# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-thomas-q2627090
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:19:03.923Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-thomas-q2627090"
name: "Dave Thomas"
slug: "dave-thomas-q2627090"
description: "David William Thomas is a Canadian actor, comedian and television writer, known for being one half of the duo Bob and Doug McKenzie with Rick Moranis. He appeared as Doug McKenzie on SCTV, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award out of two nominations, and in the film Strange Brew (1983), which he also co-directed. As a duo, they made two albums, The Great White North and Strange Brew, the former gaining them a Grammy Award nomination and a Juno Award."
tagline: "Canadian comedian and actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dave_thomas1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1949-05-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.406047516198704
  historical:           22.46470933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0858686/"
    handle:    "nm0858686"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump