Tim Brooke-Taylor

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Tim Brooke-Taylor (2014)

Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor OBE (born July 17, 1940 in Buxton , Derbyshire ; † April 12, 2020 ) was a British comic actor who was best known in Great Britain for his work in " The Goodies " comedy trio and in the radio comedy shows I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again .

Life

Tim Brooke-Taylor was the grandson of Pastor Francis Pawson , who had played two international matches for the English national football team between 1883 and 1885 . His mother was a lacrosse player and his father was a lawyer .

Tim Brooke-Taylor was Lord Rector of St Andrews University from 1979 to 1982 and was an Honorary Vice President of Derby County FC.

Brooke-Taylor died on April 12, 2020 at the age of 79 as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK .

School and university

Although he was expelled with five and a half years of school, Brooke-Taylor was educated at Winchester College and at Pembroke College of Cambridge University . While there, he attended business and political lectures , but then opted for law and met with other emerging comedians such as John Cleese , Graham Chapman , Bill Oddie and Jonathan Lynn at the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club. In 1963 Brooke-Taylor became its president. The Footlights Club revue A Clump of Plinths was so successful during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival that the show was renamed Cambridge Circus and from then on played in the West End in London . They later went to New Zealand and Broadway with their show in September 1964 . He was also active in the Pembroke College acting community, the Pembroke Players .

Career

Tim Brooke-Taylor came quickly to the BBC - Radio with the hectic show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again , occurred in which he and he wrote with. With him as the screamingly eccentric Lady Constance de Coverlet, you could be sure that he would get the loudest audience reaction to her signature phrase “did somebody call?” In most of his programs after a comic and recognizable lead had been provided when their adventure story reached its climax or a cliffhanger end. Other members of the I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again team included John Cleese , Bill Oddie , Graeme Garden , David Hatch, and Jo Kendall .

In the mid-1960s, Brooke-Taylor appeared with Canadian Bernard Braden in the television series On the Braden Beat , where he took over the temporarily free role of Peter Cook as EL Wisty . Brooke-Taylor played a reactionary right-wing townsperson who believed himself to be a soul of tolerance.

In 1967 Brooke-Taylor became a writer and performer on the television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show , starring John Cleese , Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman . The famous Four Yorkshiremen sketch was jointly written by the series' four writers / actors. The sketch was one of the few to survive the destruction of the series (by deleting the tapes) by David Frost's Paradine Productions (who produced the series). The sketch is included on the DVD of " At Last the 1948 Show ". The “Four Yorkshiremen sketch” has also been played during Amnesty concert performances (by members of the Monty Python troupe - once with Rowan Atkinson instead of a Monty Python member). It was also played during the Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl and other Monty Python shows. It is also included on Monty Python CDs, with the inevitable result that the “Four Yorkshiremen sketch” is now mistaken for a Monty Python sketch and that its origin (and thus also the collaboration on the sketch by Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman ) is unfortunately ignored, overlooked and forgotten.

Brooke-Taylor also starred in the 1968 pilot of Frost's How to Irritate People , which was designed to sell to the American market what would later become known as the 'Monty Python' comedy style. Many of the skits were later revived on the Monty Python television series, particularly the job interview in which Brooke-Taylor played the nervous candidate who was tormented by the questioning John Cleese. The show is also notable because it marks the first collaboration between John Cleese and Michael Palin .

From 1968 to 1969, Brooke-Taylor was also an actor and writer on the television comedy series Marty, starring Marty Feldman , John Junkin and Roland MacLeod . A compilation of the two seasons of " Marty " has been released on a BBC DVD under the title " The Best of Marty Feldman ".

In 1969/70 he played as “ The Voices Of Authority ” in the children's series “ Grasshopper Island ”, produced by Joy Whitby (“ Catweazle ”), in several roles of highly authoritarian adults.

