Tim Considine, one of Disney’s most popular young actors from the 1950s, before dying as the eldest brother in the 1960s sitcom My Three Sons, died Thursday at home you’re in Los Angeles. He was 81.
His death was announced by his son Christopher and shared on Facebook by My Three Sons colleague Stanley Livingston, who played Chip Douglas in Mike at Considine. “Tim and I have been friends for more than 70 years,” Livingston wrote, adding: “Everyone who knew him will miss him. I love you brother. ”
Considine was already known to television audiences – especially young people – by the time he was selected for his 1960 debut on ABC of My Three Sons. He had played Spin Evans in the Mickey Mouse Club series of the mid-1950s, The Adventures of Spin and Marty, and later in the decade, Frank Hardy (Joey Hardy’s Tommy Kirk) in The Hardy Club series. Boys.
Tim Considine in Everett’s collection “The Shaggy Dog”.
He appeared in a third club series, Annette with Annette Funicello, and in 1959 took on the big screen role against his future My Three Sons colleague Fred McMurray in Disney’s hit comedy The Shaggy Dog.
Considine was born on December 31, 1940 in Los Angeles to a family of show business; his father, John W. Considine Jr., is a producer of films such as Boys Town and Young Tom Edison, and his mother is the daughter of theater mogul Alexander Pantages. He began his own acting career at the age of 11 when he played the son of Red Skelton’s 1953 feature film The Clown.
Other roles soon followed, both in the film (Executive Suite starring William Holden and June Alison) and in television (The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, The Great Gildersleeeve). Performed as a student in Greer Garson’s 1954 film Her Twelve Men, Considine met another young cast member named David Stolly, who next year will portray Marty Markham in Considine’s Spin on Spin and Marty. .
His breakthrough among the adult audience came with My Three Sons, the hit comedy starring McMurray as widower Stephen Douglas and his trio of boys: Mike of Considine, middle son Robbie (Don Grady) and youngest Chip (Livingston).
Considine chose to leave the series after his first five of his possible 12 seasons (Livingston’s younger real brother Barry Livingston was assigned to play his newly adopted son, Ernie, to maintain the accuracy of the show’s title). He appeared on television in the 1960s (Bonanza, The Fugitive, Medical Center) and the 1970s (Ironside, Gunsmoke, The Smith Family).
Tim Considine and George C. Scott at Patton, a 1970 Everett collection
Considine starred, albeit briefly, in the 1970 Oscar-winning film Patton, playing the role of a “shocked” soldier who receives a slap in the face from the unsympathetic General George C. Patton to George C. Patton in this , which is perhaps the most unshakable memorable scene from the film.
Moving away from acting in the following decades – he had a cameo in the 2000 reboot of Disney’s “The New Adventures of Spin and Marty” – Considine devoted himself to writing, photography and his love of cars. He is the author of The Photographic Dictionary of Soccer (1979), The Language of Sport (1982) and American Grand Prix Racing: A Century of Drivers and Cars (1997) and occasionally complemented William Safire in the column “On Language” in New York Times Magazine.
In addition to his son Christopher, Considine survived his wife, Willett; two grandchildren; sister Erin; and brother John Considine, an actor known for “Another World,” “Santa Barbara” and “Murder, She Wrote,” among other roles.