Tim Considine

Tim Considine
Considine and Meredith MacRae in My Three Sons, 1965.
Born	Timothy Daniel Considine (1940-12-31)December 31, 1940 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	March 3, 2022(2022-03-03) (aged 81) Mar Vista, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Actor, author, photographer
Years active	1953–2015
Spouse(s)	Charlotte Stewart ​ ​ (m. 1965; div. 1969)​ Willette Hunt ​ (m. 1979)​
Children	1
Relatives	John Considine (brother) John Considine (paternal grandfather) Alexander Pantages (maternal grandfather)

Timothy Daniel Considine (December 31, 1940 – March 3, 2022) was an American actor, writer, photographer, and automotive historian best known for his acting roles in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Life and career

Considine was born to a show business family. His mother, Carmen, was the daughter of Greek American theater magnate Alexander Pantages. His father, John W. Considine Jr., was an Oscar-nominated movie producer (Boys Town, MGM 1938), and his grandfather, John Considine, was Alexander Pantages' rival vaudeville impresario.

On his father's side, Tim Considine was of Irish descent, and of partial Greek descent on his mother's side. His older brother is actor John Considine.

In 1953, Considine co-starred with Red Skelton in The Clown, a remake of the 1931 movie The Champ.

Considine's best known acting roles were in the 1955–1957 Disney TV serials Spin and Marty (he played Spin) and 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 The 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, when it aired on ABC. In both The Shaggy Dog and My Three Sons, he starred with Fred MacMurray.

In 1957, Considine played the role of Ned Nickerson in a television pilot made for CBS based on the popular Nancy Drew series of books by Carolyn Keene. He co-starred with Roberta Shore and Frankie Thomas.

On December 31, 1959, his 19th birthday and before My Three Sons debuted, Considine appeared as Jamie Frederick in the episode "Bound Boy" on CBS's Johnny Ringo western television series, starring Don Durant in the title role. In the story line, a rancher is investigated for turning orphaned boys into virtual slaves.

The following year, Considine played the role of Franklin D. Roosevelt's eldest son James between ages 14 and 17, in the 1960 feature film Sunrise at Campobello. In a 1966 episode of The Fugitive he acted as a helper for Dr. Kimble. On November 21, 1965, he played young rebel Billy Penn in the Bonanza episode "The Reluctant Rebel".

He had a role in the 1970 film Patton, portraying the shell-shocked soldier slapped by General George S. Patton, Jr. The role is credited as "Soldier Who Gets Slapped".

As an adult, Considine was an automobile historian, photographer, and writer who specialized in motor sports. He was the author of The Photographic Dictionary of Soccer (1979, ISBN 0-446-87953-3), The Language of Sport (1982, ISBN 0-87196-653-0), and American Grand Prix Racing: A Century of Drivers and Cars (1997, ISBN 0-7603-0210-3). He also filled in for the late 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 were 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 was living in Germany at the time, and Don Grady, who prior to his death in 2012 was in Europe that summer receiving treatment for cancer.

Personal life

His first wife was actress Charlotte Stewart, who played teacher Miss Beadle on television's Little House on the Prairie for four seasons. He had been married to Willette Hunt since July 21, 1979. They had one child.

Considine died at his home in Mar Vista, California on March 3, 2022, at the age of 81.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1953	The Clown	Dink Delwyn
1954	Executive Suite	Mike Walling
1954	Her Twelve Men	Richard Y. Oliver, Jr.
1955	Unchained	Win Davitt
1955	The Private War of Major Benson	Cadet Lt. Gerald Hibler
1959	The Shaggy Dog	Buzz Miller
1960	Sunrise at Campobello	James Roosevelt
1970	Patton	Private First Class Charles Kuhl
1973	The Daring Dobermans	Warren

External links

• Tim Considine at IMDb
• Disney Legends profile
• Tim Considine profile
• Tim Considine acting career prior to Spin and Marty in 1955.
• Tim Considine discography at Discogs