Career
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Pat Brady first set foot on stage at the age of four, in a road-show production of Mistress Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. From that moment he was hooked on showbiz for life.
When Len Slye was elevated to screen stardom as Roy Rogers, he recommended Brady as his replacement in "The Sons".
Making the transition to films himself in 1937, Brady played comedy relief in several of the Charles Starrett Westerns at Columbia. Brady served in World World War II and was at the Battle of the Bulge, in Bastogne.
In the early 1940s, he moved to Republic, where he played zany camp cook Sparrow Biffle in the Roy Rogers vehicles. When Rogers moved to television in 1951, he took Brady with him.
Now billed as "himself," Brady enlivened over 100 episodes of The Roy Rogers Show, happily driving about the sagebrush at the wheel of his faithful jeep "Nellybelle." Long after the cancellation of the weekly series, Brady continued his association with Rogers on television and in personal appearances.
He also rejoined the Sons of the Pioneers in 1959, as a replacement for the defecting Shug Fisher, a well-known character actor. In late 1962, Brady appeared with Rogers and Evans in their short-lived American Broadcasting Company comedy, western, and variety program, The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show, which lost out in the Saturday evenings ratings to The Jackie Gleason Show on Columbia Broadcasting System. Joining Brady on that program was comedian Cliff Arquette in his Charley Weaver role. Coincidentally, Arquette, like Brady, was born in Toledo.
Pat Brady died at the age of fifty-seven in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado.