Casey Affleck, the actor brother of Ben Affleck, has shared that their father, Timothy Affleck, died earlier this year, a loss that came just two months after news emerged of their mother Christine’s death.
The 51-year-old Oscar-winning actor confirmed that he has endured the death of both parents within the same year.
Speaking at a press conference during the Venice Film Festival, Casey said the project was dedicated to his parents, explaining: “It’s dedicated to my parents because I lost both my mom and my dad this year, and they were very important to me.”
He was at the event in Italy for the movie Company, which debuted at the festival, as he co-wrote and directed the highly-anticipated film. Page Six was the first to report the news.
He added that he had hoped they would be able to see the film, saying: “I really wanted to show this movie to them, and I didn’t get to. I think they would have liked it.”
Our News Outlet has reached out to representatives for both Casey Affleck and Ben Affleck for comment, but has not yet received a response.
Casey Affleck, the actor brother of Ben Affleck, has revealed that their father Timothy died this year, shortly after the death of their mother Christine was made public; the brothers are pictured together in January 2017
Ben and Casey Affleck’s parents, Christine and Timothy Affleck, are pictured in Los Angeles in November 2012
The exact date of Timothy “Tim” Affleck’s death has not been disclosed. He was born on March 21, 1950.
No doubt it has been a tough year for the Affleck family as the matriarch of the family, Christine, passed away on June 2 as he family made the sad announcement she had passed on July 24.
Tim and Christine are survived by sons Ben, 53, and Casey, 50; and five grandkids: Indiana, 22, Violet, 20, Atticus, 18, Fin, 17, and Sam, 14, who were described as ‘the animating force of her last two decades’ in Christine’s Legacy obituary.
According to her obit, she had been told by doctors she had six months to live last December, and her final wish was to see her grandson’s high school graduation.
She attended the ceremony this past May 31, and died while sleeping just two days later.
Casey said during a press conference at the Venice Film Festival : ‘It’s dedicated to my parents because I lost both my mom and my dad this year, and they were very important to me’ (Timothy is seen with Ben in September 2013)
No doubt it has been a tough year for the Affleck family as the matriarch of the family, Christine, passed away on June 2 as he family made the sad announcement she had passed on July 24. Pictured 2014 in LA with Ben
The actor and his mother were pictured at an Academy Awards party in 1998
Timothy stayed outside of the limelight for most of his life other than an appearance in Casey’s infamous mockumentary starring Joaquin Phoenix titled I’m Still Here.
However, in February 2018, Timothy defended his sons from numerous ugly allegations as he told Grazia at the time: ‘It has taken a toll on both of my sons.
‘Hollywood is a disgusting place. I think that’s been a major factor in Ben’s drinking. You’re kind of forced to develop a persona that is hard to shed and go home to your family. It affects your whole life. I think that’s one of the dangers of the film industry.’
Meanwhile, Christine had been born in December of 1942 in New York City. She graduated from Harvard University and was a public school teacher for 35 years prior to her retirement in 2008.
Ben, speaking with The Hollywood Reporter in 2012 about his mother, said, ‘My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master’s there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school.’
Christine developed a keen sense of social consciousness early in life, as ‘she made the most of an elite education while remaining skeptical of the tightly cloistered world it represented’ while attending the school Nightingale-Bamford, according to her obit.
In one instance, a teacher yelled at her for condemning Jim Crow since she hadn’t spoken to the ‘other side,’ according to her obit.
She subsequently called a Woolworth’s store to inquire if they had turned down business from Black people. It marked her essence of being ‘willing to acknowledge that she might be wrong and never letting that uncertainty be an excuse for inaction,’ her obit stated.
Casey Affleck and Christine seen at a movie premiere in April of 2000
She was a staunch advocate for civil rights, and had traveled to the South in the 1960s during a time of social change, according to her obituary.
Christine ‘taught literacy classes in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, marched against the Vietnam War, and reveled in 1960s counterculture,’ her obituary stated.
She carried these values into the classroom, according to the obit, as ‘every student, whether just arrived from Haiti or Cambridge upper crust, was a cherished citizen of her classroom republic, equal to each other and to herself.’
Christine and ex-husband Timothy Affleck welcomed Ben in 1972 and Casey in 1975. In the mid-1970s, they moved to Massachusetts, as Christine taught there. They got divorced when Ben was 12-years-old, and Timothy would move to California afterwards.
