evidence: Tim Allen was one of the biggest celebrities of the 1990s and early 2000s, thanks to a starring role in the sitcom Home Improvement. [...] Tim Allen was born Timothy Alan Dick on June 13, 1953, in Denver, Colorado. He was the third of six children born to Martha, a community services worker, and Gerald, a real estate agent. When he was 11, Allen's father died in a car accident involving a drunk driver. His mother remarried two years later and moved her children to Michigan to be with her new husband and his three children.