Richard Briers
Acting
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).
Known for
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movieThe Good Life: Secret & Scandals
2022
(archive footage)
movieRoobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
2017
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
movieBritish Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieMouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013
Mouse (voice)
movieRun For Your Wife
2012
Newspaper Seller
movieNational Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
moviePeter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009
Roobarb/Custard (voice)
tvKingdom
2007
Jim Wright
tvTorchwood
2006
Parker
Our Hidden Lives
2005
Herbert Brush
tvRoobarb and Custard Too
2005
Narrator
tvExtras
2005
Richard Briers
movieDad
2005
Larry James
tvNew Tricks
2004
James Farlow
moviePeter Pan
2003
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
movieBob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
2003
Robert (voice)
movieUnconditional Love
2002
Barry Moore
movieVictoria & Albert
2001
Joseph Paxton
movieLove's Labour's Lost
2000
Sir Nathaniel
tvMonarch of the Glen
2000
Hector MacDonald
tvWatership Down
1999
Captain Broom (voice)
movieThe Student Prince
1998
Dr. Corbitt
tvA Respectable Trade
1998
Sir Charles Fairley
tvParkinson
1998
Self
movieSpice World
1997
Bishop
tvMidsomer Murders
1997
Stephen Wentworth
tvBrass Eye
1997
Self
movieHamlet
1996
Polonius
movieHeavy Weather
1995
The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
Down to Earth
1995
Tony Fairfax
movieMary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
Grandfather
movieSkallagrigg
1994
Old Arthur/George
movieFrances the Firefly
1994
Narrator (voice)
tvIf You See God, Tell Him
1993
Godfrey Spry
movieMuch Ado About Nothing
1993
Signor Leonato
moviePeter's Friends
1992
Lord Morton
tvMr. Bean
1990
Mr. Sprout
movieHenry V
1989
Lieutenant Bardolph
movieA Chorus of Disapproval
1989
Ted Washbrook
movieDoctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987
The Chief Caretaker
tvLovejoy
1986
Raymond Doncaster
tvAll in Good Faith
1985
Reverend Philip Lambe
tvScreen Two
1985
Old Arthur/George
movieThe Aerodrome
1983
The Rector
movieIt's Your Move
1982
The Husband
tvWogan
1982
Self
tvGoodbye Mr Kent
1982
Travis Kent
movieP.Q. 17
1981
Jack Broome
tvTales of the Unexpected
1979
Albert Dobson
movieWatership Down
1978
Fiver (voice)
tvThe Other One
1977
Ralph Tanner
tvThe Galton & Simpson Playhouse
1977
Henry Fairlane
movieOur Flesh and Blood
1977
Mr. Smythe
One-Upmanship
1976
Stephen Potter
movieA Small Miracle
1976
Himself - Commentator
tvThe Good Life
1975
Tom Good
tvNoddy
1975
Narrator
movieGreat
1975
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
movieThe Four Musketeers
1974
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe Three Musketeers
1973
Louis XIII (voice)
Between the Wars
1973
Oswald Carstairs
movieRentadick
1972
Miles Gannet
Birds on the Wing
1971
Charles Jackson
tvPlay for Today
1970
Mr. Smythe / Commander Jack Broome
Ben Travers Farces
1970
Charlie Tutt
tvFrom a Bird's Eye View
1970
George Lemon
movieAll the Way Up
1970
Nigel Hadfield
movieFathom
1967
Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
tvBBC Play of the Month
1965
Sandy Tyrell
movieA Home of Your Own
1964
The Husband
Thursday Theatre
1964
David Prentice
tvTheatre 625
1964
David Prentice
movieThe Bargee
1964
Tomkins
movieAll in Good Time
1964
The Young Husband
tvDoctor Who
1963
Chief Caretaker
movieDoctor in Distress
1963
Medical Student (uncredited)
movieThe Girl on the Boat
1962
Eustace Hignett
Faces of Jim
1961
John Frobisher / Lighthouse Assistant / Ricky Groin
movieA Matter of WHO
1961
Jamieson
movieMurder She Said
1961
'Mrs Binster'
tvMarriage Lines
1961
George Starling
movieBottoms Up!
1960
Colbourne
movieGirls at Sea
1958
'Popeye' Lewis
tvArmchair Theatre
1956
Stanley Frelaine
tvTony Awards
1956
Self - Nominee
tvDixon of Dock Green
1955
Ken Tracey
tvBird Bath
Narrator
tvLittle Red Tractor Stories
Narrator (voice)