
Richard Briers
Born January 14, 1934 · Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
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).
Notable Appearances
Movies

Peter Pan

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Much Ado About Nothing

The Three Musketeers

Watership Down

Spice World

The Four Musketeers

Henry V

Hamlet

Love's Labour's Lost

As You Like It

Murder She Said

In the Bleak Midwinter

Cockneys vs Zombies

A Chorus of Disapproval

Peter's Friends

Unconditional Love

Run For Your Wife

Dad

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

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

Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley

The Girl on the Boat

Doctor in Distress

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

A Home of Your Own

All the Way Up

The Bargee

It's Your Move

Victoria & Albert

Our Flesh and Blood

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

National Theatre Live: London Assurance

A Matter of WHO

Heavy Weather

Fathom

All in Good Time

The Student Prince

The Adventures of Toad

The Adventures of Mole

French and Saunders' Christmas Carol

A Month in the Country

The Good Life: Secret & Scandals

Girls at Sea

Rentadick
TV Shows

Tony Awards

Tales of the Unexpected

Screen Two

Wogan

Theatre 625

New Tricks

Natural World

ITV Playhouse

Agatha Christie's Marple

Parkinson

Torchwood

Mr. Bean

Monarch of the Glen

Dixon of Dock Green

Lovejoy

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Extras

Kingdom

NBC Experiment in Television

Brass Eye

Comedy Connections

The Good Life

Ooh La La!

Watership Down

Armchair Theatre

If You See God, Tell Him

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

From a Bird's Eye View

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse

Ever Decreasing Circles

A Bucket O' French and Saunders

A Respectable Trade

All in Good Faith

Marriage Lines

Bird Bath

Roobarb

The Other One

Roobarb and Custard Too

Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk

The Norman Conquests

Alias the Jester

Little Red Tractor Stories

Noddy

Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden

















