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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor Born: May 20, 1949 in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada Biography:"...And Dave Thomas as the Beaver" was the voice-over billing given this Canadian entertainer on the 1970s TV series "Second City Television". But while "Thomas" may have had the adolescent face and short stature of "Jerry Mathers", his taste in comedy was as mature and as wickedly satirical as any of his Second City confreres. Among "Thomas"' dozens of comic characterizations during his Emmy-winning SCTV years, the best known and most popular were his dead-on impression of "Bob Hope" and his deadhead interpretation of donut-munching, bacon-ingesting, beer-swilling "typical" Canadian Doug McKenzie. Together with his onscreen "brother," Bob McKenzie (better known as "Rick Moranis"), "Thomas" starred in the goofy feature film "Strange Brew" (1982), the first and last film ever made in "Hose-a-rama" (the origin of this phrase and a rundown of the rest of the McKenzie brothers' catchphrases could be given... Full Biography
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