John Considine

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John William Considine III (born January 2, 1935 in Los Angeles ) is an American author, actor and screenwriter.

Life

Considine is the son of Metro Goldwyn Mayer producer John W. Considine Jr. ( Boys Town , Johnny Eager ) and his wife Carmen Pantages, daughter of a theater magnate. His grandfathers, Alexander Pantages and John Considine Sr., pioneered the American vaudeville entertainment theater, which was popular in the late 20th century. His younger brother is the actor, writer, and photographer Tim Considine.

He spent his childhood in sheltered circumstances and spent a lot of time on the MGM premises; a family neighbor was Harpo Marx and in his dance class was Liz Taylor . In 1958 Considine graduated from the University of California and later studied acting in New York .

Considine is the paternal nephew of journalist Bob Considine and ex-brother-in-law of Charlotte Stewart . He was married to Toby Considine from March 9, 1957 to 1976; from this marriage comes a common child. From December 27, 1980 to July 19, 1984 Considine was married to Jette McGuire in second marriage.

After living in Los Angeles for nearly 60 years, Considine bought a house in Port Townsend in the mid-1990s ; there he spends his retirement with his third wife Astrid Lee Peterson, to whom he has been married since December 24, 1984. According to his own account, his maternal grandfather, Alexander Pantages, first set foot in the United States in Port Townsend in the late 20th century.

Career

Considine began his career at the age of seven with a child role in A Yank at Eton (1942) opposite Mickey Rooney ; other small roles followed.

After finishing his studies, he earned his living as a co-writer of screenplays, had first roles in television series and was later under contract with MGM; his first and only supporting role during this time he had in 1965 in the film The Greatest Story of All Time . At the end of the 1960s, he turned his back on acting for a short time and ran a ceramics factory until its bankruptcy and sold insurance. After a breakdown in class, he went to Beverly Hills and contacted the first psychiatrist he found in the Yellow Pages ; Considine realized that he couldn't work in a normal job.

From the beginning of the 1960s Considine played leading and supporting roles in numerous television series: Adventures in Paradise , Straightaway , The Aquanauts ( Malibu Run ), Lock-Up , Adventure under water , Jump out of the clouds , Combat! , My Uncle From Mars , Twilight Zone , The Outer Limits , Perry Mason , FBI , Gomer Pyle, USMC , Dr. med. Marcus Welby , Detective Rockford - Just Call , The Devlin Connection , The Eddie Capra Mysteries , Lou Grant , Mannix , Cannon , Taxi , California Clan , The Denver Clan , My Dad's An Alien , An American Family , Eight is Enough , Hart but warmly , Remington Steele , An Angel on Earth , The Jeffersons , Hotel , MacGyver , Hardcastle & McCormick , The Colbys - The Empire , Emerald Point NAS , The Falls of Harry Fox , Knight Rider , The A-Team , Simon & Simon , Murder is her hobby , LA Law - Star Lawyers, Tricks, Litigation, and Boston Legal .

He has also starred in soap operas such as Bright Promise as Dr. Brian Walsh (1971–72), in Shadows of Passion as Phillip Chancellor II (1973–74) and in two different roles in Another World (as Vic Hastings, 1974–76, and as Reginald Love, 1986–88).

Robert Altman was the first director to cast Considine against his type; he had already directed an episode of the television series Combat! played. Altman gave him the role of a pimp in California Split and Considine was discovered.

His film career includes roles in The Greatest Story Ever (1965), Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls (1973), The Thirsty Dead (1974), Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976), Welcome to LA (1976), The Cat knows the killer (1976), The day the world ended (1980), Endstation Malibu (1980), Circle of Power (1981), Endangered Species (1982), Choose Me (1984), Trouble in Mind (1985) , Die Zeitfalle (1987) alongside Klaus Kinski , Die Schattenmacher (1989), Coupe de Ville (1990), Free Willy 2 - Freedom in Danger (1995) and The Book of Stars (1999). He had his last leading role in 2005 in the film The Mongol King .

Considine also worked behind the camera as a screenwriter and speaker. He wrote the nominated screenplay for Robert Altman's film Eine Hochzeit (1978), in which he also worked as an actor, and scripts for television series such as My Three Sons , MacGyver and Dr. med. Marcus Welby . As a speaker, he also recorded radio plays for the radio; in the Star Wars adaptation for National Public Radio , he played the role of Tion.

After standing on a theater stage for the last time in 1989, he ended his film and television career in 2007 after almost 65 years.

Considine, who has largely withdrawn from the public eye, continues to work as a writer; In 2013 Considine held a reading ( Love Letters ) and gave a total of twelve performances of David Mamet's two-man play A Life in the Theater (from 1977) at the Key City Public Theater on June 26, 2014 at the side of Erik Gratton and directed by Denise Winter. These performances should also represent the official end of his stage career.

Nominations

For the screenplay for Robert Altman's film A Wedding , Considine was nominated for a BAFTA Award in the category "Best Screenplay" in 1979 and for an award from the Writers Guild of America . In 1988 he was nominated for the Soap Opera Digest Award for the impersonation of Reginald Love in the soap opera Another World .

bibliography

  • Improvising: My Life and Show Business (S&L Enterprises, 2012).
  • A War: A Boy's Struggle To Survive World War II in Beverly Hills (CreateSpace, 2013).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Actor John Considine to speak at Port Townsend Film Festival , Seattle Post-Intelligencer , May 21, 2004. Retrieved December 21, 2007.
  2. ↑ a b c Reading Series - An Evening with John Considine ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Port Townsend : Northwind Arts Center, March 28, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / northwindarts.org
  3. ^ Google Books

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personal data
SURNAME Considine, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Considine III, John William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author, screenwriter, and actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles