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.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Crime Wave (1954); The Killing (1956); Paths of Glory (1957); Head (1968); Chesty Anderson, USN; Chock Treatment (as transcribed); D.C. Cab; East of Eden; Francis the Talking Mule movies; Minnie and Moskowitz.

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.

Clean Break (novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through The Killing (1956), which they acted in: Clean Break (novel) ⇒ The Killing (the host's read). The film is the screen version of the novel Clean Break.
    “Clean Break was the name of the book.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:05:46 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Humphrey Cobb: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they acted in: Humphrey Cobb ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read). Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot.
    “Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)

Stanley Kubrick: 1 line

  1. unmapped (drew on his chess life) · through The Killing (1956), which they acted in: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ The Killing (the host's read). The speaker says the movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in several ways.
    “I love how much this movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in multiple ways.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:09:39 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

The Killing (1956): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (led to) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they acted in: The Killing ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read). Kirk Douglas saw The Killing and wanted that director for Paths of Glory.
    “And then didn't Kirk Douglas see this and went, oh, this is paths of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:05:46 · Patton Oswalt (0.35 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

David Simon: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they acted in: Paths of Glory ⇒ David Simon (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly). The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below.
    “this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

One-Eyed Jacks (1961): 1 line

  1. unmapped (led to) · through The Killing (1956), which they acted in: The Killing ⇒ One-Eyed Jacks (the host's read). Brando had seen The Killing and Paths of Glory and wanted Kubrick to direct his western.
    “Marlon Brando had seen the killing and had seen paths of glory and thought Kubrick was great.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:39:11 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Paths of Glory (1957): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (led to) · through The Killing (1956), which they acted in: The Killing ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read). Kirk Douglas saw The Killing and wanted that director for Paths of Glory.
    “And then didn't Kirk Douglas see this and went, oh, this is paths of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:05:46 · Patton Oswalt (0.35 sure it was them)

Reservoir Dogs (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Killing (1956), which they acted in: The Killing ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the maker said so: a Tarantino quote the host reads). Tarantino said Reservoir Dogs was his version of Kubrick's heist film, without meaning it as a ripoff.
    “but I did think of it as my killing, my take on that kind of heist movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

The Dark Knight (2008): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Killing (1956), which they acted in: The Killing ⇒ The Dark Knight (the host's read). The clown mask is said to look basically like the Joker mask Nolan pays homage to in The Dark Knight.
    “Nolan obviously pays homage to in the Dark Knight”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:28:00 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

The Wire (2002): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they acted in: Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly). David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground.
    “David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

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)