SCOTT BRADY BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Scott Brady was born on September 13th, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York with the birth name Gerard Kenneth Tierney. His parents were Lawrence and Maria Tierney. His father was employed as chief of New York's aqueduct police force. He had an older brother and a younger brother and all three sons became involved in acting.
Brady grew up in Westchester County and went to Roosevelt and St. Michael's High Schools. He was very athletic in basketball, football and track.
During World War II he served in the navy and was also a boxing champion. When he was discharged from the military he supported himself by working as a lumberjack and also got involved in taking acting classes.
He soon headed west and joined his brother Lawrence in Los Angeles who was already beginning to make a name for himself in the industry. When Brady was out having lunch he was seen by director, Hal B. Wallis and was approached and offered a screen test. However, he did not do so well and decided to enroll in the Bliss-Hayden drama school to study acting.
After completing his studies he signed with a small studio called eagle-Lion and made his film debut in, "In This Corner" (1948) where he got the chance to show off his boxing skills from his navy days. The next film roll was in, "Canon City" (1948) and "Walked By Night" (1948).
With a certain amount of film experience now under his belt he moved over to work with two larger studio's, Fox and Universal. He was cast in, "The Gal Who Took the West" (1949), "The Model and the Marriage Broker" (1951), "Bloodhounds of Broadway" (1952) and "Untamed Frontier" (1952).
Brady was mostly cast in tough guy roles but did take on some romantic leads as well. He was very manly looking, handsome and rugged all in one. He took on the role in 1959 playing the Senator for the film, "The Best Man".
His television career was just as successful as his film. He was the star of the western series, "Shotgun Slade" (1959). Brady did not limit his career to film and television alone, he was also very involved in stage productions working on such plays as, "The Moon is Blue", "Detective Story" and "Picnic" to name a few.
In 1967 he decided to settle down and marry, Mary Tirony at the age of 43. He had two sons with his wife. As his career moved into the 70's large starring roles were less available to him as his appearance had made a drastic change with a large amount of weight gain and with him aging, however he still found work on a couple films and made a couple guest appearances. Some of the films with less significant roles then he was once used to were, "Wicked, Wicked" (1973) and "Gremlins" (1984) which was his final film role.
Scott Brady fell and was injured in 1981 and had to rely on a oxygen tank to breathe. He passed away on April 16th, 1985 at the age of sixty in Los Angeles, California from pulmonary fibrosis which was a progressive respiratory disease. Scott is buried at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Filmography
1984 Gremlins
1984 Whiz Kids
1983 Simon & Simon
1983 This Girl for Hire
1983 Cagney & Lacey
1983 The Winds of War
1982 Matt Houston
1981 McClain's Law
1981 Strange Behavior
1981 American Dream
1981 240-Robert
1981 Charlie's Angels
1980 The Littlest Hobo
1980 Power
1979 The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
1979 Eischied
1979 Taxi
1979 The China Syndrome
1979 Supertrain
1979 Women in White
1975-1978 The Rockford Files
1978 Suddenly, Love
1978 Wheels
1978 To Kill a Cop
1978 When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
1977 Baretta
1977 Good Penny
1977 Laverne & Shirley
1977 The Fantastic Journey
1977 Welcome Back, Kotter
1976 All in the Family
1976 Law and Order
1973-1976 Police Story
1975 The Invisible Man
1974-1975 Movin' On
1975 The Kansas City Massacre
1975 Hawaii Five-O
1974 Roll, Freddy, Roll!
1974 Sierra
1974 Get Christie Love!
1974 Dirty Sally
1969-1973 Gunsmoke
1973 Banacek
1973 Wicked, Wicked
1973 Ironside
1973 Mission: Impossible
1973 Bonnie's Kids
1973 The Night Strangler
1973 McMillan & Wife
1972 Cain's Cutthroats
1972 The Loners
1972 The Leo Chronicles
1971 $
1971 Doctors' Wives
1968-1971 The Virginian
1970 The Immortal
1970 San Francisco International Airport
1968-1970 The Name of the Game
1970 The High Chaparral
1970 Lancer
1970 Five Bloody Graves
1970 Mannix
1970 Hell's Bloody Devils
1969 D.A.: Murder One
1969 Marooned
1969 Bracken's World
1969 The Cycle Savages
1969 The Ice House
1969 Satan's Sadists
1969 Nightmare in Wax
1969 Adam-12
1969 The Mighty Gorga
1968 They Ran for Their Lives
1968 Arizona Bushwhackers
1968 The Road Hustlers
1968 Portrait of Violence
1967 Felony Squad
1967 Fort Utah
1967 Judd for the Defense
1967 Journey to the Center of Time
1967 Red Tomahawk
1966 Castle of Evil
1966 Summer Fun
1966 Destination Inner Space
1965 Black Spurs
1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1964 Stage to Thunder Rock
1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1963 Operation Bikini
1962 The Untouchables
1961 G.E. True Theater
1961 Checkmate
1959-1961 Shotgun Slade
1960 Alcoa Theatre
1959 Adventure Showcase
1959 Battle Flame
1954-1959 Schlitz Playhouse
1956-1958 Climax!
1958 Blood Arrow
1958 Ambush at Cimarron Pass
1957 Playhouse 90
1957 Zane Grey Theater
1957 The Restless Breed
1955-1957 Studio 57
1957 The Storm Rider
1957 Crossroads
1956 Conflict
1953-1956 Lux Video Theatre
1955-1956 Celebrity Playhouse
1956 The Maverick Queen
1956 Terror at Midnight
1956 Mohawk
1953-1956 The Ford Television Theatre
1955 The Loretta Young Show
1955 The Vanishing American
1955 Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
1955 Damon Runyon Theater
1955 Studio One in Hollywood
1954 They Were So Young
1954 The Law vs. Billy the Kid
1954 Johnny Guitar
1953 White Fire
1953 El Alaméin
1953 A Perilous Journey
1952 Bloodhounds of Broadway
1952 Montana Belle
1952 Yankee Buccaneer
1952 Untamed Frontier
1952 Bronco Buster
1951 The Model and the Marriage Broker
1950 Kansas Raiders
1950 Undercover Girl
1950 I Was a Shoplifter
1949 Undertow
1949 Port of New York
1949 The Gal Who Took the West
1948 He Walked by Night
1948 In This Corner
1948 Canon City
1948 The Counterfeiters
