Richard Briers
Acting
- Born:
- 1934-01-14
- Died:
- 2013-02-17
- Place of birth:
- Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
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
Filmography
The Good Life: Inside Out
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Cockneys vs Zombies
Run For Your Wife
Horror on the High Rise
All About The Good Life
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
That's What I Call Television
Kingdom
Torchwood
As You Like It
My Appalling School Report
Our Hidden Lives
Roobarb and Custard Too
Extras
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Dad
Agatha Christie's Marple
New Tricks
Peter Pan
Comedy Connections
More Great Comedy Moments
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
Unconditional Love
Great Comedy Moments
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Victoria & Albert
Love's Labour's Lost
Monarch of the Glen
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
Watership Down
The Student Prince
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
A Respectable Trade
Parkinson
Spice World
Midsomer Murders
Brass Eye
Hamlet
The Adventures of Toad
Heavy Weather
The Adventures of Mole
In the Bleak Midwinter
Down to Earth
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Mole's Christmas
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Skallagrigg
Frances the Firefly
If You See God, Tell Him
Much Ado About Nothing
Peter's Friends
Swan Song
Mr. Bean
Henry V