Alan Thicke

Alan Thicke was born on March 1, 1947 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada. He is known for Growing Pains (1985), Raising Helen (2004) and The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009). He was married to Tanya Callau, Gina Marie Tolleson and Gloria Loring. He died on December 13, 2016 in Burbank, California, USA.

Alan Townsend

Alan Toy

Alan has freaked out Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator. He has gone face to face with Matt Dillon in Kansas. He has pulled a gun on Clint Eastwood in In the Line of Fire. And he has transfixed Beverley Hills, 90210 fans in his role as the cult leader, "Professor Finley." As an actor for over 35 years, Alan has worked to bring changes to the way people with disabilities are portrayed in entertainment media. He has over 100 television and film credits and was the co-founder of the Hollywood SAG-AFTRA-AEA Inter-Guild Committee of Performers with Disabilities. Alan's film and TV jobs have included playing "Professor Finley", the nasty cult leader on Beverley Hills, 90210, as well as a wide variety of characters - parents, lawyers, doctors, scientists, veterans, teachers in Matlock, Trauma Center, Highway to Heaven, In the Line of Fire, Kansas, The Aviator, and many others. He served on the Board of the Media Access Office, which consults with industry leaders about disability portrayals and casting. Alan is a lifelong activist/organizer in the disability community, working to increase individual and community-based empowerment. He was Associate Director at UCLA's Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, in the Luskin School of Public Affairs where he created several online projects that assist people with disabilities with their day-to-day independent living needs; coordinate disaster management volunteer trainings and opportunities; and map a wide variety of community health resources. Previously, he was a senior organizer for the Los Angeles Homecare Workers Union, where his work on In-Home Supportive Services policy issues was critical to the development of a model Public Homecare Authority in LA County to improve the personal assistance programs for both consumers and workers. After SEIU, Alan was the Senior Executive Analyst at Access Services, Los Angeles County's paratransit agency, where he wrote and got enacted legislation beneficial to California's paratransit agencies. Alan was also a twice-elected member of the Santa Monica Rent Control Board and has served on that city's Social Services Commission, and Recreation and Parks Commission. He was an appointee of former Governor Gray Davis to the California State Independent Living Council. He is also served as the President of the Board of Directors of the ACLU of Southern California and spent nine years as an elected member of the National ACLU Board of Directors. Alan has a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a Masters degree in Urban Planning from the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research (now the Luskin School of Public Affairs).

Alan Trinca

Alan Trinca is known for Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (2019), Bull (2016) and Heartbreak Falls Part 1 (2023).

Alan Trong

Alan Trong is an actor and producer, known for The Tomorrow War (2021), Insecure (2016) and Daybreak (2019).

Alan Trustman

Alan Trustman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is a lawyer, writer and producer, best known for the original screenplay of The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and subsequent Steve McQueen movies. . In 2008 he married the love of his life, physiologist Dr. Barbara Buchwald. They live on Fisher Island.

Alan Tudyk

Alan Tudyk was born in El Paso, Texas, and grew up in Plano, where he attended Plano Sr. High. In 1990, he went on to study drama at Lon Morris Jr. College. While there, he was awarded the Academic Excellence Award for Drama. He was also named Most Likely to Succeed and Sophomore Beau. During this time, Alan was also an active member of the Delta Psi Omega fraternity. After leaving LMJC, Alan went on to study at the prestigious Juilliard conservatory but left in 1996 before earning a degree. After a number of smaller stage productions and a small role in the movie Patch Adams (1998), Alan landed his first Broadway role in 1999 with "Epic Proportions." He quickly became a sought-after comedic actor, with roles in such films as 28 Days (2000) and A Knight's Tale (2001). In 2002, Alan got the role of Wash, the wise-cracking pilot of Serenity on the short-lived series Firefly (2002). Although it lasted only eleven episodes, this may be Alan's most well-known and best-loved role. No other networks would buy the failed series, but Universal Pictures began courting creator Joss Whedon to produce a big-screen version of the series. While awaiting the final news of Firefly's fate, Alan played the beloved Steve the Pirate in the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) and the voice of the robot Sonny in I, Robot (2004). In 2005, Alan finally reprised the role of Wash in Serenity (2005), the feature-film version of the series Firefly. The same year, he went back to Broadway from June to November, taking over the role of Lancelot for Hank Azaria in the successful musical "Spamalot." He lives in New York City but also has a place in Los Angeles, California

Alan Turkington

Alan Turkington is an actor, known for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) and Mary Queen of Scots (2018).

Alan Tuskes

Born in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, Alan's earliest influence to follow a career in effects was the work of stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen. All the information that Alan could find about the foam latex process was contained in books and periodicals dealing with makeup, in particular foam latex prosthetics. that lead Big Al down the path of makeup effects. In the late 80s, Al moved from Ohio to L.A. to pursue his career, and did very well, accruing well over 100 film credits during a 15 year stint in L.A. Finally deciding to have kids after 20 years of marriage, Alan moved his family back to Ohio to raise his kids in a respectable school system. After returning to Ohio, Alan went to work with ex-L.A. cohort Robert Kurtzman, one of the founding partners of Kurtzman, Nicotero and Berger FX Group, with whom Alan had worked with on a myriad of projects while in L.A., including such projects as "From Dusk 'till Dawn", "Spawn", and the TV mini-series "Dune", for which KNB and Al won an Emmy award for Best Special Effects. Big Al has frequently served as the Makeup Effects Shop Supervisor and Coordinator for Precinct 13 Entertainment and Robert Kurtzman's Creature Corps (Kurtzman's companies in Ohio) over the last 14 years, and often served as VFX Supervisor for company projects, hearkening back to his days as a fervid fan of Ray Harryhausen.

Alan Usher

Alan Usher is known for Alien Origin (2012).