Cast
Richard Briers
Acting
Cast
Richard Briers
Known for
Acting
Born
1934-01-14
From
Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Died
2013-02-17
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).
Peter Pan
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Spice World
as Bishop
Watership Down
as Fiver (voice)
Much Ado About Nothing
as Signor Leonato
The Three Musketeers
as Louis XIII (voice)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Grandfather
Hamlet
as Polonius
Unconditional Love
as Barry Moore
Henry V
as Lieutenant Bardolph
The Four Musketeers
as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
Love's Labour's Lost
as Sir Nathaniel
As You Like It
as Adam
Peter's Friends
as Lord Morton
Cockneys vs Zombies
as Hamish
Murder She Said
as 'Mrs Binster'
In the Bleak Midwinter
as Henry
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
as Self
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Bargee
as Tomkins
Heavy Weather
as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
Village Wooing
as A
Victoria & Albert
as Joseph Paxton
Fathom
as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
Girls at Sea
as 'Popeye' Lewis
Our Hidden Lives
as Herbert Brush
The Adventures of Toad
as Rat
Dad
as Larry James
Doctor in Distress
as Medical Student (uncredited)
The Girl on the Boat
as Eustace Hignett
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
Swan Song
as Nikita
All the Way Up
as Nigel Hadfield
Rentadick
as Miles Gannet
Run For Your Wife
as Newspaper Seller
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Ted Washbrook
The Adventures of Mole
as Rat
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
as The Chief Caretaker
Arms and the Man
as Bluntschli
The Student Prince
as Dr. Corbitt
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
as (archive footage)
A Matter of WHO
as Jamieson
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
as Robert (voice)
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
as Mr. Adolphus Spanker
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
as Malvolio
The Good Life: Inside Out
Bottoms Up!
as Colbourne
Our Flesh and Blood
as Mr. Smythe
P.Q. 17
as Jack Broome
Mole's Christmas
as Rat
Great
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
as Alias (voice)
The Aerodrome
as The Rector
Horror on the High Rise
A Home of Your Own
as The Husband
It's Your Move
as The Husband
Skallagrigg
as Old Arthur/George
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
as Mouse (voice)
All in Good Time
as The Young Husband
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
A Small Miracle
as Himself - Commentator
All About The Good Life
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
as Self
Frances the Firefly
as Narrator (voice)