Richard Briers
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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
Credits
Peter Pan (2003)
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
The Three Musketeers (1973)
as Louis XIII (voice)
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
as Signor Leonato
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
as Grandfather
Watership Down (1978)
as Fiver (voice)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
Hamlet (1996)
as Polonius
Spice World (1997)
as Bishop
Cockneys vs Zombies (2012)
as Hamish
Village Wooing (1979)
as A
Dad (2005)
as Larry James
Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
as Sir Nathaniel
Henry V (1989)
as Lieutenant Bardolph
Unconditional Love (2002)
as Barry Moore
The Bargee (1964)
as Tomkins
A Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
as Ted Washbrook
Murder She Said (1961)
as 'Mrs Binster'
Heavy Weather (1995)
as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
Peter's Friends (1992)
as Lord Morton
Arms and the Man (1983)
as Bluntschli
Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1988)
as Malvolio
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers (1987)
as The Chief Caretaker
The Girl on the Boat (1962)
as Eustace Hignett
As You Like It (2006)
as Adam
The Adventures of Toad (1996)
as Rat
Victoria & Albert (2001)
as Joseph Paxton
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (2005)
as Self
Fathom (1967)
as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
Doctor in Distress (1963)
as Medical Student (uncredited)
The Student Prince (1998)
as Dr. Corbitt
A Month in the Country (1985)
as Arkady
Girls at Sea (1958)
as 'Popeye' Lewis
Our Flesh and Blood (1977)
as Mr. Smythe
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals (2022)
as (archive footage)
Run For Your Wife (2012)
as Newspaper Seller
A Home of Your Own (1964)
as The Husband
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot (2003)
as Robert (voice)
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol (1994)
as Self
It's Your Move (1982)
as The Husband
In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
as Henry
Our Hidden Lives (2005)
as Herbert Brush
The Adventures of Mole (1995)
as Rat
Mole's Christmas (1994)
as Rat
Children's Favourites - Volume 1 (1988)
as Alias (voice)
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley (2009)
as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves (2016)
as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Matter of WHO (1961)
as Jamieson
A Small Miracle (1976)
as Himself - Commentator
The Aerodrome (1983)
as The Rector
Frances the Firefly (1994)
as Narrator (voice)
Swan Song (1992)
as Nikita
Bottoms Up! (1960)
as Colbourne
All the Way Up (1970)
as Nigel Hadfield
Rentadick (1972)
as Miles Gannet
National Theatre Live: London Assurance (2010)
as Mr. Adolphus Spanker
All About The Good Life (2010)
Actor
Skallagrigg (1994)
as Old Arthur/George
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection (2017)
as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
All in Good Time (1964)
as The Young Husband
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time (2013)
as Mouse (voice)
The Good Life: Inside Out (2025)
Actor
Horror on the High Rise (2011)
Actor
Great (1975)
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
P.Q. 17 (1981)
as Jack Broome