Richard David Briers, CBE (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor. His fifty-year career encompassed television, stage, film and radio.
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).
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Filmography (Movies)
The Good Life: Inside Out
Character:
Release Date:28/10/2025
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:12/08/2022
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Character:Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
Release Date:12/06/2017
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Character:Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:12/09/2016
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Character:Mouse (voice)
Release Date:16/12/2013
Cockneys vs Zombies
Character:Hamish
Release Date:31/08/2012
Run For Your Wife
Character:Newspaper Seller
Release Date:16/05/2012
Horror on the High Rise
Character:
Release Date:18/07/2011
All About The Good Life
Character:
Release Date:29/12/2010
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Character:Mr. Adolphus Spanker
Release Date:24/06/2010
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Character:Roobarb/Custard (voice)
Release Date:13/11/2009
As You Like It
Character:Adam
Release Date:01/09/2006
Our Hidden Lives
Character:Herbert Brush
Release Date:03/10/2005
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Character:Himself
Release Date:03/03/2005
Dad
Character:Larry James
Release Date:24/02/2005
Peter Pan
Character:Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Release Date:18/12/2003
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot
Character:Robert (voice)
Release Date:11/03/2003
Unconditional Love
Character:Barry Moore
Release Date:23/08/2002
Victoria & Albert
Character:Joseph Paxton
Release Date:26/08/2001
Love's Labour's Lost
Character:Sir Nathaniel
Release Date:31/03/2000
The Student Prince
Character:Dr. Corbitt
Release Date:22/11/1998
Spice World
Character:Bishop
Release Date:18/12/1997
Hamlet
Character:Polonius
Release Date:25/12/1996
The Adventures of Toad
Character:Rat
Release Date:30/07/1996
Heavy Weather
Character:The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
Release Date:24/12/1995
The Adventures of Mole
Character:Rat
Release Date:24/12/1995
In the Bleak Midwinter
Character:Henry
Release Date:29/09/1995
Mole's Christmas
Character:Rat
Release Date:25/12/1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Character:Grandfather
Release Date:04/11/1994
Skallagrigg
Character:Old Arthur/George
Release Date:09/03/1994
Frances the Firefly
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/01/1994
Much Ado About Nothing
Character:Signor Leonato
Release Date:07/05/1993
Peter's Friends
Character:Lord Morton
Release Date:18/09/1992
Swan Song
Character:Nikita
Release Date:01/01/1992
Henry V
Character:Lieutenant Bardolph
Release Date:05/10/1989
A Chorus of Disapproval
Character:Ted Washbrook
Release Date:18/08/1989
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Character:Malvolio
Release Date:30/12/1988
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Character:Alias (voice)
Release Date:01/02/1988
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Character:The Chief Caretaker
Release Date:26/10/1987
The Aerodrome
Character:The Rector
Release Date:13/12/1983
Arms and the Man
Character:Bluntschli
Release Date:16/01/1983
It's Your Move
Character:The Husband
Release Date:18/10/1982
P.Q. 17
Character:Jack Broome
Release Date:15/12/1981
Village Wooing
Character:A
Release Date:17/04/1979
Watership Down
Character:Fiver (voice)
Release Date:14/10/1978
Our Flesh and Blood
Character:Mr. Smythe
Release Date:18/01/1977
A Small Miracle
Character:Himself - Commentator
Release Date:01/01/1976
Great
Character:Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Release Date:17/03/1975
The Four Musketeers
Character:Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:31/10/1974
The Three Musketeers
Character:Louis XIII (voice)
Release Date:11/12/1973
Rentadick
Character:Miles Gannet
Release Date:31/12/1972
All the Way Up
Character:Nigel Hadfield
Release Date:01/06/1970
Fathom
Character:Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
Release Date:25/08/1967
A Home of Your Own
Character:The Husband
Release Date:11/12/1964
The Bargee
Character:Tomkins
Release Date:23/04/1964
All in Good Time
Character:The Young Husband
Release Date:02/01/1964
Doctor in Distress
Character:Medical Student (uncredited)
Release Date:30/07/1963
The Girl on the Boat
Character:Eustace Hignett
Release Date:05/08/1962
A Matter of WHO
Character:Jamieson
Release Date:03/10/1961
Murder She Said
Character:'Mrs Binster'
Release Date:26/09/1961
Bottoms Up!
Character:Colbourne
Release Date:25/03/1960
Girls at Sea
Character:'Popeye' Lewis
Release Date:01/10/1958
Television Appearances
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
Character:
That's What I Call Television
Character:Self
Kingdom
Character:Jim Wright
Torchwood
Character:Parker
My Appalling School Report
Character:
Roobarb and Custard Too
Character:Narrator
Extras
Character:Richard Briers
Agatha Christie's Marple
Character:Wilson
New Tricks
Character:James Farlow
Comedy Connections
Character:
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Character:Self
Monarch of the Glen
Character:Hector MacDonald
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
Character:
Watership Down
Character:Captain Broom (voice)
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
Character:Narrator
A Respectable Trade
Character:Sir Charles Fairley
Parkinson
Character:Self
Midsomer Murders
Character:Stephen Wentworth
Brass Eye
Character:Self
Down to Earth
Character:Tony Fairfax
If You See God, Tell Him
Character:Godfrey Spry
Mr. Bean
Character:Mr. Sprout
Lovejoy
Character:Raymond Doncaster
All in Good Faith
Character:Reverend Philip Lambe
Alias the Jester
Character:Alias
Screen Two
Character:Old Arthur/George
Ever Decreasing Circles
Character:
Natural World
Character:
Wogan
Character:Self
Goodbye Mr Kent
Character:Travis Kent
Tales of the Unexpected
Character:Albert Dobson
The Other One
Character:Ralph Tanner
The Norman Conquests
Character:Reg
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
Character:Henry Fairlane
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
Character:
One-Upmanship
Character:
The Good Life
Character:Tom Good
Noddy
Character:Narrator
Roobarb
Character:
Tall Stories
Character:
Birds On The Wing
Character:Charles Jackson
Play for Today
Character:Mr. Smythe
Play for Today
Character:Commander Jack Broome
Ben Travers Farces
Character:Charlie Tutt
From a Bird's Eye View
Character:George Lemon
Ooh La La!
Character:
NBC Experiment in Television
Character:(voice)
BBC Play of the Month
Character:Sandy Tyrell
Theatre 625
Character:David Prentice
Doctor Who
Character:Chief Caretaker
Brothers In Law
Character:
Marriage Lines
Character:
Armchair Theatre
Character:Stanley Frelaine
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Nominee
Dixon of Dock Green
Character:Ken Tracey
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