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).
★7.1
MOVIE2003
Peter Pan
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
★9.5
MOVIE2005
Dad
as Larry James
★5.7
MOVIE2012
Cockneys vs Zombies
as Hamish
★6.7
MOVIE1973
The Three Musketeers
as Louis XIII (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1993
Much Ado About Nothing
as Signor Leonato
★6.4
MOVIE1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Grandfather
★5.5
MOVIE2000
Love's Labour's Lost
as Sir Nathaniel
★7.0
MOVIE1964
The Bargee
as Tomkins
★7.2
MOVIE1978
Watership Down
as Fiver (voice)
MOVIE1979
Village Wooing
as A
★6.4
MOVIE1974
The Four Musketeers
as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
★7.3
MOVIE1996
Hamlet
as Polonius
★6.0
MOVIE1962
The Girl on the Boat
as Eustace Hignett
★4.9
MOVIE1997
Spice World
as Bishop
★6.5
MOVIE2005
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
as Self
★5.4
MOVIE1989
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Ted Washbrook
MOVIE1983
Arms and the Man
as Bluntschli
★7.4
MOVIE1988
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
as Malvolio
★7.3
MOVIE1958
Girls at Sea
as 'Popeye' Lewis
MOVIE1985
A Month in the Country
as Arkady
MOVIE1994
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
as Self
★5.3
MOVIE1998
The Student Prince
as Dr. Corbitt
★6.5
MOVIE1987
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
as The Chief Caretaker
MOVIE1996
The Adventures of Toad
as Rat
★6.3
MOVIE1963
Doctor in Distress
as Medical Student (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1995
Heavy Weather
as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
★7.6
MOVIE2001
Victoria & Albert
as Joseph Paxton
★6.0
MOVIE2002
Unconditional Love
as Barry Moore
★7.1
MOVIE1989
Henry V
as Lieutenant Bardolph
★4.4
MOVIE2012
Run For Your Wife
as Newspaper Seller
MOVIE1977
Our Flesh and Blood
as Mr. Smythe
★7.3
MOVIE1961
Murder She Said
as 'Mrs Binster'
★6.8
MOVIE1992
Swan Song
as Nikita
★6.6
MOVIE1992
Peter's Friends
as Lord Morton
★5.8
MOVIE2006
As You Like It
as Adam
★9.0
MOVIE2009
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE1964
A Home of Your Own
as The Husband
★7.1
MOVIE1995
In the Bleak Midwinter
as Henry
★7.9
MOVIE1982
It's Your Move
as The Husband
★7.0
MOVIE2022
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
as (archive footage)
★5.7
MOVIE2016
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1995
The Adventures of Mole
as Rat
★7.0
MOVIE1970
All the Way Up
as Nigel Hadfield
★6.4
MOVIE1961
A Matter of WHO
as Jamieson
★5.4
MOVIE1994
Mole's Christmas
as Rat
★6.7
MOVIE1960
Bottoms Up!
as Colbourne
★6.1
MOVIE1967
Fathom
as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
★4.2
MOVIE1972
Rentadick
as Miles Gannet
MOVIE1988
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
as Alias (voice)
★4.5
MOVIE2005
Our Hidden Lives
as Herbert Brush
MOVIE1976
A Small Miracle
as Himself - Commentator
★7.0
MOVIE2010
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
as Mr. Adolphus Spanker
★7.0
MOVIE1983
The Aerodrome
as The Rector
MOVIE2010
All About The Good Life
MOVIE2017
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE2003
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
as Robert (voice)
★5.6
MOVIE1975
Great
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
★6.0
MOVIE2013
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
as Mouse (voice)
MOVIE1994
Frances the Firefly
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2025
The Good Life: Inside Out
MOVIE1964
All in Good Time
as The Young Husband
MOVIE2011
Horror on the High Rise
★4.0
MOVIE1994
Skallagrigg
as Old Arthur/George
MOVIE1981
P.Q. 17
as Jack Broome