![]() Like nostalgia? Browse celebrity nostalgia on our website. “Photography was something I controlled at every stage and I loved that,” he explains. Via a series of serendipitous events, a photography gig for The National Hockey League led to photographing the Stanley Cup playoffs, more sports photography and touring the world with soccer legend Pelé. He continued to act (up until his last film: 2006’s Ray of Sunshine), but his passions for cars (his first, at age 15, had been an Alfa Romeo Giuletta Spider) and racing, photography and writing soon took center stage. “It was no longer a challenge … I wanted to do other things.” We used to find him in the morning asleep at the dining room table, with papers and scripts all around him.” After five years, though, Considine left. Out-of-sequence filming, routinely used in filmmaking, was a prime-time TV production first.Ĭonsidine remembers show creator/first-season director Peter Tewksbury as a genius. Because MacMurray, a veteran of 80 movies when Sons launched, wanted time with his real-life family, producers agreed to let him film his scenes sequentially.įor example, scenes set in the kitchen for different episodes were shot on one day, out of sequence, and later edited into each episode. A year later, he teamed with MacMurray in TV’s iconic My Three Sons (1960-1972), with MacMurray playing a widowed dad overseeing a household of sons and Considine portraying the eldest son, “Mike,” for the first five seasons of the show’s 12-season run.Ĭonsidine notes many “firsts” on Sons (airing today on ME-TV), including the way the show was filmed. In 1959, Considine appeared with Fred MacMurray in The Shaggy Dog, Disney’s first live-action film and a huge hit. To look out and see that was really strange.” “That was really the first hint of celebrity. It scared the hell out of me!” he recalls, laughing. ![]() “When they opened that doorway, there were thousands of people. They took us in one of those electric carts through alleys in the back to a doorway that was elevated. “Not long after Disneyland opened, Annette, Dave [Stollery, who played Marty on Spin and Marty) and I were sent out to sign autographs. More film and TV roles followed before Walt Disney’s TV serials (1955-60) catapulted Considine to teen stardom in shows like The Adventures of Spin and Marty, The Hardy Boys and Swamp Fox. So was acting expected of him? “I frequently say they permitted me, rather than encouraged me,” Considine says. “They were astonished when it took off.” A family friend suggested an audition that resulted in the son’s first film role, 1953’s The Clown with Red Skelton. Mother Carmen was the daughter of theater chain owner Alexander Pantages. (himself the son of vaudeville impresario John Sr.), was an Oscar-nominated MGM film producer (1938’s Boys Town, starring Spencer Tracy) during Hollywood’s Golden Age. “I hope to keep learning and experiencing new things.” “Retired to me is dead,” Considine, 72, explains. One of the boomer era’s first teen superstars, Tim Considine is a Renaissance man who shows no signs of slowing down.
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