RIP: Alan Thicke

[Heenan Fan]

Growing Pains star and musician Alan Thicker has passed away from a heart attack while playing hockey.

RIP Mr. Thicke

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-...age-69-w455812

[Zoneboy]

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Beloved television star Alan Thicke has died at age 69, ET can confirm.

The celebrated Canadian actor, best known for his role as patriarch Jason Seaver on the '80s sitcom Growing Pains, suffered a heart attack while playing hockey with his 19-year-old son, Carter. He was pronounced dead at Providence St. Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank, California.

Burbank fire officials confirm to ET that at noon on Tuesday they received a call from the Pickwick Ice skating rink to transport a male needing medical assistance to St. Joseph's.

Thicke recently appeared on season two of Fuller House, as well as the pilot episode of NBC drama This Is Us.

He is survived by wife Tanya Callau and three sons, Brennan, Robin, and Carter.

[AceWesternson]

He was on a commercial about Taxes a few months ago

[OH Nuts!]

Very sad. I really liked him a lot and his poor son to see his dad die like that. RIP Alan & thanks for all the joy you brought to many.

[liane60]

Originally Posted by Heenan Fan

Growing Pains star and musician Alan Thicker has passed away from a heart attack while playing hockey.

RIP Mr. Thicke

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-...age-69-w455812

Wow I just saw this on Facebook and it was a real shock. I know the whole cast of Growing Pains is really upset. Just goes to show you you never know when you will go.

[dwayne99]

Rest in peace...

[dwayne7]

Rest in peace Alan Thicke.... It's very sad..

[Sal]

Alan Thicke was a close friend of Wayne Gretzky dating back to the 1980s when Gretzky was in Edmonton. Thicke recently gave an interview in which he stated that he was indirectly involved in hockey's biggest trade that sent Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings. In this excerpt from TSN's BarDown website, Thicke gives his version of the story:


Thicke: I was one of the first guys who made Wayne feel comfortable in L.A. when he was coming down with the Oilers. It would be, Let’s go out, let’s have a meal, or We’ll go to a club, or You’ll come to a studio — just enjoying the environment, enjoying what L.A. had to offer for visiting teams. Wayne and I had gone to a Celtics-Lakers playoff game in 1987, and there was Janet Jones at the game with a friend. The four of us went out for a bite to eat afterward. This wasn’t the first time Wayne had laid eyes on her, but they’d never hung out together. A year later, they got married. So I’ll take credit for nurturing that relationship.

And I think I somewhat nurtured Wayne’s relationship with Bruce McNall. That level of nurturing was all unofficial and unstated. It was just sort of like setting the table, you know? You set the table and people decide what they want to order.

McNall, a former owner of the Kings, became close with Thicke and he would tell him about who he was trying to get for the Kings, and eventually the target became Gretzky. (All quotes via Grantland)

Gretzky: I was obviously still an Edmontonian, and [Janet and I] were down in California sort of summering a bit. Alan was kind enough to say, “Come stay in our house.” We were going to stay a couple weeks there, and in the middle of that first week, the whole thing seemed to ramp up, and over probably a 48-hour period it took on an energy and a life of its own.

McNall: Wayne was sort of hiding out there more or less when we were cutting this deal. Nobody really knew that Wayne was as involved with the transaction as he was, and I would be calling Alan’s house constantly for Wayne. So I let Alan know: “We got to keep this really on the QT because if any of this gets out to the press, it will probably get killed because of the backlash.” Alan was intimately knowledgeable about what was going on well before almost anybody else. I trusted him 100 percent. Wayne and I agreed that if there was one person that we could rely upon, it would be Alan.

Gretzky: Outside of the Oilers and the Kings and my wife and I, he was the first person that knew the trade was going to happen. I knew he wasn’t going to say anything. Most importantly, he was probably the biggest L.A. Kings fan in town, so he probably wanted it to happen more than anybody.

Thicke: Nobody really had to say [keep quiet]. I had respect for the Oilers and for the Kings and for Wayne.

McNall: I remember calling when the deal was finally done. It was early in the morning and I had to get Wayne to the airport with me to fly on to Edmonton, and it was [his son] Robin who answered the phone. I said, “Robin, I need Wayne,” and he said, “What’s going on, what’s going on?” And I said, “The deal is done, we got him.”

Thicke: Yeah, that’s all true. I was in Norway with my son Brennan, and Wayne and Janet were taking care of Robin. Robin answered and said, “I’m sorry, Wayne is asleep.” And McNall said, “Well, you better wake his ass up.”

When you think about it, Thicke player a very important role in the trade that brought Gretzky to the Kings, and he played a very important role in building up hockey in Los Angeles.


His son Robin, who answered the phone that day, grew up to record the best selling hit song "Blurred Lines".

[Mace Dolex]

Yeah RIP, I wasn't a fan of Growing Pains but I always liked Alan Thicke, I always amused me when comedians liked to poke fun about Thicke in a friendly way of course.

[AB]

Rest in peace.

[lakesgirl]

RIP Mr. Thicke.