Timothy Carey
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| Timothy Carey | |
 Timothy Carey in The World's Greatest Sinner. |
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| Birth name | Timothy Agoglia Carey |
| Born | March 11, 1929 Brooklyn, New York |
| Died | May 11, 1994 |
| Official site | Carey's Official Website |
| Notable roles | The World's Greatest Sinner |
Timothy Agoglia Carey (b. March 11, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York; d. May 11, 1994 in Los Angeles, California) was an intense American actor with a cult following who worked in multiple films with Stanley Kubrick and John Cassavetes.
Oddly, he was Pirate Morgan in The Boy and the Pirates (1960), for Bert I. Gordon (Mr. B.I.G.), the master of giant monster films, to the fright of 12-year-old lead Charles Herbert.
Carey produced, wrote, directed and starred in the 1962 feature The World's Greatest Sinner. The film never saw commercial release and the Hollywood Reporter called it “an apparent waste of time and money with very limited commercial appeal.” However, the film remains an important cult classic to this day. Carey remains an important icon in independent film. He funded the film himself.
The film involves a bored insurance salesman quitting his job and starting his own religion. He goes by the name of "God", founds his own political party and has sex with both a young girl and an old woman, all to an original Frank Zappa soundtrack.
Carey worked with Kubrick as a hired killer in The Killing (1956) and a French soldier in Paths of Glory (1957), and with Cassavetes in Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976).
Carey also did a select amount of acting on TV from the 1950s through the 1980s. He had roles in East of Eden with James Dean, The Wild One with Marlon Brando, and Beach Blanket Bingo, with the crazy kids of the Beach Party gang.
His final appearance was in the 1986 movie Echo Park.
He died from a stroke in 1994.
