The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 28, 2013

Today we return with Lt. Columbo to Bert’s diner for a bowl of his signature chili, as seen in “Dead Weight,” the episode of Columbo that first aired on October 27, 1971. This was the second of Timothy’s three appearances on the series, always as the proprietor of an eating...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 27, 2013

Before it gets taken down for “copyright infringement,” please enjoy this week’s video! It features most of Tim McIntire‘s epic drug monologue from James B. Harris‘ Fast-Walking (1982). Our Timothy, as junkie con Bullet, is mostly silent but reacts to McIntire’s r   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 25, 2013

Our first pic for the week checks back in with Vincent Sherman‘s The Second Time Around (1961), the amiable Western comedy starring Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest and Andy Griffith. Timothy appears as bad guy Bonner, looking menacing as he sucks on a cancer stick, dagger tattoo and all. I&#82   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 24, 2013

THE WORLD’S GREATEST SINNER (1963) Music like the worst nightmare the Cramps ever had. Timothy Carey – the charismatically malevolent “heavy” of The Killing, The Wild One, Paths of Glory, and East of Eden – single-handedly made this film between 1960 and 1963 in and aro   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 22, 2013

Friday’s pic is another from Echo Park (1986), Timothy’s last feature film. As per usual, he stole the spotlight in his brief appearances as Vinnie the pizza slinger, this time from Tom Hulce, fresh from his Oscar nomination for Amadeus (1984). I do not like the looks of that scar...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 21, 2013

Spring is finally here, so naturally we immediately start thinking about summer. In that spirit, here is another look at the late William Asher‘s Beach Blanket Bingo (1965). South Dakota Slim has just been bonked on the head by a mysterious assailant, causing him to forget that he was just...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 20, 2013

This week it’s short and sweet. We feature Timothy’s classic line from Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957). Also appearing are Ralph Meeker and Joseph Turkel. I honestly believe that Tim’s play The Insect Trainer was, at least in part, his attempt to make amends to the co   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 19, 2013

It’s time that we took another gander at the prison potboiler Revolt in the Big House (1958). Timothy’s Ed “Bugsy” Kyle is not happy that Al (Sam Edwards) is turning chicken. Red (John Dennis, on the right) and an unidentified actor look on uneasily. Dennis found himself inc   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 18, 2013

Today we take another look at the long-running Western series The Virginian and the episode “Home to Methuselah,” which was first broadcast on November 26, 1969. Outlaws in hiding Zach Ontro and Jase Dubbins (Anthony D. Call) ponder their futures. Ontro is especially adamant in warning D   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 17, 2013

Timothy Agoglia Carey was born in 1929. His father Joseph was second-generation Irish, a former fireman who lost his job after an accident and died of a stroke at work in a Wall Street elevator. His mother Ida was the daughter of Rocco Agoglia, founder of the Bank of Agoglia...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 15, 2013

Today’s pic revisits “Grubstake,” the episode of the Hopalong Cassidy television series that first aired on February 5, 1954. Blacksmith Dan Warner is discussing something very important with Bummer Lowe (Percy Helton) and Hoppy himself (William Boyd). After a successful career as   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 14, 2013

Today – Pi Day! – our pic revisits the Supertrain episode “Superstar,” which, by some uncanny coincidence, was first broadcast exactly 34 years ago today: March 14, 1979. Timothy’s grumpy hit man Anderson is itching to take a shot at the guy he’s gunning for, Jack   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 13, 2013

Our video this week is a small glimpse into Timothy’s play The Insect Trainer, which he had originally conceived as a novel. He was working on bringing it to the stage at the time of his death in 1994. As usual, it just leaves you wanting more. You can purchase...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 12, 2013

Today we revisit “Teacher of Outlaws,” the excellent episode of The Big Valley which was first aired on February 2, 1966. Outlaw Preacher Clegg is glowering appropriately. Busy atmosphere player and stunt man Cap Somers has an uncredited bit in this episode. He and Timothy became friend   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 11, 2013

Timothy William Carey was born 84 years ago today. This is the oldest picture of him that his son Romeo has (I apologize for the bad angle and all the reflections; it was on the wall of the studio and I didn’t want to be rude and take it down....   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 10, 2013

Timmy always seemed to have a project going, but I guess that’s par for the course with creative personalities. I don’t recall the origins of The World’s Greatest Sinner. He wanted to combine religion and politics in a film and do something a little different about a self-made type   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 7, 2013

The pic for today is another look at Stark, the crazed but rather dapper-looking train robber of “The Great Train Robbery,” the episode of Sheriff of Cochise that was first broadcast on October 5, 1956. I am not sure who the actors portraying his two cohorts in crime are. This...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 6, 2013

Our video this week is another version of Ulysses shaking what his mother gave him in Harold Daniels‘ Bayou (1957) (aka Poor White Trash). This has been uploaded several times on YouTube, and this is probably the best-quality version so far. Sure I’ve posted the dance before, but it&#821   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 5, 2013

Today we’re revisiting Head (1968), directed by Bob Rafelson, written by Rafelson, Jack Nicholson, and The Monkees, and starring the Pre-Fab Four themselves. Timothy is in full froth during the inexplicable “Atta boy Mike” scene. “You really can’t describe the picture,&#8221   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 4, 2013

We kick off the work week with another look at Milo Sangster, the evil-doer of John Lamb‘s Mermaids of Tiburon (1962). He is not above dynamiting mermaids and tossing his sidekick (Jose Gonzales-Gonzales) into shark-infested waters in his quest for the elusive “fire pearls.” Here h   read more