Scott Brady (September 13, 1924 – April 16, 1985) was an American film actor.

Born Gerard Kenneth Tierney in Brooklyn, New York, he was the younger brother to a fellow actor, Lawrence Tierney, Brady began his film career after taking drama classes after World War II (where he was a Navy boxing champ). The actor specialized in tough-guy roles in films like He Walked by Night and Johnny Guitar. He appeared regularly on the 1970s cop show, Police Story. He played lead to Clint Eastwood's third billing in Ambush at Cimarron Pass which Eastwood is quoted as saying was "probably the lousiest western ever made." His last film role was in the 1984 movie Gremlins. He is often confused with his brother, Tierney, whom he resembles. Brady was a lumberjack early in life before taking up acting.

He was originally offered the role of Archie Bunker in All in the Family in 1971 and turned it down, though he subsequently appeared on the series in the episode "Edith's Night Out." He played Shirley Feeney's father Jack Feeney in episode 32 of Laverne & Shirley which aired 2/15/1977.

Brady died from pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 60. Other sources have the cause as emphysema.

He had the manly good looks and appeal to make it to top stardom in 50s Hollywood; he settled instead for a steady career in standard action on film and TV. Born in Brooklyn on September 13, 1924, he was christened Gerald Kenneth Tierney (called Jerry) by parents Lawrence and Maria Tierney. His father, chief of New York's aqueduct police force, had always had show business intentions and later moved into acting after retiring from the force. Both Scott's older and younger brothers, Lawrence Tierney and Edward Tierney (ne Edward Michael Tierney) went on to become actors as well. All three boys, despite having a dad on the police force, developed rather miscreant behavior patterns early in life. Lawrence's career was sabotaged by a severe drinking problem that led to numerous skirmishes with the law, while Ed was arrested once on a morals charge. Scott himself faced a narcotics charge in 1957 and later involved himself in illegal bookmaking activities. Only Scott managed to break away from the dead-end path all three were taking and make a lucrative living for himself in Hollywood. Scott started off on the right track growing up in Westchester and attending Roosevelt and St. Michael's High Schools. An all-round athlete, he earned letters for basketball, football and track (the latter like his brother Lawrence) and expressed early designs on becoming a football coach. Instead he enlisted following graduation and served as a naval aviation mechanic overseas. During his term of duty he earned a light heavyweight boxing medal. He was discharged in April of 1945 and headed straight for Los Angeles where his older brother was making good strides as an actor. Toiling in menial jobs as a cabbie and day-time laborer, the handsome, blue-eyed looker was noticed having lunch in a café by producer Hal B. Wallis and offered a screen test. The test did not fare well but, not giving up, he enrolled in the Bliss-Hayden drama school under his G.I. Bill, studied acting, and managed to rid himself of his thick Brooklyn accent. He signed with minor league Eagle-Lion and made his debut of sorts in the poverty-row programmer In This Corner (1948) utilizing his boxing skills from his early days in the service. He showed more promise with his second and third films Canon City (1948) and _He Walked by Night (1948), the latter as a detective who aids in nabbing psychotic killer Richard Basehart. Scott switched over to higher-grade action stories for Fox and Universal over time. Westerns and crime stories would be his bread-winning genres with Gal Who Took the West, The (1949) opposite Yvonne De Carlo and John Russell (I) and Undertow (1949), with Russell again, being prime examples. He frequently switched from hero to heavy too throughout his peak years. In one film he would romance a Jeanne Crain in Model and the Marriage Broker, The (1951) or a Mitzi Gaynor in Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952), while in the next beat Shelley Winters to a pulp in Untamed Frontier (1952). A favorite pin-up hunk in his early years, he hit minor cult status as a bad hombre, The Dancin' Kid, in the offbeat western Johnny Guitar (1954). He and the other manly men, however, were completely overshadowed in the movie by the Freudian-tinged gunplay between Joan Crawford (I) and Mercedes McCambridge. Other roles had him sturdily handling the action scenes while giving the glance over to such diverting female costars as Barbara Stanwyck, Mala Powers and Anne Bancroft (I). No films, however well-made, really stood out among the pack and he never passed second-tier stardom. Scott would mark the same territory in TV -- westerns and crimers -- finding steadier work on the smaller screen into the 1960s. Stage too was a sporadic source of income with such productions as "The Moon Is Blue", "Detective Story" and "Picnic" under his belt before making his Broadway bow as a slick card sharpie opposite Andy Griffith (I) in the short-lived musical "Destry Rides Again" in 1959. He later did the national company of the heavyweight political drama "The Best Man" playing a senator. The one-time confirmed bachelor finally settled down after meeting and marrying Mary Tirony in 1967. Prior to this he had been linked with such luminous beauties as Gwen Verdon and Dorothy Malone. The couple had two sons. Parts dwindled down in size in later years and he gained considerable weight as he grew older and balder, but he appeared here-and-there as an occasional character heavy or hard-ass cop in less-important movies such as Doctors' Wives (1971) $ (1971)_, Loners, The (1972) and Wicked, Wicked (1973). Minor TV roles in mini-movies also came to him at a fair pace. Towards the end he was glimpsed in such high-profile big-screen movies as China Syndrome, The (1979) and Gremlins (1984). Scott died of emphysema in 1985 at age 60.