Jay Thomas

ACTOR, WRITER, PRODUCER

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Jay Thomas was born in Kermit, Texas, to Katherine (Guzzino), a tap-dancing South Louisiana belle of Italian descent, and T. Harry Terrell, Sr., an oil man. Reared in New Orleans, he was always active in sports and performing. He won his first award as emcee of the Jesuit High School talent show. He boxed, wrestled, played football, and ran track. At 16 he started as a stand-up on Bourbon St. He attended Gulf Coast College, University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt University, Central Piedmont College, and Jacksonville University, graduating with an AA, BS, and MA. He became a sports announcer and DJ in college. He also found time to put in three years of small college football as a QB. When NYC beckoned Jay continued his eclectic career as a top rated morning DJ, comic at the Improve in NYC, and began an active off Broadway acting career, that saw him mix drama and comedy. His first TV role was in "Mork and Mindy". Then on to LA radio as the #1 jock at Power 106, The Ensemble Theater Group, and recurring on "Cheers" as Carla's ice hockey playing husband. He won two Emmy awards for portraying Jerry Gold on"Murphy Brown". He starred in his own TV shows "Married People" with Beth Armstrong and "Love and War" with Susan Dey and later Annie Potts. He appeared as a leading guest star in dozens of sitcoms, cop shows, and MOW's opposite Judith Light, John Tuturro, and Christine Lahti. On the big screen he was featured in "Mr. Holland's Opus", "A Smile Like Yours", and "Santa Claus" 2 and 3. Returning to the stage he starred in plays written and directed by Wendy Wasserstein and Woody Allen. Recently he has hosted shows at Carolines in NYC and the Bellagio in Vegas. He guest starred in an episode of "Hung" on HBO. He won the best actor for and was a co-writer of best comedy at the LA iTV Fest for "Talker". And the Jay Thomas talk show airs daily on SiriusXM. - IMDb Mini Biography By: jay thomas

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Jay Thomas’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Jay Thomas on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1978 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Jay Thomas movies released per year from 1992 till 2021.

Top Genres

Jay Thomas works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Drama Genre flixes. 30% of Jay Thomas movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Jay Thomas worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Jay Thomas has worked on is 6.0.

6.0 / 10

Jay Thomas's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.

7.3/10143 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Comedy,Romance
Love & War (1992)

A comedy about a woman running a bar/restaurant in New York City while maintaining a tempestuous romance with an egotistical opinion columnist. Other comedic elements include the bar's ...

6.8/1030 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.

5.8/1095 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Drama,Thriller
Total Stranger (1999)

A middle-aged woman takes on a young female tenant to help pay her debts, but gets a lot more than she bargains for when the girl starts to act very strangely indeed . . .

5.3/1094 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Greg Kinnear plays a carriage-shy husband in a romantic comedy about a couple trying to conceive a child.

4.8/1098 min

Available in 5 platform(s).