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Graeme Garden in Yes Minister (1980)

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Graeme Garden

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  • Born
    February 18, 1943 · Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
  • Birth name
    David Graeme Garden
  • Height
    1.78 m

Biography

    • Graeme was born in Aberdeen and brought up in Preston by his father who was a doctor and intended to follow him and studied at Cambridge where he discovered acting but continued his studies at kings College Hospital in London where he shared a flat with Eric Idle. They joined Tim Brooke Taylor and set up Broaden Your Mind for BBC 2. He qualified as a Dr at the same time as getting an offer to be in a tv series 'Twice a Fortnight with Germaine Greer and Bill Odie and felt he could put his medical career on the side for a few months as he would never get another offer of television. He got together with Bill and Tim and created The Goodies which ran for 2 series for Yorkshire TV and Sense of the Past on local history and with Bill provided the voices for Bananaman cartoons. He adapted some P.G. Wodehouse stories for tv, wrote the novel The Seventh Man and wrote the film script from the novel and 'Graeme Garden's Book of Medical Humour'
      - IMDb mini biography by: Tonyman 5

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  • Spouses
      Mary Elizabeth Wheatley Grice(March 16, 1967 - 1981) (divorced, 2 children)
      Emma(? - present) (1 child)

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  • A qualified medical doctor, he claims to be horrified at being able to treat people, despite not having a clue what to do anymore.
  • Qualified doctor of medicine.
  • He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to Light Entertainment.
  • 2005: Son, John Garden, is keyboard player with the group Scissor Sisters.
  • Was a member of the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club, and, later, President of the Footlights Club.

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  • I set off to be a doctor and then I realised that I probably wouldn't get on very well with all those sick people.

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