Michael Constantine, the Emmy-winning star of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and the classic TV sitcom “Room 222,” died Wednesday at his home in Reading, Pennsylvania. NFL world mourns loss of Hall of Famer Dick Butkusĭad influencer, 40, dies of heart attack while playing with his kids Considine expressed gratitude for what he saw as the undeserved richness of his career: “Thank God there’s no justice in this world.Barbra Streisand says Marlon Brando asked to ‘f–k’ her while marriedĬelebrity chef, Food Network host dead at 61 Most of the time, though, working for Disney was considerable fun. It was just something I did for fun, and when it wasn’t fun anymore, that was it. “I had retired” at 14 when the audition for “Spin and Marty” came along, he recalled in a 2019 video interview. Considine was relatively blasé in his early teens. Considine is survived by his wife and son as well as his brother, John a sister, Erin and two grandchildren, the Disney website said. He married Willett Hunt in 1979, and they had a son, Christopher. His first wife was Charlotte Stewart, an actress who appeared in “Little House on the Prairie.” They married in 1965 and divorced in 1969. He explained how “the first Olympic Games, in 776 B.C., in which a line scratched in the dirt served as the starting point” for some events, led to the expression “start from scratch.” Considine even substituted a couple of times for William Safire, writing the “On Language” column for The New York Times Magazine. He did even less acting over the next 50 years, turning up onscreen once or twice a decade and playing his last role as a judge with a gray beard in the thriller “Ray of Sunshine” (2006). Considine did six television guest appearances in five years and had a memorable scene - playing a character credited as Soldier Who Gets Slapped - with George C. 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 Times review called Timmie “properly wistful, serious and manly” in the role of a washed-up alcoholic comic’s son. David Stollery played Marty.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. 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. 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 on Thursday at his home in the Mar Vista section of Los Angeles.
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