Tom Davis (comedian)
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Birth name | Thomas James Davis |
Born | St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |
August 13, 1952
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Hudson, New York, U.S. |
Medium | Television |
Nationality | American |
Years active | 1975–2012 |
Influences | Jack Benny, Bob and Ray[1] |
Influenced | Dan Aykroyd |
Spouse | Mimi Raleigh (m. 1991, permanently separated since 1999; his death) |
Thomas James "Tom" Davis (August 13, 1952 – July 19, 2012) was an American writer, comedian, and author. He is best known for his former partnership with comedian and future Senator Al Franken, as half of the comedy duo "Franken & Davis" on the Saturday Night Live television show on NBC.
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Life and career
Davis was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended The Blake School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he began his friendship and professional partnership with Al Franken. In 1975, Davis got his big break as one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live, where he and Franken also performed together. The duo wrote the screenplay for, and appeared in, the film One More Saturday Night, and had brief appearances in Trading Places and The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash. Davis was a frequent guest on The Al Franken Show, appearing in sketches as various characters. In a well-known sketch on Saturday Night Live, he provided the voice calling into an interview with Dan Aykroyd's Jimmy Carter as the youngster that Jimmy Carter talked down from a bum trip. Davis created the SNL sketches "Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber" (with Steve Martin), "Nick The Lounge Singer" (with Bill Murray), "The Continental" (with Christopher Walken), and "Coneheads" (with Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin).[2]
Illness and death
In 2009, Davis was diagnosed with head and neck cancer. He was originally diagnosed and, despite reports to the contrary, was treated without delay at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, where, on March 31, 2009, Dr. Eric Genden removed a tumor on Davis' right tonsil that had metastasized to an adjoining lymph node with minimally invasive robotic surgery.[3]
Davis died on July 19, 2012, of throat and neck cancer, aged 59.[4] He is survived by his wife, Mimi Raleigh, a veterinarian in Mount Kisco, New York, whom he married in 1991; they separated in 1999, but reconciled before his death. He is also survived by his mother, Jean Davis, and a large extended family.[5]
Bibliography
- Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss (2009; ISBN 978-0-8021-1880-6)
Filmography
- Tunnel Vision (1976)
- Saturday Night Live (1975–1979) (1985–2003) (TV)
- The Paul Simon Special (1977) (TV)
- Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda (1979) (TV)
- Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (1981) (TV)
- Trading Places (1983)
- The Coneheads (1983) (Animated TV Special)
- Franken and Davis at Stockton State (1984) (TV)
- The New Show (1984)
- One More Saturday Night (with Al Franken) (1986)
- Coneheads (with Dan Aykroyd) (1992)
- Trailer Park (1995–2000) (TV)
References
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- ↑ Tom Davis at the Internet Movie Database
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External links
- Tom Davis at the Internet Movie Database
- Pages with broken file links
- 1952 births
- 2012 deaths
- American male comedians
- American male film actors
- American male screenwriters
- American male television actors
- American television producers
- American television writers
- Cancer deaths in New York
- Deaths from throat cancer
- Primetime Emmy Award winners
- Male actors from Saint Paul, Minnesota
- 20th-century American male actors
- Male television writers