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{{Short description|English actor and comedian (1940–2020)}}
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{{Infobox comedian
| name              = Tim Brooke-Taylor
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|OBE}}
| image             = Tim Brooke-Taylor 2014.jpg <!-- Do not place fair-use images here, they will be removed - see [[WP:NONFREE]] -->
| imagesize         = 
| caption           = Brooke-Taylor in 2014
| pseudonym         = 
| birth_name        = Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1940|7|17|df=yes}}
| birth_place       = [[Buxton]], [[Derbyshire]], England
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|2020|4|12|1940|7|17|df=y}}
| death_place       = [[Cookham]], [[Berkshire]], England
|alma_mater         = [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]]
| active            = 1964–2020
| genre             = [[Sketch comedy]]
| medium          = Film, television, radio, theatre
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| influences        = 
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| spouse            = {{marriage|Christine Wheadon|1968}}
| children          = 2
| notable_work      = ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'' (1964–1973) <br /> ''[[At Last the 1948 Show]]'' (1967) <br /> ''[[How to Irritate People]]'' (1968) <br /> ''[[Marty (TV series)|Marty]]'' (1968–1969) <br /> ''[[Broaden Your Mind]]'' (1968–1969) <br />''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]'' <br />(1970–1982) <br /> ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' (1972–2020) <br/> ''[[One Foot in the Grave]]'' (1997)
| website           = 
}}
'''Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor''' (17 July 1940{{snd}}12 April 2020)<ref name=BBCDeath/> was an English actor and comedian. He was best known as a member of [[The Goodies]].

Brooke-Taylor became active in performing in comedy sketches while at the [[University of Cambridge]] and became president of the [[Footlights]], touring internationally with its revue in 1964. Becoming more widely known to the public for his work on [[BBC Radio]] with ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'', he moved into television with ''[[At Last the 1948 Show]]'', working together with old Cambridge friends [[John Cleese]] and [[Graham Chapman]]. With [[Graeme Garden]] and [[Bill Oddie]], he starred in ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]'' (1970–1982), picking up international recognition in [[Australia]], [[Canada]] and [[New Zealand]]. He appeared as an actor in various [[sitcom]]s and was a panellist on BBC Radio's ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' for almost 50 years.

==Early life and education==
Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor was born on 17 July 1940 in [[Buxton]], [[Derbyshire]], son of Edward Brooke-Taylor, a solicitor and games teacher and international [[lacrosse]] player and Rachel,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/tim-brooke-taylor-death-comedian-tv-radio-goodies-radio-4-age-cause-coronavirus-a9473956.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/tim-brooke-taylor-death-comedian-tv-radio-goodies-radio-4-age-cause-coronavirus-a9473956.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Remembering Tim Brooke-Taylor, the comedy star equally at home with the witty and the zany |date=21 April 2020 |work=The Independent}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries-archive/obituaries/tim-brooke-taylor |title=The Stage - Obituaries - Tim Brooke-Taylor |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=9 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809091447/https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries-archive/obituaries/tim-brooke-taylor |url-status=dead }}</ref> daughter of [[Francis Pawson]], a [[parson]] who played [[centre forward]] for the English football team in the 1880s.<ref>[http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/images/p4-5DGOLD_tcm9-113565.pdf The Goodie Life] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222060025/http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/images/p4-5DGOLD_tcm9-113565.pdf |date=22 February 2012 }} Retrieved 12 February 2010</ref> He was expelled from primary school at the early age of five and a half.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/what-s-on/theatre/goody-tim-brooke-taylor-heads-for-great-yorkshire-fringe-1-7380885|title=Goody! Tim Brooke-Taylor heads for Great Yorkshire Fringe|date=2015|work=Yorkshire Post|access-date=26 December 2018}}</ref> Brooke-Taylor was then schooled at Thorn Leigh Pre-Preparatory School, Holm Leigh Preparatory School (where he won a cup for his prowess as a bowler in the school [[cricket]] team) and [[Winchester College]] which he left with seven [[O-levels]] and two A-levels in English and history.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}

After teaching for a year at [[Lockers Park School]], a preparatory school in [[Hemel Hempstead]] and a term back at Holm Leigh School as a teacher, he studied at [[Pembroke College, 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]], [[Graeme Garden]] and [[Jonathan Lynn]] in the [[Footlights|Cambridge University Footlights Club]] (of which Brooke-Taylor became president in 1963).<ref name="fringe">''From Fringe to Flying Circus'' – 'Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1980' – Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980.</ref><ref name="footlights">''Footlights!'' – 'A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy' – Robert Hewison, Methuen London Ltd, 1983.</ref>

The Footlights Club revue, ''A Clump of Plinths'', was so successful during its [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]] run that the show was renamed as ''[[Cambridge Footlights Revue|Cambridge Circus]]'' and transferred to the [[West End of London|West End]] in London before being taken to both New Zealand and [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in the United States in September 1964.<ref name="fringe"/><ref name="footlights"/> Brooke-Taylor was also active in the Pembroke College drama society, the [[Pembroke Players]].

