Scott Brady was star of the syndicated series, Shotgun Slade. He owned a 20 percent share of the show, and admited "there's gold in saddles and spurs."
Shotgun Slade also delighted Brady, bachelor at 37, because each week he was surrounded by luscious-looking women. And like his TV character, Brady felt "staying single had its advantages." One of them: freedom to pursue his career seriously. He got out of the "B" picture rut by tackling diversified roles in the summer stock productions of Picnic and Detective Story. In 1959 he starred on Broadway in the hit musical Destry Rides Again, before starting Shotgun Slade.
This 6'3", 180-pound detective-on-horseback started life as a subway rider in Brooklyn. "My father was head of the protection division of the Catskill Delaware Aqueduct before he retired," he explained. He was very exact about that billing. He got mad if anyone called him anything else—like an Irish cop.
Born Gerard Tierney, Brady and his brothers, Lawrence and Ed, were veterans before the camera. Ed acted as Brady's stand-in during Slade's two-day shooting schedule, but devotes the rest of his time to real estate. He took his acting name from the prize fighter he played in his first movie, Born to Fight, in 1953.
To keep in shape for his TV role —"I play Slade as a rugged two- fisted guy with a sense of humor," he said—he played handball and worked out in a gym regularly.
Hard-living Brady studied acting under the G.I. Bill in California after World War II. Discovered in a dramatic school's plays by an agent, he wound up under contract to two movie studios.
What distinguished his Slade from other TV western heroes? "His gun was over and under," Brady explains. "The underneath part was a shotgun, and the over part was a rifle. Generally someone was trying to get the gun away from him."
Known For
Credits
Cast Credits
Eischied (1978)
Guest starring as Inspector James Gleason
- Episode S01 Special: To Kill a Cop (1) (Apr 10, 1978)
Charlie's Angels (1976)
Guest starring as Sarge
- Episode 5x10: Taxi Angels (Feb 7, 1981) [Special Guest Star]
Laverne & Shirley (1976)
Guest starring as Jack Feeney
- Episode 2x17: Buddy, Can You Spare a Father? (Feb 15, 1977)
The Invisible Man (1975)
Guest starring as Deputy Bentley
- Episode 1x08: Stop When Red Lights Flash (Nov 24, 1975)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1972)
Guest starring as Capt. Roscoe Schubert
- Episode S01 Special: The Night Strangler (Jan 16, 1973)
All in the Family (1971)
Guest starring as Joe Foley
(4 episodes)
- Episode 7x03: Archie's Brief Encounter (3) (Sep 29, 1976)
- Episode 7x02: Archie's Brief Encounter (2) (Sep 22, 1976)
- Episode 7x01: Archie's Brief Encounter (1) (Sep 22, 1976)
- Episode 6x24: Edith's Night Out (Mar 8, 1976)
Shotgun Slade (1959)
Starring as Shotgun Slade
(42 episodes)
- Episode 2x38: The Ranch Ghost (aka Ghost of a Chance) (Jul 8, 1961)
- Episode 2x37: A Gun and a Prayer (Jul 1, 1961)
- Episode 2x36: The Payrollers (Jun 24, 1961)
- Episode 2x35: Five Graves (Jun 17, 1961)
- Episode 2x22: Legend of a Hero (Mar 18, 1961)
- Episode 2x19: The Impatient Bullet (Feb 25, 1961)
- Episode 2x18: Mother Six Gun (Feb 18, 1961)
- Episode 2x17: Misplaced Genius (Feb 11, 1961)
- Episode 2x16: Copper Cylinder (Feb 4, 1961)
- Episode 2x15: Little Sister (Jan 28, 1961)
- Episode 2x14: The Silver Queen (Jan 21, 1961)
- Episode 2x13: Traveling Trunk (Jan 9, 1961)
- Episode 2x12: Hang Him Twice (Jan 2, 1961)
- Episode 2x11: Turkey Shoot (aka Boomerang) (Dec 26, 1960)
- Episode 2x10: The Laughing Widow (Dec 19, 1960)
- Episode 2x09: Woman from Wyoming (Dec 12, 1960)
- Episode 2x08: Rail Head at Rampart (Dec 5, 1960)
- Episode 2x07: Vengeance (Nov 28, 1960)
- Episode 2x06: Dead Man's Tale (Nov 21, 1960)
- Episode 2x05: Mountain Murderess (Nov 14, 1960)
- Episode 2x04: The Missing Dog (Nov 7, 1960)
- Episode 2x03: Secret Gold (Oct 31, 1960)
- Episode 2x02: Ghost of Yucca Flats (Oct 24, 1960)
- Episode 2x01: Skyfire (Oct 17, 1960)
- Episode 1x39: The Smell of Money (Jul 12, 1960)
- Episode 1x37: Charcoal Bullet (Jul 1, 1960)
- Episode 1x33: Backtrack (May 28, 1960)
- Episode 1x32: The Spanish Box (May 21, 1960)
- Episode 1x31: Sudden Death (May 20, 1960)
- Episode 1x30: Crossed Guns (May 13, 1960)
- Episode 1x24: The Swindle (Mar 8, 1960)
- Episode 1x23: The Deadly Key (Mar 8, 1960)
- Episode 1x10: Bob Ford (Dec 12, 1959)
- Episode 1x09: The Stalker (Dec 5, 1959)
- Episode 1x08: Marked Money (Nov 28, 1959)
- Episode 1x07: Gunnar Yensen (Nov 21, 1959)
- Episode 1x06: Freight Line (Nov 14, 1959)
- Episode 1x05: Mesa of Missing Men (Nov 16, 1959)
- Episode 1x04: Barbed Wire, Keep Out (Nov 5, 1959)
- Episode 1x03: Too Smart to Live (Oct 31, 1959)
- Episode 1x02: The Salted Mine (Oct 26, 1959)
- Episode 1x01: The Missing Train (Oct 24, 1959)