Personal Info

Birth date

1949-05-20 (76 Years)

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Also known as

Dave 'Canadian' Thomas

David Thomas

Dave Thomas

Biography

David "Dave" Thomas (born May 20, 1949) is a Canadian comedian and actor. He was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, but moved to Durham, North Carolina where his father, John E. Thomas, attended Duke University and earned a PhD in Philosophy. Thomas attended George Watts and Moorehead elementary schools. The family moved back to Dundas, Ontario in 1961 where he attended Dundas District high school and later, graduated with an honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Thomas was granted an honorary doctorate from McMaster University November 20, 2009.

Filmography

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

7.4

Overview:

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

The Simpsons

8

Overview:

Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.

The Blacklist

7.639

Overview:

Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.

How I Met Your Mother

8.143

Overview:

A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.

Bones

8.215

Overview:

Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

King of the Hill

7.353

Overview:

Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niece Luanne. Hank has conservative views about God, family, and country, but his values and ethics are often challenged by the situations he, his family, and his beer-drinking neighbors/buddies find themselves in.

That '70s Show

7.94

Overview:

Crank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the rage in this hilarious retro-sitcom. For Eric, Kelso, Jackie, Hyde, Donna and Fez, a group of high school teens who spend most of their time hanging out in Eric’s basement, life in the ‘70s isn’t always so groovy. But between trying to figure out the meaning of life, avoiding their parents, and dealing with out-of-control hormones, they’ve learned one thing for sure: they’ll always get by with a little help from their friends.

Saturday Night Live

7

Overview:

A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.

Grace Under Fire

5.652

Overview:

Grace Kelly is a tough woman with kids to raise. A recently divorced recovering alcoholic, Grace struggles with the pressures of being a single mother supporting three children. Grace doesn't always handle situations with, well, grace, but she does get results.

Animaniacs

8.001

Overview:

The two Warner Brothers Yakko and Wakko and their Warner sister Dot had been (supposedly) created in the 1930's, but their cartoons were too screwy for the general public to handle. The three Warners were locked up in the studio water tower until they escaped in the 90's. There, they run wild, causing chaos everywhere!

Arrested Development

7.928

Overview:

The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.

Weeds

7.5

Overview:

After the unexpected death of her husband, a suburban mom resorts to selling weed to support her family.

Bobby's World

6.9

Overview:

Bobby Generic lives in a typical suburban neighborhood and uses his overactive imagination to discover a world of daring adventure, incredible wonder and lots of laughs — all in pint-sized perspective.

Second City Television

7.5

Overview:

Second City Television is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984.

The Legend of Korra

8.217

Overview:

Avatar Korra, a headstrong, rebellious, feisty young woman who continually challenges and breaks with tradition, is on her quest to become a fully realized Avatar. In this story, the Avatar struggles to find balance within herself.

The Legend of Tarzan

6.81

Overview:

The Legend of Tarzan picks up where the 1999 feature film left off, with the title character adjusting to his new role as leader of the apes following Kerchak's death, and Jane adjusting to life in the jungle. Rounding out the cast are Jane's father, Professor Archimedes Porter; Tantor, the germophobic elephant; and Terk, a wisecracking female gorilla and Tarzan's old wrestling buddy.

Pound Puppies

5.2

Overview:

Lucky, Cookie and the rest of the dogs in Shelter 17 have an important secret mission: to help every dog that comes to the pound find a new home.

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

7.8

Overview:

A cartoon superhero interacts with live guests via his television set in this parody talk show based on 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Space Ghost.

