Roger Brierley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Roger Brierley

British actor

Date of Birth: 02-Jun-1935

Place of Birth: Stockport, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 23-Sep-2005

Profession: actor, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Roger Brierley

  • David Roger Brierley (2 June 1935 – 23 September 2005) was an English actor. Though never a major star, Brierley appeared in many television productions over a forty-year period.
  • He twice appeared in Doctor Who, as Trevor in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965) and as the voice of Drathro in The Mysterious Planet (1986).
  • Brierley appeared in the biopic Jinnah, based on the life of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in the Granada television series Jeeves and Wooster as Sir Roderick Glossop, and as a Latin teacher to Michael Palin in the last-ever episode of Ripping Yarns, called Roger of the Raj and which first shown on BBC1 in 1979.
  • He played the part of Osborne in "Suddenly At Home", a 1977 episode of in the television series Rising Damp.
  • He was also in a 1982 episode of Only Fools and Horses.
  • Later work included portraying John Biffen in the television dramatisation of The Alan Clark Diaries (2004).
  • He also played the hotel manager in "Mr.
  • Bean in Room 426" and appeared in A Fish Called Wanda as Archie Leach’s secretary Davidson.
  • He also starred in a number of Children's television series. Brierley worked on several occasions with Victoria Wood such as in her play Nearly a Happy Ending, in the early series Wood and Walters and her mid-90s television film Pat and Margaret.
  • In a nod to her previous work with Brierley, Wood named a character after him in her 2006 film Housewife, 49. Brierley was also passionate about Manchester United, and was a founding member of Shareholders United Against Murdoch. Brierley died of a heart attack on 23 September 2005.

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