Career
Born in Yorkshire, he appeared in various television programmes but is most notable for being the voice of the robot dog K-9 during the 1979–1980 season of the British Broadcasting Corporation science fiction television series Doctor Who. He succeeded John Leeson, who was K-9"s original voice (Leeson subsequently returned to the role the next season). He also appeared as one of Ken Barlow"s university lodgers Milo, in a very early episode of Coronation Street, later returned to play "Harold" a carpet layer who put in some carpets for Hilda Ogden, and Jimmy Kemp"s father in the acclaimed nuclear war drama Threads.
Brierly died of cancer on 10 June 2008.