==Career==
Brooke-Taylor moved swiftly into [[BBC Radio]] with the fast-paced comedy show ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'' which he performed in and co-wrote.<ref name="fringe" /> 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]].<ref name="fringe" />

In the mid-1960s, Brooke-Taylor performed in the television series ''On the Braden Beat'' with Canadian [[Bernard Braden]],<ref name="guardian">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/12/tim-brooke-taylor-dies-at-79-after-contracting-coronavirus-agent-says|title='Funny, sociable, generous': comedians pay tribute to Tim Brooke-Taylor|first=Mark |last=Brown |newspaper=The Guardian |date=12 April 2020|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> taking over the slot recently vacated by [[Peter Cook]] in his guise as [[E. L. Wisty]]. Brooke-Taylor played a reactionary [[City of London|City]] gent who believed he was the soul of tolerance.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ldEQYB39GSsC&pg=PA119|title=The Fully Authorised History of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: The Clue Bible from Footlights to Mornington Crescent|first=Jem|last=Roberts|date=2 September 2010|publisher=Random House|via=Google Books|page=119|isbn=9781407087801}}</ref>

In 1967, Brooke-Taylor became a writer/performer on the television comedy series ''[[At Last the 1948 Show]]'', with [[John Cleese]], [[Graham Chapman]] and [[Marty Feldman]].<ref name="fringe" /> The "[[Four Yorkshiremen sketch|Four Yorkshiremen]]" sketch was co-written by the four writers and performers of the series.<ref name="BrightRoss2001">{{Cite book
|first1=Morris
|last1=Bright
|first2=Robert
|last2=Ross
|title=Fawlty Towers: fully booked
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AH-FAAAAIAAJ
|access-date=29 September 2010
|year=2001
|publisher=BBC
|isbn=978-0-563-53439-6
|page=60}}</ref> The sketch appears on the DVD of ''At Last the 1948 Show''. Footage of Brooke-Taylor and Cleese from ''At Last the 1948 Show'' was shown on the documentary special ''[[Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut)]]''. The sketch has since become known for its satirical depiction of [[Class in Britain|Britain's class system]] and [[North-south divide (England)|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 the [[Monty Python]] style of comedy to the American market.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dangerousminds.net/tag/John-Cleese|title=Tags: John Cleese &#124; Dangerous Minds|website=dangerousminds.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sotcaa.org/history/ukonline/python_frame.html?/history/ukonline/python/python_irritate.html|title=Some of the Corpses Are Amusing|website=sotcaa.org}}</ref> Many of the sketches were later revived in the Monty Python TV series, such as the job interview sketch in which Brooke-Taylor played a nervous interviewee tormented by interviewer John Cleese. The programme was also the first collaboration between Cleese and [[Michael Palin]]. One of the sketches referred to Cleese's character dating a promiscuous woman named "Christine Wheadon", which was the name of Brooke-Taylor's wife.

Also in 1968, Brooke-Taylor made an unexpected and uninvited guest appearance in an episode of ''[[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]'', filling in for Michael Palin who was ill that week. The episode he was in still survives and has been included in DVD compilation sets.

