Tim Brooke-Taylor

Comedian

Tim Brooke-Taylor was born in Buxton, England, United Kingdom on July 17th, 1940 and is the Comedian. At the age of 79, Tim Brooke-Taylor biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
July 17, 1940
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Buxton, England, United Kingdom
Death Date
Apr 12, 2020 (age 79)
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Profession
Actor, Comedian, Film Actor, Screenwriter, Television Actor, Voice Actor
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Education
Pembroke College, Cambridge
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Christine Wheadon ​(m. 1968)​
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Tim Brooke-Taylor Life

Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor OBE (born 17 July 1940) is an English comedian and actor.

He started performing in comedy sketches at Cambridge University and became President of the Footlights Club, touring internationally with the Footlights revue in 1964.

He became more popular on BBC Radio, with I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, and he and old Cambridge classmates John Cleese and Graham Chapman also appeared on television in the 1948 Show At Last.

He is most well-known as a member of The Goodies, appearing in the television series in the 1970s and gaining international recognition in Australia and New Zealand.

He has appeared on several sitcoms and has served as a panelist on I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue for more than 40 years.

Early life and education

Timothy Brooke-Taylor was born in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, on July 17th, 1940, the son of Edward Brooke-Taylor, a lawyer, and international lacrosse expert Rachel, daughter of Francis Pawson, was born on July 17th, a parson who played centre forward for the English football team in the 1880s. He was kicked out of primary school at the age of five and a half. Brooke-Taylor attended Thorn Leigh Preparatory School, Holm Leigh Preparatory School (where he won a trophy for his prowess as a bowler in the school cricket team) and Winchester College, where he graduated with seven O-levels and two A-levels in English and history.

He taught at Pembroke College, Cambridge, for a year at Lockers Park School, a preparatory school in Hemel Hempstead, and a term at Holm Leigh School as a teacher. He read economics and politics before deciding to read rule, associating with John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, and Jonathan Lynn in the Cambridge University Footlights Club (of which Brooke-Taylor became President in 1963).

A Clump of Plinths, the Footlights Club revue, was so popular during its Edinburgh Festival Fringe run that it was renamed Cambridge Circus and moved to London's West End before being taken to both New Zealand and Broadway in September 1964. Brooke-Taylor was also active in the Pembroke College drama club, the Pembroke Players.

Personal life

Ben and Edward were married by Brooke-Taylor in 1968, and they had two sons, Ben and Edward. He lived in Cookham Dean, Berkshire, and was heavily involved in local activities. He was a member of Temple Golf Club and a keen golfer. In the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to light entertainment, he was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

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Tim Brooke-Taylor Career

Career

Brooke-Taylor's fast-paced comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, which he appeared on and co-wrote, quickly into BBC Radio. He could be relied on to produce the most adamant audience response of many programs in this long-running series simply by calling "Did someone call?" he says. As their adventure story came to an end or cliffhanger ending, they were uttered after a comedic and transparent feed-line. John Cleese, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, and Jo Kendall were among the other participants of I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again.

Brooke-Taylor appeared in the television series On the Braden Beat with Canadian Bernard Braden, taking over the position that had been vacant by Peter Cook in his role as E. L. Wisty in the mid-1960s. Brooke-Taylor was a gent of the city who believed he was the embodiment of compassion.

Brooke-Taylor became a writer/performer on the television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show, with John Cleese, Graham Chapman, and Marty Feldman. The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch was co-written by the four writers and performers of the series. The sketch appears on At Last the 1948 Exhibition's DVD. Using footage from Brooke-Taylor and Cleese from At Last the 1948 show on Monty Python's special Monty Python - Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut). The sketch has since been recognized for its satirical representation of Britain's class system and the North-South divide.

In 1968, Brooke-Taylor appeared on David Frost's pilot program How to Irritate People, which was meant to promote Monty Python style comedy to the American market. Many of the sketches were later revived in Monty Python's film series, such as the work interview sketch in which Brooke-Taylor played a tense interviewer portrayed a tense interviewee by interviewer John Cleese. It was also the first collaboration between Cleese and Michael Palin. One of the sketches related to Cleese's character dating a promiscuous woman named "Christine Wheadon," which was the name of Brooke-Taylor's wife.

