Tom Dreesen Biography
Tom Dreesen is an American actor and stand-up comedian. Dreesen has appeared in films such as Spaceballs, The Rat Pack, and Trouble with the Curve, as well as the television programs Columbo, WKRP in Cincinnati, and Murder, She Wrote.
Age
Tom was born on 11 September 1939, in Harvey, Illinois, United States of America. He is 84 years old as of September 2023.
Wife- Married
He was married to Maryellen Subock from 1958 till 1984, when they divorced, together they have three children, Amy Dreesen, Jennifer Dreesen, Tom Dreesen.
Career
While working as an insurance salesman in 1968, he met Tim Reid from a local chapter of Jaycee, and together they formed America’s first mixtape competing stand-up comedy, Tim and Tom. They soon enlisted the help of radio personality Vince Sanders, who would lead the program and do some of their work for the next four years.
Although their record is now considered a judgment of the times, the couple tried to live together and separated in the mid-1970s. But both found personal success: Reed landed a starring role in Cincinnati’s “WKRP,” while Dressen also starred. He guest-starred on “Match Game” and “This Is the Show Starring Johnny Carson”[3] and toured with Frank Sinatra as the opening act. In 1979 he supported the strike at the Comedy Store in West Hollywood. The strike was resolved and the actors who played the series began to be paid. He also appeared in Beat The Clock the same year. In 1989, Dreesen released an album called White Boy Madness through Flying Fish Records. The album was recorded in Harvey, Illinois, in front of an all-black audience.
Dreesen continues to make. He is also involved in philanthropy and organizes an annual golf tournament called the Tom Drayson Celebrity Classic. In 2008, Dressen, Reed and former Chicago Sun-Times sportswriter Ron Rapoport collaborated on the book “Tim and Tom: The American Comedy in Black and White.” On June 9, 2020, Post Hill Press published Dreesen’s memoir, Still Standing… I Walked Through the Streets and Halls to the Stage and Sinatra. Dressen appeared in the television series “Colombo,” “WKRP Cincinnati” and “Murder, He Wrote” and appeared in the TV series “Spaceballs,” “The Rat Pack” and “The Problem with the Curve.” In 1999, he was honored with the Palme d’Or Star on the Walk of Fame in Palm Springs, California.
Net Worth
Tom has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.