Bill Brady

Bill Brady was an American television director.

After graduating from Queens College in New York with a major in mass communications and minor in theater and economics, Brady worked a few jobs as a theater technician before landing a job in the mailroom at CBS.

Six months later, he became a production assistant at Channel Two in New York, then rose to associate director after eight months. A CBS News Director for over 30 years, Brady helmed such shows as Sunday Morning, The Saturday Early Show, The Early Show, Public Eye, 48 Hours, America Tonight, Street Stories, Eye to Eye, CBS Reports, 1989: A Year with Andy Rooney, and numerous other news broadcasts and specials. Those included the reality special Survivor: Countdown to Africa, Sunday Morning Classics on ESPN; and Food TV’s The Next FTV Star 2007 Finale.

Brady had been a Directors Guild of America member since 1976, and ran for the National Board in the early 1990s.  He served one term as Sixth Vice President (1999-2001), and two terms as Fourth Vice President (2001-2003 and 2005-2007) before he was elected the Guild’s Second Vice President in 2007, serving in that role through 2013.

Brady died March 14, 2018, in New York. He was 65.