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