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Photos: Robin Thicke's Dad, Alan Thicke dead at 69

Robin Thicke's dad, legendary actor Alan suffered a heart attack while playing ice hockey with his 19-year-old son, Carter Thicke. According to TMZ, Alan and his youngest  son, Carter were on the ice playing hockey around 11 AM Tuesday, when he started having chest pain, he got nauseous and vomited.
The ambulance arrived at 11:30am and he was promptly transported to Providence St. Joseph's Medical Center around noon and pronounced dead there.

TMZ reports that a company that recovers organs was contacted after he died so some of his organs could be donated.
He's survived by his wife, Tanya Callau, his 3 sons, Robin (39), Brennan (41) and Carter Thicke (19).
On the set of Growing Pains
The Canadian born actor was most famous for his role as Jason Seaver, the dad on the '80s sitcom, "Growing Pains." Most recently, he was on the Netflix reboot, "Fuller House."

Just hours before the news broke, the actor expressed his excitement at the show's new season on Twitter.

He also appeared in The Bold and the Beautiful, How I Met Your Mother and most recently Fuller House.

He also hosted game shows, talk shows, and wrote several famous TV show theme songs for "Diff'rent Strokes," "Wheel of Fortune" as well as "Growing Pains." 

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