CatDog

7.037

Overview:

The life and times of a cat and a dog with a unique twist: they're connected, literally. They share one body with a Dog's head at one end and Cat's head on the other. Adding to their dilemma is Cat's annoyance with Dog, mainly caused by Dog's stupidity and Cat's up-tight personality. Characters: Cat - Cat is the smarter one of the two brothers, and is always hatching some kind of plot to get his brother to calm down, so that Cat doesn't get beat around and hurt. Even though most of these plots involve messing with Dog's feeble mind, they often backfire on Cat, much to his dismay. It may not show all the time but, he deeply loves, and cares for his brother Dog. Dog - Dog is the more lovable of the two brothers, Dog loves to play and party and play some more, he loves baseball and playing fetch with frisbees, balls, sticks, etc, He is very friendly, and happy, but does have a breaking point. He's very sensitive, and if he fails at something he feels horrible, and worthless

Even Stevens

7

Overview:

The Stevens are a middle-class family living in Sacramento, CA. Husband and father Steve is a successful attorney. Wife and mother Eileen is a state Senator. Their oldest child Donnie ia a high-school sports legend. Ren, an 8th-grader, is just about the perfect daughter. She makes the best grades, she's popular, she does volunteer work and other extracurricular tasks by the score. Her brother Louis, in the 7th grade, is her opposite. He likes to sleep late, he's messy, his grades are not good, he's frequently in detention and he seems to take nothing seriously. But he is serious about finding something of his own that he can do to put himself on a par with the rest of his overachieving family. Though he and Ren occasionally soften their attitudes toward each other, at any given moment the're likely to be fighting like mongoose and cobra.

Parker Lewis Can't Lose

7.2

Overview:

Parker Lewis is a teenager who apparently can't lose. He's cool, cute, popular, hip – and seems to get away with anything. That's not to say he's got no problems. His two primary nemeses are school principal Grace Musso, whose goal is getting Parker expelled; and his little sister Shelly, whose sole purpose seems to be tattling on Parker. However, with best friends Mikey and Jerry, Parker takes on the world and makes the best of high school.

Fast & Furious Spy Racers

7

Overview:

A government agency recruits teen driver Tony Toretto and his thrill-seeking friends to infiltrate a criminal street racing circuit as undercover spies.

Perception

7.2

Overview:

Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human behavior and masterful understanding of the mind give him an extraordinary ability to read people, but his eccentric view of the world and less-than-stellar social skills can often interfere with his work.

Maniac Mansion

4.7

Overview:

Maniac Mansion was a Canadian sitcom created by Eugene Levy, which aired concurrently on YTV in Canada and The Family Channel in the United States for three seasons from September 17, 1990 to April 4, 1993. The series is very loosely based on the popular 1987 LucasArts video game of the same name. While LucasFilm served as co-producers on the series, the show thematically shares little in common with its source material. The series followed the adventures of the Edison family, who lived in a large mansion in an upper-class suburban neighborhood. Fred, the father of the family, was an eccentric scientist, and many of the plots revolved around his wacky experiments. One of these experiments caused his toddler son, Turner, to transform into a large adult man and his brother-in-law, Harry, to be turned into a fly with a human head! They both remained this way for the entire run of the series.

Justice League

8.163

Overview:

The long-awaited rebirth of the greatest superhero team of all time: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, and Martian Manhunter.

Raw Toonage

7.7

Overview:

Disney's Raw Toonage is a half-hour Disney animated cartoon series that aired on the CBS network in the fall of 1992.

George Burns Comedy Week

NYR

Overview:

George Burns Comedy Week is a comedy anthology television series broadcast in the United States by CBS as part of its 1985 fall lineup, hosted by George Burns.

Primetime Glick

6.9

Overview:

Talk-show parody featuring obese host Jiminy Glick, who usually knows nothing about his guests and hurls veiled insults at them during his interviews.

Mission Hill

7.5

Overview:

Meet overqualified, underemployed, 24-year-old Andy French. Ambition: to be a cartoonist. Occupation: salesman at Waterbed World. Hobby: Where's the party? But responsibility soon knocks on the door of the loft apartment Andy shares with two fellow slackers when Kevin, a nerdy 17 -year-old who wears his SAT score on his shirt and his admiration for big brother Andy on his sleeve, moves in. And, for good measure, so does the French family's dog. Friends, roomies, canines, countrymen: lend me your beers. They're all part of the daze of Andy's life.

