Tim Considine
Encyclopedia
Timothy Daniel "Tim" Considine (born December 31, 1940, in Los Angeles
, California
) is a former American
child actor
and young adult actor
who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He later became a writer
, photographer, and automotive historian
.
Considine's most famous acting roles were in the 1955–1957 Disney
TV serials Spin and Marty
(he played Spin) and The Hardy Boys (he played older brother Frank opposite Tommy Kirk
as Joe), both of which appeared in 15-minute segments on the Mickey Mouse Club
; in the Disney show Swamp Fox
as Gabriel Marion, nephew of Francis Marion
; in the Disney motion picture The Shaggy Dog
; and as the eldest son, "Mike Douglas", in the first years of the long-running television series
My Three Sons
. In the latter two, he starred with Fred MacMurray
. Considine also had a notable role in the 1970 film, Patton
, as a shell-shocked soldier slapped by the general, who believes him to be a coward.
Considine is a grandson of both theater magnate Alexander Pantages
and Pantages' rival vaudeville
impresario John Considine
. His older brother is actor John Considine
. His uncle Bob Considine
(1906–1975) was a King Features Syndicate
columnist.
As an adult, Tim Considine is an automobile
historian
, photographer, and writer
who specializes in motor sports. He is the author of The Photographic Dictionary of Soccer (1979, ISBN 0446879533), The Language of Sport (1982, ISBN 0871966530), and American Grand Prix Racing: A Century of Drivers and Cars (1997, ISBN 0760302103). He has also filled in for William Safire
as writer of the "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine
.
In 2000, Considine and David Stollery
, his co-star in the Spin and Marty serials, made cameo appearances in The New Adventures of Spin and Marty: Suspect Behavior, a made-for-TV movie
on the ABC
network. A DVD
version of the Adventures of Spin & Marty was released in December 2005 as part of the fifth wave of the Walt Disney Treasures
series. On the 50th anniversary of the serial's premiere, Considine and Stollery are interviewed by Leonard Maltin
as a DVD bonus feature about their experiences filming the hit series.
On June 19, 2010 he participated in the My Three Sons
50th Anniversary Reunion at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, California. Most surviving cast members appeared at the event except for Dawn Lyn
who is now living in Germany and Don Grady
who was in Europe for the summer.
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, California
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) is a former American
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child actor
Child actor
The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor...
and young adult actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He later became a writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, photographer, and automotive historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
.
Considine's most famous acting roles were in the 1955–1957 Disney
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
TV serials Spin and Marty
Spin and Marty
Spin and Marty was a popular series of television shorts that aired as part of ABC's Mickey Mouse Club show of the mid-1950s produced by Walt Disney. There were three serials in all, set at the Triple R Ranch, a boys' western-style summer camp. The first series of 25 eleven-minute episodes,...
(he played Spin) and The Hardy Boys (he played older brother Frank opposite Tommy Kirk
Tommy Kirk
Thomas Lee "Tommy" Kirk is a former American actor, and later a businessman.-Disney years:Kirk was discovered by talent agents at the age of thirteen in a production of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California...
as Joe), both of which appeared in 15-minute segments on the Mickey Mouse Club
Mickey Mouse Club
The Mickey Mouse Club is an American variety television show that began in 1955, produced by Walt Disney Productions and televised by the ABC, featuring a regular but ever-changing cast of teenage performers. The Mickey Mouse Club was created by Walt Disney...
; in the Disney show Swamp Fox
The Swamp Fox (TV series)
The Swamp Fox is a television series produced by Walt Disney and starring Leslie Nielsen as American Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion.The theme song * was sung by Nielsen as well. One of the Swamp Fox's adversaries was Colonel Banastre Tarleton, played by John Sutton...
as Gabriel Marion, nephew of Francis Marion
Francis Marion
Francis Marion was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. Acting with Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven...
; in the Disney motion picture The Shaggy Dog
The Shaggy Dog (1959 film)
The Shaggy Dog is a black and white 1959 Walt Disney film about Wilby Daniels, a teenage boy who is transformed into an Old English Sheepdog by an enchanted ring of the Borgias. The film was based on the story, The Hound of Florence by Felix Salten...
; and as the eldest son, "Mike Douglas", in the first years of the long-running television series
Series
series may refer to anything of a serial form:-Mathematics and science:* Series , a taxonomic rank between genus and species* Series , the sum of a sequence of terms* Series circuits, a kind of electrical network...
