Alan Thicke Movies and Career Information

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 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 ice 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. His second marriage was to the Miss World 1990 pageant winner, Gina Tolleson, from 1992 to 1999, and produced a third son, Carter William. 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