#8220;Sara&#8221;, a solo hit for Bill Champlin and included on the latter&#8217;s Runaway album (1981).<\/p>\n<h1><em>Growing Pains<\/em><\/h1>\n<p>Thicke played Jason Seaver, a psychiatrist and father, on the family sitcom Growing Pains. When the show began, Jason was moving his psychiatry practice into the home to be closer to the family&#8217;s children while the family matriarch Maggie, played by Joanna Kerns, resumed her career as a reporter. <em>Growing Pains<\/em> debuted on ABC in 1985 and ran until 1992. Two TV movies, <em>The Growing Pains Movie<\/em> (2000) and <em>Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers<\/em> (2004), followed.<\/p>\n<h1>Television and film appearances<\/h1>\n<p>Thicke in the 2000s<br \/>\nThicke co-hosted the <em>Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade<\/em> (now the <em>Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade<\/em>) with Joan Lunden from 1983 to 1990, when he was succeeded by Regis Philbin.<\/p>\n<p>In 1988, he hosted the <em>Miss USA Pageant<\/em> in El Paso, Texas, replacing Bob Barker (who quit over fur being involved in the pageants). He replaced Barker again as host of the <em>1988 Miss Universe Pageant<\/em> (along with Tracy Scoggins) in Taipei, Taiwan. Thicke was replaced by Dick Clark as host of the <em>1989 Miss USA Pageant<\/em> in Mobile, Alabama and by John Forsythe as host of the <em>1989 Miss Universe Pageant<\/em> in Cancun, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Thicke continued hosting a wide range of variety TV events. In 1989 he co-hosted with SCTV alumnus Andrea Martin the TV special Opening of SkyDome in Toronto, which aired across Canada on the CBC.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, he hosted the <em>Miss Universe Canada Pageant<\/em> in Ontario. Apart from <em>Growing Pains<\/em>, Thicke also appeared on the American television series <em>Hope &amp; Gloria<\/em>, which ran for 35 episodes. He played a lead role in the <em>Not Quite Human<\/em> trilogy of made-for-TV movies.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2006, he hosted <em>Celebrity Cooking Showdown<\/em> on NBC, in which celebrities were teamed with famous chefs in a cooking competition. In August 2006 and 2007, Thicke made a few appearances as talk show host Rich Ginger on <em>The Bold and the Beautiful<\/em>. Thicke also had a cameo appearance in the 2007 movie <em>Alpha Dog<\/em> as the father of the lead character&#8217;s girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Thicke appeared in a major supporting role as Jim Jarlewski in the television series adaptation of Douglas Coupland&#8217;s <em>jPod<\/em>. That same year, he had a cameo appearance in the <em>How I Met Your Mother<\/em> episode &#8220;Sandcastles in the Sand&#8221; as the dad in Robin Scherbatsky&#8217;s second &#8220;Robin Sparkles&#8221; music video. He guest starred as himself in the episode &#8220;The Rough Patch&#8221;. He appeared on a website made specifically for the show, canadiansexacts.org, featured in the episode &#8220;Old King Clancy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2009, Thicke made a guest appearance on Adult Swim&#8217;s <em>Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job<\/em>. In the same month, he made a guest appearance on the web series Star-ving. He also had a role in the 2009 film, <em>The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard<\/em>. On July 10, 2009, Thicke appeared on the 1000th episode of <em>Attack of the Show!<\/em>, and sang a song with Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn, at the end kissing Munn.<\/p>\n<p>Thicke appeared in the season six finale of <em>Just Shoot Me<\/em>, &#8220;The Boys in the Band&#8221;. He made a guest appearance on a few episodes of <em>Canada&#8217;s Worst Handyman 5<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Thicke appeared on the television program, <em>Tosh.0<\/em>. In October 2010, he appeared as a celebrity contestant on <em>Don&#8217;t Forget the Lyrics<\/em>, where he played for the charities ProCon.org and the Alan Thicke Center for diabetes research.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2013, he participated on ABC&#8217;s <em>Celebrity Wife Swap<\/em>. He swapped wives with comedian Gilbert Gottfried.<\/p>\n<p>Thicke was married three times: His first marriage, to <em>Days of Our Lives<\/em> actress Gloria Loring, lasted from 1970 until around 1984; they had two sons, Brennan and Robin. He started dating actress Kristy Swanson when she was 17 years old in 1986 and got engaged to her two years later when he was 42. He married his second wife, Miss World 1990 Gina Tolleson, on August 13, 1994, and had a son, Carter William Thicke, before their divorce was finalized on September 29, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, he met Tanya Callau in Miami, where he was the celebrity host and she was a model. They were married from 2005 until his death. <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Text from https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Thicke<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A publicist says Alan Thicke, who played the likable father on the sitcom &#8220;Growing Pains,&#8221; has died at age 69. Carleen Donovan, who is a publicist for Thicke&#8217;s son, singer Robin Thicke, says the actor died from a heart attack while he was playing hockey with his 19-year-old son, Carter. 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