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Dave Thomas’s Milestones
| Became head copywriter for Coca Cola, Canada | |
| Debut as a sitcom regular, "Grace Under Fire" (ABC), starring Brett Butler | |
| Performed with Short in "Macbeth"; he was Banquo, Short was Lennox | |
| Raised in North Carolina (date approximate) | |
| Spent part of his youth in England | |
| With frequent collaborator Rick Moranis, released a comedy album, "Bob and Doug McKenzie's Great White North", featuring their popular "SCTV" characters; the album went gold in the US and triple platinum in Canada | |
| Wrote a comedic commercial for Coca-Cola, Canada starring Tim Conway | |
| 1948 | Born in St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada |
| 1970 | Began acting in college; met Martin Short |
| 1972 - 1973 | Early professional stage credit, Toronto production of "Godspell" starring Short and featuring Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Paul Shaffer, and Andrea Martin |
| 1972 | TV debut, a regular on "The David Steinberg Show", a CBS summer replacement comedy-variety series |
| 1973 | Left show business and worked as an advertising copywriter at McCann-Erickson in Toronto |
| 1975 | Left advertising at age 27 (date approximate) |
| 1975 | Returned to acting; joined the Toronto company of Second City (date approximate) |
| 1977 | Co-created, co-starred, and served as a head writer for the Toronto-based "SCTV", a TV show comprised of talents from the Toronto and Chicago companies (syndicated in the USA) (date approximate) |
| 1978 | US TV dramatic acting debut, "Home to Stay", a CBS-TV movie shot in Canada |
| 1980 | Wrote and acted in "From Cleveland", an unsold pilot videotaped in Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1981 | Feature acting debut, "Stripes" |
| 1982 | Left "SCTV" |
| 1983 | Feature debut as co-director and co-writer (with Moranis), "Strange Brew" (also co-starred) |
| 1984 | Served as a performer and writer on "The New Show", a short-lived NBC comedy-variety series from producer Lorne Michaels |
| 1985 | Narrated "The Last Polka", an HBO comedy "documentary" about a fictional polka team starring John Candy and Eugene Levy |
| 1985 | Received story credit for the feature, "Spies Like Us" |
| 1985 | TV producing debut, executive produced "Steel Collar Man", an unsold pilot for an adventure series about a superhuman android (also scripted) |
| 1986 | Executive produced, directed, wrote and starred in his first TV special, "The Incredible Time Travels of Henry Osgood", an installment of "Showtime Comedy Spotlight" |
| 1989 | Directed "The Experts", a late Cold War comedy starring John Travolta |
| 1989 | Executive produced and wrote "B-Men", an unsold comedy adventure pilot aired on the "CBS Summer Playhouse" |
| 1990 | Co-created and co-executive produced "America's Funniest People" for ABC |
| 1990 | Executive produced, wrote, and hosted "The Dave Thomas Comedy Show", a five-week CBS summer replacement series |
| 1990 | Wrote and acted in episodes of "Maniac Mansion", a fantasy comedy series on the Family Channel |
| 1992 | Executive produced, wrote, and acted in "Inside America's Totally Unsolved Lifestyles", an ABC comedy special spoofing "reality-based" TV shows |
| 1993 | Directed and co-wrote "Ghost Mom", a supernatural comedy TV-movie on Fox |
| 1997 | Formed Maple Palm Productions |
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