Danny Thomas

Danny Thomas belongs to an older showbusiness tradition that I find quietly inspiring. He clawed his way up from radio in the 1940s to become a sitcom institution with Make Room for Daddy, then turned producer and shaped a slate of hits. Yet the part of his legacy that earns my respect is the philanthropy; a Congressional Gold Medal is not handed out for laughs alone. He used the platform comedy gave him to do real good for children. That blend of entertainer and humanitarian is increasingly rare, and decades after his 1991 passing, the good he set in motion still endures.

Name (English)

Danny Thomas

Name (Japanese)

ダニー・トーマス

Reading

だにー・とーます

Born

January 6, 1912 – February 6, 1991

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rat

Origin

Deerfield, Michigan, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / film producer / television producer / actor

High school

Woodward High School

Awards & achievements

• Knight in the Order of the Holy Sepulchre
• Congressional Gold Medal
• Horatio Alger Award
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• James Cardinal Gibbons Medal

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Thomas
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q719588

Tags

• Michigan
• television actor
• film actor
• film producer

Last updated

2026-06-16

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.