Richard Briers
Birthday
1934/01/14
Day of death
2013/02/17 (79 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Also know as
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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 i...Read more
Acting
(1994) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Grandfather
(1996) Hamlet
as Polonius
(1978) Watership Down
as Fiver (voice)
(1993) Much Ado About Nothing
as Signor Leonato
(1995) In the Bleak Midwinter
as Henry
(1967) Fathom
as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
(2000) Love's Labour's Lost
as Sir Nathaniel
(1982) It's Your Move
as The Husband
(1995) Heavy Weather
as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
(2012) Cockneys vs Zombies
as Hamish
(1964) The Bargee
as Tomkins
(2012) Run For Your Wife
as Newspaper Seller
(1972) Rentadick
as Miles Gannet
(2005) The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
as Himself
(1975) Great
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
(1961) A Matter of WHO
as Jamieson
(1992) Swan Song
as Nikita
(1988) Twelfth Night, or What You Will
as Malvolio
(2003) Peter Pan
as Smee
(1958) Girls at Sea
as 'Popeye' Lewis
(1970) All the Way Up
as Nigel Hadfield
(1983) Arms and the Man
as Bluntschli
(1974) The Four Musketeers
as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
(1973) The Three Musketeers
as Louis XIII (voice)
(2022) The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
as (archive footage)
(2017) Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
(1964) All in Good Time
as The Young Husband
(1979) Village Wooing
as A
(1989) A Chorus of Disapproval
as Ted Washbrook
(1983) The Aerodrome
as The Rector
(2005) Our Hidden Lives
as Herbert Brush
(1961) Murder She Said
as 'Mrs Binster'
(2013) Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
as Mouse (voice)
(1963) Doctor in Distress
as Medical Student (uncredited)
(1994) Mole's Christmas
as Rat
(1998) The Student Prince
as Dr. Corbitt
(2005) Dad
as Larry James
(1992) Peter's Friends
as Lord Morton
(1989) Henry V
as Lieutenant Bardolph
(1960) Bottoms Up!
as Colbourne
(2009) Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
(2010) National Theatre Live: London Assurance
as Mr. Adolphus Spanker
(2016) British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1997) Spice World
as Bishop
(2006) As You Like It
as Adam
(1976) A Small Miracle
as Himself - Commentator
(1994) Skallagrigg
as Old Arthur/George
(1977) Our Flesh and Blood
as Mr. Smythe
(1995) The Adventures of Mole
as Rat
(1964) A Home of Your Own
as The Husband
(2002) Unconditional Love
as Barry Moore
(1962) The Girl on the Boat
as Eustace Hignett
(2010) All About The Good Life
as ---
(1981) P.Q. 17
as Jack Broome
(1996) The Adventures of Toad
as Rat
(1987) Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
as The Chief Caretaker
(2001) Victoria & Albert
as Joseph Paxton
(1994) Frances the Firefly
as Narrator (voice)
(1985) All in Good Faith
as ---
(1984) Ever Decreasing Circles
as ---
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Stephen Wentworth
(1976) Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
as ---
(2006) Torchwood
as Parker
(2001) Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self
(1963) Doctor Who
as Chief Caretaker
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as Albert Dobson
(2000) Monarch of the Glen
as Hector MacDonald
(2003) Comedy Connections
as ---
(1975) The Good Life
as Tom Good
(1961) Marriage Lines
as ---
(1970) The Goodies
as ---
(1990) Mr. Bean
as Mr. Sprout
(1986) Lovejoy
as Raymond Doncaster
(1993) If You See God, Tell Him
as Godfrey Spry
(1974) Roobarb
as ---
(1999) Watership Down
as Broom
(1970) From a Bird's Eye View
as George Lemon
(2004) New Tricks
as James Farlow
(1982) Wogan
as Self
(1983) Natural World
as ---
(1977) The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
as ---
(2007) That's What I Call Television
as ---
(2006) My Appalling School Report
as ---
(1995) Down to Earth
as ---
(1982) Goodbye Mr Kent
as ---
(1962) Brothers In Law
as ---
(1976) One-Upmanship
as ---
(1971) Tall Stories
as ---
(1977) The Other One
as Ralph Tanner
(1985) Alias the Jester
as Alias
(2007) A Bucket O' French and Saunders
as ---
(2005) Extras
as Richard Briers
(1968) Ooh La La!
as ---
(2007) Kingdom
as Jim Wright
(1998) Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
as Narrator
(1997) Brass Eye
as ---
(1955) Dixon of Dock Green
as Ken Tracey
(1998) A Respectable Trade
as Sir Charles Fairley
(1985) Screen Two
as Old Arthur/George
(1977) The Norman Conquests
as Reg
Bird Bath
as Narrator
(2005) Roobarb and Custard Too
as Narrator
(2004) Agatha Christie's Marple
as Wilson
(1970) Play for Today
as Mr. Smythe
(2000) The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
as ---
(1967) NBC Experiment in Television
as (voice)
(1998) Parkinson
as Self
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
Little Red Tractor Stories
as Narrator (voice)
(1987) Inspector Morse
as Sir Clixby Bream
(1979) Minder
as Col. Caplan
(1970) Play for Today
as Commander Jack Broome
(1956) Armchair Theatre
as Stanley Frelaine