SCOTT BRADY: The Fighting Irishman

Police Captain Roy Roberts (left) and Sergeant Scott Brady are on the trail of a cold-blooded cop killer in the taut, semi-documentary crime thriller HE WALKED BY NIGHT (1948)
Tough saloon owner Joan Crawford develops a strong interest in both Scott Brady as the Dancin’ Kid and guitar-strumming Sterling Hayden, better known as JOHNNY GUITAR (1954)

Films of the Golden Age,
Issue Number 92,
Spring 2018

“If I’ve done well it’s because I’m Lawrence Tierney’s brother. Consider the edge. Larry kept shoving me forward so I could meet people and learn. Whatever I am, whatever I become, I can thank Larry for.”

Both a “ladies’ man” to such femme stars as Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Shelley Winters and Jeanne Crain and a “man’s man” squaring off with the likes of manly Yul Brynner, Jeff Chandler and Richard Basehart, ruggedly handsome leading man SCOTT BRADY (1923-1985) entered the movie business inspired by older brother Lawrence Tierney’s “tough guy” success in film noir. Changing his name so not to capitalize on it, he became a sturdy presence in two-fisted “B” level actioneers, particularly westerns, crimers and adventure stories as both anti-hero and villain. He later moved into TV roles and a brief western series when the pickings got slimmer.

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