Richard Briers
Acting
1934-01-14 · 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 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
The Good Life: Inside Out
2025 · Movie
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
2022 · Movie
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
2017 · Movie
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016 · Movie
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013 · Movie
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012 · Movie
Run For Your Wife
2012 · Movie
Horror on the High Rise
2011 · Movie
All About The Good Life
2010 · Movie
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010 · Movie
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009 · Movie
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007 · Series
That's What I Call Television
2007 · Series
Kingdom
2007 · Series
Torchwood
2006 · Series
As You Like It
2006 · Movie
My Appalling School Report
2006 · Series
Our Hidden Lives
2005 · Movie
Roobarb and Custard Too
2005 · Series
Extras
2005 · Series
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005 · Movie
Dad
2005 · Movie
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Series
New Tricks
2004 · Series
Peter Pan
2003 · Movie
Comedy Connections
2003 · Series
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
2003 · Movie
Unconditional Love
2002 · Movie
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001 · Series
Victoria & Albert
2001 · Movie
Love's Labour's Lost
2000 · Movie
Monarch of the Glen
2000 · Series
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000 · Series
Watership Down
1999 · Series
The Student Prince
1998 · Movie
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
1998 · Series
A Respectable Trade
1998 · Series
Parkinson
1998 · Series
Spice World
1997 · Movie
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Series
Brass Eye
1997 · Series
Hamlet
1996 · Movie
The Adventures of Toad
1996 · Movie
Heavy Weather
1995 · Movie
The Adventures of Mole
1995 · Movie
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995 · Movie
Down to Earth
1995 · Series
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994 · Movie
Mole's Christmas
1994 · Movie
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994 · Movie
Skallagrigg
1994 · Movie
Frances the Firefly
1994 · Movie
If You See God, Tell Him
1993 · Series
Much Ado About Nothing
1993 · Movie
Peter's Friends
1992 · Movie
Swan Song
1992 · Movie
Mr. Bean
1990 · Series
Henry V
1989 · Movie
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989 · Movie
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988 · Movie
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
1988 · Movie
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987 · Movie
Lovejoy
1986 · Series
All in Good Faith
1985 · Series
Alias the Jester
1985 · Series
A Month in the Country
1985 · Movie
Screen Two
1985 · Series
Ever Decreasing Circles
1984 · Series
The Aerodrome
1983 · Movie
Natural World
1983 · Series
Arms and the Man
1983 · Movie
It's Your Move
1982 · Movie
Wogan
1982 · Series
Goodbye Mr Kent
1982 · Series
P.Q. 17
1981 · Movie
Village Wooing
1979 · Movie
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Series
Watership Down
1978 · Movie
The Other One
1977 · Series
The Norman Conquests
1977 · Series
The Sunday Drama
1977 · Series
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
1977 · Series
Our Flesh and Blood
1977 · Movie
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
1976 · Series
One-Upmanship
1976 · Series
A Small Miracle
1976 · Movie
The Good Life
1975 · Series
Noddy
1975 · Series
Great
1975 · Movie
The Four Musketeers
1974 · Movie
Roobarb
1974 · Series
The Three Musketeers
1973 · Movie
Between the Wars
1973 · Series
Rentadick
1972 · Movie
Tall Stories
1971 · Series
Birds on the Wing
1971 · Series
Play for Today
1970 · Series
Ben Travers Farces
1970 · Series
From a Bird's Eye View
1970 · Series
All the Way Up
1970 · Movie
Ooh La La!
1968 · Series
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Series
Fathom
1967 · Movie
NBC Experiment in Television
1967 · Series
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series
A Home of Your Own
1964 · Movie
Thursday Theatre
1964 · Series
Theatre 625
1964 · Series
The Bargee
1964 · Movie
All in Good Time
1964 · Movie
Doctor Who
1963 · Series
Doctor in Distress
1963 · Movie
The Girl on the Boat
1962 · Movie
Brothers In Law
1962 · Series
Faces of Jim
1961 · Series
A Matter of WHO
1961 · Movie
Murder She Said
1961 · Movie
Marriage Lines
1961 · Series
Bottoms Up!
1960 · Movie
Girls at Sea
1958 · Movie
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
Dixon of Dock Green
1955 · Series
Bird Bath
Series
Little Red Tractor Stories
Series