Tim Conway suffers from ‘dementia’ memory loss
Tim Conway is battling dementia. Kelly, the 84-year-old daughter of The Carol Burnett Show star, is asking to be appointed her father’s guardian and to be in charge of her medical treatments, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE and first reported by The Blast. .
Kelly, 56, filed the papers in Los Angeles on Friday, alleging that Conway’s wife, Charlene, is “planning to remove him from the excellent skilled nursing facility that he is currently in” and place him in one that will not give him access. to “registered physicians”. nurses at all times and his caregiver and speech therapist 24 hours a day (to help with swallowing)”.
Kelly also claims that Conway is unable to “adequately meet his personal needs for physical health, food, and clothing” and is “almost unresponsive”.
She hopes to be granted guardianship so she can administer her father’s medications herself.
Before making his mark in Hollywood, Conway surprisingly had no experience in the industry.
“He had no professional training. He had a sense of humor and he had been in front of a microphone,” Conway said on an episode of The Interviews: An Oral History of Television in 2004.
He starred in McHale’s Navy, co-starred in the 1970s sitcom The Carol Burnett Show, acted as the voice of Barnacle Boy on Spongebob Squarepants, and even made a guest appearance on the second season of 30 Rock, for which he received an Emmy.
He also won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for The Carol Burnett Show, in which he was best known for characters like Oldest Man and Mr. Tudball.
Conway’s other television credits include guest appearances on Married… With Children, Mad About You, Glee, Two and a Half Men and Mike & Molly.
Before marrying Charlene in 1984, Conway was married to Mary Anne Dalton from 1961 to 1978.
Together they share seven children: sons Jaime, Tim Jr., Pat, Corey and Shawn and daughter Jackie and Kelly.
Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway formed a dynamic duo in 1962 at McHales Navy
In 1999, they reformed that bond in animated form as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy.
My thoughts are with Tim and his family, he has given us so many memories over the DECADES,
His little old man routine on the Carol Burnett show used to have me in stitches. One of the most expressive faces in comedy, I’m so sorry you’re going through this.
Stem cell research should already be advanced enough to help with cases like Tim Conway’s.