![]() ![]() Tim, however, proved surprisingly resistant to overexposure by Disney. Fan letters poured into the Disney Studio, not quite in the quantities generated by Annette Funicello, but enough to make the MMC producers want to use Tim more. His distinctive flat-top haircut, which resembled an upturned scrub brush, suddenly became the "in" style for the cool set. Tim found that his portrayal of Spin Evans brought him fame far beyond that bestowed by his five films. Spin and Marty proved to be the most popular element of the Mickey Mouse Club. They obliged, to the extent that the series was renamed The Adventures of Spin and Marty. Instead, Tim asked the producers to cast him as Spin Evans, the cool kid. Offered $400 a week for what was expected to be a two-month stint, Tim decided that he didn't want to play the part of rich kid Marty, which was similar to his roles in Miss Baker's Dozen and The Private War of Major Benson (and to his own life, at that). In April 1955 Tim was signed to play the lead in a serial called Marty Markham for the upcoming Mickey Mouse Club. He did have a smaller part in his next film, quite understandably, since it was the star-laden Executive Suite (1954), nominated for four Oscars. Tim had leapfrogged the background player/extra phase of an acting career both of these parts were major dramatic roles. Later that year he had his television debut on an episode of Ford Television Theatre. His first film role was in MGM's The Clown (1953), where he co-starred with Red Skeleton in a remake of The Champ (1932). Self-motivated from an early age, Tim himself determined that acting was what he wanted to do. Though he never knew his maternal grandfather, the story of Alexander Pantages' downfall, through a smear campaign instigated by business rivals, may have instilled in Tim a wariness for those who make their living from celebrity gossip. ![]() The personal circumstances of his mother (with whom he lived as a child and teenager) are perhaps best described as upper middle class. While Tim undeniably came from a wealthy background, his father stopped making movies in 1943, and his parents had divorced by the time he started acting. Tim has one brother, John Considine, himself an actor and writer, who is five years older. Tim's mother, Carmen, was an heiress to the theatre chain founded by her father, Alexander Pantages, who immigrated to the United States from Greece around 1885. Tim himself told interviewers in the fifties that sportswriter Bob Considine was his uncle, though the actual relationship is more likely third cousins. Tim's father and grandfather were both US-born (contrary to claims on many internet sources), the family having come originally from County Clare, Ireland. Considine Jr, was an Oscar-nominated movie producer ( Boys Town, MGM 1938), and himself the son of a theatrical producer. Timothy Daniel Considine was born in Los Angeles to a show business family, though one that created and exhibited rather than performed. ![]()
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