Tim Brooke-Taylor
Birthday: Born in 1940-07-17 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Deathday: 2020-04-12
Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor OBE (17 July 1940 – 12 April 2020) was an English actor and comedian best known as a member of The Goodies. He became active in performing in comedy sketches while at the University of Cambridge and became president of the Footlights, touring internationally with its revue in 1964. Becoming more widely known to the public for his work on BBC Radio with I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, he moved into television with At Last the 1948 Show, working together with old Cambridge friends John Cleese and Graham Chapman. With Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, he starred in The Goodies (1970–1982), picking up international recognition in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. He appeared as an actor in various sitcoms and was a panellist on BBC Radio's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue for almost 50 years. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
TV Credits
Shooting Stars
Character: Self
Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning to BBC Two for another 3 series from 2008 until its cancellation in 2011. Created and hosted by double-act Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it uses the panel show format but with the comedians' often slapstick, surreal and anarchic humour does not rely on rules in order to function, w...
At Last the 1948 Show
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A groundbreaking, splendidly silly, surreal sketch comedy series written by and starring The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor, Monty Python's Graham Chapman and John Cleese, and comedy legend Marty Feldman....
The One Show
Character: Self
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One....
Heartbeat
Character: Ronnie Smethers
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines....
Countdown
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The clock is ticking as contestants compete in games of lexical dexterity and numerical agility....
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Character: Self
A series of benefit shows staged initially in the United Kingdom to raise funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International. The shows started in 1976 featuring popular British comedians but later included leading musicians and actors. The Secret Policeman's Ball shows are credited by many prominent entertainers with having galvanised them to become involved with Amnesty and other social and political causes in succeeding years....
The Goodies
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A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy....
Broaden Your Mind
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Broaden Your Mind is a British television comedy series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, joined by Bill Oddie for the second series. Guest cast members included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Jo Kendall, Roland MacLeod and Nicholas McArdle....
Agatha Christie's Marple
Character: Dr. Edward Humbleby
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over....
What the Dickens?
Character: Team Captain
What the Dickens is a television panel game hosted by Sandi Toksvig. Team captains were Dave Gorman and Tim Brooke-Taylor for the first series and Sue Perkins and Chris Addison for the second and third. It is recorded at Sky Studios in West London....
TLC
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TLC is a darkly surreal farce-like sitcom set in a fictional NHS hospital called South Middlesex where coffee is traded like drugs and pretty much everyone has a personality problem. It was first broadcast on the BBC on 11 November 2002 and ran over six episodes until 16 December. There were some very mixed opinions on the show among both critics and viewers, but it achieved decent ratings and featured an excellent comedy cast including Richard Griffiths, Alexander Armstrong and The League of Ge...
You Must Be The Husband
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You Must Be the Husband is a British comedy television series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor in the title role of Tom Hammond, and Diane Keen as his wife, Alice Hammond, with Sheila Steafel as Alice's literary agent, Miranda Shaw. Tom and Alice Hammond are a happily married couple who become extremely wealthy when Alice suddenly becomes a best-selling author....
Me and My Girl
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A British television situation comedy broadcast on ITV between 1984 and 1988 starring Richard O'Sullivan, which centred on the challenges faced by a widower raising his adolescent daughter....
The Alphabet Game
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Bananaman
Character: Narrator
Animated parody of famous superheroes about a young boy called Eric, who found out that when he eats bananas he transforms into the super strong Bananaman!...
Hello Cheeky
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Cilla
Character: Self
A mostly live weekly entertainment show starring Cilla Black and her special guests....
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Character: Astronomer (voice)
Dennis and Gnasher is an animated British TV series based on characters from The Beano comic, It features the daily adventures of the rebellious schoolboy Dennis the Menace and his dog Gnasher....
The Upper Hand
Character: Trevor
The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and Columbia Pictures Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom Who's the Boss?. As in the former series, an affluent single woman, raising a son with the help of her mother, hires a housekeeper only to have a man apply for the job....
Great British Menu
Character: Self - Guest Judge
Britain's top chefs compete for the chance to cook a four-course banquet for a high-profile figure....
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Character: Self - Participant
Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction...
The Wednesday Play
Character: (uncredited)
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen....
Omnibus
Character: Self
Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the Am...
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
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Comedic British History...
Movie Credits
Twelve Plus One
Character: Jackie
Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people who would like to help or to swindle him....
Return of the Goodies
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The Goodies finally return to television after nearly 25 years with a compilation of classic clips, interviews and new material....
How to Irritate People
Character: Various Characters
A pre-Monty Python mockumentary, written by and presented by John Cleese, that provides tips on learning how to irritate people....
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Character: Algy in 'Stately Homes' segment, Presenter in 'One-Man Band' segment
Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic partner of Orson Welles in his last years)....
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Character: Self
Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy from BBC Two....
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Character: Self - Various Characters
Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums – Cleese, Lewis and Walker planned the next show to be a more spectacular event. Cleese focused on broadening the comedic talent to be presented at the show. In addition to the Amnesty show stalwarts drawn from the Oxbridge/Monty Python/Beyond The Fringe orbit, he invited newcomers such as Rowan Atkinson’s colleagues from the BBC TV show Not the Nine O'Clock...
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
Character: Self
A documentary about the legendary and influential comedian, actor and writer, who went out from the BBC to conquer Hollywood, but sadly the system quickly withdrew its support when they couldn't contain his talents. This portrait is spiked with many comments from people who knew Feldman privately or had dealt with him professionally. His early death sadly rendered him all but forgotten by the public. The compilation consists of interviews, some film clips and photos as well as various audio clip...
The Goodies Almost Live
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The Goodies bookend the sixth season of their successful television show with a specially taped concert special, featuring live studio performances of songs from The New Goodies LP and I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again....
An Audience with The Goodies
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The Goodies reunite on stage for a very special one-night-only event. Recorded 8th June 2018 at the Leicester Square Theatre. Talking to writer & comedian Stewart Lee and writer & archive television expert Dick Fiddy, the three Goodies discuss their career and the enduring popularity of the series, as well as taking questions from the audience....
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Character: Computer Scientist (uncredited)
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner....
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
Character: Self
The first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase at Her Majesty's pleasure (the show was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London). This show came to be considered part of the Secret Policeman's Ball series of shows that it inspired, although it pre-dated the first show in the series by three years. The event was organized by a team of three: Monty Python member John Cleese, Amnesty's Assistant Director Peter Luff and Transatlantic Records executiv...
What the Pythons Did Next...
Character: Self
A look at the careers of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam in the years after Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)....
London
Character: Various
Five comedy vignettes: 1) Churchill, 2) Swinging London, 3) Four Clubmen, 4) Stately Homes, 5) Tailors....
The Statue
Character: Hillcrest
Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt's celebrity, arranges for the U.S. to commission a statue for a London square to honor Bolt's achievement. Bolt's Italian wife, a renowned artist, sculpts an 18-foot nude of Bolt. In a pique, because he's neglected her for years to do his work, she gives the statue a spectacular phallus, telling Bolt that he wasn't its model. Thinking he's a ...
Under the Bed
Character: Bin Man
A young girl kicks all of her rubbish under her bed creating a monster which she and her brother must fight....
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Character: Himself
Recorded over two legs of the 2007 sell-out tour - the series' first ever live shows in its 35-year history - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is as mad as always and even live you may still not be able to work out the elusive rules of Mornington Crescent! Join, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jeremy Hardy and pianist Colin Sell plus Humphrey Lyttelton, in one of his final performances, in an un-missable evening of inspired nonsense....