Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 14, 1934
Died
Feb 17, 2013
Place of Birth
Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Credits
125 titles
Richard Briers
Biography
Richard David Briers, CBE (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor. His fifty-year career encompassed television, stage, film and radio. Briers first came to prominence as George Starling in Marriage Lines (1961–66), but it was a decade later, when he narrated Roobarb and Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk (1974–76) and when he played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good Life (1975–78), that he became a household name. Later, he starred as Martin in Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–89), and he had a leading role as Hector in Monarch of the Glen (2000–05). From the late 1980s, with Kenneth Branagh as director, he performed Shakespearean roles in Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Hamlet (1996), and As You Like It (2006).
Known For
Filmography
The Good Life: Inside Out
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
(archive footage)
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Mouse (voice)
Cockneys vs Zombies
Hamish
Run For Your Wife
Newspaper Seller
Horror on the High Rise
All About The Good Life
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Roobarb/Custard (voice)
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
That's What I Call Television
Self
Kingdom
Jim Wright
Torchwood
Parker
As You Like It
Adam
My Appalling School Report
Our Hidden Lives
Herbert Brush
Roobarb and Custard Too
Narrator
Extras
Richard Briers
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Self
Dad
Larry James
Agatha Christie's Marple
Wilson
New Tricks
James Farlow
Peter Pan
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Comedy Connections
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
Robert (voice)
Unconditional Love
Barry Moore
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self
Victoria & Albert
Joseph Paxton
Love's Labour's Lost
Sir Nathaniel
Monarch of the Glen
Hector MacDonald
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
Watership Down
Captain Broom (voice)
The Student Prince
Dr. Corbitt
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
Narrator
A Respectable Trade
Sir Charles Fairley
Parkinson
Self
Spice World
Bishop
Midsomer Murders
Stephen Wentworth
Brass Eye
Self
Hamlet
Polonius
The Adventures of Toad
Rat
Heavy Weather
The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
The Adventures of Mole
Rat
In the Bleak Midwinter
Henry
Down to Earth
Tony Fairfax
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Self
Mole's Christmas
Rat
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Grandfather