Richard Briers
Born: 1934-01-14 in Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Died: 2013-02-17
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
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
- Run For Your Wife as Newspaper Seller
2010
- All About The Good Life
- National Theatre Live: London Assurance as Mr. Adolphus Spanker
2009
- Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
2007
- Kingdom as Jim Wright
- A Bucket O' French and Saunders
- That's What I Call Television as Self
2006
- Torchwood as Parker
- As You Like It as Adam
- My Appalling School Report
2005
- Extras as Richard Briers
- Dad as Larry James
- Our Hidden Lives as Herbert Brush
- The Funny Blokes of British Comedy as Himself
- Roobarb and Custard Too as Narrator
2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Wilson
- New Tricks as James Farlow
2003
- Peter Pan as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
- Comedy Connections
- Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot as Robert (voice)
2002
- Unconditional Love as Barry Moore
2001
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
- Victoria & Albert as Joseph Paxton
2000
- Monarch of the Glen as Hector MacDonald
- Love's Labour's Lost as Sir Nathaniel
- The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
1999
- Watership Down as Captain Broom (voice)
1998
- Parkinson as Self
- The Student Prince as Dr. Corbitt
- A Respectable Trade as Sir Charles Fairley
- Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden as Narrator
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Stephen Wentworth
- Brass Eye as Self
- Spice World as Bishop
1996
- Hamlet as Polonius
- The Adventures of Toad as Rat
1995
- Heavy Weather as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
- In the Bleak Midwinter as Henry
- The Adventures of Mole as Rat
- Down to Earth as Tony Fairfax
1994
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Grandfather
- Skallagrigg as Old Arthur/George
- Mole's Christmas as Rat
- Frances the Firefly as Narrator (voice)
1993
- Much Ado About Nothing as Signor Leonato
- If You See God, Tell Him as Godfrey Spry
1992
- Peter's Friends as Lord Morton
- Swan Song as Nikita
1990
- Mr. Bean as Mr. Sprout
1989
- Henry V as Lieutenant Bardolph
- A Chorus of Disapproval as Ted Washbrook
1988
- Children's Favourites - Volume 1 as Alias (voice)
- Twelfth Night, or What You Will as Malvolio
1987
- Doctor Who: Paradise Towers as The Chief Caretaker
1986
- Lovejoy as Raymond Doncaster
1985
- Screen Two as Old Arthur/George
- Alias the Jester as Alias
- All in Good Faith as Reverend Philip Lambe
1983
- Natural World
- Arms and the Man as Bluntschli
- The Aerodrome as The Rector
1982
- Wogan as Self
- It's Your Move as The Husband
- Goodbye Mr Kent as Travis Kent
1981
- P.Q. 17 as Jack Broome
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Albert Dobson
- Village Wooing as A
1978
- Watership Down as Fiver (voice)
1977
- Our Flesh and Blood as Mr. Smythe
- The Galton & Simpson Playhouse as Henry Fairlane
- The Norman Conquests as Reg
- The Other One as Ralph Tanner
1976
- A Small Miracle as Himself - Commentator
- One-Upmanship
- Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
1975
- Great as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- The Good Life as Tom Good
- Noddy as Narrator
1974
- The Four Musketeers as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
- Roobarb
1973
- The Three Musketeers as Louis XIII (voice)
1972
- Rentadick as Miles Gannet
1971
- Birds On The Wing as Charles Jackson
- Tall Stories
1970
- Play for Today as Mr. Smythe
- All the Way Up as Nigel Hadfield
- From a Bird's Eye View as George Lemon
- Ben Travers Farces as Charlie Tutt
1968
1967
- Fathom as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
- NBC Experiment in Television as (voice)
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Sandy Tyrell
1964
- Theatre 625 as David Prentice
- A Home of Your Own as The Husband
- All in Good Time as The Young Husband
- The Bargee as Tomkins
1963
- Doctor Who as Chief Caretaker
- Doctor in Distress as Medical Student (uncredited)
1962
- The Girl on the Boat as Eustace Hignett
- Brothers In Law
1961
- Murder She Said as 'Mrs Binster'
- A Matter of WHO as Jamieson
- Marriage Lines
1960
- Bottoms Up! as Colbourne
1958
- Girls at Sea as 'Popeye' Lewis
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- Armchair Theatre as Stanley Frelaine
1955
- Dixon of Dock Green as Ken Tracey