Talk:Richard Briers

Picture

Just added a not-very-good shot I took of Briers at a Who convention a couple of years ago. I'd welcome someone else replacing this with a better-quality and suitably free image, but at least it's a start! Gusworld (talk) 00:18, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, its nice to have a photo on the article at last! I've changed the caption, as I feel that any non-Doctor Who fans might wonder what an "Invasion conference" is.--UpDown (talk) 08:20, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Brass Eye

No reference to the "invisible lead soup"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.222.214.63 (talk) 16:40, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Quite agree. Certainly needed. Martinevans123 (talk) 00:12, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

This article is a mess

I've started going through his IMDB to find some more noteworthy titles that this article has obviously overlooked (Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing come to mind), but I think this article needs a lot more work from someone more familiar with Richard Briers' career. Jg2904 (talk) 20:37, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

It says that Lorriane Drake played Barbara Good in The Good Life - it was Felicity Kendall! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.149.245.5 (talk) 04:13, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Radio

No mention of his radio shows in the 50s or maybe early 60s? I can remember one vaguely, connected with one-upmanship I think. Robotics1 (talk) 20:08, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Second cousin?

Terry Thomas is Richard Brier's father cousin, so they are first cousins at one remove, not second cousins. 195.194.187.132 (talk) 13:06, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

 Done Jim Michael (talk) 19:33, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

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Schools attended

Although the article correctly quotes the Telegraph obituary which says Briers attended The Ridgeway School, I can't find any evidence that such a school ever existed. It seems much more likely that he went to what is now called Wimbledon Common Preparatory School, which is in the road called Ridgway (note different spelling) and is directly opposite King's College School. It has always specialised as a prep school in getting boys into King's College, which the article says Briers failed to do. It was known locally for many years as Squirrels School - I don't know why - and it may have been known to some as Ridgway School. But I can find no evidence that it ever took boys beyond prep school age ie up to 13. He is also said to have attended Rokeby School, another prep school, which at the time was also in Wimbledon, a couple of hundred yards from both Squirrels and King's College School. So it's certainly possible that he failed to get into KCS from Rokeby, though he may also have switched schools to Squirrels. But it would be helpful to find some confirmation that there was ever a school called Ridgeway School or clarification on which schools he went to and in what order. Fowerley (talk) 13:21, 14 February 2026 (UTC)