Richard Briers
January 14, 1934 (90 years old) in Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
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
Credits
- 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
- 2010 · All About The Good Life as
- 2010 · 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 · A Bucket O' French and Saunders as
- 2007 · That's What I Call Television as
- 2007 · Kingdom as Jim Wright
- 2006 · Torchwood as Parker
- 2006 · As You Like It as Adam
- 2006 · My Appalling School Report as
- 2005 · Our Hidden Lives as Herbert Brush
- 2005 · Roobarb and Custard Too as Narrator
- 2005 · Extras as Richard Briers
- 2005 · The Funny Blokes of British Comedy as Himself
- 2005 · Dad as Larry James
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Wilson
- 2004 · New Tricks as James Farlow
- 2003 · Peter Pan as Smee
- 2003 · Comedy Connections as
- 2002 · Unconditional Love as Barry Moore
- 2001 · Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
- 2001 · Victoria & Albert as Joseph Paxton
- 2000 · Love's Labour's Lost as Sir Nathaniel
- 2000 · Monarch of the Glen as Hector MacDonald
- 2000 · The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything as
- 1999 · Watership Down as Broom
- 1998 · The Student Prince as Dr. Corbitt
- 1998 · Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden as Narrator
- 1998 · A Respectable Trade as Sir Charles Fairley
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1997 · Spice World as Bishop
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Stephen Wentworth
- 1997 · Brass Eye as
- 1996 · Hamlet as Polonius
- 1996 · The Adventures of Toad as Rat
- 1995 · Heavy Weather as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
- 1995 · The Adventures of Mole as Rat
- 1995 · In the Bleak Midwinter as Henry
- 1995 · Down to Earth as
- 1994 · Mole's Christmas as Rat
- 1994 · Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Grandfather
- 1994 · Skallagrigg as Old Arthur/George
- 1993 · If You See God, Tell Him as Godfrey Spry
- 1993 · Much Ado About Nothing as Signor Leonato
- 1992 · Peter's Friends as Lord Morton
- 1992 · Swan Song as Nikita
- 1990 · Mr. Bean as Mr. Sprout
- 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
- 1987 · Inspector Morse as Sir Clixby Bream
- 1986 · Lovejoy as Raymond Doncaster
- 1985 · All in Good Faith as
- 1985 · Alias the Jester as Alias
- 1985 · Screen Two as Old Arthur/George
- 1984 · Ever Decreasing Circles as
- 1983 · The Aerodrome as The Rector
- 1983 · Natural World as
- 1983 · Arms and the Man as Bluntschli
- 1982 · It's Your Move as The Husband
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1982 · Goodbye Mr Kent as
- 1981 · P.Q. 17 as Jack Broome
- 1979 · Minder as Col. Caplan
- 1979 · Village Wooing as A
- 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as Albert Dobson
- 1978 · Watership Down as Fiver (voice)
- 1977 · The Other One as Ralph Tanner
- 1977 · The Norman Conquests as Reg
- 1977 · The Galton & Simpson Playhouse as
- 1977 · Our Flesh and Blood as Mr. Smythe
- 1976 · Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk as
- 1976 · One-Upmanship as
- 1976 · A Small Miracle as Himself - Commentator
- 1975 · The Good Life as Tom Good
- 1975 · Great as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- 1974 · The Four Musketeers as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
- 1974 · Roobarb as
- 1973 · The Three Musketeers as Louis XIII (voice)
- 1972 · Rentadick as Miles Gannet
- 1971 · Tall Stories as
- 1970 · The Goodies as
- 1970 · Play for Today as Mr. Smythe
- 1970 · Play for Today as Commander Jack Broome
- 1970 · From a Bird's Eye View as George Lemon
- 1970 · All the Way Up as Nigel Hadfield
- 1968 · Ooh La La! as
- 1967 · Fathom as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
- 1967 · NBC Experiment in Television as (voice)
- 1964 · The Bargee as Tomkins
- 1963 · Doctor Who as Chief Caretaker
- 1963 · Doctor in Distress as Medical Student (uncredited)
- 1962 · The Girl on the Boat as Eustace Hignett
- 1961 · A Matter of WHO as Jamieson
- 1961 · Murder She Said as 'Mrs Binster'
- 1961 · Marriage Lines as
- 1960 · Bottoms Up! as Colbourne
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · Bird Bath as Narrator
- 1958 · Girls at Sea as 'Popeye' Lewis
- Future · Little Red Tractor Stories as Narrator (voice)
- 1964 · All in Good Time as The Young Husband
- 1964 · A Home of Your Own as The Husband
- 1962 · Brothers In Law as
- 1956 · Armchair Theatre as Stanley Frelaine
- 1955 · Dixon of Dock Green as Ken Tracey