Tim Brooke-Taylor

Tim Brooke-Taylor (born July 17, 1940 in Buxton, Derbyshire) is a British comic actor most well known in Britain as a member of "The Goodies" comedy trio, and as one of the panel members of the comedy radio show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

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July 17 - 1940 - Buxton - Derbyshire - British - Actor - The Goodies - I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

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Tim Brooke-Taylor is the grandson of a parson who played centre-forward for England's football team in the 1890s. His mother was an international lacrosse player and his father a solicitor. Despite an expulsion from school at the early age of five and a half years, Tim studied at Winchester College and at Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. There he read Economics and Law and mixed with other budding comedians, including John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bill Oddie, and Jonathan Lynn in the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club (of which Tim became President in 1963). The Footlights Club revue, A Clump of Plinths was so successful during its Edinburgh Fringe Festival run, that the show was renamed as Cambridge Circus and the revue transferred to the West End in London, and then later taken to both New Zealand and Broadway.

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Parson - England - 1890s - Lacrosse - Solicitor - Winchester College - Pembroke College - University of Cambridge - Economics - Law - John Cleese - Graham Chapman - Bill Oddie - Jonathan Lynn - Cambridge University Footlights Club - Edinburgh Fringe Festival - Cambridge Circus - West End - London - New Zealand - Broadway

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Tim Brooke-Taylor moved swiftly into BBC Radio with the fast-paced comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again in which he performed and co-wrote. As the screeching eccentric Lady Constance de Coverlet, he could be relied upon to generate the loudest audience response of many programmes in this long-running series merely with her unlikely catchphrase "did somebody call?" uttered after a comic and transparent feed-line, as their adventure story reached its climax or cliffhanger ending. Other members of I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again were John Cleese, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, David Hatch and Jo Kendall.

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BBC - Radio - I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again - Cliffhanger - Graeme Garden - David Hatch - Jo Kendall

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Tim also appeared in Hello, Cheeky!, a stand up comedy show also starring Barry Cryer and John Junkin.

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Hello, Cheeky! - Stand up comedy - Barry Cryer - John Junkin

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Tim also worked with his fellow Goodies on the animated television comedy series Bananaman, in which Tim was the narrator, as well as voicing the characters of "King Zorg of the Nurks", "Eddie the Gent, "Auntie" and "Appleman".

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Animated - Bananaman

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Other BBC radio programmes in which Tim played a part include On the Braden Beat with Canadian Bernard Braden, and the self-styled "antidote to panel games" I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue. Television shows included the following sketch comedy series At Last the 1948 Show with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman, It's Marty with Marty Feldman and John Junkin, and Broaden Your Mind with Graeme Garden.

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On the Braden Beat - Bernard Braden - I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue - At Last the 1948 Show - It's Marty - Marty Feldman - Graeme Garden

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Tim has also appeared in British sitcoms, including You Must Be The Husband with Diane Keen, and Me & My Girl with Richard O'Sullivan.

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British sitcom - You Must Be The Husband - Diane Keen - Me & My Girl - Richard O'Sullivan

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He also appeared as the nervous computer programmer in the movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder.

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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - Gene Wilder

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Tim Brooke-Taylor was co-author, with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman, of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, which was performed during Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.

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John Cleese - Graham Chapman - Marty Feldman - Four Yorkshiremen sketch - Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

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He remains a well-spoken, instantly recognisable, radio and stage actor and has appeared on stage in Australia and England, usually as a middle-class Englishman. Around 1982, he branched-out into pantomime as the Dame in Dick Whittington. He is also the author (and co-author) of several humorous books based mainly around his radio and television work and the sports of golf and cricket. Tim also took part in the Pro-Celebrity Golf television series.

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Dick Whittington - Golf - Cricket - Pro-Celebrity Golf

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Tim Brooke-Taylor has served the University of St Andrews as Rector and is an honorary Vice-President of Derby County F.C..

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University of St Andrews - Derby County F.C.

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