Ben Affleck’s actor brother Casey confirmed that their father Tim had passed away this year just two months after the death of their mother Christine.
The 51-year-old Oscar-winning actor confirmed he had ‘lost’ both his parents this year.
Speaking at a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, Casey said: “It’s dedicated to my parents, because I lost both my mother and my father this year, and they were very important to me.”
He attended the event in Italy for the film Company, which debuted at the festival, co-writing and directing the highly anticipated film. Page six was the first to break the news.
Casey continued, “I really wanted to show this movie to them, but I couldn’t. I think they would have liked that.”
Ben Affleck’s actor brother Casey confirmed that their father Tim had passed away this year, just two months after their mother Chris passed away (the two brothers are seen in January 2017)
The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Casey and Ben and has yet to hear back.
It remains unclear when their father Tim – born on March 21, 1950 – died.
It has undoubtedly been a difficult year for the Affleck family, as the family’s matriarch, Christine, passed away on June 2 when the family made the sad announcement of her passing on July 24.
Tim and Christine are survived by sons Ben, 53, and Casey, 50; and five grandchildren: Indiana, 22, Violet, 20, Atticus, 18, Fin, 17, and Sam, 14, who were described in Christine’s films as “the inspiring force of her last twenty years.” Legacy obituary.
According to her obituary, doctors told her last December that she had six months to live, and her dying wish was to see her grandson’s graduation.
She attended the ceremony last May 31 and died while sleeping just two days later.
The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck for further comment on the story.
It has undoubtedly been a difficult year for the Affleck family, as the family’s matriarch, Christine, passed away on June 2 when the family made the sad announcement of her passing on July 24. Pictured 2014 in LA with Ben
The actor and his mother were pictured at an Academy Awards party in 1998
Christine was born in New York City in December 1942. She graduated from Harvard University and was a public school teacher for 35 years before retiring in 2008.
Ben, talking to The Hollywood Reporter in 2012 about his mother: “My mother taught in public school, went to Harvard, got her master’s degree there, and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school.”
Christine developed a keen sense of social consciousness early in life because “she made the most of an elite education while remaining skeptical of the rigidly segregated world it represented” while attending the Nightingale-Bamford school, according to her obituary.
In one case, a teacher yelled at her for condemning Jim Crow because she hadn’t spoken to the “other side,” according to her obituary.
She then called a Woolworth’s store to ask if they had turned away business from black people. It marked her essence of “being willing to admit that she might be wrong and never letting that uncertainty be an excuse for inaction,” according to her obituary.
Casey Affleck and Christine seen at a movie premiere in April 2000
She was a fierce advocate for civil rights and had traveled to the South in the 1960s at a time of social change, according to her obituary.
Christine “taught literacy classes in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, marched against the Vietnam War and enjoyed the counterculture of the 1960s,” according to her obituary.
According to the obituary, she imparted these values in the classroom because “each student, whether fresh from the high society of Haiti or Cambridge, was a valued citizen of her class 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 while Christine taught there. They divorced when Ben was 12 years old, and Timothy would then move to California.
