Richard Briers
Acting
🎂 1934-01-14
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).
Cast credits(115)
Stephen Wentworth
1997
Chief Caretaker
1963
Self
2001
Mr. Smythe
1970
Commander Jack Broome
1970
Sandy Tyrell
1965
1983
Self - Nominee
1956
Old Arthur/George
1985
Self
1998
Richard Briers
2005
Ken Tracey
1955
Wilson
2004
Mr. Sprout
1990
Albert Dobson
1979
Parker
2006
1968
James Farlow
2004
Hector MacDonald
2000
Self
1982
Raymond Doncaster
1986
Tom Good
1975
Alias
1985
Self
1997
Jim Wright
2007
1985
1976
George Lemon
1970
2003
Narrator
2005
1977
1982
Godfrey Spry
1993
1984
Ralph Tanner
1977
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
2003
1974
2007
1971
1962
Stanley Frelaine
1956
Narrator
Sir Charles Fairley
1998
Broom
1999
2000
Narrator
1998
Narrator (voice)
2006
(voice)
1967
Signor Leonato
1993
Polonius
1996
1995
Fiver (voice)
1978
Louis XIII (voice)
1973
Lieutenant Bardolph
1989
Grandfather
1994
1976
Lord Morton
1992
Bishop
1997
Adam
2006
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
1974
Hamish
2012
Sir Nathaniel
2000
'Mrs Binster'
1961
1961
Barry Moore
2002
2007
Miles Gannet
1972
Newspaper Seller
2012
Medical Student (uncredited)
1963
Henry
1995
Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
1967
Reg
1977
The Chief Caretaker
1987
Roobarb/Custard (voice)
2009
Tomkins
1964
Nikita
1992
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
Joseph Paxton
2001
'Popeye' Lewis
1958
Ted Washbrook
1989
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
1975
Colbourne
1960
Nigel Hadfield
1970
Larry James
2005
Dr. Corbitt
1998
The Rector
1983
The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
1995
Old Arthur/George
1994
Jamieson
1961
Herbert Brush
2005
Himself
2005
The Husband
1964
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
2010
2010
Eustace Hignett
1962
The Young Husband
1964
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
2017
Mr. Smythe
1977
1986
Jack Broome
1981
Rat
1996
Malvolio
1988
Robert (voice)
2003
Rat
1994
Mouse (voice)
2013
Rat
1995
The Husband
1982
A
1979
(archive footage)
2022
2011
Himself - Commentator
1976
Bluntschli
1983
Narrator (voice)
1994
Charles Jackson
1971