
Richard Briers
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 14, 1934
- Died
- February 17, 2013 (aged 79)
- Birthplace
- Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
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).
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Filmography

Bird Bath
TV · as Narrator · 25 eps

Little Red Tractor Stories
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 4 eps

The Good Life: Inside Out
Movie

The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
Movie · as (archive footage)

Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Movie · as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Movie · as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Movie · as Mouse (voice)

Cockneys vs Zombies
Movie · as Hamish

Run For Your Wife
Movie · as Newspaper Seller

Horror on the High Rise
Movie

National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Movie · as Mr. Adolphus Spanker

All About The Good Life
Movie

Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Movie · as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
That's What I Call Television
TV · as Self · 1 ep

A Bucket O' French and Saunders
TV · 1 ep

Kingdom
TV · as Jim Wright · 1 ep

As You Like It
Movie · as Adam

Torchwood
TV · as Parker · 1 ep
My Appalling School Report
TV · 4 eps
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Movie · as Self
Our Hidden Lives
Movie · as Herbert Brush

Dad
Movie · as Larry James

Extras
TV · as Richard Briers · 1 ep

Roobarb and Custard Too
TV · as Narrator · 39 eps

New Tricks
TV · as James Farlow · 1 ep

Agatha Christie's Marple
TV · as Wilson · 1 ep

Peter Pan
Movie · as Sam "Smee" Smiegel

Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
Movie · as Robert (voice)

More Great Comedy Moments
Movie · as Martin Bryce (archive footage)

Comedy Connections
TV · 1 ep

Unconditional Love
Movie · as Barry Moore

Victoria & Albert
Movie · as Joseph Paxton

Great Comedy Moments
Movie · as Tom Good (archive footage)

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Love's Labour's Lost
Movie · as Sir Nathaniel

Monarch of the Glen
TV · as Hector MacDonald · 33 eps

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
TV · 2 eps

Watership Down
TV · as Captain Broom (voice) · 1 ep

The Student Prince
Movie · as Dr. Corbitt

Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
TV · as Narrator · 5 eps

A Respectable Trade
TV · as Sir Charles Fairley · 4 eps

Parkinson
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Spice World
Movie · as Bishop

Midsomer Murders
TV · as Stephen Wentworth · 1 ep

Brass Eye
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Hamlet
Movie · as Polonius

The Adventures of Toad
Movie · as Rat

In the Bleak Midwinter
Movie · as Henry

Heavy Weather
Movie · as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood

The Adventures of Mole
Movie · as Rat
Down to Earth
TV · as Tony Fairfax · 7 eps

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Movie · as Grandfather

Mole's Christmas
Movie · as Rat

Skallagrigg
Movie · as Old Arthur/George

Frances the Firefly
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Movie · as Self

Much Ado About Nothing
Movie · as Signor Leonato

If You See God, Tell Him
TV · as Godfrey Spry · 4 eps
Swan Song
Movie · as Nikita

Peter's Friends
Movie · as Lord Morton

Mr. Bean
TV · as Mr. Sprout · 1 ep

A Chorus of Disapproval
Movie · as Ted Washbrook

Henry V
Movie · as Lieutenant Bardolph

Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Movie · as Malvolio
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Movie · as Alias (voice)

Comic Relief
TV · 2 eps

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Movie · as The Chief Caretaker

Lovejoy
TV · as Raymond Doncaster · 1 ep

A Month in the Country
Movie · as Arkady

Alias the Jester
TV · as Alias · 13 eps

Screen Two
TV · as Old Arthur/George · 1 ep

All in Good Faith
TV · as Reverend Philip Lambe · 18 eps

Ever Decreasing Circles
TV · 26 eps
Arms and the Man
Movie · as Bluntschli

The Aerodrome
Movie · as The Rector

Natural World
TV · 1 ep

It's Your Move
Movie · as The Husband

Wogan
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Goodbye Mr Kent
TV · as Travis Kent · 7 eps

P.Q. 17
Movie · as Jack Broome
Village Wooing
Movie · as A

Tales of the Unexpected
TV · as Albert Dobson · 1 ep

Watership Down
Movie · as Fiver (voice)

Our Flesh and Blood
Movie · as Mr. Smythe
The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
Movie · as Theatre Patron

The Other One
TV · as Ralph Tanner · 13 eps

The Norman Conquests
TV · as Reg · 3 eps

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
TV · as Henry Fairlane · 1 ep
The Sunday Drama
TV · as Dennis · 1 ep

A Small Miracle
Movie · as Himself - Commentator

Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
TV · 30 eps
One-Upmanship
TV · as Stephen Potter · 17 eps

Great
Movie · as Isambard Kingdom Brunel

The Good Life
TV · as Tom Good · 28 eps

Noddy
TV · as Narrator · 26 eps

The Four Musketeers
Movie · as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)

Roobarb
TV · 30 eps

The Three Musketeers
Movie · as Louis XIII (voice)
Between the Wars
TV · as Oswald Carstairs · 1 ep

Rentadick
Movie · as Miles Gannet
Tall Stories
TV · 6 eps
Birds on the Wing
TV · as Charles Jackson · 6 eps

All the Way Up
Movie · as Nigel Hadfield

From a Bird's Eye View
TV · as George Lemon · 1 ep

Play for Today
TV · as Mr. Smythe, Commander Jack Broome · 1 ep
Ben Travers Farces
TV · as Charlie Tutt · 7 eps

Ooh La La!
TV · 1 ep

Fathom
Movie · as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb

NBC Experiment in Television
TV · as (voice) · 1 ep

ITV Playhouse
TV · as A · 1 ep

BBC Play of the Month
TV · as Sandy Tyrell · 1 ep

The Bargee
Movie · as Tomkins

All in Good Time
Movie · as The Young Husband

A Home of Your Own
Movie · as The Husband

Theatre 625
TV · as David Prentice · 1 ep
Thursday Theatre
TV · as David Prentice · 1 ep

Doctor in Distress
Movie · as Medical Student (uncredited)

Doctor Who
TV · as Chief Caretaker · 4 eps

The Girl on the Boat
Movie · as Eustace Hignett
Brothers In Law
TV · 13 eps

A Matter of WHO
Movie · as Jamieson

Murder She Said
Movie · as 'Mrs Binster'
Faces of Jim
TV · as John Frobisher, Lighthouse Assistant, Ricky Groin · 1 ep

Marriage Lines
TV · as George Starling · 43 eps

Bottoms Up!
Movie · as Colbourne

Girls at Sea
Movie · as 'Popeye' Lewis

Armchair Theatre
TV · as Stanley Frelaine · 1 ep

Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee · 1 ep

Dixon of Dock Green
TV · as Ken Tracey · 1 ep