Around the same time, Brooke-Taylor produced two series of Broaden Your Mind with Graeme Garden (and Bill Oddie , who starred for a second season). The series, which describes itself as "An Encyclopedia of the Air", consists of a series of skits (often removed from 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again'), which are (loosely) connected by a weekly changing theme are. Today there are only a few minutes of this broadcast, although recordings from listeners from both seasons have survived. The success led to the inclusion of the show The Goodies , also with Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden. The first broadcast came from BBC2 in November 1970 and was a huge television hit that ran for more than a decade on both BBC TV and (in its senior year) private broadcaster London Weekend Television . The show produced many books and recordings.

While The Goodies was playing, Brooke-Taylor starred on the BBC radio series Hello, Cheeky! with, a rough stand up comedy show with Barry Cryer and John Junkin . 'Hello Cheeky' was also briefly televised, produced by the commercial network Yorkshire Television .

After The Goodies on British television ended, Brooke-Taylor worked again with Garden and Oddie in the animated television comedy series Bananaman , in which Brooke-Taylor was the narrator and also the voice of "King Zorg of the Nurks" from " Eddie the Gent ”,“ Auntie ”and“ Appleman ”spoke. The voice on the children's series Gideon is also spoken by him.

Brooke-Taylor appeared with Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden on the Amnesty International show A Poke In The Eye (With A Sharp Stick) (where they sang their hit song Funky Gibbon ) and also appeared on the Amnesty International show The Secret Policeman's Other Ball in the sketches "Top of the Form" (with John Cleese, Graham Chapman, John Bird , John Fortune , Rowan Atkinson and Griff Rhys Jones ), and "Cha Cha Cha" (with John Cleese and Graham Chapman) on.

Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie appeared on Top of the Pops with their song Funky Gibbon . Brooke-Taylor also appeared with Graeme Garden in the theater production of The Unvarnished Truth . Another BBC show that Brooke-Taylor starred on was I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue . On February 18, 1981, Brooke-Taylor was the topic of This Is Your Life on Thames Television .

Graeme Garden was a regular team captain on the political satire show If I Ruled the World . Tim Brooke-Taylor appeared as a guest on one episode, and during a round of I Couldn't Disagree More, he suggested that it was high time to do The Goodies episodes to repeat. Due to the rules of the game, Garden was obliged to refute his statement and replied “I couldn't disagree more… it was time to repeat them ten, fifteen years ago.” (German: the time to repeat it was 10 before 15 years). The reaction to this was raging applause from the studio audience.

Brooke-Taylor has also appeared on television in UK sitcoms such as You Must Be The Husband with Diane Keen , His and Hers with Madeline Smith and Me and My Girl with Richard O'Sullivan . He also played the nervous computer programmer in the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder .

2004 Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden were the presenters of Channel 4 - game show Beat the Nation in which they the usual game show banter gave way, but took the quiz itself seriously. Oddie presents a very successful series of nature programs for the BBC.

Tim Brooke-Taylor remained a popular, instantly recognizable radio and stage actor, performing on stages in Australia and England, mostly as a middle-class Englishman. Around 1982 he entered the new mime market as The Lady in Dick Whittington. He has also authored and co-authored several comic books based primarily on his work on radio and television and the sports of golf and cricket .

Filmography (selection)

Fonts

as a single author

as a co-author

  • Tim Brooke-Taylor wrote the following books with fellow members of The Goodies :

literature

  • Roger Wilmut: From Fringe to Flying Circus. Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1980 . Eyre Methuen, London 1980, ISBN 978-0-413-50770-9 .
  • Robert Hewison: Footlights! A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy . Methuen, London 1983, ISBN 0-413-51150-2 .

Web links

At Last the 1948 Show
Tim Brooke-Taylor- Graham Chapman - John Cleese - Marty Feldman - Aimi MacDonald
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
Tim Brooke-Taylor- John Cleese - Graeme Garden - David Hatch - Jo Kendall - Bill Oddie
I'm sorry I haven't a clue
Tim Brooke-Taylor - Barry Cryer - Graeme Garden - Humphrey Lyttelton - Willie Rushton - Colin Sell

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goodies star Brooke-Taylor dies with coronavirus , bbc.com , accessed April 12, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Brooke-Taylor, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brooke-Taylor, Timothy Julian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Buxton , Derbyshire
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2020