Tommy Hanlon Jr. | |
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Born | Tommy Gene Thomason 14 August 1923 Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States |
Died | 11 October 2003 | (aged 80)
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Years active | 1927–2001 |
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Children | Tommy Hanlon Thomason, April Thomason |
Parent(s) | Homer Emmons Thomason, Ruth Dorothy Manning |
Tommy Hanlon Jr. (14 August 1923 – 11 October 2003) was an American-born actor, comedian, television host and circus ringmaster, notable for his career in Australia after emigrating there in 1959, where he became a Gold Logie-award-winning media personality, in 1962. Hanlon was notable for his early television appearances on daytime television and as host of the Australian version of United States game show It Could Be You.