Also in 1968, Brooke-Taylor made an unexpected and uninvited guest appearance in an episode of Do Not Adjust Your Set, filling in for Michael Palin, who was sick that week. The episode in which he was based is still exists and has been included in DVD compilation sets.

Brooke-Taylor appeared on television comedy series Marty starring Marty Feldman, John Junkin, and Roland MacLeod from 1968-69. On a BBC DVD entitled The Best of Marty Feldman, a compilation of the two series of Marty Feldman has been published. During this time, Brooke-Taylor appeared in the film One Man Band starring Orson Welles; however, the project was never completed and remains unveiled.

Brooke-Taylor created two versions of Broaden Your Mind with Garden at the same time (and Oddie will appear in the second series). The show, which was sometimes referred to as "An Encyclopedia of the Air," was a collection of comedy sketches derived (loosely) from a weekly running theme.

The success of Broaden Your Mind resulted in the commissioning of The Goodies, as well as Oddie and Garden. The Goodies, first broadcast on BBC2 in November 1970, was a television hit, broadcasting for more than a decade by both the BBC and (in its final year) by ITV company London Weekend Television, which produced numerous spin-off books and hits.

Brooke-Taylor appeared on the BBC radio show Hello Cheeky, a bawdy stand-up comedy film starring Barry Cryer and John Junkin during its run on The Goodies. The series was briefly broadcast on television by Yorkshire Television's commercial company Yorkshire Television.

He appeared on television in British sitcoms including You Must Be the Husband with Diane Keen, His and Hers with Madeline Smith, and Me and My Girl with Richard O'Sullivan. In 1979, he appeared in the Radio 4 comedy film Tell Me Where It Hurts. Brooke-Taylor appeared in advertisements, including the Christmas ads for the Brentford Nylons chain of fabric shops and in a public information film on the now-defunct E111 model, which has since been replaced by the European Health Insurance Card.

He appeared in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in 1971 as the last one shot for the film. Brooke-Taylor appeared on TV animated comedy series Bananaman, in which Brooke-Taylor was the narrator, as well as voicing the characters of King Zorg of the Nurks, Eddie the Gent, Auntie, and Appleman. He also lent his voice to the children's television show Gideon.

Brooke-Taylor appeared in Amnesty International's A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick) he performed their hit song "Funky Gibbon," but not in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (with Cleese, Chapman, John Bird, Rowan Atkinson, and Griff Rhys Jones), and "Cha Cha Cha Cha" (with Cleese and Chapman). "Funky Gibbon" was also performed by Brooke-Taylor, Garden, and Oddie on Top of the Pops. In the theatre production of The Unvarnished Truth, Garden joined Brooke-Taylor.

The self-styled "antidote to panel games" on BBC radio stations in which Brooke-Taylor appeared include the following: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm not a Clue; he appeared on radio programmes for more than 40 years. Brooke-Taylor, the 18th member of Thames Television's This Is Your Life, was published on February 18, 1981.

In 1998, Brooke-Taylor appeared as a guest on one episode of the political satire game show If I Ruled the Country.

Brooke-Taylor and Garden, co-presenters of Channel 4's daytime game show "banter," but the quiz was not taken seriously. He appeared on stage in Australia and England, mainly as a middle class Englishman. He developed to pantomime in Dick Whittington's early 1980s as the Dame. He was also the author (and co-author) of many amusing books, mainly based on his radio and television work, as well as golf and cricket. He came to the fore when he appeared in the first episode of the BBC's golf-based game show Full Swing (opposite Bruce Forsyth).

Brooke-Taylor was seen in the Doctor Who audio story "The Zygon Who Fell To Earth," produced by Big Finish Productions in 2008. Paul McGann played the Eighth Doctor, and Brooke-Taylor played Mims, a Zygon taking the appearance of a human.

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