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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