Scott Brady

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Scott Brady (actually Gerard Kenneth Tierney , born September 13, 1924 in Brooklyn , † April 16, 1985 in Los Angeles ) was an American film and television actor .

Life

Brady was born in Brooklyn , New York City . His older brother Lawrence Tierney was also an actor. During the Second World War he was employed in the US Navy . He then worked as a lumberjack before he began to take acting classes and then started his career.

During his film career, he was seen in westerns a lot , like in the movie Johnny Guitar - When Women Hate or in the long series The People at Shiloh Ranch from the 1960s. As early as 1958, he starred in the film Ambush at Cimarron Pass , starring alongside Clint Eastwood .

He had his last film role as sheriff in the horror comedy Gremlins - Little Monsters from 1984. The following year he died at the age of 60 of pulmonary fibrosis .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1948: Started at night (He walked by Night)
  • 1948: In This Corner
  • 1948: Rebellion in the Gray House (Canon City)
  • 1948: The Counterfeiters
  • 1949: Drug Brigade (The Port of New York)
  • 1949: Deadly Suction (Undertow)
  • 1950: Secret police officer Christine Miller (Undercover Girl)
  • 1950: I was a shoplifter (I was a shoplifter)
  • 1950: Horsemen Without Mercy (Kansas Raiders)
  • 1952: The Day of Retribution (Untamed Frontier)
  • 1952: The most beautiful of Montana (Montana Belle)
  • 1952: Rival in the saddle (Bronco Buster)
  • 1952: False Flag (Yakee Buccaneer)
  • 1953: In the Clutches of the Underworld (Three Steps to the Gallows)
  • 1954: Johnny Guitar - When Women Hate (Johnny Guitar)
  • 1954: Mannequins for Rio
  • 1954: Damn Without Mercy (The Law vs. Billy the Kid)
  • 1955: The Vanishing American
  • 1955: How to love in Paris (Gentlemen marry brunettes)
  • 1956: The Devil of Colorado (The Maverick Queen)
  • 1956: Mohawk
  • 1956: Terror (Terror at Midnight)
  • 1957: The Storm Rider
  • 1957: A Guy Like Dynamite (The restless Breed)
  • 1958: Ambush at Cimarron Pass
  • 1959: The dogs bite the last (The Battle Flame)
  • 1963: Demolition squad leather neck (Operation Bikini)
  • 1964: One too many in the harem (John Goldfarb, please come home!)
  • 1964: Stage to Thunder Rock (Stage to Thunder Rock)
  • 1965: Black spores (Black Spurs)
  • 1967: The Bloody West (Red Tomahawk)
  • 1967: The Lawless Three (Fort Utah)
  • 1967: The Arizona Bushwackers
  • 1967: Journey to the Center of Time
  • 1969: The wax museum of horror (Nightmare in Wax)
  • 1969: The Sadists of Satan (Satan Sadists)
  • 1969: Five Bloody Graves (Five Bloody Graves)
  • 1969: Lost in Space (Marooned)
  • 1969: Die in the saddle (Cain's Way)
  • 1971: The robbery of millions (dollars)
  • 1971: Doctor's Wives
  • 1973: Until the goosebumps freeze (Wicked, Wicked)
  • 1975: The Kansas City Massacre
  • 1977: The Language of Violence (Pressure Point)
  • 1979: The China Syndrome (The China Syndrome)
  • 1981: Bloody Screams (Small Town Massacre)
  • 1984: Gremlins - Little Monsters (Gremlins)

literature

  • Gregor Hauser: Muzzle flashes: The 50 best B-Westerns of the 50s and their stars . Verlag Reinhard Marheinecke 2015, ISBN 978-3-932053-85-6 . Pp. 235-238.

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personal data
SURNAME Brady, Scott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tierney, Gerard Kenneth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and television actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York, USA
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1985
Place of death Los Angeles , California, USA