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