Richard Briers
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1934-01-14
Day of Death
2013-02-17 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Richard Briers
Biography
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
Acting
(2022)
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
as (archive footage)
(2017)
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
(2016)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2013)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
as Mouse (voice)
(2012)
Cockneys vs Zombies
as Hamish
(2012)
Run For Your Wife
as Newspaper Seller
(2011)
(2010)
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
as Mr. Adolphus Spanker
(2010)
(2009)
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
(2006)
As You Like It
as Adam
(2005)
Dad
as Larry James
(2005)
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
as Himself
(2005)
Our Hidden Lives
as Herbert Brush
(2003)
Peter Pan
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
(2003)
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot
as Robert (voice)
(2002)
Unconditional Love
as Barry Moore
(2001)
Victoria & Albert
as Joseph Paxton
(2000)
Love's Labour's Lost
as Sir Nathaniel
(1998)
The Student Prince
as Dr. Corbitt
(1997)
Spice World
as Bishop
(1996)
Hamlet
as Polonius
(1996)
The Adventures of Toad
as Rat
(1995)
In the Bleak Midwinter
as Henry
(1995)
Heavy Weather
as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
(1995)
The Adventures of Mole
as Rat
(1994)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Grandfather
(1994)
Skallagrigg
as Old Arthur/George
(1994)
Mole's Christmas
as Rat
(1994)
Frances the Firefly
as Narrator (voice)
(1993)
Much Ado About Nothing
as Signor Leonato
(1992)
Peter's Friends
as Lord Morton
(1992)
Swan Song
as Nikita
(1989)
Henry V
as Lieutenant Bardolph
(1989)
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Ted Washbrook
(1988)
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
as Malvolio
(1987)
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
as The Chief Caretaker
(1983)
The Aerodrome
as The Rector
(1983)
Arms and the Man
as Bluntschli
(1982)
It's Your Move
as The Husband
(1981)
P.Q. 17
as Jack Broome
(1979)
Village Wooing
as A
(1978)
Watership Down
as Fiver (voice)
(1977)
Our Flesh and Blood
as Mr. Smythe
(1976)
A Small Miracle
as Himself - Commentator
(1975)
Great
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
(1974)
The Four Musketeers
as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
(1973)
The Three Musketeers
as Louis XIII (voice)
(1972)
Rentadick
as Miles Gannet
(1970)
All the Way Up
as Nigel Hadfield
(1967)
Fathom
as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
(1964)
A Home of Your Own
as The Husband
(1964)
The Bargee
as Tomkins
(1964)
All in Good Time
as The Young Husband
(1963)
Doctor in Distress
as Medical Student (uncredited)
(1962)
The Girl on the Boat
as Eustace Hignett
(1961)
Murder She Said
as 'Mrs Binster'
(1961)
A Matter of WHO
as Jamieson
(1960)
Bottoms Up!
as Colbourne
(1958)
Girls at Sea
as 'Popeye' Lewis