![]() ![]() My agent went back to Disney Studios and said my guy wants to do it, but only if you make Spin an equal-size part to Marty. “I said I’d like to be this other guy who’s really cool in it, his friend Spin. I didn’t want because he was this snotty little rich kid,” he recalled in a 2010 interview. He then read for a TV program called The Marty Markham Story, which was based on a 1942 book by Lawrence Edward Watkin. In 1954 films, Considine played the son of William Holden and June Allyson’s characters in Robert Wise’s Executive Suite and was paired with Stollery for the first time in Greer Garson’s Her Twelve Men. He just made me love him, and I really related to him as a father.” “I was very intimidated by the whole deal. “I didn’t know anything about acting, I probably never did,” he said. He said Skelton had a huge influence on him as they worked on The Clown, a remake of the 1931 tearjerker The Champ, starring Jackie Cooper. (Actress Marion Davies, the mistress of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, served as maid of honor at his parents’ wedding at L.A.’s Ambassador Hotel in 1932.) Considine Jr., was an MGM-based producer on the Oscar best picture nominees Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)and Boys Town (1938) his mother, Carmen, was the daughter of theater tycoon Alexander Pantages. Timothy Daniel Considine was born in 1940 on New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles. Mike was never seen and rarely even mentioned on the show again.įrom left: William Frawley, Fred MacMurray, Stanley Livingston, Tim Considine and Don Grady from ‘My Three Sons.’ Everett When Mike marries Sally Ann Morrison (Meredith MacRae) and leaves town in the sixth-season opener, neighborhood kid Ernie Thompson, played by Barry Livingston (Stanley’s real-life younger brother), is adopted. The heads-up gave the writers time to figure out how to keep the show’s title. “I got along great with ’em, I loved them all, I was just tired of doing that. “I gave them a year’s notice and told them I didn’t want to do it anymore,” he said in a 1997 interview. In 1964, Considine - who had written two episodes of My Three Sons and directed another - told producers that he was quitting. Don Grady and Stanley Livingston played his brothers, Robbie and Chip, respectively all were being raised by their widowed dad, Steve (MacMurray), an aeronautical engineer. In 1956 and ’57, Considine starred in two more sets of Spin and Marty serials and portrayed amateur sleuth Frank Hardy opposite Tommy Kirk as his younger brother, Joe, in The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure and The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm.Īfter playing Buzz Miller, the rival of Kirk’s Wilby Daniels, in the Disney classic The Shaggy Dog (1959), Considine, then 19, reunited with Fred MacMurray to star as Mike Douglas on ABC’s My Three Sons. The series of shorts, set at a Western-style summer camp for boys called the Triple R Ranch, premiered as part of ABC’s The Mickey Mouse Club in November 1955. He also wrote with his older brother, John Considine, a 1966 episode of NBC’s Tarzan, starring Ron Ely, that morphed into the 1970 feature Tarzan’s Deadly Silence.Ĭonsidine starred as the likable Spin Evans opposite David Stollery as spoiled rich kid Marty Markham on The Adventures of Spin and Marty. Sharon Farrell, Actress in 'It's Alive,' 'Marlowe' and 'The Reivers,' Dies at 82 ![]()
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