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Allen was born Timothy Allen Dick
in Denver, Colorado, the son of Martha Katherine, a community-service
worker, and Gerald M. Dick, a real estate agent.His father died in a
car accident, colliding with a drunk driver, when Allen was eleven.Two
years later, his mother married her high school sweetheart, a
successful business executive, and moved with her six children to
Birmingham, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, to be with her new husband
and his three children. Allen attended Ernest W. Seaholm High School
in Birmingham, where he was in theater and music classes (resulting in
his love of classical piano), and attended Western Michigan University
in Kalamazoo. He later received an honorary degree, which was
highlighted for the main plot of the fifth season Home Improvement
episode "Doctor in the House".
Allen began his career as a comedian in 1975. On a dare from one of
his friends, he participated in a comedy night at a comedy club in
Detroit. While in Detroit he began to get recognition appearing in
local television commercials and appearing on cable comedy shows such
as Gary Thison's Some Semblance of Sanity. He later moved to Los
Angeles and became a member of The Comedy Store there. He began to do
stand-up appearances on late-night talk shows and specials on record
and film. Allen rose to fame in acting with the television series Home
Improvement (1991-1999) on ABC, playing Tim "The Tool-Man" Taylor.
During one week in November 1994, he simultaneously starred in the
highest grossing film (The Santa Clause), topped the New York Times
best-seller list with his book
Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man, and appeared in the top
rated television series (Home Improvement), The following year,
he provided the voice of Buzz Lightyear in the blockbuster Toy
Story.Simultaneous with his time acting in Home Improvement, Tim Allen
formed a race team with Steve Saleen and race driver Bob Bondurant,
called the Saleen/Allen "RRR" Speedlab. The team raced Saleen Mustangs
in the SCCA World Challenge, with Allen and Saleen as the team's
drivers. On the last season of Home Improvement he received a check of
$1.25 million for every episode he starred in.
In 2006, Allen began narrating the "Pure Michigan" television and
radio commercials for the "Travel Michigan" agency. These commercials
can be seen and heard throughout the Midwest and will begin airing
nationally in 2009. |
