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Tim Conway has died at the age of 85
Tim ConwayComic legend dies at 85
Bluffing his way into a director's job in Cleveland (alongside his first comic partner Ernie Anderson) got the former Tom Conway (he changed his name to Tim to avoid confusion with the detective actor of the same name) his first break in show business. Although many of his individual comic efforts have earned him fame and acclaim (including his famous diminutive Dorf character, which he used for home video shorts in the 1980s and 1990s), he is best known for his frequent collaborations:
- With Ernest Borgnine, he was a cast member of
McHale's Navy and later reunited with Borgnine as elderly superheroes
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy on the SpongeBob SquarePants cartoons.
- With Don Knotts, he starred in the live-action Disney feature
The Apple Dumpling Gang. Both Knotts and Conway had been cast members on
The Steve Allen Show.
- With Harvey Korman, he formed a particularly long-lasting double act that became a regular feature on
The Carol Burnett Show.
In most of these, Conway played his role with understated absurdity, showing a knack for making his co-stars over the years break into uncontrollable laughter with his antics.
Conway continued to work until about a year before his death, with his last role being
Sponge out of Water, in which producers noted his declining health; he was diagnosed with senile dementia in 2018 and, after a custody battle, died May 14.
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