Trivia

He studied design at the Manchester School of Art. While working as a textile designer and printmaker, he became interested in amateur theater. He received a scholarship to a drama school in Kent, and landed his first acting job in 1962 at Bernard Miles's Mermaid theater in London.

Studied on a scholarship at the Rose Bruford drama school in Sidcup, Kent, in 1958. Secured his first acting job in 1962 at Bernard Miles's Mermaid Theatre in London.

Tierney was a working-class Mancunian and committed unionist who became a core member of the Workers' Revolutionary party in the 1970s.

His father was a boilermaker; his mother worked in the cotton mills.