Considine’s part consisted mostly of expressing superiority over Mr. Funicello - playing a duplicitous teenage boy whose best friend turns into a Bratislavian sheepdog and breaks up a spy ring. He was also in the “Annette” serial, starring Annette Funicello.Īt 18 he appeared in the Disney feature film “ The Shaggy Dog” (1959) - it also starred Mr. In “ The Hardy Boys” serials (19), which were also shown on “The Mickey Mouse Club,” he and Tommy Kirk played the sons of a private detective, boys who investigated neighborhood mysteries. Considine became the first screen heartthrob for many preteen girls. The agent passed along the request, Spin’s role was beefed up and the series ended up being a partnership of adolescent equals - rivals who eventually became friends, riding, roping, boxing, sleeping in a bunkhouse and sitting around the campfire together. But he told his agent that he didn’t want the part, that he’d rather play Spin Evans, the more athletic and more popular character, the city boy with the cool flattop haircut, he said. Considine was originally cast in what was supposed to be the lead, as Marty Markham, a snobbish rich kid spending the summer at the Triple R dude ranch.
#TIM CONSIDINE YOUNG MY THREE DEAD SERIAL#
“ Spin and Marty” was an 11-minute serial shown on “The Mickey Mouse Club” from 1955 to 1958 - and in reruns through 2002. The Walt Disney Archives website announced his death. Tim Considine, who was a television star at the age of 14 in Disney’s “Spin and Marty” and went on to wider fame in the family series “My Three Sons,” died on Thursday at his home in the Mar Vista section of Los Angeles. He played the oldest son, Mike, after gaining fame in the “Spin and Marty” serial on Disney’s “The Mickey Mouse Club.” But after his 1960s heyday, he faded as an actor.
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