Richard Briers
Acting
Born January 14, 1934 · Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
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).
Films (63)
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
Our Hidden Lives
2005
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
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
Swan Song
1992
Henry V
1989
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
1988
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987
The Aerodrome
1983
Arms and the Man
1983
It's Your Move
1982
P.Q. 17
1981
Village Wooing
1979
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