In 1968–69, Brooke-Taylor was also a cast member and writer on the television comedy series ''[[Marty (TV series)|Marty]]'' starring [[Marty Feldman]], with [[John Junkin]] and [[Roland MacLeod]].<ref name="fringe" /> A compilation of the two series of ''Marty'' has been released on a BBC DVD entitled ''The Best of Marty Feldman''. During this period Brooke-Taylor appeared as two characters in the film ''[[One Man Band (Orson Welles film)|One Man Band]]'' directed by [[Orson Welles]]; however, the project was never completed and remains unreleased.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34640393|title=Obituary: Tim Brooke-Taylor|work=BBC News|date=12 April 2020}}</ref>

At around the same time, Brooke-Taylor made two series of ''[[Broaden Your Mind]]'' with Garden (and Oddie joining for the second series).<ref name="fringe" /> Describing itself as "An Encyclopedia of the Air", the show was a string of comedy sketches (often lifted from ''I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again''), linked (loosely) by a weekly running theme.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}

The success of ''Broaden Your Mind'' led to the commissioning of ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]'', also with Oddie and Garden. First transmitted on [[BBC Two|BBC2]] in November 1970, ''The Goodies'' was a television success, broadcast for over a decade by both the BBC and (in its final year) by [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] contractor [[London Weekend Television]], spawning many spin-off books and successful records.

During the run of ''The Goodies'', Brooke-Taylor took part in the BBC radio series ''[[Hello Cheeky]]'', a bawdy [[stand-up comedy]] show also starring [[Barry Cryer]] and [[John Junkin]]. The series transferred to television briefly, produced for ITV by the commercial franchise [[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire Television]].<ref name="fringe" />

He appeared on television in [[British sitcom]]s, including ''[[You Must Be the Husband]]'' with [[Diane Keen]], ''His and Hers'' with [[Madeline Smith]] and ''[[Me and My Girl (TV series)|Me and My Girl]]'' with [[Richard O'Sullivan]]. He also starred in the Radio 4 comedy series ''Tell Me Where It Hurts'' in 1979.<ref>{{cite web |first1=Steve |last1=Arnold |title=Tell Me Where It Hurts |url=http://www.britishcomedy.org.uk/comedy/tellmewhere.html |website=British Comedy Website |access-date=9 January 2022 |date=2005}}</ref> Brooke-Taylor also appeared regularly in advertisements, including the Christmas commercials for the Brentford Nylons chain of fabric stores and in a [[public information film]] for the now-defunct [[E111 (health form)|E111]] form, since replaced by the [[European Health Insurance Card]].

In 1971, he played the short, uncredited role of a computer scientist in the film ''[[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory]]''; his scene was the final one filmed for the movie. After ''The Goodies'' on UK television, Brooke-Taylor also worked again with Garden and Oddie on the television [[animated]] comedy series ''[[Bananaman]]'', in which Brooke-Taylor was the narrator, as well as voicing the characters of King Zorg of the Nurks, Eddie the Gent, Auntie and Appleman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/bananaman/cast_crew/|title=Bananaman cast and crew credits|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Tim_Brooke-Taylor|title=Tim Brooke-Taylor – UKGameshows|website=www.ukgameshows.com|access-date=29 July 2018}}</ref> He also lent his voice to the children's TV series ''[[Gideon (TV series)|Gideon]]''.

Brooke-Taylor appeared in [[Amnesty International]] shows: in ''[[A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick)]]'' he, Oddie and Garden, sang their hit song "[[Funky Gibbon]]",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodiesruleok.com/articles.php?cod=665&print|title=The Official Goodies Rule - OK! Fan Club Website - Articles/Guides|website=www.goodiesruleok.com}}</ref> whilst in ''[[The Secret Policeman's Other Ball]]'' he took part in the sketches "Top of the Form" (with Cleese, Chapman, [[John Bird (actor)|John Bird]], [[John Fortune]], [[Rowan Atkinson]] and [[Griff Rhys Jones]]), and "Cha Cha Cha" (with Cleese and Chapman). Brooke-Taylor, Garden and Oddie also appeared on ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' to perform "Funky Gibbon".<ref name=BBCDeath/> Garden joined Brooke-Taylor in the theatre production of ''[[The Unvarnished Truth]]''.

Other BBC radio programmes in which Brooke-Taylor played a part include the self-styled "antidote to panel games" ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'', which started in 1972; he took part regularly for over 40 years.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ldEQYB39GSsC|title=The Fully Authorised History of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: The Clue Bible from Footlights to Mornington Crescent|first=Jem|last=Roberts|date=2 September 2010|publisher=Random House|isbn=9781407087801|via=Google Books}}</ref> On 18 February 1981, Brooke-Taylor, was the subject of [[Thames Television]]'s ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]''.

In 1997, he appeared in a special episode of ''[[One Foot in the Grave]]''.

