Richard Briers
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).
Movies (57)
The Good Life: Inside Out
2025
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
2022
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
2017
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012
Run For Your Wife
2012
Horror on the High Rise
2011
All About The Good Life
2010
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009
As You Like It
2006
Dad
2005
Peter Pan
2003
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
2003
Unconditional Love
2002
Victoria & Albert
2001
Love's Labour's Lost
2000
The Student Prince
1998
Spice World
1997
Hamlet
1996
The Adventures of Toad
1996
Heavy Weather
1995
The Adventures of Mole
1995
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
Mole's Christmas
1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
Skallagrigg
1994
Frances the Firefly
1994
Much Ado About Nothing
1993
Peter's Friends
1992
Henry V
1989
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987
The Aerodrome
1983
It's Your Move
1982
P.Q. 17
1981
Watership Down
1978
Our Flesh and Blood
1977
A Small Miracle
1976
Great
1975
The Four Musketeers
1974
The Three Musketeers
1973
Rentadick
1972
All the Way Up
1970
Fathom
1967
A Home of Your Own
1964
The Bargee
1964
All in Good Time
1964
Doctor in Distress
1963
The Girl on the Boat
1962
A Matter of WHO
1961
Murder She Said
1961
Bottoms Up!
1960
Girls at Sea
1958
TV Shows (50)
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
Kingdom
2007
Torchwood
2006
Roobarb and Custard Too
2005
Extras
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
New Tricks
2004
Comedy Connections
2003
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
Monarch of the Glen
2000
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
Watership Down
1999
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
1998
A Respectable Trade
1998
Parkinson
1998
Midsomer Murders
1997
Brass Eye
1997
If You See God, Tell Him
1993
Mr. Bean
1990
Lovejoy
1986
All in Good Faith
1985
Alias the Jester
1985
Screen Two
1985
Ever Decreasing Circles
1984
Natural World
1983
Wogan
1982
Goodbye Mr Kent
1982
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
The Other One
1977
The Norman Conquests
1977
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
1977
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
1976
The Good Life
1975
Noddy
1975
Roobarb
1974
Play for Today
1970
Play for Today
1970
From a Bird's Eye View
1970
Ooh La La!
1968
ITV Playhouse
1967
NBC Experiment in Television
1967
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Theatre 625
1964
Doctor Who
1963
Marriage Lines
1961
Armchair Theatre
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Dixon of Dock Green
1955
Bird Bath
