Введение
Английский комик и актер (1940–2020)
Timothy Julian Brooke Taylor OBE (17 July 194012 April 2020) daughter of Francis Pawson, a parson who played centre forward for the English football team in the 1880s. He was expelled from primary school at the early age of five and a half. 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. 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 Cambridge University Footlights Club (of which Brooke Taylor became president in 1963). The Footlights Club revue, A Clump of Plinths, was so successful during its Edinburgh Festival Fringe run that the show was renamed as Cambridge Circus and transferred to the West End in London before being taken to both New Zealand and Broadway in the United States in September 1964. taking over the slot recently vacated by Peter Cook in his guise as E. L. Wisty. Brooke Taylor played a reactionary City gent who believed he was the soul of tolerance. 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. 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 Britain's class system and 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. 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 starring Marty Feldman, with John Junkin and Roland MacLeod. At around the same time, Brooke Taylor made two series of Broaden Your Mind with Garden (and Oddie joining for the second series). 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 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. He also lent his voice to the children's 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", whilst in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball he took part in the sketches "Top of the Form" (with Cleese, Chapman, 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". On 18 February 1981, Brooke Taylor, was the subject of Thames Television's 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. 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 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. 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.
Тимоти Джулиан Брук Тейлор OBE (17 июля 1940 – 12 апреля 2020) – сын Фрэнсиса Паусона, священника, игравшего на позиции центрального нападающего в английской футбольной команде в 1880-х годах. Он был исключен из начальной школы в возрасте пяти с половиной лет. Брук Тейлор затем учился в подготовительной школе Торн-Ли, подготовительной школе Холм-Ли (где он выиграл кубок за мастерство игры в крикет) и в Винчестерском колледже, который окончил с семью аттестатами O-level и двумя аттестатами A-level по английскому языку и истории. После года преподавания в школе Локерс-Парк, подготовительной школе в Хемел-Хемпстеде, и семестра в школе Холм-Ли в качестве учителя, он поступил в Пемброк-колледж Кембриджского университета. Там он изучал экономику и политику, прежде чем переключиться на юриспруденцию и общаться с начинающими комиками, такими как Джон Клиз, Грэм Чепмен, Билл Одди, Грэм Гарден и Джонатан Линн в Клубе футлайтеров Кембриджского университета (президентом которого он стал в 1963 году). Ревю Клуба футлайтеров "A Clump of Plinths" имело такой успех на Эдинбургском фестивале, что шоу было переименовано в "Cambridge Circus" и перенесено в Вест-Энд в Лондоне, а затем в сентябре 1964 года – в Новую Зеландию и на Бродвей в США, заменив программу Питера Кука в образе E. L. Wisty. Брук Тейлор играл реакционного лондонского денди, считавшего себя воплощением толерантности. В 1967 году Брук Тейлор стал сценаристом и исполнителем в телевизионном комедийном сериале "At Last the 1948 Show" вместе с Джоном Клизом, Грэмом Чепменом и Марти Фельдманом. Скетч вошел в DVD-издание "At Last the 1948 Show". Кадры с участием Брук Тейлора и Клиза из "At Last the 1948 Show" были показаны в документальном фильме "Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut)". С тех пор этот скетч стал известен своей сатирической интерпретацией классовой системы Великобритании и разделения на Север и Юг. Брук Тейлор также принял участие в пилотной программе Дэвида Фроста "How to Irritate People" в 1968 году, целью которой было представить американский рынок комедийному стилю, который позже стал известен как "Monty Python". Многие из этих скетчей были впоследствии воссозданы в телесериале "Monty Python", например, скетч с собеседованием, в котором Брук Тейлор играл нервного кандидата, подвергавшегося издевательствам со стороны интервьюера Джона Клиза. Эта программа стала первым сотрудничеством Клиза и Майкла Пейлина. В одном из скетчей упоминалась встреча персонажа Клиза с распутной женщиной по имени "Кристина Уидон" – так звали жену Брук Тейлора. Также в 1968 году Брук Тейлор неожиданно и без приглашения появился в эпизоде "Do Not Adjust Your Set", заменив заболевшего Майкла Пейлина. Эпизод сохранился и вошел в DVD-компиляции. В 1968–1969 годах Брук Тейлор также был членом актерского состава и сценаристом телевизионного комедийного сериала "Marty" с Марти Фельдманом, Джоном Джанкином и Роландом МакЛеодом. Примерно в то же время Брук Тейлор снялся в двух сериях "Broaden Your Mind with Garden" (во второй серии к ним присоединился Одди). Брук Тейлор также регулярно снимался в рекламе, включая рождественские ролики для сети магазинов тканей Brentford Nylons и в социальной рекламе для ныне не существующей формы E111, замененной Европейской картой медицинского страхования. В 1971 году он сыграл небольшую, не указанную в титрах роль ученого-компьютера в фильме "Вилли Вонка и шоколадная фабрика"; его сцена была последней, снятой для фильма. После "The Goodies" на британском телевидении Брук Тейлор снова работал с Гарденом и Одди над телевизионным анимационным комедийным сериалом "Bananaman", где он был рассказчиком и озвучивал короля Зорга из Нёрков, Эдди Джентльмена, Тетю и Эпплемана. Он также озвучивал детский сериал "Gideon". Брук Тейлор участвовал в шоу Amnesty International: в "A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick)" он, Одди и Гарден исполнили свой хит "Funky Gibbon", а в "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball" – участвовал в скетчах "Top of the Form" (с Клизом, Чепменом, Джоном Бердом, Джоном Фортуном, Роуэном Аткинсоном и Гриффом Рисом Джонсом) и "Cha Cha Cha" (с Клизом и Чепменом). Брук Тейлор, Гарден и Одди также выступили на "Top of the Pops" с песней "Funky Gibbon". 18 февраля 1981 года Брук Тейлор стал героем программы Thames Television "This Is Your Life". В 1997 году он появился в специальном эпизоде "One Foot in the Grave". В 1998 году Брук Тейлор выступил в качестве гостя в одном эпизоде политического сатирического игрового шоу "If I Ruled the World". В 2004 году Брук Тейлор и Гарден были соведущими дневного игрового шоу "Beat the Nation" на канале Channel 4, где они занимались типичными для игровых шоу "перепалками", но серьезно относились к викторине. Он выступал на сцене в Австралии и Англии, обычно в образе англичанина среднего класса. В начале 1980-х годов он начал выступать в пантомимах в роли дамы в "Dick Whittington". Он также был автором (и соавтором) нескольких юмористических книг, основанных в основном на его радио- и телевизионных работах, а также на спорте – гольфе и крикете. Его интерес к гольфу проявился, когда он участвовал в телевизионном шоу "Pro Celebrity Golf" (вместе с Брюсом Форсайтом) и появился в премьерном эпизоде гольф-шоу BBC "Full Swing". В 2008 году Брук Тейлор озвучил аудио-историю "Doctor Who" "The Zygon Who Fell To Earth", созданную Big Finish Productions. Пол МакГанн сыграл Восьмого Доктора, а Брук Тейлор – Мимса, Зигона, принимающего облик человека.
