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Name. Margaret Christen Kairouz. Gender. Female. Alias. Margaret Taouk. Description. Margaret Christen Kairouz was the mother of Danny Thomas.
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Danny Thomas (born Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz; January 6, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor and producer, whose career spanned five decades. Thomas was best known for starring in the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy (also known as The Danny Thomas Show). He was also the founder of St. Ju...
One of 10 children, Danny Thomas was born on January 6, 1912, in Deerfield, Michigan, to Charles Yakhoob Kairouz and his wife Margaret Taouk. His parents were Maronite Catholic immigrants from Lebanon. Thomas was raised in Toledo, Ohio, attending St. Francis de Sales Church (Roman Catholic), Woodward High School, and finally the University of Toled...
Radio
Thomas first reached mass audiences on network radio in the 1940s playing shifty brother-in-law Amos in The Bickersons, which began as sketches on the music-comedy show Drene Time, co-hosted by Don Ameche and Frances Langford. Thomas also portrayed himself as a scatterbrained Lothario on this show. His other network radio work included a stint as Jerry Dingle the postman on Fanny Brice‘sThe Baby Snooks Show, and appearances on the popular NBC variety program, The Big Show, hosted by stage leg...
Films
In films, Thomas starred in The Jazz Singer opposite the popular contemporary vocalist Peggy Lee, a 1952 remake of the 1927 original, and played songwriter Gus Kahn opposite Doris Day in the 1951 film biography I’ll See You in My Dreams.
Make Room For Daddy
Thomas enjoyed a successful 13-year run (1953–1965) on Make Room For Daddy, later known as The Danny Thomas Show. Jean Hagen and Sherry Jackson were his first family. The Hagen character died in 1956, replaced by Marjorie Lord. On January 1, 1959, Thomas appeared with his Make Room For Daddy child stars, Angela Cartwright and Rusty Hamer, in an episode of NBC‘s The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. The show was produced at Desilu Studios, where Lucille Ball was appearing alongside Des...
Producer
Thomas became a successful television producer (with Sheldon Leonard and Aaron Spelling among his partners) of The Dick Van Dyke Show,The Andy Griffith Show, and The Mod Squad. Thomas also produced three series for Walter Brennan: The Real McCoys, The Tycoon, and The Guns of Will Sonnett on ABC during the late 1950s and 1960s. Thomas often appeared in cameos on shows he produced, including his portrayal of the tuxedoed, droll alien Kolak, from the planet Twilo, in the Dick Van Dyke Showscienc...
Return to television
In the early 1970s, Thomas reunited most of his second Daddy cast (Marjorie Lord, Rusty Hamer, and Angela Cartwright) for a short-lived update of the show, Make Room for Granddaddy. Premised around Danny and Kathy Williams caring for their grandson by daughter Terry, who was away with her husband on a long business assignment, the show lasted one season. By the mid-1970s, Thomas’ son Tony had become an accomplished television producer. Tony, along with Paul Junger Witt, formedWitt/Thomas Prod...
Danny Thomas was a struggling young comic when he met Rose Marie Mantell (born Rose Marie Cassaniti), who had a singing career with her own radio show in Detroit, Michigan. They were married on January 15, 1936, and had three children, Margaret Julia (“Marlo”), Theresa (“Terre”), and Charles Anthony (“Tony”) Thomas. Thomas’ children followed him in...
Thomas died on February 6, 1991, of heart failure at age 79, in Los Angeles, California. Two days prior, he had celebrated St. Jude Hospital’s 29th anniversary and filmed a commercial, which aired posthumously. He is interred in a mausoleum on the grounds of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee; Cassaniti, his wife of 55 ...
Thomas was a posthumous recipient of the 2004 Bob Hope Humanitarian Award. On February 16, 2012, the United States Postal Service issued a first-class forever stamp honoring Thomas as an entertainer and humanitarian. The Danny Thomas Forever Stamp features an oil-on-panel painting depicting a smiling, tuxedo-clad Thomas in the foreground and St. Ju...
Feb 6, 1991 · Son of Charles Jacobs and Margaret Christine Jacobs Husband of Rose Marie Thomas Father of Marlo Thomas; Private; Tony Thomas; Private and Private Brother of Thomas J. Jacobs; William J. Jacobs; Frederick Francis Jacobs; Raymond Jacobs; Stanley Farrar and 5 others; ;
- Deerfield, Michigan
- Rose Marie Thomas
- Michigan
- January 6, 1912
Danny Thomas. Actor: The Danny Thomas Show. Known primarily as a TV actor, he starred as a nightclub singer on the popular The Danny Thomas Show (1953). He also served TV behind the cameras partnering with Sheldon Leonard and Aaron Spelling to create such shows as Dick Van Dyke's show, The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961), The Andy Griffith Show (1960) and Mod Squad (1968).
- January 6, 1912
- February 6, 1991
Childhood & Early Life. Danny Thomas was born as Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz to Charles Yakhoob Kairouz and Margaret Taouk in Deerfield Michigan. He was one of the nine children born to the couple. Raised as a Roman catholic, he attended the Woodward High School before enrolling himself at the University of Toledo.
One of 10 children, Danny Thomas was born Amos Muzyad Yaqoob Kairouz (Arabic: أموس مزيد يعقوب كيروز) on January 6, 1912, in Deerfield, Michigan, to Charles Yaqoob Kairouz and his wife Margaret Taouk. His parents were Maronite Catholic immigrants from Bsharri, Lebanon.
Aug 5, 2018 · Danny Thomas was born as Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz in 1912 in Michigan to Charles Yakhoob Kairouz and Margaret Taouk who were Maronite Catholic immigrants from Deir El Ahmar, Lebanon. Thomas is one of 10 children. He worked in television, radio, film, and music.
