Scott brady biography

All All. Sign In. Gerard Kenneth Tierney. He had the manly good looks and rugged appeal to make it to top stardom in Hollywood and succeeded quite well as a sturdy leading man of standard action on film and TV. His father, chief of New York's aqueduct police force, had always had show business intentions and later did print work after retiring from the force.

Both Scott's older and younger brothers, Lawrence Tierney and Edward Tierney went on to become actors as well. Lawrence's promising film noir "bad guy" career was sabotaged by a severe drinking disorder that led to numerous skirmishes with the law.

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Scott himself faced a narcotics charge in charges were dropped, Scott maintained that he was framed and later was involved in illegal bookmaking activities. Fortunately, Scott was more cool-headed and wound up avoiding the pitfalls that befell his older brother, making a very lucrative living for himself in Hollywood throughout the s and early s.

Scott grew up in Westchester County and attended Roosevelt and St. Michael's High Schools. Like his older brother Lawrence, Scott he was an all-round athlete in school and earned letters for basketball, football and track and expressed early designs on becoming a football coach or radio announcer. Instead he enlisted before graduating from high school and served as a naval aviation mechanic overseas.

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During his term of duty he earned a light heavyweight boxing medal. He was discharged in and decided to head for Los Angeles where his older brother Lawrence was making encouraging strides as an actor. Wallis and offered a screen test. The test did not fare well but, not giving up, he enrolled in the Bliss-Hayden drama school under his G.