Acting

TBAGodspell 2025 as Unknown

2020For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close as Himself

2019Fast & Furious Spy Racers (9 Episodes) as Cleve Kelso (voice)

2015I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! as Himself

2015Misery Loves Comedy as Self

2012Perception (1 Episode) as Bill Duffy

2012The Legend of Korra (1 Episode) as Additional Voices (voice)

2010Pound Puppies (2 Episodes) as Agent Todd (voice)

2009Bob & Doug (10 Episodes) as Unknown

2007Bob & Doug McKenzie's Two-Four Anniversary as Doug McKenzie

2006Angel Wars: Grace and Glory as Michael

2006Second City: First Family of Comedy (3 Episodes) as Self

2006Brother Bear 2 as Tuke (voice)

2006Christmas with SCTV as Unknown

2006As Seen on TV: The K-Tel Story as Narrator

2005Santa's Slay as Pastor Timmons

2005How I Met Your Mother (1 Episode) as Chuck Gerussi

2005Bones (1, 1 Episode) as Andrew Jursic, Dick Scarn

2005Angel Wars: Blue Moon as Michael

2005Weeds (1 Episode) as Dr. Bertner

2005The Aristocrats as Self

2004A Beachcombers Christmas as Dave McGonigal

2004Angel Wars: About Face as Michael

2004Love on the Side as Red

2004White Coats as Dr. Omar Olson

2004Who's Your Daddy? as Carl Hughes

2003Beethoven's 5th as Freddy Kablinski

2003Arrested Development (5 Episodes) as Trevor

2003Sing Along Songs: Brother Bear - On My Way as Tuke (voice)

2003Brother Bear as Tuke (voice)

2002Dave Foley's The True Meaning of Christmas Specials as The Ghost of Christmas Specials Past (Bob Hope)

2002The New Beachcombers as Dave McGonigal

2002Fancy Dancing as Uncle Billy Gemmill

2001Uncle Gus: Not So Fast! as Flapjack

2001Justice League (2, 2 Episode) as Harv Hickman (voice), Ernst (voice)

2001The Legend of Tarzan (6 Episodes) as Hugo (voice)

2001Rat Race as Harold Grisham

2001Primetime Glick (1 Episode) as Bob Hope

2000MVP: Most Valuable Primate as Willy Drucker

2000Even Stevens (1 Episode) as Unknown

1999Mission Hill (4, 1 Episode) as Mr. Czelanski (voice), Dr. Eulmeyer (voice)

1999Uncle Gus in: For the Love of Monkeys as Flapjack

1998That '70s Show (1 Episode) as Chris

1998CatDog (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Mean Bob (voice)

1997Pippi Longstocking as Thunder-Karlsson (voice)

1997King of the Hill (1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2 Episode) as Jimsey (voice), Lane Pratley / Mr. Burton (voice), Lane Pratley (voice), Wayne (voice), Toothless Loser (voice), Steve Goodman / T. Anderson Kearney (voice), (voice), Ambrose (voice), Gretta / Lane Pratley (voice), Lane Prately (voice) (uncredited)

1996Kidz in the Wood as Tom Foster

1995Picture Perfect as Ernie Barrett

1994Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1 Episode) as Unknown

1993Grace Under Fire (112 Episodes) as Russell Norton

1993Animaniacs (1 Episode) as King Arthur (voice)

1993Coneheads as Highmaster

1993Cold Sweat as Larry

1992Raw Toonage (39 Episodes) as Additional Voices (voice)

1992Boris and Natasha as Boris Badunov

1991Lucky Luke as Chief Prairie Dog

1991Public Enemy #2 as Wynn Dalton / Dwayne Gary Steckler

1990Bobby's World (1 Episode) as Unknown