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Timothy Byers Affleck: What happened to Ben Affleck's father?

Timothy Byers Affleck is an actor and also popular as the father of Ben Affleck. Timothy Byers Affleck’s son is an American actor and filmmaker. He gained wider recognition when he won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for writing Good Will Hunting (1997). He also played the superhero Batman in the DC Extended Universe, beginning with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).

Timothy Byers Affleck: Bio Summary

Full NameTimothy Byers Affleck
famous asFather of Ben Affleck
Age73 years old as of 2023
Date of Birth 21 March 1950
Place of BirthScotland, United Kingdom
Zodiac signAries
NationalityAmerican
EthnicityCaucasian
children Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck
SpouseChristopher Anne Boldt (m. ?–1984)

How old is Ben Affleck’s father?

Timothy Byers Affleck was born on 21 March 1950 in Scotland, United Kingdom to Myron Strong Hopkins Affleck (1918-2002) and Nancy Byers (1924-1969). He is 73 years old as of 2023. The surname “Affleck” is of Scottish origin. He also has Irish, German, English, and Swiss ancestry.

Timothy Affleck was married to Christopher Anne Boldt. Tim Affleck’s first child Ben Affleck was born in Berkeley, California and he moved the family to Massachusetts when he was three, living in Falmouth, where his youngest son Casey was born.

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 Ben Affleck’s mother was a Teacher

Timothy Byers Affleck‘s ex-wife Christopher Anne Boldt was a Harvard-educated elementary school teacher while was an aspiring playwright who was “mostly unemployed” according to his son Wikipedia. He worked sporadically as a carpenter, auto mechanic, bookie, electrician, bartender, and janitor at Harvard. In the mid-1960s, he had been an actor and stage manager with the Theater Company of Boston.

 Ben Affleck’s father had a “severe, chronic problem with alcoholism”

According to his IMDB profile, Tim Affleck is known for I’m Still Here (2010). During Ben’s childhood, his father had a self-described “severe, chronic problem with alcoholism”, and the Batman actor has recalled him drinking “all day … every day” and has also recalled him to be “very difficult”.  

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 Ben Affleck revealed he felt a sense of “relief” at the age of 11 when his parents called their marriage a quit in 1984, and his father exited the family home. The boys lived with their mother and visited their father weekly. His father continued to drink heavily and eventually became homeless, spending two years living on the streets of Cambridge.

When the actor was 16 and his brother Casey was 13, his father entered a rehabilitation facility in Indio, California. Ben Affleck’s father Timothy Byers Affleck lived at the facility for twelve years to maintain his sobriety and later worked there as an addiction counselor. Ben Affleck on the other hand also attended Al-Anon support meetings as a child due to his father’s addiction issues. 

Casey Affleck recalls reconnecting with his father during visits to California as a teenager: “I got to know him, really, because he was sober for the first time … The man I knew before that was just completely different.” There is a history of addiction and mental illness in the Affleck family.

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Ben Affleck’s own drinking became a concern when he was fifteen. His mother sent him to an Outward Bound wilderness camp for at-risk teenagers, having first considered a residential recovery program. In a 2016 interview, Casey Affleck said that he had been sober for “almost three years … My father was a disaster of a drinker, my grandmother was an alcoholic, my brother spent some time in rehab – it’s in our genes.“

Where is Timothy Byers Affleck Now?

Timothy Byers Affleck is still alive as of 2023, He has been living a very private life despite his son being a mega Hollywood star. Ben Affleck’s dad admits he had ‘No Idea’ his son was back with Jennifer Lopez. The actor’s father doesn’t think his son was “pining” over Jennifer Lopez before their romantic reunion but admitted he had “no idea” about the pair rekindling their relationship. 

“I’ve never heard of all that nonsense,” Timothy Byers Affleck told The Sun in an article published on Friday, June 4, 2021 adding, “I haven’t seen my kids in so long, what with their work and COVID.” Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck got married in a Las Vegas ceremony on July 16, 2022

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Update: 2024-05-22