In 1998, Brooke-Taylor appeared as a guest in one episode of the political satire game show ''[[If I Ruled the World (game show)|If I Ruled the World]]''.{{CN|date=August 2024}}

In 2004, Brooke-Taylor and Garden were co-presenters of [[Channel 4]]'s daytime game show, ''Beat the Nation'', in which they indulged in typical game show "banter", but took the quiz itself seriously. He appeared on stage in Australia and England, usually as a [[middle class]] Englishman. In the early 1980s, he branched out into [[pantomime]] as [[Pantomime dame|the Dame]] in ''[[Dick Whittington]]''. He was also the author (and co-author) of several humorous books, based mainly on his radio and television work, and the sports of golf and [[cricket]]. His interest in golf came to the fore when he took part in the ''Pro-Celebrity Golf'' television series (opposite [[Bruce Forsyth]]), and appeared in the premiere episode of the BBC's golf-based game show ''[[Full Swing (game show)|Full Swing]]''.

In 2008, Brooke-Taylor was heard in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' audio story ''The Zygon Who Fell To Earth'', made by [[Big Finish Productions]]. [[Paul McGann]] played the [[Eighth Doctor]] and Brooke-Taylor played the part of Mims, a [[Zygon]] taking the shape of a human.

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

==Lord Rector of the University of St Andrews==
Brooke-Taylor was elected Lord [[Rector of the University of St Andrews|Rector]] by the students of the [[University of St Andrews]] and held office between 1979 and 1982.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yourunion.net/voice/rectorelection/previousrectors/|title=Previous Rectors|website=www.yourunion.net|publisher=University of St Andrews Students' Association|access-date=13 April 2020}}</ref> In this role he represented the students, chaired the University Court and presided over the [[General Council of the University of St Andrews|General Council]] in the absence of the [[Chancellor of the University of St Andrews|Chancellor]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.yourunion.net/voice/rectorelection/history/|title=History of the Rector|website=www.yourunion.net|publisher=University of St Andrews Students' Association|access-date=13 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/governance/key-officials/rector/|title=Rector|website=www.st-andrews.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=13 April 2020}}</ref>  At his installation he arrived by helicopter, rode a motorbike and was hauled in an open carriage as part of The Drag.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://standrewsrarebooks.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/cricketer-comedians-and-campaigners-rectors-1967-93/|title=Cricketer, Comedians, and Campaigners: Rectors, 1967-1993|last=St Andrews Special Collections|date=13 April 2018|website=Echoes from the Vault|language=en|access-date=13 April 2020}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> His installation speech included a mother-in-law joke in Latin and a suggestion his successor should be a woman; he was succeeded by [[Katharine Whitehorn|Katherine Whitehorn]] who was elected unopposed as the university's first female rector in 1982.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Twiss|first1=Greg|title=Famous Rectors of St Andrews|last2=Chennell|first2=Paul|publisher=Alvie Publications, St Andrews.|year=1982|asin=B000M773CY}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/new-st-andrews-halls-to-be-named-after-female-pioneers|title=New St Andrews halls to be named after female pioneers|date=15 August 2018|website=news.st-andrews.ac.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=13 April 2020}}</ref> Brooke-Taylor is remembered as an effective Rector who visited the town frequently, took the role seriously, wore a [[Flag of Scotland|Saltire]] waistcoat while there and is said to have remarked that St Andrews was "the happiest university" he had been to.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/photographs/item/tim-brooke-taylor/118859|title=Tim Brooke-Taylor from the University Photography Collection|website=collections.st-andrews.ac.uk|publisher=Special Collections {{!}} University of St Andrews|access-date=13 April 2020}}</ref>                                                                                                                                                                                                      

==Personal life and death==
Brooke-Taylor married Christine Wheadon in 1968 and they had two sons.<ref>"''Who's Who on Television''" – Independent Television Books, London, England (1985). {{ISBN|0-907965-31-8}}</ref><ref>''Who's Who on Television'' – Independent Television Books, London, England (1988). {{ISBN|0-907965-49-0}}</ref> He lived in [[Cookham Dean]], Berkshire and was involved in local events. A keen golfer, he was a member of Temple Golf Club.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/4540471.goodies-star-tim-brooke-taylor-heralds-in-era-of-stamps-and-cider-at-cookham-pub/|title=Goodies star heralds in era of stamps and cider at Cookham pub|website=Bucks Free Press|date=11 August 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.windsorobserver.co.uk/news/18379057.friends-fans-grieve-loss-real-life-goodie-tim/|title=Tim Brooke Taylor dies - ending a comedy career spanning almost 60 years|website=Royal Borough Observer|date=14 April 2020 }}</ref> He was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the [[2011 Birthday Honours]] for services to light entertainment.<ref name=LG59808>{{London Gazette|issue=59808 |date=11 June 2011 |page=12 |supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2011/06/11/13455/obes_all_round...|title=OBEs all round...|website=[[Chortle]] |date=11 June 2011}}</ref>

Brooke-Taylor died of complications from [[COVID-19]] on 12 April 2020, aged 79,<ref name=BBCDeath>{{cite news |title=Tim Brooke-Taylor dies with coronavirus, aged 79 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52262490 |access-date=12 April 2020 |work=BBC News |date=12 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Tim Brooke-Taylor dead: Comedian and actor dies aged 79 after contracting coronavirus |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/tim-brooketaylor-dead-dies-79-coronavirus-a4412831.html |website=[[Evening Standard]] |access-date=1 May 2022}}</ref> in Cookham, Berkshire.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tim Brooke-Taylor|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/tim-brooke-taylor |website=The [[Emmys]] website|publisher=[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|Television Academy]] |access-date=1 May 2022}}</ref> In tribute to Brooke-Taylor, the flag of his [[alma mater]], [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]], was lowered to [[half-mast]] the following day.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Master's Spring 2020 Message |url=https://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/alumni-development/connect-pembroke/publications/masters-spring-2020-message |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250529082937/https://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/alumni-development/connect-pembroke/publications/masters-spring-2020-message |archive-date=29 May 2025 |access-date=29 May 2025 |website=Pembroke College |language=en}}</ref>

==Filmography==
===Film===
{| class="wikitable" ;
|- style="text-align:center;"
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title<ref name="BFI">{{cite web |title=Tim Brooke-Taylor |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9efd8961 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708204729/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9efd8961 |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 July 2019 |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=12 April 2020}}</ref>
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes
|-
| 1968
| ''[[One Man Band (unfinished film)|One Man Band]]''
|  Reporter / Young Aristocrat
| Uncompleted / Unreleased
|-
| 1969
| ''[[The Thirteen Chairs]]''
| Jackie
|
|-
| rowspan=2|1971
| ''[[The Statue (1971 film)|The Statue]]''
| Hillcrest
|
|-
| ''[[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory]]''
| [[List of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory characters#Other characters|Computer Scientist]]
| Uncredited
|-
| 1976
| ''[[Pleasure at Her Majesty's]]''
| Tim (with ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]'')
|
|-
| 1981
| ''[[The Secret Policeman's Other Ball]]''
| Various
|
|-
| 1988
| ''Under the Bed''
| Bin Man
|
|-
| 1989
| ''[[Asterix and the Big Fight (film)|Asterix and the Big Fight]]''
| [[List of Asterix characters#Cacofonix|Cacofonix]]
| Voice, English version / Final film role
|-
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable" ;
|- style="text-align:center;"
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title<ref name="BFI" />
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes
|-
| 1966
| ''[[The Wednesday Play]]''
| Uncredited Role
| Episode: ''[[Cathy Come Home]]''
|-
| 1967–1968
| ''[[At Last the 1948 Show]]''
| Various Characters
| Also Writer
|-
| 1968
| ''[[How to Irritate People]]''
| Various Characters
| Also Writer
|-
| 1968–1969
| ''[[Marty (TV series)|Marty]]''
| Various Characters
| Also Writer
|-
| 1968–1969
| ''[[Broaden Your Mind]]''
| Various Characters
| Also Writer
|-
| 1970–1982
| ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]''
| Tim
| Also Writer
|-
| 1975
| ''[[The Rough with the Smooth]]''
| Richard Woodville
| Also Writer
|-
| 1976–1979
| ''[[Hello Cheeky]]''
| Himself
| Also Writer
|-
| 1983–1986
| ''[[Bananaman (TV series)|Bananaman]]''
| Eric Twinge
| Voice
|-
| 1984–1988
| ''[[Me and My Girl (TV series)|Me and My Girl]]''
| Derek Yates
|
|-
| 1985
| ''[[Assaulted Nuts (TV series)|Assaulted Nuts]]''
| Various Characters
|
|-
| 1987–1988
| ''[[You Must Be the Husband]]''
| Tom Hammond
|
|-
| 1989
| ''[[Barney (British TV series)|Barney]]''
| Barney
| Voice
|-
| 1991
| ''Qd - The Master Game''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Qd_-_The_Master_Game|title=Qd - The Master Game - UKGameshows|website=www.ukgameshows.com}}</ref>
| Himself
| Presenter
|-
| 1992
| ''[[The Upper Hand]]''
| Trevor
| Episode: ''Blind Date''
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Dennis the Menace (1996 TV series)|Dennis the Menace]]''
| Barney
| Voice, Episode: ''Unidentified Funny Object''
|-
| 1997
| ''[[One Foot in the Grave]]''
| Derek McVitie
| Episode: "Endgame"
|-
| 1999
| ''{{sortname|The|Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything|The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (film)}}''
|
|
|-
| 2002
| ''[[TLC (TV series)|TLC]]''
| Hospital Chaplain
|
|-
| 2004
| ''Beat the Nation''
| Quiz Co-Host
| Co-Host with [[Graeme Garden]]
|-
| 2005
| ''[[Absolute Power (radio and TV series)|Absolute Power]]''
| Peter Harrow
|
|-
| 2005–2009
| ''[[Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat]]''
| Ronnie Smethers
| Guest Role
|-
| 2008
| ''[[Agatha Christie's Marple]]''
| Dr Edward Humbleby
| Episode: ''Murder is Easy''
|-
| 2009
| ''[[Horne & Corden]]''
| Vicar
|
|-
| 2010–2011
| ''[[Little Howard's Big Question]]''
| Various Characters
|
|-
| 2013
| ''Animal Antics''
| Co-Host
|
|-
| 2015
| ''[[Doctors (2000 TV series)|Doctors]]''
| Graham Parsons
| Episode: ''About Time''
|-
|}

