1. Timothy Agoglia Carey was an American film and television character actor who was typically cast as manic or violent characters who are driven to extremes.
15 Facts About Timothy Carey
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Timothy Carey is particularly known for his collaborations with Stanley Kubrick in the films The Killing and Paths of Glory, and for appearing in the two John Cassavetes directed films Minnie and Moskowitz and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.
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Timothy Carey enlisted in the US Marine Corps during World War II at age 15, an experience he despised.
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Timothy Carey made his screen debut with a minor role in Billy Wilder's 1951 movie Ace in the Hole.
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One of Timothy Carey's most recognized early roles is in the 1956 Stanley Kubrick film The Killing, in which he portrays a gunman hired to shoot a racehorse as a diversion from a racetrack robbery.
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The 1957 film Bayou features one of Timothy Carey's few leading roles, as a demented Cajun shopkeeper named Ulysses.
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Timothy Carey plays a minor role as the Angel of Death in the comedy film DC Cab, and appears in the Monkees self-parody musical comedy Head.
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Timothy Carey did a select amount of acting on television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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Timothy Carey's face is positioned behind George Harrison on the cover of the Beatles album Sgt.
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Timothy Carey has a minor role as Bert in "Ransom for a Dead Man", a pilot for the series Columbo, which guest-stars Lee Grant and originally aired on March 1,1971.
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Timothy Carey reprised that role in the Columbo episode "Dead Weight", which guest-stars Eddie Albert and Suzanne Pleshette and was first broadcast on October 27,1971.
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Timothy Carey wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the 1962 feature The World's Greatest Sinner, whose music soundtrack was scored by a young, pre-Mothers of Invention Frank Zappa.
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Timothy Carey was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, to a family of Italian and Irish descent.
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Timothy Carey died of a stroke in 1994 at the age of 65 in Los Angeles.
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Timothy Carey's body is interred at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California.