Alan Thicke Is a Canadian Actor & Songwriter

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

Thicke was also the host of his own popular talk show in Canada during the early 1980s, called the The Alan Thicke Show.Based on the success of his talk show, Thicke was signed to do an American late night talk show Thicke of the Night.Thicke had a successful career as a TV theme song composer. He often collaborated with his wife Gloria Loring on these projects, which included the themes to the popular sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life.

Apart from Growing Pains, Thicke also appeared on the American television series Hope & Gloria, which lasted 35 episodes. In 2004, Thicke hosted the Miss Universe Canada pageant. In April 2006, he hosted Celebrity Cooking Showdown 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 The Bold and the Beautiful.Thicke also had a cameo appearance in the 2007 movie Alpha Dog as the father of the lead character's girlfriend.In 2008 Thicke appeared in a major supporting role as Jim Jarlewski in the television series adaptation of Douglas Coupland's jPod.In February 2009, Thicke made a guest appearance on the web series Star-ving.