1. David Graeme Garden OBE was born on 18 February 1943 and is a Scottish comedian, actor, author, artist and television presenter.
33 Facts About Graeme Garden
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Graeme Garden is best known as a member of the Goodies and a regular panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
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Graeme Garden was educated at Repton School, and studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club and served as its president in 1964, while performing in the 1964 Footlights revue, Stuff What Dreams Are Made Of at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Graeme Garden was co-writer and performer in the BBC radio comedy sketch show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again in the late 1960s.
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Graeme Garden was studying medicine during the first few series of the show, this commitment making cast membership difficult for him during the third series as he was following a midwifery course in Plymouth.
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Graeme Garden was a permanent panellist on the long-running BBC Radio improvisation show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, in a cast which included Tim Brooke-Taylor, for almost fifty years.
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Graeme Garden starred in and co-wrote, with Barry Cryer, You'll Have Had Your Tea, a direct spin-off of ISIHAC, and has contributed to several books from the series including guides to the game Mornington Crescent.
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Graeme Garden wrote for and appeared with Barry Cryer and Alison Steadman in the 1989 BBC radio comedy sketch show The Long Hot Satsuma.
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In 2001 and 2002, Graeme Garden wrote for and appeared in the BBC radio comedy sketch show The Right Time, along with Eleanor Bron, Paula Wilcox, Clive Swift, Roger Blake and Neil Innes.
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Graeme Garden was script editor for The Hudson and Pepperdine Show.
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Graeme Garden is chair of the spoof radio game show Beat the Kids.
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Graeme Garden was a co-writer of the BBC Radio 4 comedy Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off, and in 2006, Garden co-devised and appeared on the BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz show The Unbelievable Truth.
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In 2003, Graeme Garden wrote the Radio 4 sitcom About a Dog, based on an original idea by Debbie Barham, with a second series in 2007.
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Graeme Garden has appeared in several of Big Finish's Doctor Who audio dramas.
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Graeme Garden plays Abbot Thelonious in the Eighth Doctor audio play The Book of Kells in 2010, and subsequently returns as a recurring antagonist to the Eighth Doctor as the Monk.
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Graeme Garden's best known television work is freeform sitcom The Goodies, which he wrote and performed along with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie from 1970 to 1982.
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Graeme Garden was co-writer and performer in the sketch show Twice a Fortnight with Bill Oddie, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Jonathan Lynn, and sketch show Broaden Your Mind with Tim Brooke-Taylor, with Bill Oddie joining the cast for the second series.
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Graeme Garden was the voice of the title character in Bananaman, in addition to General Blight and Maurice of the Heavy Mob in the children's animated television comedy series, which featured the rest of the Goodies team.
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Graeme Garden has presented three series of the BBC's health magazine Bodymatters.
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Graeme Garden appeared in the political sitcom Yes Minister, in the role of Commander Forrest of the Special Branch in the episode The Death List.
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Graeme Garden appeared as a television presenter in the Doctor in the House episode "Doctor on the Box".
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Graeme Garden was a regular team captain on the political satire game show If I Ruled the World.
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Graeme Garden has hosted the quiz game Tell the Truth and presented a series of history programmes, A Sense of the Past for Yorkshire Television.
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Graeme Garden writes and directs for the corporate video company Video Arts, famous for its training films starring John Cleese.
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Graeme Garden has a successful stage career, and has acted in several National Theatre productions, as well as London's West End.
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Graeme Garden has acted in several BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series, and television drama including Peak Practice and Holby City.
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Graeme Garden appeared with Tim Brooke-Taylor in the theatre production The Unvarnished Truth.
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Graeme Garden wrote several pantomimes for The Theatre Chipping Norton during the 1980s.
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Graeme Garden wrote a play called The Pocket Orchestra which ran in London in 2006.
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Graeme Garden has a daughter, Sally, and a son, John, from his previous marriage to Mary Elizabeth Wheatley Grice.
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In 2002, Graeme Garden suffered an episode of the condition known as Bell's palsy, where the muscles on one side of the face become paralysed.
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Graeme Garden was able to continue his work commitments and eventually made a full recovery after some months.
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Graeme Garden was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to light entertainment alongside his late comedy partner Tim Brooke-Taylor.