===Radio===
{| class="wikitable" ;
|- style="text-align:center;"
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Show or film
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes
|-
| 1964–1973
| ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]''
| Various Characters
| Wrote for the series
|-
| 1973–1979
| ''[[Hello Cheeky]]'' (radio show)
| Himself
| Wrote for the series
|-
| 1972–2020
| ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]''
| Himself
| Panel show
|}

==Bibliography==
'''As sole author'''
:*''Rule Britannia'' {{oclc|730965215}}
:*''Tim Brooke-Taylor's Golf Bag'' {{oclc|153808703}}
:*''Tim Brooke-Taylor's Cricket Box'' {{oclc|221735762}}

'''As co-author'''
*Brooke-Taylor also co-wrote the following books with the other members of [[The Goodies]]:

:*''The Goodies File'' {{oclc|16377151}}
:*''The Goodies Book of Criminal Records'' {{oclc|16367881}}
:*''The Making of The Goodies Disaster Movie'' {{oclc|3882046}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190708204729/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9efd8961 Tim Brooke-Taylor] at the [[British Film Institute]]
*{{IMDb name|id=0111756}}
*{{Screenonline name|560023}}
*{{IBDB name}}
* {{Discogs artist|Tim Brooke-Taylor}}
*[https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/talent/b/brooketaylor_tim.shtml Tim Brooke-Taylor] – BBC Guide to Comedy
*[https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clue/article/tim.shtml Tim Brooke-Taylor] – BBC – ''I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue''
*[http://www.webwombat.com.au/entertainment/dvds/tim-brooke-taylor-graeme-garden-goodies-interview.htm Interview: Tim Brooke-Taylor & Graeme Garden – The Goodies], webwombat.com.au
*[https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clue/interviews/team.shtml ISIHAC interviews – with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Barry Cryer]
*[http://radiohaha.typepad.com/central/2006/06/episode_1.html#ep1interview ''Radio Ha Ha'' interview] – Tim Brooke-Taylor discusses his career in Episode 1 of Australian comedy podcast ''Radio Ha Ha''
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060516212558/http://www.footlights.org/past/1963 "A Clump of Plinths"] – the 1963 Cambridge Footlights Club revue – later renamed "''[[Cambridge Circus (comedy)|Cambridge Circus]]''" (this was the Footlights revue during the time when Tim Brooke-Taylor was President of the Footlights).  Tim was also a member of the revue cast.
*[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8998932/Tim-Brooke-Taylor-Yes-I-do-miss-Humphrey-Lyttelton.-He-told-the-filthiest-jokes.html Tim Brooke-Taylor: 'Yes, I do miss Humphrey Lyttelton. He told the filthiest jokes']

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