Richard Briers
- Acting
- January 14, 1934 · Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
- February 17, 2013
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
- Skallagrigg · Old Arthur/George
- Frances the Firefly · Narrator (Voice)
- If You See God, Tell Him · Godfrey Spry
- Much Ado About Nothing · Signor Leonato
- Peter's Friends · Lord Morton
- Swan Song · Nikita
- Mr. Bean · Mr. Sprout
- Henry V · Lieutenant Bardolph
- A Chorus of Disapproval · Ted Washbrook
- Twelfth Night, or What You Will · Malvolio
- Comic Relief
- Children's Favourites - Volume 1 · Alias (Voice)
- Doctor Who: Paradise Towers · The Chief Caretaker
- Lovejoy · Raymond Doncaster
- All in Good Faith · Reverend Philip Lambe
- Alias the Jester · Alias
- A Month in the Country · Arkady
- Screen Two · Old Arthur/George
- Ever Decreasing Circles
- The Aerodrome · The Rector
- Natural World
- Arms and the Man · Bluntschli
- It's Your Move · The Husband
- Wogan · Self
- Goodbye Mr Kent · Travis Kent
- P.Q. 17 · Jack Broome
- Village Wooing · A
- Tales of the Unexpected · Albert Dobson
- Watership Down · Fiver (Voice)
- The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show · Theatre Patron