Tim Brooke-Taylor

Tim Brooke-Taylor (born 17 July 1940) is an English comic actor known in Britain, Australia and New Zealand as a member of The Goodies and in the comedy radio shows I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, and I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again. Brooke-Taylor was born in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, 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 solicit... more

Tim Brooke-Taylor (born 17 July 1940) is an English comic actor known in Britain, Australia and New Zealand as a member of The Goodies and in the comedy radio shows I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, and I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again. Brooke-Taylor was born in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, 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 Brooke-Taylor studied at Winchester College and at Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. There he read Economics and Politics before changing to read 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 Festival... less