Pat Brady is Born

On This Day | Posted by: Tedd Long | 12/31/2025

1914: Pat Brady [Robert Ellsworth O'Brady], American actor, known for Man from Music Mountain (1943), Down Dakota Way (1949), and The Roy Rodgers Show (1951), is born in Toledo. Early in his career, he was used for comic relief in westerns produced by Columbia and Republic. However, Brady is best known as the zany camp cook on Roy Rogers, usually driving about the sagebrush at the wheel of his faithful jeep "Nellybelle." During WWII, Brady served in the U.S. Army and was at the Battle of the Bulge with Patton's Third Army. He was awarded citations and two Purple Hearts