Richard Briers

Richard Briers

b. 1934 — d. 2013 (aged 79) Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK

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Richard David Briers, CBE 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

The Good Life

Watership Down

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

Peter Pan

Filmography

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time

Michael Grade's History of the Pantomime Dame

The Only One Who Knows You're Afraid

Behind the Britcoms: From Script to Screen

How to Buy a Puppy

All About 'The Good Life'

All About 'The Good Life'

Decade of Doctors

Little Whispers

That Antony Cotton Show

The Real Mr Pooter

The Ultimate Sitcom

Who Killed the Sitcom?

Our Hidden Lives

Our Hidden Lives

Dad

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

Roobarb & Custard Too

Roobarb & Custard Too

Avenue of the Stars: 50 Years of ITV

2005 TV Moments

Ronnie Barker: A BAFTA Tribute

Ronnie Barker: A BAFTA Tribute

The Funny Ladies of British Comedy

Britain's Best Sitcom

Britain's Best Sitcom

Bob the Builder: When Bob Became a Builder

Bob the Builder: When Bob Became a Builder

All the Queen's Cooks

Peter Pan

Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot

Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot

ITV Special: Peter Pan

The Sitcom Story

The Joy of Christmas

Judi Dench: A BAFTA Tribute

The John Thaw Story

2002 Self Actor

Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Lost

Monarch of the Glen

Monarch of the Glen

Hector MacDonald

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

Highway Robbery Victim

Geoff Hamilton: A Man and His Garden

Spice World

In Search of Hamlet

1997 Self Actor

Hamlet

The Adventures of Toad

The Adventures of Toad

A Midwinter's Tale

A Midwinter's Tale

Henry Wakefield (Claudius, the Ghost, and the Player King)

Heavy Weather

The Hon. Galahad Threepwood

The Adventures of Mole

The Adventures of Mole

Down to Earth

Oliver 2: Let's Twist Again

Frankenstein

Mole's Christmas

Mole's Christmas

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

If You See God, Tell Him

If You See God, Tell Him

Little Red Tractor Stories

Little Red Tractor Stories

Peter's Friends

Peter's Friends

Swan Song

A Tribute to Terry Thomas

A Chorus of Disapproval

A Chorus of Disapproval

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Caught in the Act

That's Television Entertainment

Alias the Jester

Alias the Jester

All in Good Faith

All in Good Faith

Reverend Philip Lambe

A Month in the Country

Ever Decreasing Circles

Ever Decreasing Circles

It's Your Move

Arms and the Man

Goodbye, Mr. Kent

Goodbye, Mr. Kent

Survival: Small Is Beautiful

Watership Down

The Norman Conquests

The Norman Conquests

The Other One

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse

Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk

Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk

A Small Miracle

A Small Miracle

The Good Life

Great (Isambard Kingdom Brunel)

Great (Isambard Kingdom Brunel)

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Noddy

Roobarb

One-Upmanship

Between the Wars

Oswald Carstairs

Rentadick

Birds on the Wing

Charles Jackson

All the Way Up

A Birthday Gala Tribute Noel Coward

Ben Travers' Farces

David Winterton

Fathom

Relatively Speaking

Summer Comedy Hour

Lord Fancourt Babberley

Present Laughter

The Bargee

A Home of Your Own

A Home of Your Own

All in Good Time

All in Good Time

The young husband

Language of Love

The Girl on the Boat

The Girl on the Boat

Eustace Hignett

Brothers in Law

Brothers in Law

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