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Briers was born on 14 January 1934 in Raynes Park, Surrey, [1] the son of Joseph Benjamin Briers (1901–1980) and his second wife [2] Morna Phyllis (1909–1992), daughter of Frederick Richardson, of the Indian Civil Service. [3] [4] He was the first cousin once removed of actor Terry-Thomas (Terry-Thomas was his father's cousin). [5]
A Matter of WHO is a 1961 British comedy thriller film directed by Don Chaffey and starring Terry-Thomas, Julie Alexander, Sonja Ziemann, Alex Nicol, Richard Briers, Honor Blackman and Carol White. [1] [2] A World Health Organization employee tries to trace the source of a deadly virus.
Ardingly College, where Terry-Thomas engaged in amateur dramatics.. Terry-Thomas was born Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens at 53 Lichfield Grove, Finchley, North London. [1] He was the fourth of five children born to Ernest Frederick Stevens, managing director of a butcher's business at Smithfield Market and part-time amateur actor, and his wife Ellen Elizabeth Stevens (née Hoar).
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Richard Briers was son of Joseph Benjamin Briers. Joseph was son of Benjamin George Briers and his wife Grace Charlotte, dau. of Joseph Thomas Hoar and Lilian Milborough Stanley. Terry-Thomas's mother, Ellen Elizabeth (née Hoar), was a younger sister of Grace Charlotte.
Terry-Thomas played Bertie Wooster opposite Roger Livesey as Jeeves in a dramatisation of "Indian Summer of an Uncle" and "Jeeves Takes Charge" released as a record album in 1958. Richard Briers portrayed Bertie Wooster in the BBC Radio 4 series What Ho, Jeeves! opposite Michael Hordern as Jeeves. The series ran occasionally from 1973 to 1981.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Terry-Thomas' appearances on stage and radio were becoming less frequent but his television and film output remained consistent, despite his diagnosis with Parkinson's disease in 1971; by the mid-1980s, though, the disease had effectively ended his career. [11]
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) [ reply ] Done Jim Michael ( talk ) 19:33, 14 February 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]