Timothy Carey

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q449465: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by of 2 people by that name, the one in film or television.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (10 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (13) everyone in acting

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (extreme-performer lineage): Timothy Carey → Laird Cregar. Both were actors who showed the extreme, unglamorous end of human emotion.
    “especially Timothy Carey, who was the Nicholas Cage with the 40s.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:56:25 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (repeat actors): Peter Sellers → Timothy Carey. They are the two actors Kubrick gave leads to more than once.
    “Peter Sellers and Timothy Carey.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:37:41 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Timothy Carey → Stanley Kubrick. Paths of Glory was Kubrick and Carey's second film together and their last.
    “this is Kubrick and Tim Carey's 2nd movie together and very much, uh, their last.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:25:20 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. people (shared actor): Timothy Carey → Paths of Glory. Carey was crazy on Paths of Glory too and Kubrick eventually fired him.
    “he was crazy when they made paths of glory as well, and eventually Kubrick fired him”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:36:05 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (comparison): Timothy Carey → Klaus Kinski. Carey is called the American Klaus Kinski.
    “But American Klaus Kinsky, yeah.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:31:17 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (comparison): Timothy Carey → Cage. Cage is offered as a comparison for Carey's expressionistic acting.
    “But Cage is a good comparison too”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:34:43 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if casting): Timothy Carey → Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola wanted Carey for Luca Brasi in The Godfather.
    “He wanted Timothy Carey to play Luca Brasi in The Godfather”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:31:36 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Timothy Carey: Kubrick shot Carey's close-ups first and let him go the moment they were done.
    “they essentially fired him the moment his final close-up was done”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:25:39 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Timothy Carey: During production Carey staged his own kidnapping in Munich for publicity.
    “But during the making of this film, he fakes his own kidnapping.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:26:13 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Timothy Carey: In the death scene Carey bit the priest actor's arm; Emile Meyer hated it.
    “Timothy Carey would do things like bite his arm and like, you know, harass him, essentially”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:27:28 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Timothy Carey: Carey ate a whole duck on every take, about 86 times, resetting with a fresh duck each time.
    “The way he's eating it, they have to reset with a clean duck every time.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:29:23 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Timothy Carey: Carey reportedly showed up to a Godfather Part II meeting with a bakery box holding a blank-filled gun and shot it at the ceiling.
    “I brought cannoli for everybody.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:32:55 · Patton Oswalt (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Timothy Carey: His post-credits bit in D.C. Cab: he gets in a cab and says he's the angel of death and to take him to hell.
    “I'm the angel of death.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:34:07 · Patton Oswalt (0.55 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Timothy Carey: His performance clenches the jaw like a living corpse; the speakers love how strange and huge he is on screen.
    “I'm already dead, and I'm going to play this with a rictus because I'm going to die.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:35:07 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Timothy Carey: His image from The Killing turns up on the Sgt. Pepper outtake photos behind George Harrison, though the speaker concedes it may not be the final cover.
    “Sag had no cause projection, but apparently he's also in his image from the killing is on the Sergeant Pepper cover behind George Harrison.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:36:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Timothy Carey: He was cast as Squiggy's dad on Laverne & Shirley and fired the first day for his philosophy of immediate flatulence.
    “Timothy Carey was originally cast on Laverne and Shirley as Squiggy's dad.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:37:33 · Patton Oswalt (0.80 sure it was them)