Background
Grady was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Grady was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Foreign the baseball player, see Mike Grady. After a classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, his career has spanned more than 40 years, and includes theatre roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company and London"s Royal National Theatre, as well the West End, the Royal Court, the Bush, and the Soho Poly, plus many tours and pantomimes around the country. His television roles have included Minder as Kev in the Series 1 episode The Bengal Tiger, Citizen Smith (series regular), Look and Read, Doctor Ballantyne, Sweet Sixteen, Last of the Summer Wine, Colin"s Sandwich, Up the Garden Path and Not with a Bang.
His film credits include Carry On Loving (1970), Up the Front (1972), Symptoms (1974), The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) opposite Peter Sellers, I"m Not Feeling Myself Tonight (1976), Britannia Hospital (1982), Bert Rigby, You"re a Fool (1989) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011).
A regular performer on radio, Grady played Rob Pengelly in Waggoner"s Walk, a British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2 soap opera. A well known pantomime actor, Grady is also a regular on the after dinner circuit, where he has given accounts of his early days in show business and the stars he encountered, such as Frankie Howerd and Peter Sellers.
He continues work in the theatre and on television