Brad Garrett Net Worth

Brad Garrett's Quotes

• [on the cancellation of 'Til Death (2006)] The other night, we got an 0.8 [rating]. Once your mom stops watching, you're an 0.4. The network said, 'What do you suggest?' I said, 'If you give me one more month, I can take you to a zero.' And there was dead silence.
• [on 'Til Death (2006)] What this last experience did was to make me more picky than ever. To be honest, when this show came to me four years ago, it was very different from what it ended up being. I was going with my gut then.
• (During his standup Dick Clarke's Nitetime Show) "When you're 6'9" it's like your head goes where no man has been before."

Interesting Facts about Brad Garrett

1. Attended Hale Jr. High School in Woodland Hills, California.
2. Graduated from El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California in 1978.
3. Was once suspended in junior high for shooting a paper clip from a rubber band into the chest of another student.
4. In 1977 and 1978 he was the DJ over the senior lawn at El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, CA.
5. In the early 1980s Brad was a waiter at TGI Fridays in Woodland Hills, Ca.
6. Got his big break on TV when he won first prize on Star Search (1983).
7. Son, Maxwell Bradley Garrett, was born on October 14, 1998 with ex-wife Jill Diven.
8. Daughter, Hope Violet Garrett, was born in January 2000, with ex-wife Jill Diven.
9. He's highly valued as an actor for his towering physical stature, but gentle giant demeanor, as well as a voice-over actor for his loud, thundering and threatening voice.
10. Has sometimes struggled for acting work due to his large size. In order to play the title role in the TV movie Gleason (2002) (the real Jackie Gleason being only about 6 feet tall), the other actors were often either also tall or wearing huge lifts.
11. Studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.
12. He guest-starred on The King of Queens: Road Rayge (1998) as Robert Barone, his character from Everybody Loves Raymond (1996).
13. Declined to do a spin-off with his character Robert Barone from Everybody Loves Raymond (1996).
14. Made his first television appearance on The Comedy Shop (1978).
15. Modeled on the back cover of the 1979 Electric Light Orchestra album: "Discovery", dressed in Middle Eastern clothes, a turban and holding a big sword.
16. Acting mentor was Doris Roberts.
17. He made guest appearances on both The New Adventures of Superman (1993) and Superman (1996).
18. Playing "Murray the Cop" in Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" on Broadway. [October 2005]
19. Playing a high school History teacher, married for 20 years to a wife played by Joely Fisher in the sit-com 'Til Death (2006) . (Brad is also the show's Producer.) [September 2006]
20. Appeared in a commercial for 7-Up. [2009]