Timothy Julian Brooke Taylor OBE (17 July 194012 April 2020) daughter of Francis Pawson, a parson who played centre forward for the English football team in the 1880s. He was expelled from primary school at the early age of five and a half. 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. 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 Cambridge University Footlights Club (of which Brooke Taylor became president in 1963). The Footlights Club revue, A Clump of Plinths, was so successful during its Edinburgh Festival Fringe run that the show was renamed as Cambridge Circus and transferred to the West End in London before being taken to both New Zealand and Broadway in the United States in September 1964. taking over the slot recently vacated by Peter Cook in his guise as E. L. Wisty. Brooke Taylor played a reactionary City gent who believed he was the soul of tolerance. 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. 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 Britain's class system and 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. 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 starring Marty Feldman, with John Junkin and Roland MacLeod. At around the same time, Brooke Taylor made two series of Broaden Your Mind with Garden (and Oddie joining for the second series). 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 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. He also lent his voice to the children's 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", whilst in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball he took part in the sketches "Top of the Form" (with Cleese, Chapman, 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". On 18 February 1981, Brooke Taylor, was the subject of Thames Television's 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. 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 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. 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.
Брук Тейлор в последний раз появился на публике, посетив фестиваль слэпстика в Бристоле в январе 2020 года.
Timothy Julian Brooke Taylor OBE (17 July 194012 April 2020) daughter of Francis Pawson, a parson who played centre forward for the English football team in the 1880s. He was expelled from primary school at the early age of five and a half. 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. 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 Cambridge University Footlights Club (of which Brooke Taylor became president in 1963). The Footlights Club revue, A Clump of Plinths, was so successful during its Edinburgh Festival Fringe run that the show was renamed as Cambridge Circus and transferred to the West End in London before being taken to both New Zealand and Broadway in the United States in September 1964. taking over the slot recently vacated by Peter Cook in his guise as E. L. Wisty. Brooke Taylor played a reactionary City gent who believed he was the soul of tolerance. 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. 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 Britain's class system and 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. 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 starring Marty Feldman, with John Junkin and Roland MacLeod. At around the same time, Brooke Taylor made two series of Broaden Your Mind with Garden (and Oddie joining for the second series). 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 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. He also lent his voice to the children's 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", whilst in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball he took part in the sketches "Top of the Form" (with Cleese, Chapman, 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". On 18 February 1981, Brooke Taylor, was the subject of Thames Television's 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. 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 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. 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.
Лорд-ректор университета Сент-Эндрюса
Брук Тейлор был избран студентами Университета Сент-Эндрюса Лордом-ректором и занимал эту должность с 1979 по 1982 год. В этой роли он представлял интересы студентов, председательствовал в Университетском суде и руководил Генеральным советом в отсутствие канцлера. Во время церемонии вступления в должность он прибыл на вертолете, проехал на мотоцикле и был доставлен в открытой карете в рамках традиционного шествия The Drag. Брук Тейлор запомнился как эффективный ректор, который часто посещал город, серьезно относился к своим обязанностям, носил жилет с изображением шотландского флага и, по слухам, сказал, что Сент-Эндрюс – "самый счастливый университет", в котором ему доводилось бывать.
Личная жизнь и смерть
Брук Тейлор женился на Кристин Уидон в 1968 году, и у них родились двое сыновей, Бен и Эдвард. Он жил в Кукхэм-Дине, графство Беркшир, и принимал участие в местных мероприятиях. Увлеченный гольфист, он был членом гольф-клуба Temple. В 2011 году он был удостоен звания Офицера Ордена Британской империи (OBE) в списке на день рождения за заслуги в сфере легких развлечений. Брук Тейлор скончался от осложнений, вызванных COVID-19, 12 апреля 2020 года в возрасте 79 лет в Кукхеме, графство Беркшир. В память о Бруке Тейлоре флаг его альма-матер, Пемброк-колледжа Кембриджского университета, на следующий день был спущен на полмачты.