evidence: Actor and comedian Tim Allen was born Timothy Alan Dick in Denver, Colorado on June 13, 1953. His father died in a car accident when he was just eleven. Allen’s mother re-married and moved Tim and his five siblings to join her husband and his three children in Birmingham, Michigan. While growing up outside of Detroit, Allen developed a love for cars. Allen attended Central Michigan University before transferring to Western Michigan University in 1974. He graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science degree in communications and a minor in philosophy and design. [...] Allen broke into the film industry in 1995 with The Santa Clause and, around the same time, became an author with his first book, Don’t Stand Too Close to a Naked Man. He published his second book, I’m Not Really Here in 1996. Allen’s film career continued to flourish with two sequels to The Santa Clause, Galaxy Quest, the Toy Story films, Christmas with the Kranks, For Richer or Poorer and Shaggy Dog. Tim Allen continues to act and perform stand up along with car collecting and running his two companies, Boxing Cat Films and Time Allen Design.