Richard Briers
Acting
Born: January 14, 1934 · Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Died: February 17, 2013 (aged 79)
Highest Rated
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).
Known for
Peter Pan
2003
Mr. Bean
1990
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
Much Ado About Nothing
1993
Watership Down
1978
Doctor Who
1963
Torchwood
2006
Hamlet
1996
Spice World
1997
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012
Extras
2005
Henry V
1989
Photos (4)
Movies (56)
Peter Pan
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Grandfather
The Three Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice)
Much Ado About Nothing
Signor Leonato
Watership Down
Fiver (voice)
Spice World
Bishop
Hamlet
Polonius
The Four Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
Henry V
Lieutenant Bardolph
Murder She Said
'Mrs Binster'
Peter's Friends
Lord Morton
As You Like It
Adam
Unconditional Love
Barry Moore
Love's Labour's Lost
Sir Nathaniel
Doctor in Distress
Medical Student (uncredited)
The Bargee
Tomkins
Cockneys vs Zombies
Hamish
Heavy Weather
The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dad
Larry James
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
The Chief Caretaker
A Chorus of Disapproval
Ted Washbrook
The Student Prince
Dr. Corbitt
In the Bleak Midwinter
Henry
The Girl on the Boat
Eustace Hignett
Victoria & Albert
Joseph Paxton
Skallagrigg
Old Arthur/George
Rentadick
Miles Gannet
Fathom
Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
The Adventures of Toad
Rat
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Malvolio
All the Way Up
Nigel Hadfield
A Home of Your Own
The Husband
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Roobarb/Custard (voice)
Run For Your Wife
Newspaper Seller
Girls at Sea
'Popeye' Lewis
Bottoms Up!
Colbourne
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
Robert (voice)
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
A Matter of WHO
Jamieson
The Adventures of Mole
Rat
A Month in the Country
Arkady
The Aerodrome
The Rector
Our Flesh and Blood
Mr. Smythe
It's Your Move
The Husband
All in Good Time
The Young Husband
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
(archive footage)
Mole's Christmas
Rat
P.Q. 17
Jack Broome
Great
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Mouse (voice)
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
All About The Good Life
2010
Frances the Firefly
Narrator (voice)
The Good Life: Inside Out
2025
Horror on the High Rise
2011
TV Shows (43)
Midsomer Murders
Stephen Wentworth · 1 eps
Play for Today
Mr. Smythe · 1 eps
Play for Today
Commander Jack Broome · 1 eps
Doctor Who
Chief Caretaker · 4 eps
New Tricks
James Farlow · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Sandy Tyrell · 1 eps
Agatha Christie's Marple
Wilson · 1 eps
Natural World
1 eps
Screen Two
Old Arthur/George · 1 eps
ITV Playhouse
A · 1 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
Albert Dobson · 1 eps
Mr. Bean
Mr. Sprout · 1 eps
Torchwood
Parker · 1 eps
Theatre 625
David Prentice · 1 eps
Extras
Richard Briers · 1 eps
Monarch of the Glen
Hector MacDonald · 33 eps
Lovejoy
Raymond Doncaster · 1 eps
Dixon of Dock Green
Ken Tracey · 1 eps
Kingdom
Jim Wright · 1 eps
Comedy Connections
1 eps
Watership Down
Captain Broom (voice) · 1 eps
The Good Life
Tom Good · 28 eps
All in Good Faith
Reverend Philip Lambe · 18 eps
Ooh La La!
1 eps
NBC Experiment in Television
(voice) · 1 eps
Roobarb
30 eps
Noddy
Narrator · 26 eps
From a Bird's Eye View
George Lemon · 1 eps
Ever Decreasing Circles
26 eps
If You See God, Tell Him
Godfrey Spry · 4 eps
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2 eps
Marriage Lines
George Starling · 43 eps
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
1 eps
Armchair Theatre
Stanley Frelaine · 1 eps
The Norman Conquests
Reg · 3 eps
Roobarb and Custard Too
Narrator · 39 eps
A Respectable Trade
Sir Charles Fairley · 4 eps
Goodbye Mr Kent
Travis Kent · 7 eps
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
Henry Fairlane · 1 eps
Alias the Jester
Alias · 13 eps
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
30 eps
The Other One
Ralph Tanner · 13 eps
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
Narrator · 5 eps
