Tim Conway was an American comedic actor with a remarkable career! He has also voiced a lot of animated characters!
He died recently. So let’s commemorate him with some trivia and facts!
- His full name is Thomas Daniel “Tim” Conway
- He was born in December 15, 1933
- He died in May 14, 2019
- He was an American comedic actor, writer and director
- He portrayed the inept Ensign Parker in the 1960s World War II situation comedy McHale’s Navy
- He was a regular cast member on the 1970s variety and sketch comedy program The Carol Burnett Show
- He co- starred with Don Knotts in several films in the late 1970s and early 1980s
- He starred as the title character in the Dorf series of comedy films
- And provided the voice of Barnacle Boy in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants
- Conway was born in Willoughby, Ohio
- A suburb of Cleveland
- And grew up in nearby Chagrin Falls
- He was of Irish descent on his father’s side
- And Romanian on his mother’s
- Conway attended Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio
- There he majored in television and radio and was a disc jockey
- And he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
- When he graduated, Conway enlisted in the United States Army
- There he served between 1956 – 1958
- Tim Conway collaborated with many other notable performers
- And maintained long-term professional relationships with many of them
- In June 2010, Conway returned to his hometown of Chagrin Falls
- To put on fund-raising performances at the Chagrin Valley Little Theatre
- To help kick off its capital campaign
- He was a spokesperson for the United Leukodystrophy Foundation
- He was a fan of thoroughbred horse racing
- And an occasional racehorse owner
- Tim Conway was the co-founder and vice-president of the Board of Directors of the Don MacBeth Memorial Jockey Fund
- Tim Conway died on May 14, 2019 at the age of 85
- From complications of normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Tim Conway was married twice
- He was married to Mary Anne Dalton
- From 1961 until 1978
- They had six children together
- He was married to Charlene Fusco
- From May 18, 1984 until his death
- Among Conway’s children is KFI Los Angeles radio host Tim Conway, Jr.
- His step-daughter through his second marriage became the tour manager for Conway’s live tour with Harvey Korman
- Tim Conway and his second wife, Charlene, lived in Encino, California
- In late 2013, his memoir was on The New York Times Best Seller list its first week on sale
- It is called What’s So Funny?: My Hilarious Life
- Interviewed by Raymond Arroyo on his EWTN program The World Over on October 2, 2014, he revealed that he had converted to the Catholic faith
- In 2018, Conway was diagnosed with dementia
- He began using a wheelchair
- And had brain surgery
- His daughter Kelly and his wife, Charlene, each wanted sole conservatorship over his health
- Judge Robert Wada ruled against Kelly since he was in a hospital
- In March 2019, his wife was granted conservatorship of Conway
- He was also called Thomas Daniel Conway, Tim Daniel Conway, Thomas Conway
- He had a show called after him, The Tim Conway Show
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