Richard Briers

Known for ActingBorn 1934-01-14Died 2013-02-17Raynes 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).Read more

Movies & web series

Ooh La La!

Dad

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

Birds on the Wing

Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden

Heavy Weather

Mr. Bean

Agatha Christie's Marple

Extras

It's Your Move

Brass Eye

Victoria & Albert

Doctor Who

Midsomer Murders

The Adventures of Mole

Down to Earth

If You See God, Tell Him

One-Upmanship

The Good Life

New Tricks

Roobarb and Custard Too

Torchwood

Watership Down

Ever Decreasing Circles

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Monarch of the Glen

Hamlet

Lovejoy

The Good Life: Secret & Scandals

Natural World

Peter Pan

Kingdom

Roobarb

National Theatre Live: London Assurance

In the Bleak Midwinter

Henry V

Screen Two

Watership Down

A Respectable Trade

Murder She Said

Girls at Sea

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

Much Ado About Nothing

Theatre 625

The Aerodrome

The Other One

Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk

Swan Song