Richard Briers

Richard Briers

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).

Acting

2025

The Good Life: Inside Out

Unknown

2013

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time

Mouse (voice)

2013

Europe in 8 Bits

Narrator

2012

Cockneys vs Zombies

Hamish

2012

Run For Your Wife

Newspaper Seller

2011

Horror on the High Rise

Unknown

2009

The Eddie Black Story

Sir Charles Fairley

2008

Louise-Michel

Unknown

2008

ZZ Top: Live From Texas

Self - Nominee

2008

Below the Earth's Surface

Unknown

2008

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

James Farlow

2007

A Bucket O' French and Saunders

Unknown

2007

Shrek the Third

Stanley Frelaine

2007

Kingdom

Jim Wright

2006

As You Like It

Adam

2005

Extras

Richard Briers

2005

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

Himself

2005

Dad

Larry James

2004

Agatha Christie's Marple

Wilson

2003

Peter Pan

Sam "Smee" Smiegel

2003

Comedy Connections

Unknown

2003

Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot

Robert (voice)

2003

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure

Commander Jack Broome

2003

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure

Mr. Smythe

2002

Unconditional Love

Barry Moore

2001

Victoria & Albert

Joseph Paxton

2000

Charlie's Angels

Mr. Sprout

2000

Love's Labour's Lost

Sir Nathaniel

2000

Monarch of the Glen

Hector MacDonald

1998

American History X

Unknown

1998

Parkinson

Self

1997

Spice World

Bishop

1997

Midsomer Murders

Stephen Wentworth

1996

Hamlet

Polonius

1995

Twelve Monkeys

Self

1995

In the Bleak Midwinter

Henry

1995

Down to Earth

Tony Fairfax

1995

The Crier

Unknown

1994

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Grandfather

1993

Schindler's List

Parker

1993

Much Ado About Nothing

Signor Leonato

1992

Peter's Friends

Lord Morton

1992

Swan Song

Nikita

1989

Henry V

Lieutenant Bardolph

1989

A Chorus of Disapproval

Ted Washbrook

1989

My Mom's a Werewolf

Albert Dobson

1988

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Malvolio

1988

Bloodsport

Captain Broom (voice)

1988

Children's Favourites - Volume 1

Alias (voice)

1988

Depeche Mode: Strange

Unknown

1987

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

The Chief Caretaker

1986

Lovejoy

Raymond Doncaster

1985

All in Good Faith

Reverend Philip Lambe

1985

Alias the Jester

Alias

1985

Screen Two

Old Arthur/George

1983

Arms and the Man

Bluntschli

1982

Wogan

Self

1982

Goodbye Mr Kent

Travis Kent

1979

Utopia

Godfrey Spry

1978

Watership Down

Fiver (voice)

1977

The Other One

Ralph Tanner

1977

The Norman Conquests

Reg

1977

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse

Henry Fairlane

1976

Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk

Unknown

1976

Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company

Self

1976

One-Upmanship

Unknown

1975

The Good Life

Tom Good

1975

Noddy

Narrator

1974

The Four Musketeers

Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)

1974

Roobarb

Unknown

1973

The Three Musketeers

Louis XIII (voice)

1972

Rentadick

Miles Gannet

1971

Birds On The Wing

Charles Jackson

1970

From a Bird's Eye View

George Lemon

1968

Ooh La La!

Unknown

1967

Fathom

Flight Lt. Timothy Webb

1967

Samurai Rebellion

Charlie Tutt

1967

NBC Experiment in Television

(voice)

1965

BBC Play of the Month

Sandy Tyrell

1964

A Home of Your Own

The Husband

1964

Theatre 625

David Prentice

1964

The Bargee

Tomkins

1964

All in Good Time

The Young Husband

1963

Doctor Who

Chief Caretaker

1963

Doctor in Distress

Medical Student (uncredited)

1962

The Girl on the Boat

Eustace Hignett

1962

Brothers In Law

Unknown

1961

Murder She Said

'Mrs Binster'

1960

Bottoms Up!

Colbourne

1955

Dixon of Dock Green

Ken Tracey

1944

Murder, My Sweet

Self

Infos

Full Name
Richard Briers
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
1/14/1934
Date of Death
2/17/2013