Danny Thomas
American actor, comedian, and humanitarian of Lebanese parentage
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Danny Thomas (January 6, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an American comedian, actor and producer. He starred in the sitcom Make Room for Daddy (aka The Danny Thomas Show). He was the father of Marlo Thomas and two other children.
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Born | Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz (later Anglicized to Amos Jacobs Kairouz) January 6, 1912 Deerfield, Michigan, U.S. |
Died | February 6, 1991 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 79)
Other names | Amos Jacobs |
Years active | 1947–1991 |
Spouse |
Rose Marie Mantell Thomas
(m. 1936–1991) |
Children | Tony Thomas Marlo Thomas Terre Thomas (b. 1942) |
Thomas also had a career in network radio. He also founded the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 1962.
He was born in Deerfield, Michigan. He died in Los Angeles at age seventy-nine of heart failure.