Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 14, 1934
Place of Birth:
Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
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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
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Good Life: Inside Out | |
| 2022 | The Good Life: Secret & Scandals | (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection | Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited) |
| 2016 | British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves | Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2013 | Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time | Mouse (voice) |
| 2012 | Cockneys vs Zombies | Hamish |
| 2012 | Run For Your Wife | Newspaper Seller |
| 2011 | Horror on the High Rise | |
| 2010 | National Theatre Live: London Assurance | Mr. Adolphus Spanker |
| 2010 | All About The Good Life | |
| 2009 | Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley | Roobarb/Custard (voice) |
| 2006 | As You Like It | Adam |
| 2005 | The Funny Blokes of British Comedy | Himself |
| 2005 | Our Hidden Lives | Herbert Brush |
| 2005 | Dad | Larry James |
| 2003 | Peter Pan | Sam "Smee" Smiegel |
| 2003 | Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot | Robert (voice) |
| 2002 | Unconditional Love | Barry Moore |
| 2001 | Victoria & Albert | Joseph Paxton |
| 2000 | Love's Labour's Lost | Sir Nathaniel |
| 1998 | The Student Prince | Dr. Corbitt |
| 1997 | Spice World | Bishop |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Polonius |
| 1996 | The Adventures of Toad | Rat |
| 1995 | In the Bleak Midwinter | Henry |
| 1995 | Heavy Weather | The Hon. Galahad Threepwood |
| 1995 | The Adventures of Mole | Rat |
| 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Grandfather |
| 1994 | Mole's Christmas | Rat |
| 1994 | Skallagrigg | Old Arthur/George |
| 1994 | Frances the Firefly | Narrator (voice) |
| 1993 | Much Ado About Nothing | Signor Leonato |
| 1992 | Swan Song | Nikita |
| 1992 | Peter's Friends | Lord Morton |
| 1989 | A Chorus of Disapproval | Ted Washbrook |
| 1989 | Henry V | Lieutenant Bardolph |
| 1988 | Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Malvolio |
| 1988 | Children's Favourites - Volume 1 | Alias (voice) |
| 1987 | Doctor Who: Paradise Towers | The Chief Caretaker |
| 1983 | Arms and the Man | Bluntschli |
| 1983 | The Aerodrome | The Rector |
| 1982 | It's Your Move | The Husband |
| 1981 | P.Q. 17 | Jack Broome |
| 1979 | Village Wooing | A |
| 1978 | Watership Down | Fiver (voice) |
| 1977 | Our Flesh and Blood | Mr. Smythe |
| 1976 | A Small Miracle | Himself - Commentator |
| 1975 | Great | Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
| 1974 | The Four Musketeers | Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1973 | The Three Musketeers | Louis XIII (voice) |
| 1972 | Rentadick | Miles Gannet |
| 1970 | All the Way Up | Nigel Hadfield |
| 1967 | Fathom | Flight Lt. Timothy Webb |
| 1964 | The Bargee | Tomkins |
| 1964 | All in Good Time | The Young Husband |
| 1964 | A Home of Your Own | The Husband |
| 1963 | Doctor in Distress | Medical Student (uncredited) |
| 1962 | The Girl on the Boat | Eustace Hignett |
| 1961 | A Matter of WHO | Jamieson |
| 1961 | Murder She Said | 'Mrs Binster' |
| 1960 | Bottoms Up! | Colbourne |
| 1958 | Girls at Sea | 'Popeye' Lewis |