Discover Tom Smothers’s Film Role and Later Work

Tom Smothers is a $10 million net-worth comedian and musician. Tom Smothers, along with his younger brother Dick Smothers, is best known as one half of the musical comedy duo the Smothers Brothers.

In the late 1960s, the brothers headlined the CBS television variety show “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,” which featured such incisive criticism of the political elite that CBS fired them. Following that, Tom and Dick continued to collaborate in television, cinema, and theater.

Who is Tom Smothers?

Tom Smothers III was born in New York City on February 2, 1937, to homemaker Ruth and US Army officer Thomas. Dick is his younger brother, and Sherry, his younger sister, was born after the family moved to California. The father of the children died as a Japanese POW in 1945. Tom and Dick went to Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach as teenagers. Tom Smothers was a state champion gymnast on the parallel bars and a competitive unicyclist there. He went on to attend San Jose State College with his brother, where he participated in both gymnastics and track & field.

What are some of Tom Smothers film roles?

In one of Brian De Palma’s earliest films, Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972), Tom Smothers played business executive turned tap-dancing magician Donald Beeman. In Silver Bears, he again portrayed a banker. He went on to play Spike in Serial (1980).

In the DePatie-Freleng NBC animated Christmas spectacular The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas in 1973, he voiced Ted E. Bear (Theodore Edward Bear). Ten years later, he reprised his role as Ted E. Bear in the Halloween sequel The Great Bear Scare.

The Great Bear Scare is the Halloween sequel to d E. Bear.

Smothers appeared in the 1980 film There Goes the Bride. In 1982, he appeared in Pandemonium as part of an ensemble cast as a daring Canadian Mountie pursuing a serial killer at a cheerleader camp. He made an appearance in an episode of the UK TV series Tales Of The Unexpected in 1983. In 1993, he also voiced one of the characters in the animated Christmas film Precious Moments: Timmy’s Special Delivery.

What are some of Tom Smothers’s later works?

In 2007, Tom and Dick Smothers shot a series of 30-second ads and advertising spots for Geyserville, California’s River Rock Casino.

In recent years, “Yo-Yo Man” has become a component of their act to supplement it. In the late 1960s, Tom Smothers invented the primarily non-speaking character, a comic performer of tricks with a yo-yo. In his honor, the word “Yo-Yo Man” is registered. Yo-Yo Man was billed as the group’s opening act for their 2008 tour.

Smothers received a special Emmy award during the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2008. When he was the head writer of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1969, the writing staff won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series. Smothers had refused to have his name included on the list of Emmy writers nominated because he felt it was too volatile. Steve Martin, who was one of the initial prize winners, presented the award at the 2008 presentation.

Tom and Dick both appeared in a 21st-season episode of The Simpsons in December 2009, alongside Cooper, Peyton, and Eli Manning.

Smothers received the Jack Green Civil Liberties Award from the American Civil Liberties Union’s Sonoma County chapter on May 6, 2011, for his efforts against television censorship and for speaking up for peace and civil liberties.

Tom and Dick Smothers reunited in 2019 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the unexpected ending of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

The brothers stated that they would go on tour in 2023 on CBS News Sunday Morning on December 11, 2022.