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Williams took over the lead male role of "Alfred/Sam" when Scott Bakula left the production.

Years later, Williams was able to capitalize on being typecast as Greg Brady. Amid a procession of appearances in TV and films that played up his famous teen role, he ended up landing a role that was a departure from the Brady image. Barry Williams and Christopher Knight played Greg and Peter, the two oldest boys in the family. According to BestLife, they spent a good portion of their adolescent years in front of the camera.

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Barry Williams, who played the oldest Brady kid, Greg, confessed that he dated on-screen mom Florence Henderson in his book "Growing up Brady." Henderson later called their romance "an. “We all hooked up with each other at some point,” Williams told Us Weekly exclusively. “Not necessarily while we were filming.” In some cases, it went further than that. The Brady kids dated each.

Knight, 47, best known as Peter Brady, and Williams, 51, aka Greg Brady, have already shot the episode in which they play a gay couple who moves in next door to the Foreman family, the New York. That appearance got him a contract with Paramount Pictures which planned to make the comedy into a sitcom. The Bunch ran for five seasons, then spin-offs, then a long run in syndication.

But there were two secrets kept from the audience. First, Reed was unhappy with his role and often argued with the producers over scripts. In fact, Reed was so unhappy that he refused to appear on the final episode of season 5. Producer Schwartz was incensed and plan to replace Reed in the 6th season BUT the show was cancelled.

Like other men of his generation, Reed was intensely private, never discussing his personal life with others. Interviewed after his death, both Florence Henderson and Barry Williams revealed they knew Reed was gay during the production of the series, as did most of the cast and crew. I just don't think it was open for discussion — period. Off camera, he was an unhappy person — I had a lot of compassion for him because I knew how he was suffering with keeping this secret.

In , Reed was diagnosed with colon cancer. The next year he became gravely ill. Reed contacted Henderson and asked her to tell the rest of The Brady Bunch cast. He died at the age of Sign up Log in.