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Danny Thomas (January 6, 1914 - February 6, 1991) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor of Lebanese Maronite Catholic descent. January 6 is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 359 days (360 in leap years) remaining. ...
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February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ...
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Maronites (Marunoye ܡܪܘܢÜÜܶ; in Syriac, Mâruniyya مارونية in Arabic) are members of an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope of Rome. ...
Danny Thomas was born Amos Alphonsus Muzyad Yaqoob in Deerfield, Michigan, to Charles and Margaret Jacobs. He first performed under his Anglicized birth name, Amos Jacobs, before settling on the stage name Danny Thomas. He lived in various cities as a child, including at 813 Ontario St. in Toledo, Ohio, and also in Rochester, New York. He attended the St. Francis DeSales School in downtown Toledo. Deerfield is a village located in Lenawee County, Michigan. ...
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On the big screen he starred in the 1952 remake of The Jazz Singer and played songwriter Gus Kahn opposite Doris Day in the 1951 film biography I'll See You in My Dreams. But his most famous role was on his television show, Make Room for Daddy (later retitled The Danny Thomas Show to capitalize on Thomas' popularity). Thomas later became a successful television producer, working on many popular shows including The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mod Squad. The Jazz Singer (1927) is a U.S. movie musical and the first feature-length motion picture with talking sequences. ...
Gustav Gerson Kahn (November 6, 1886 - October 8, 1941) was a famous Jewish-German-American musician, songwriter and lyricist. ...
Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff, known as Doris Day (born April 3, 1924), is an American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate. ...
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Ill See You in My Dreams was the name of at least two films: Ill See You in My Dreams, a musical bio film made in 1950, starring Doris Day and Danny Thomas, directed by Michael Curtiz Ill See You in My Dreams, a horror short film...
The Danny Thomas Show (also known as Make Room for Daddy for the first three seasons) was a comedy television series starring Danny Thomas, Jean Hagen, Rusty Hamer, Sherry Jackson and Louise Beavers. ...
The Dick Van Dyke Show was an American television situation comedy which aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 to September 7, 1966. ...
The Mod Squad was a television police drama from executive producers Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas in the United States, that ran on ABC from 1968-1973. ...
Known as a generous philanthropist, Thomas founded the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1962. The hospital has treated thousands of children for childhood cancers. In 1996, two of its researchers won the Nobel Prize for medicine for their research on the immune system of children. A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, or reputation to a charitable cause. ...
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He was, along with Joe Robbie, one of the original owners of the Miami Dolphins, although he sold his share of the team shortly thereafter. Joseph Joe Robbie (b. ...
For more information on the franchises current season, see 2007 Miami Dolphins season. ...
His children are also performers, the most famous being his daughter Marlo, who is married to Phil Donahue. His son Tony Thomas is a noted television producer, and another daughter Terre Thomas, is a former actress. Marlo Thomas Marlo Thomas (born Margaret Julia Thomas on November 21, 1937 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actress, who first achieved fame on the TV series That Girl in the 1960s. ...
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Charles Anthony Thomas is a TV and film producer, who has produced such TV series as Nurses, Hermans Head, Blossom, Empty Nest, Beauty and the Beast (series), Golden Girls, Heartland, and Its a Living, as well as the Robin Williams movie Dead Poets Society. ...
He is sometimes credited for popularizing the use of the spit-take in comedy. Michael Colton does a spit-take while drinking a Red Bull as John Aboud watches on VH1s Best Week Ever. ...
He and his wife, Rose Marie Mantell (née Cassaniti), were possibly America's most famous Roman Catholic couple at that time[1].Rose Marie was of Italian descent. The Daily Catholic placed him 86 on the list of top 100 Catholics([2]), just above ([3]) the Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi. The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...
Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi (Aguleri in Anambra State, Nigeria, September, 1903 – Leicester, England, January 24, 1964) was ordained a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria, on December 19, 1937. ...
He died in 1991 of a heart attack at age 77, and his funeral was at the Church of the Good Shepherd. He had completed filming a commercial for St. Jude's Hospital a few days before his death, and this final commercial aired as a tribute to him.
Danny Thomas and his wife (who died in 2000) are interred in a crypt in a mausoleum on the grounds of the St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He was a posthumous recipient of the 2004 Bob Hope Humanitarian Award. A posthumous recognition is a ceremonial award given after the recipient has passed away. ...
The Bob Hope Humanitarian Award was established in 2002 by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of the late Bob Hopes trailblazing career. ...
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