![]() Roosevelt's teenage son in the movie "Sunrise at Campobello" (1960), with Ralph Bellamy. Then Disney came along and brought him a decade of success and popularity, which included playing a Revolutionary War hero's nephew on the series "The Swamp Fox" (1957-60), with Leslie Nielsen, and Franklin D. He followed that with TV guest spots, from "The Ford Television Theater" to "Rin Tin Tin," and four films. The New York Times review called Timmie "properly wistful, serious and manly" in the role of a washed-up alcoholic comic's son. His uncle was columnist and author Bob Considine.Īs Timmie Considine, he made his film debut at 12 in "The Clown" (1953), Red Skelton's revisiting of the sentimental 1930s drama "The Champ," which had starred Wallace Beery and 9-year-old Jackie Cooper. His paternal grandfather, John Considine Sr., was Pantages' biggest rival. His mother, Carmen (Pantages) Considine, was the daughter of Alexander Pantages, founder of a vaudeville and movie theater chain. Considine Jr., was a producer whose films included "Broadway Melody of 1936," "Boys Town" (1938) and "Young Tom Edison" (1940). (To fill his shoes, more or less, the family adopted a neighborhood boy, Ernie Thompson, played by Barry Livingston, Stanley Livingston's real-life younger brother.) But Considine bowed out in 1965 his character married his girlfriend, played by Meredith MacRae, and moved away. The show had its premiere on ABC in 1960 and ran, moving to CBS, until 1972. The second son, Robbie, was played by Don Grady, and the youngest, Chip, by Stanley Livingston. The film's adult lead, Fred MacMurray, went on to star in "My Three Sons," a half-hour sitcom about a widower and his all-male household, with Considine as his eldest son, Mike. "It was a very critical time as a teenager, and I was more interested in being a cool guy than being an actor." "I've always thought that was one of the worst performances I ever gave," Disney has quoted him as saying. Considine's part consisted mostly of expressing superiority over Kirk's character and flirting with Funicello's and Roberta Shore's. ![]() He was also in the "Annette" serial, starring Annette Funicello.Īt 18, he had a role in Disney's "The Shaggy Dog" (1959) - which also starred Kirk and Funicello - as a duplicitous teenage boy whose best friend turns into a Bratislavian sheepdog and breaks up a spy ring. In "The Hardy Boys" serials (19), which were also shown on "The Mickey Mouse Club," he and Tommy Kirk played the sons of a private detective, boys who investigated neighborhood mysteries. David Stollery played Marty.Ĭonsidine's Disney career was busy. Considine became the first screen heartthrob for many preteen girls. The agent passed along the request, Spin's role was beefed up and the series ended up being a partnership of adolescent equals - rivals who eventually became friends, riding, roping, boxing, sleeping in a bunkhouse and sitting around the campfire together. But he told his agent that he didn't want the part - that he'd rather play Spin Evans, the more athletic and more popular character, the city boy with the cool flattop haircut, he said. The young Considine was originally cast in what was supposed to be the lead - as Marty Markham, a snobbish rich kid spending the summer at the Triple R dude ranch. "Spin and Marty" was an 11-minute serial shown on "The Mickey Mouse Club" from 1955 to 1958 - and in reruns through 2002. The Walt Disney Archives website announced his death. Tim Considine, who was a television star at the age of 14 in Disney's "Spin and Marty" and went on to wider fame in the family series "My Three Sons," died Thursday at his home in the Mar Vista section of Los Angeles.
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