Tim Allen is celebrating his 70th birthday. Here is a look back at his career from 'Home Improvement' to 'Toy Story' to 'infinity and beyond!'
After getting his start as a stand-up comedian, and putting in over 15 years, Allen found his big break playing Tim"The Tool-Man" Taylor on the hit ABC sitcom,"Home Improvement." The show ran on the network for eight seasons, from 1991 to 1999, and also starred Patricia Richardson as his wife, as well as Taran Noah Smith, Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Zachery Ty Bryan as his sons.
Karn and Allen have remained friends since the end of"Home Improvement," even coming together for two new shows in 2021 and 2022. "Home Improvement" went off the air in 1999, and Allen recently revealed if he would ever take part in a reboot. Eventually he embraced his new role and moved to the North Pole with the elves full time. The movie has since gone on to be considered a classic.
"It was late afternoon, I had been in this stuff way too long, I'm very angry, sweaty, and the camera just had to come around and get my eyes, and then the movie opens, it's Santa. These kids again, ‘he hit me! He pinched me!’ Fifteen takes later, the kid said one more word and I let out the loudest F-bomb, and I turned around and there are 12 children [who] looked like that you had ripped their legs off. Their Santa just screamed the F-bomb.
"What happened was that we became infected by our own success. [1994’s ‘The Santa Clause’] was huge, but we had about $11 for special effects. [2002’s ‘The Santa Clause 2’] was an extension of that, but now we could put lights in the window because we had more production money," Allen told The Hollywood Reporter in 2022. "By number three, all we had was money. The story kind of just got bigger and bigger.
She added that he said,"Being that character, get used to the character, make friends with the character and then kind of add some of your qualities to it and see how you can make it your own."Tim Allen's star continued to rise as he voiced Buzz Lightyear in Disney's animated hit movie"Toy Story." Allen and Hanks developed a close friendship over the years, with Allen saying he trusts Hanks to always listen to what he has to say without any judgment.
Over 10 years after the second movie came out,"Toy Story 3" was released in 2010. In the third film, Andy is ready to go off to college, and the toys are anxious about what will happen to them once he leaves. The crew ends up at a day care center, spending the whole movie trying to break free. The success of the third movie led Disney to green light a fourth,"Toy Story 4," which was released in 2019. In this movie, the toys reunite with Woody's long-lost girlfriend Bo Peep, and get a taste of what it's like to be a"lost toy," before ultimately deciding to live as free toys from then on.
"What we wanted to do is not make fun of religion, not make fun of family, celebrate wanting to have a relationship that's affectionate, just celebrate what's good about American family but be provocative enough," he explained on"The View" in November 2019."This guy is Archie Bunker that went to the University of Michigan, that's what I wanted."
Despite having a steady viewership and going on to become ABC's second-most-watched sitcom in the 2016 to 2017 season, the network decided to cancel the show. The show ended in 2021 after nine seasons, with Allen saying it was just as hard to say goodbye to the show the second time around, something he was surprised by.
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