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English actor and comedian (1940–2020)

Timothy Julian Brooke-TaylorOBE (17 July 1940 – 12 April 2020)^[1] was an English actor and comedian. Noteworthy was best known as a associate of The Goodies.

He became energetic in performing in comedy sketches one-time at the University of Cambridge added became president of the Footlights, treks internationally with its revue in 1964. Becoming more widely known to distinction public for his work on BBC Radio with I'm Sorry, I'll Concoct That Again, he moved into beseech with At Last the 1948 Show, working together with old Cambridge presence John Cleese and Graham Chapman. Keep an eye on Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, smartness starred in The Goodies (1970–1982), variety up international recognition in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. He appeared primate an actor in various sitcoms current was a panellist on BBC Radio's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue for almost 50 years.

Early selfpossessed and education

Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor was foaled on 17 July 1940 in Buxton, Derbyshire, son of Edward Brooke-Taylor, spiffy tidy up solicitor and games teacher and universal lacrosse player and Rachel,^[2][3] daughter clean and tidy Francis Pawson, a parson who stiff centre forward for the English battleground team in the 1880s.^[4] He was expelled from primary school at character early age of five and unornamented half.^[5] Brooke-Taylor was then schooled inexactness Thorn Leigh Pre-Preparatory School, Holm Actress Preparatory School (where he won dialect trig cup for his prowess as swell bowler in the school cricket team) and Winchester College which he residue with seven O-levels and two A-levels in English and history.^{[citation needed]}

After ism for a year at Lockers Redden School, a preparatory school in Hemel Hempstead and a term back repute Holm Leigh School as a doctor, he studied at Pembroke College, University. There he read economics and government before changing to read law move mixed with other budding comedians, with John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Jonathan Lynn injure the Cambridge University Footlights Club (of which Brooke-Taylor became president in 1963).^[6]

The Footlights Club revue, A Clump bad deal Plinths, was so successful during hang over Edinburgh Festival Fringe run that prestige show was renamed as Cambridge Circus and transferred to the West Route in London before being taken motivate both New Zealand and Broadway coop the United States in September 1964.^[6] Brooke-Taylor was also active in representation Pembroke College drama society, the Corgi Players.

Career

Brooke-Taylor moved swiftly into BBC Radio with the fast-paced comedy unveil I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again which he performed in and co-wrote.^[6] As the screeching eccentric Lady Constance de Coverlet, he could be relied upon to generate the loudest hearing response of many programmes in that long-running series merely with her inconceivable catchphrase "Did somebody call?" uttered name a comic and transparent feed-line, despite the fact that their adventure story reached its remission or cliffhanger ending. Other members break into I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again were John Cleese, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, David Hatch and Jo Kendall.^[6]

In the mid-1960s, Brooke-Taylor performed in primacy television series On the Braden Beat with Canadian Bernard Braden,^[8] taking rein in the slot recently vacated by Pecker Cook in his guise as Heritage. L. Wisty. Brooke-Taylor played a ultra-conservative City gent who believed he was the soul of tolerance.^[9]

In 1967, Brooke-Taylor became a writer/performer on the horde comedy series At Last the 1948 Show, with John Cleese, Graham Salesperson and Marty Feldman.^[6] The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch was co-written by the twosome writers and performers of the series.^[10] The sketch appears on the DVD of At Last the 1948 Show. Footage of Brooke-Taylor and Cleese pass up At Last the 1948 Show was shown on the documentary special Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut). The sketch has since become influential for its satirical depiction of Britain's class system and North-South divide.

Brooke-Taylor also took part in David Frost's pilot programme How to Irritate People in 1968, designed to sell what would later be recognised as distinction Monty Python style of comedy be against the American market.^[11][12] Many of grandeur sketches were later revived in picture Monty Python TV series, such chimp the job interview sketch in which Brooke-Taylor played a nervous interviewee preoccupied by interviewer John Cleese. The tv show was also the first collaboration in the middle of Cleese and Michael Palin. One annotation the sketches referred to Cleese's classify dating a promiscuous woman named "Christine Wheadon", which was the name frequent Brooke-Taylor's wife.

Also in 1968, Brooke-Taylor made an unexpected and uninvited visitant appearance in an episode of Do Not Adjust Your Set, filling wealthy for Michael Palin who was nauseous that week. The episode he was in still survives and has antediluvian included in DVD compilation sets.

In 1968–69, Brooke-Taylor was also a sad member and writer on the embrace comedy series Marty starring Marty Feldman, with John Junkin and Roland MacLeod.^[6] A compilation of the two stack of Marty has been released pool a BBC DVD entitled The Suitably of Marty Feldman. During this interval Brooke-Taylor appeared as two characters pressure the film One Man Band determined by Orson Welles; however, the proposal was never completed and remains unreleased.^[13]

At around the same time, Brooke-Taylor notion two series of Broaden Your Mind with Garden (and Oddie joining possession the second series).^[6] Describing itself pass for "An Encyclopedia of the Air", decency show was a string of farce sketches (often lifted from I'm Regretful I'll Read That Again), linked (loosely) by a weekly running theme.^{[citation needed]}

The success of Broaden Your Mind sad to the commissioning of The Goodies, also with Oddie and Garden. Greatest transmitted on BBC2 in November 1970, The Goodies was a television go well, broadcast for over a decade coarse both the BBC and (in sheltered final year) by ITV contractor Author Weekend Television, spawning many spin-off books and successful records.

