Richard Briers

Richard Briers

Richard David Briers, CBE 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).

Acting

2013

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time

Mouse (voice)

2012

Cockneys vs Zombies

Hamish

2012

Run For Your Wife

Newspaper Seller

2011

Horror on the High Rise

Unknown

2007

A Bucket O' French and Saunders

Unknown

2007

That's What I Call Television

Self

2007

Kingdom

Jim Wright

2006

Torchwood

Parker

2006

As You Like It

Adam

2005

Extras

Richard Briers

2005

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

Himself

2005

Dad

Larry James

2004

Agatha Christie's Marple

Wilson

2004

New Tricks

James Farlow

2003

Peter Pan

Sam "Smee" Smiegel

2003

Comedy Connections

Unknown

2003

Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot

Robert (voice)

2002

Unconditional Love

Barry Moore

2001

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Self

2001

Victoria & Albert

Joseph Paxton

2000

Love's Labour's Lost

Sir Nathaniel

2000

Monarch of the Glen

Hector MacDonald

1999

Watership Down

Captain Broom (voice)

1998

Parkinson

Self

1997

Spice World

Bishop

1997

Midsomer Murders

Stephen Wentworth

1997

Brass Eye

Self

1996

Hamlet

Polonius

1995

In the Bleak Midwinter

Henry

1995

Down to Earth

Tony Fairfax

1994

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Grandfather

1993

If You See God, Tell Him

Godfrey Spry

1993

Much Ado About Nothing

Signor Leonato

1992

Peter's Friends

Lord Morton

1992

Swan Song

Nikita

1990

Mr. Bean

Mr. Sprout

1989

Henry V

Lieutenant Bardolph

1989

A Chorus of Disapproval

Ted Washbrook

1988

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Malvolio

1988

Children's Favourites - Volume 1

Alias (voice)

1987

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

The Chief Caretaker

1986

Lovejoy

Raymond Doncaster

1985

All in Good Faith

Reverend Philip Lambe

1985

Alias the Jester

Alias

1985

Screen Two

Old Arthur/George

1984

Ever Decreasing Circles

Unknown

1983

Natural World

Unknown

1983

Arms and the Man

Bluntschli

1982

Wogan

Self

1982

Goodbye Mr Kent

Travis Kent

1979

Tales of the Unexpected

Albert Dobson

1978

Watership Down

Fiver (voice)

1977

The Other One

Ralph Tanner

1977

The Norman Conquests

Reg

1977

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse

Henry Fairlane

1976

Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk

Unknown

1976

One-Upmanship

Unknown

1975

The Good Life

Tom Good

1975

Noddy

Narrator

1974

The Four Musketeers

Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)

1974

Roobarb

Unknown

1973

The Three Musketeers

Louis XIII (voice)

1972

Rentadick

Miles Gannet

1971

Birds On The Wing

Charles Jackson

1970

Play for Today

Commander Jack Broome

1970

Play for Today

Mr. Smythe

1970

Ben Travers Farces

Charlie Tutt

1970

From a Bird's Eye View

George Lemon

1968

Ooh La La!

Unknown

1967

Fathom

Flight Lt. Timothy Webb

1967

NBC Experiment in Television

(voice)

1965

BBC Play of the Month

Sandy Tyrell

1964

A Home of Your Own

The Husband

1964

Theatre 625

David Prentice

1964

The Bargee

Tomkins

1964

All in Good Time

The Young Husband

1963

Doctor Who

Chief Caretaker

1963

Doctor in Distress

Medical Student (uncredited)

1962

The Girl on the Boat

Eustace Hignett

1962

Brothers In Law

Unknown

1961

Murder She Said

'Mrs Binster'

1961

Marriage Lines

Unknown

1960

Bottoms Up!

Colbourne

1956

Armchair Theatre

Stanley Frelaine

1956

Tony Awards

Self - Nominee

1955

Dixon of Dock Green

Ken Tracey

Infos

Full Name
Richard Briers
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
1/14/1934
Date of Death
2/17/2013