Richard Briers
Actor
Born January 14, 1934 in Raynes 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).
Filmography
Bird Bath
Narrator
Little Red Tractor Stories
Narrator (voice)
The Good Life: Inside Out
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
(archive footage)
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Mouse (voice)
Cockneys vs Zombies
Hamish
Run For Your Wife
Newspaper Seller
Horror on the High Rise
All About The Good Life
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Roobarb/Custard (voice)
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
Kingdom
Jim Wright
Torchwood
Parker
As You Like It
Adam
Roobarb and Custard Too
Narrator
Extras
Richard Briers
Dad
Larry James
Agatha Christie's Marple
Wilson
New Tricks
James Farlow
Peter Pan
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Comedy Connections
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
Robert (voice)
Unconditional Love
Barry Moore
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self
Victoria & Albert
Joseph Paxton
Love's Labour's Lost
Sir Nathaniel
Monarch of the Glen
Hector MacDonald
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
Watership Down
Captain Broom (voice)
The Student Prince
Dr. Corbitt
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
Narrator
A Respectable Trade
Sir Charles Fairley
Parkinson
Self
Spice World
Bishop
Midsomer Murders
Stephen Wentworth
Brass Eye
Self
Hamlet
Polonius
The Adventures of Toad
Rat
Heavy Weather
The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
The Adventures of Mole
Rat
In the Bleak Midwinter
Henry
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Self
Mole's Christmas
Rat
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Grandfather
Skallagrigg
Old Arthur/George
Frances the Firefly
Narrator (voice)
If You See God, Tell Him
Godfrey Spry
Much Ado About Nothing
Signor Leonato
Peter's Friends
Lord Morton
Mr. Bean
Mr. Sprout
Henry V
Lieutenant Bardolph
A Chorus of Disapproval
Ted Washbrook
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Malvolio
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
The Chief Caretaker
Lovejoy
Raymond Doncaster
All in Good Faith
Reverend Philip Lambe
Alias the Jester
Alias
A Month in the Country
Arkady
Screen Two
Old Arthur/George
Ever Decreasing Circles
The Aerodrome
The Rector
Natural World
It's Your Move
The Husband
Wogan
Self
Goodbye Mr Kent
Travis Kent
P.Q. 17
Jack Broome
Tales of the Unexpected
Albert Dobson
Watership Down
Fiver (voice)
The Other One
Ralph Tanner
The Norman Conquests
Reg
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
Henry Fairlane
Our Flesh and Blood
Mr. Smythe
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
A Small Miracle
Himself - Commentator
The Good Life
Tom Good
Noddy
Narrator
Great
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The Four Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
Roobarb
The Three Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice)
Rentadick
Miles Gannet
Play for Today
Mr. Smythe
From a Bird's Eye View
George Lemon
All the Way Up
Nigel Hadfield
Ooh La La!
ITV Playhouse
A
Fathom
Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
NBC Experiment in Television
(voice)
BBC Play of the Month
Sandy Tyrell
A Home of Your Own
The Husband
Theatre 625
David Prentice
The Bargee
Tomkins
All in Good Time
The Young Husband
Doctor Who
Chief Caretaker
Doctor in Distress
Medical Student (uncredited)
The Girl on the Boat
Eustace Hignett
A Matter of WHO
Jamieson
Murder She Said
'Mrs Binster'
Marriage Lines
George Starling
Bottoms Up!
Colbourne
Girls at Sea
'Popeye' Lewis
Armchair Theatre
Stanley Frelaine
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
Dixon of Dock Green
Ken Tracey