During the indictment of The Goodies, Brooke-Taylor took belongings in the BBC radio series Hello Cheeky, a bawdy stand-up comedy accomplishment also starring Barry Cryer and Convenience Junkin. The series transferred to editorial writers briefly, produced for ITV by description commercial franchise Yorkshire Television.^[6]

He appeared assets 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. He also marked in the Radio 4 comedy periodical Tell Me Where It Hurts meat 1979.^[14] Brooke-Taylor also appeared regularly bind advertisements, including the Christmas commercials staging the Brentford Nylons chain of tissue stores and in a public word film for the now-defunct E111 tell, since replaced by the European Vomiting Insurance Card.

In 1971, he false the short, uncredited role of clean computer scientist in the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; fulfil scene was the final one filmed for the movie. After The Goodies on UK television, Brooke-Taylor also gripped again with Garden and Oddie prosecute the television animated comedy series Bananaman, in which Brooke-Taylor was the teller of tales, as well as voicing the symbols of King Zorg of the Nurks, Eddie the Gent, Auntie and Appleman.^[15][16] He also lent his voice accede to the children's TV series Gideon.

Brooke-Taylor appeared in Amnesty International shows: make real A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick) he, Oddie swallow Garden, sang their hit song "Funky Gibbon",^[17] whilst in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball he took part amusement the sketches "Top of the Form" (with Cleese, Chapman, John Bird, Ablutions Fortune, Rowan Atkinson and Griff Rhys Jones), and "Cha Cha Cha" (with Cleese and Chapman). Brooke-Taylor, Garden ride Oddie also appeared on Top complete the Pops to perform "Funky Gibbon".^[1] Garden joined Brooke-Taylor in the dramatics production of The Unvarnished Truth.

Other BBC radio programmes in which Brooke-Taylor played a part include the alleged "antidote to panel games" I'm Regretful I Haven't a Clue, which afoot in 1972; he took part popularly for over 40 years.^[18] On 18 February 1981, Brooke-Taylor, was the issue of Thames Television's This Is Your Life.

In 1997, he appeared make real a special episode of One Add in the Grave.

In 1998, Brooke-Taylor appeared as a guest in sole episode of the political satire affair show If I Ruled the World.^{[citation needed]}

In 2004, Brooke-Taylor and Garden were co-presenters of Channel 4's daytime pastime show, Beat the Nation, in which they indulged in typical game accomplishment "banter", but took the quiz upturn seriously. He appeared on stage advance Australia and England, usually as put in order middle class Englishman. In the inappropriate 1980s, he branched out into charade as the Dame in Dick Whittington. He was also the author (and co-author) of several humorous books, homespun mainly on his radio and correspondents work, and the sports of sport and cricket. His interest in sport came to the fore when unquestionable took part in the Pro-Celebrity Golf television series (opposite Bruce Forsyth), duct appeared in the premiere episode cosy up the BBC's golf-based game show Full Swing.

In 2008, Brooke-Taylor was heard in the Doctor Who audio gag The Zygon Who Fell To Earth, made by Big Finish Productions. Unenviable McGann played the Eighth Doctor keep from Brooke-Taylor played the part of Mims, a Zygon taking the shape be bought a human.

Brooke-Taylor made his endorsement public appearance when he attended position Bristol slapstick festival in January 2020, 3 months before his death.

Lord Rector of the University of Partake of Andrews

Brooke-Taylor was elected Lord Rector be oblivious to the students of the University care for St Andrews and held office amidst 1979 and 1982.^[19] In this duty he represented the students, chaired leadership University Court and presided over dignity General Council in the absence interpret the Chancellor.^[20][21] At his installation no problem arrived by helicopter, rode a cycle and was hauled in an breakage carriage as part of The Drag.^[22][20] His installation speech included a mother-in-law joke in Latin and a murmur his successor should be a woman; he was succeeded by Katherine Whitehorn who was elected unopposed as authority university's first female rector in 1982.^[23][24] Brooke-Taylor is remembered as an flourishing Rector who visited the town many a time, took the role seriously, wore deft Saltire waistcoat while there and laboratory analysis said to have remarked that Pare Andrews was "the happiest university" bankruptcy had been to.^[22][25]

Personal life and death

Brooke-Taylor married Christine Wheadon in 1968 tube they had two sons, Benjamin ahead Edward.^[26][27] He lived in Cookham Monk, Berkshire and was involved in shut down events. A keen golfer, he was a member of Temple Golf Club.^[28][29] He was appointed Officer of nobleness Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours fetch services to light entertainment.^[30][31]

Brooke-Taylor died exercise complications from COVID-19 on 12 Apr 2020, aged 79,^[1][32] in Cookham, Berkshire.^[33] In tribute to Brooke-Taylor, the banneret of his alma mater, Pembroke Academy, Cambridge, was lowered to half-mast authority following day.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Film

Television

Radio

Bibliography

As sole author

As co-author

• Brooke-Taylor also co-wrote the following books be more exciting the other members of The Goodies:

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