I am sad to pass this news along to you. From the Fabulous Fifties; Tim Considine, Hollywood actor and sports car racer, has passed on. Another Fab 50 who passed away recently was Norma “Dusty” Brandel, reporter and president of AARWBA. – Richard
Tim Considine 1940 – 2022. We are sad to report Tim Considine has unexpectedly passed away. Tim was a Fabulous Fifties “non-board member” and could always be counted on to support and sometimes host our Fabulous Fifties’ events. There are no plans for a memorial available at this time. Art Evans profiled Tim in his 2003 book Race Legends of the Fabulous Fifties. Art took the portrait of Tim shown here in April 2003. From Art’s book: “Tim Considine is the only person in this book who didn’t drive in races during the fifties. He was too young. But he was a car owner and entrant in Southern California sports car races. Timothy Daniel Considine was born on December 31, 1940, so he didn’t qualify for a racing license until he was 21 in 1962. And he couldn’t falsify his age (like some of the rest!) since he was a well-known actor. Tim’s first sports car was an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider. He had Gene Curtis drive it. The problem was that Bill Pollack and Frank Aldhous were faster. So Considine bought an Osca MT4, a somewhat faster car. The salesman was Tom Bamford. Tim had to convince his mother that the Osca was a practical car for driving to the market. After a few outings, Gene suggested that Harry Hanford could get more out of the car. Harry did, but then Porsche came out with the RS60.
Tim Considine was a teen movie and TV star. His first film, at age 13, was The Clown with Red Skelton. Tim played his son, Dink. The next year, he played William Holden and June Allyson’s son in Executive Suite. One of his most memorable roles was as the soldier who gets slapped by the general in Patton. Tim recalls that George C. Scott had to slap countless numbers of times before the director was satisfied. He also played young Jimmy in Sunrise at Campobello.
Considine’s last movie performance was in Daring Dobermans. Not being a very good barker, he didn’t play the lead, even though he starred in 1959’s Shaggy Dog. Tim was born and grew up in Los Angeles, the son of an entertainment family. His father was a film producer with 43 credits. Do you remember Son of the Sheik, Boys Town or Young Tom Edison? His mother was the daughter of Alexander Pantages, who, at one time, owned the largest number of theatres in the world. Grandparents on both sides were involved in vaudeville. His cousin was the Hearst sports writer Bob Considine. The family lived in Beverly Hills and, initially, Tim went to Notre Dame High where he ran track. Eventually, the school asked him to leave because he was spending all of his time at the Disney studio. He was tutored and took classes at Disney. With the requisite number of credits, he graduated from University High after attending one day.
Considine first became involved in racing when he was a teen TV star playing Spin Evans in Spin and Marty, a popular series on The Mickey Mouse Club. During the sixties, he was Mike Douglas on My Three Sons. In addition to being a regular in TV series, he had guest shots in more than 30 episodes including Gunsmoke, Ironside and Simon & Simon. In addition to his acting, Tim wrote episodes of My Three Sons (in 1960) and Combat and Tarzan. He also directed My Three Sons in 1960. Considine started taking photographs when he was a teen-entrant at sports car races. Starting with a Kodak Pony 828 camera, he took hundreds of Kodachromes. Someone stole his camera at the July 1956 Cal Club race at Montgomery Field; he only has shots of the Saturday events. The Pony was followed by a Leica. Tim is as talented a photographer as he is a writer. He has sold many photographs for book covers, articles and advertising. His pictures of Joni Mitchell, one of which was used on her “Blue” album, are marvelous.”
A story by Mike Barnes of The Hollywood Reporter was published on March 4th: https://apple.news/
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