Richard Briers

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Richard Briers

Acting 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 pro…

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Peter Pan

Peter Pan

7.1 2003 Movie
Mr. Bean

Mr. Bean

8.0 1990 TV Show
Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders

7.5 1997 TV Show
Doctor Who

Doctor Who

7.9 1963 TV Show
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

6.4 1994 Movie
Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

7.0 1993 Movie
Torchwood

Torchwood

7.3 2006 TV Show
Watership Down

Watership Down

7.2 1978 Movie
Play for Today

Play for Today

6.6 1970 TV Show
Hamlet

Hamlet

7.3 1996 Movie
Spice World

Spice World

4.9 1997 Movie
Extras

Extras

7.8 2005 TV Show

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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).

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2025
    The Good Life: Inside Out

    Movie

  2. 2022
    The Good Life: Secret & Scandals

    Movie (archive footage)

  3. 2017
    Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection

    Movie Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)

  4. 2016
    British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

    Movie Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)

  5. 2013
    Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time

    Movie Mouse (voice)

  6. 2012
    Cockneys vs Zombies

    Movie Hamish

  7. 2012
    Run For Your Wife

    Movie Newspaper Seller

  8. 2011
    Horror on the High Rise

    Movie

  9. 2010
    All About The Good Life

    Movie

  10. 2010
    National Theatre Live: London Assurance

    Movie Mr. Adolphus Spanker

  11. 2009
    Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley

    Movie Roobarb/Custard (voice)

  12. 2007
    A Bucket O' French and Saunders

    TV show

  13. 2007
    That's What I Call Television

    TV show Self

  14. 2007
    Kingdom

    TV show Jim Wright

  15. 2006
    Torchwood

    TV show Parker

  16. 2006
    As You Like It

    Movie Adam

More credits
  1. 2006
    My Appalling School Report

    TV show

  2. 2005
    Our Hidden Lives

    Movie Herbert Brush

  3. 2005
    Roobarb and Custard Too

    TV show Narrator

  4. 2005
    Extras

    TV show Richard Briers

  5. 2005
    The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

    Movie Self

  6. 2005
    Dad

    Movie Larry James

  7. 2004
    Agatha Christie's Marple

    TV show Wilson

  8. 2004
    New Tricks

    TV show James Farlow

  9. 2003
    Peter Pan

    Movie Sam "Smee" Smiegel

  10. 2003
    Comedy Connections

    TV show

  11. 2003
    Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot

    Movie Robert (voice)

  12. 2002
    Unconditional Love

    Movie Barry Moore

  13. 2001
    Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

    TV show Self

  14. 2001
    Victoria & Albert

    Movie Joseph Paxton

  15. 2000
    Love's Labour's Lost

    Movie Sir Nathaniel

  16. 2000
    Monarch of the Glen

    TV show Hector MacDonald

  17. 2000
    The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

    TV show

  18. 1999
    Watership Down

    TV show Captain Broom (voice)

  19. 1998
    The Student Prince

    Movie Dr. Corbitt

  20. 1998
    Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden

    TV show Narrator

  21. 1998
    A Respectable Trade

    TV show Sir Charles Fairley

  22. 1998
    Parkinson

    TV show Self

  23. 1997
    Spice World

    Movie Bishop

  24. 1997
    Midsomer Murders

    TV show Stephen Wentworth