Roger Brierley

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Roger Brierley
Brierley in Casualty (1987)
Born	David Roger Brierley (1935-06-02)2 June 1935 Stockport, Cheshire, England
Died	23 September 2005(2005-09-23) (aged 70) Westminster, London, England
Partner(s)	Gillian McCutcheon (?–1996) Joan Jones (2001–2005) (his death)
Children	1

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 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 also to his credit brief appearance in Lovejoy and the Sweeney.

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.

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1971	Kindly Leave the Kerb		TV series
1980	Superman II	Terrorist #1
1983	The Wicked Lady	Clergyman at Tyburn
1985	Young Sherlock Holmes	Mr. Holmes
1988	A Fish Called Wanda	Davidson
1989-1994	Screen One	Hotel Manager / Air Vice-Marshall / Julian Brind	3 episodes
1990	Killing Dad or How to Love Your Mother	Hotel Manager
1993	Mr. Bean in Room 426	Hotel Manager
1994	A Business Affair	Barrister
1996	Beaumarchais	Printer
1998	Monk Dawson	Fr Francis
1998	Jinnah	Judge
2000	The Calling	Reverend
2001	Bodywork	District judge
2002	Ali G Indahouse	Town Hall Official
2002	About a Boy	Mr. Chalmers, the M.C.

External links

• Roger Brierley at IMDb
• Roger Brierley at Find a Grave
• Red Issue
• MUST, the independent Manchester United supporters trust
• Obituary in The Guardian
• Obituary in The Daily Telegraph