My Three Sons
My Three Sons
My Three Sons is an American situation comedy. The series ran from 1960 to 1965 on ABC, and moved to CBS until its end on August 24, 1972. My Three Sons chronicles the life of a widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas , raising his three sons.The series was a cornerstone of the CBS...
. In the latter two, he starred with Fred MacMurray
Fred MacMurray
Frederick Martin "Fred" MacMurray was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s....
. Considine also had a notable role in the 1970 film, Patton
Patton (film)
Patton is a 1970 American biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, and Karl Michael Vogler. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H...
, as a shell-shocked soldier slapped by the general, who believes him to be a coward.
Considine is a grandson of both theater magnate Alexander Pantages
Alexander Pantages
Alexander Pantages was an American vaudeville and early motion picture producer and impresario who created a large and powerful circuit of theatres across the western United States and Canada.-Early life:...
and Pantages' rival vaudeville
Vaudeville
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...
impresario John Considine
John Considine (Seattle)
John Considine was an American impresario, a pioneer of vaudeville.-Youth and arrival on the scene:Born in Chicago, Considine grew up attending Roman Catholic parochial schools, and eventually briefly attended St. Mary's College, Kansas. Briefly a Chicago policeman, he was involved in the raid...
. His older brother is actor John Considine
John Considine
This article is about the writer and actor. For his grandfather, the vaudeville pioneer, see John Considine . For the former Florida state representative, see John J...
. His uncle Bob Considine
Bob Considine
Robert "Bob" Bernard Considine was an American writer and commentator. He is best-known for co-writing Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and The Babe Ruth Story.-Biography:...
(1906–1975) was a King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to nearly 5000 newspapers worldwide...
columnist.
As an adult, Tim Considine is an automobile
Automobile
An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...
historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
, photographer, and writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
who specializes in motor sports. He is the author of The Photographic Dictionary of Soccer (1979, ISBN 0446879533), The Language of Sport (1982, ISBN 0871966530), and American Grand Prix Racing: A Century of Drivers and Cars (1997, ISBN 0760302103). He has also filled in for William Safire
William Safire
William Lewis Safire was an American author, columnist, journalist and presidential speechwriter....
as writer of the "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It is host to feature articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors...
.
In 2000, Considine and David Stollery
David Stollery
David John Stollery, III , is a former American child actor and, as an adult, a noted industrial designer. He appeared in numerous Disney movies and television programs in the 1950s...
, his co-star in the Spin and Marty serials, made cameo appearances in The New Adventures of Spin and Marty: Suspect Behavior, a made-for-TV movie
Television movie
A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...
on the ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
network. A DVD
DVD
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version of the Adventures of Spin & Marty was released in December 2005 as part of the fifth wave of the Walt Disney Treasures
Walt Disney Treasures
The Walt Disney Treasures is a two-disc DVD set of classic Disney works. They cover work from the studio's earliest days to their more recent work...
series. On the 50th anniversary of the serial's premiere, Considine and Stollery are interviewed by Leonard Maltin
Leonard Maltin
Leonard Maltin is an American film and animated film critic and historian, author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives.-Personal life:...
as a DVD bonus feature about their experiences filming the hit series.
On June 19, 2010 he participated in the My Three Sons
My Three Sons
My Three Sons is an American situation comedy. The series ran from 1960 to 1965 on ABC, and moved to CBS until its end on August 24, 1972. My Three Sons chronicles the life of a widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas , raising his three sons.The series was a cornerstone of the CBS...
50th Anniversary Reunion at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, California. Most surviving cast members appeared at the event except for Dawn Lyn
Dawn Lyn
Dawn Lyn is an American actress best known for her role as Dodie Douglas during the last three seasons of the long-running CBS family comedy My Three Sons.-Career:...
who is now living in Germany and Don Grady
Don Grady
Donald Michael Agrati , better known as Don Grady, is an American composer, musician and actor. He is remembered both as one of Mickey Mouse's original Mouseketeers, and as Robbie Douglas, from My Three Sons. His sister was also an actress, billed as Lani O'Grady...
who was in Europe for the summer.
External links
- Official website
- Disney Legends profile
- Tim Considine profile
- Tim Considine acting career prior to Spin and Marty in 1955.