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{{TERENCE BRADY}

Terence Joseph Brady (born March 1939) is an Anglo-Irish actor, playwright, painter, novelist and director, best known for his long standing writing partnership with his wife Charlotte Bingham (qv), their major television works including Take Three Girls, Upstairs Downstairs, No Honestly, Yes Honestly, Nanny, Forever Green and Pig In The Middle etc., as well as for his theatre work as an actor including taking over from Peter Cook in Beyond The Fringe, the starring role in the revue In The Picture, and the lead in the musical A Present From the Corporation. On television he has appeared in over two hundred roles, including the role of Barty, in Pig in the Middle.Italic text

Contents •	'''1.Early Life •	'''2 Career •	3 Stage Plays •	4 Books •	5 Journalism •	6 As Painter •	7. Links

Early life

TerenceBrady was born in Harrow, London, England. His father, Frederick Arthur Noel Brady, was from Cork, and his mother, Elizabeth Mary, was from Fermanagh.

Career

After attending Merchant Taylors School in Northwood, Middx, Terence Brady went to Trinity College Dublin where he read History and Political Science, gaining first a B.A. Moderatorship and later granted an M.A. At Trinity he began to write and act first as an amateur then as a professional, contributing regularly to the literary journal Icarus and the college magazine TCD, both of which journals he also later edited. As Chairman of Dublin University Players for two years he helped build the Society into one of the best University Drama groups in Europe, a group that consistently won awards at U.D.A. Festivals as well as making annual appearances at The Wexford Opera and Film Festival. At the Galway UDA Festival in 1960 he won the award for Best Actor for his roles as Bamforth in The Long and The Short and The Tall and as Morgenhall in The Dock Brief, which he also directed and which co-starred Ralph Bates (qv).

By then he was also appearing as a professional actor in Ireland, his first major appearance being in the musical Glory Be! starring Milo O’Shea. Invited by Joan Littlewood to bring two productions to the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, Terence Brady brought a company over to London where they performed Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter and a revue called Would Anyone Who Saw the Accident?

He was immediately invited to take over from Peter Cook in Beyond the Fringe as the original cast prepared to leave for Broadway, a show he played for two years at the Fortune Theatre. There followed a succession of stage appearances, including the Peter Myers revue In The Picture, the Wood/Gould musical A Present From the Corporation, and a musical co-authored with Michael Bogdanov, A Quick One ‘Ere which they produced and presented at the Dublin Theatre Festival. At the same time as appearing in the Fringe he was invited by Anthony Jay to join a company that was being formed to present a literary/dramatic revue on BBCTV called Dig This Rhubarb, which ran for two seasons on Sunday nights. From then on he worked consistently on television, most notably in plays by among many others N.F.Simpson, John Finch, Alun Owen, and later works authored by himself and his wife, Charlotte Bingham, whom he married in 1964, most notably One Two Skies Blue, their first television play in which he co-starred with James Bolam. To date Terence Brady’s television performances number over 250.

Soon after his marriage he began a writing collaboration with Charlotte Bingham which has lasted to this day. As a result of their immediate success as dramatists Terence Brady’s acting began to take a back seat, although he remained in steady work for the next decade, during which time he starred in the legal series Law and Life on BBC2, acted as Chairman for the long running BBCTV panel game First Impressions, co-hosted the first Anglo American colour TV production of The Huntley Brinkley Show, and did a considerable amount of radio work particularly two dramas for Reginald Smith as well as hosting, appearing on and writing two successful light entertainment confections, called Thank Goodness It’s Saturday and Hear Hear!

Other work as an actor includes the television revue Broad and Narrow, co-scripted with Michael Bogdanov, many guest appearances including Z Cars and Father Dear Father, the comedy series My Name is Dora with Dora Bryan and Cribbins with Bernard Cribbins, the drama series A Man For Today with George Cole, Love Story and on radio as writer and performer with Ronnie Barker in the award winning series Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead (Writers Guild Award for Best comedy), as well as films including Baby Love and Foreign Exchange . But by the late 60s, with the success of BBCTV’s first colour drama series Take Three Girls, for which Brady and Bingham invented and wrote the character of Victoria, played by Liza Goddard, and then the immediate triumph of Upstairs Downstairs  with Brady and Bingham successfully contributing plays to the first two BAFTA winning series, their services as playwrights were much in demand, and determined to write as much original material as they could they left Upstairs Downstairs to create and write No Honestly for LWTV, a chart topping comedy series that starred John Alderton and Pauline Collins with whom they had just worked on Upstairs Downstairs. But in spite of the enormous success of the series the Aldertons were reluctant to tie themselves down to a second season so as a successor Brady and Bingham wrote Yes Honestly, a show with the same format but two totally different leading characters played by Liza Goddard and Donal Donnelly. The show was a success and ran for two full seasons.

These series were followed by an almost unending stream of work that included Making the Play, a Play for Today starring James Bolam and Barbara Ferris, 6 Plays of Marriage for Thames TV, Thomas and Sarah – a spin off from Upstairs Downstairs - Nanny, starring Wendy Craig, Take Three Women, a sequel to Take Three Girls, Forever Green once more starring the Aldertons, Father Matthew's Daughter, and Pig in the Middle, a series for LWTV in which Brady had to take over the lead part after the first series after Dinsdale Landen left, and which later became Oh Madeleine for ABCTV USA, starring Madeleine Kahn. Films written with Charlotte Bingham include Love with A Perfect Stranger, This Magic Moment, Riders and All That Glitters.

Stage plays

Stage plays include their adaptation of Rosamunde Pilcher’s novel The Shell Seekers, I Wish, I Wish, Coming of Age, Below Stairs, and Four Hearts, while as sole playwright Brady has authored Anyone for Tennis?, Change of Heart, based on the award winning novel by Charlotte Bingham, Adam and Eve – an adaptation of Mark Twain’s Adam and Eve Diaries - Noel and Cole, Crossing The Line, and Two People and a Piano.

Books Together with Charlotte Bingham: Rose’s Story, Victoria, Victoria and Company, Yes Honestly, A View of Meadows Green.

As single author: Rehearsal, McCann’s Dog, The White Horse, The Fight Against Slavery (from the BBCTV series by Evan Jones), A History of Point to Pointing (with Michael Felton). Journalism Contributions include to The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Sunday Express, The Mail on Sunday, Country Homes and Interiors, Punch, The Field etc etc.

As painter Exhibitions include joint at The National Theatre, The Wykeham Gallery and The Teddy House Gallery.

Personal life Terence Brady lives in Somerset with his wife and writing partner Charlotte Bingham (qv). Their daughter is the film producer, director and writer Candida Brady, married to the film director Titus Ogilvy and their son is ballet producer and dance entrepreneur Matthew Brady, originator and owner of The ''Covent Garden Dance Company.'

Links www.terencebrady.com. www.charlottebingham.com www.coventgardendance.com-- Muttymutley (talk) 11:16, 22 January 2014 (UTC) www.blenheimfilms.com