Richard Briers
Biography
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).
Known For
Grandfather
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Polonius
Hamlet
Fiver (voice)
Watership Down
Signor Leonato
Much Ado About Nothing
Henry
In the Bleak Midwinter
Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
Fathom
Sir Nathaniel
Love's Labour's Lost
The Husband
It's Your Move
The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
Heavy Weather
Hamish
Cockneys vs Zombies
Tomkins
The Bargee
Newspaper Seller
Run For Your Wife
Miles Gannet
Rentadick
Himself
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Great
Jamieson
A Matter of WHO
Nikita
Swan Song
Malvolio
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Peter Pan
'Popeye' Lewis
Girls at Sea
Nigel Hadfield
All the Way Up
Bluntschli
Arms and the Man
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
The Four Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice)
The Three Musketeers
(archive footage)
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
The Young Husband
All in Good Time
A
Village Wooing
Ted Washbrook
A Chorus of Disapproval
The Rector
The Aerodrome
Herbert Brush
Our Hidden Lives
'Mrs Binster'
Murder She Said
Mouse (voice)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Medical Student (uncredited)
Doctor in Distress
Rat
Mole's Christmas
Dr. Corbitt
The Student Prince
Larry James
Dad
Lord Morton
Peter's Friends
Lieutenant Bardolph
Henry V
Colbourne
Bottoms Up!
Roobarb/Custard (voice)
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Bishop
Spice World
Adam
As You Like It
Himself - Commentator
A Small Miracle
Old Arthur/George
Skallagrigg
Mr. Smythe
Our Flesh and Blood
Rat
The Adventures of Mole
The Husband
A Home of Your Own
Barry Moore
Unconditional Love
Eustace Hignett
The Girl on the Boat
All About The Good Life
Jack Broome
P.Q. 17
Rat
The Adventures of Toad
The Chief Caretaker
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Joseph Paxton
Victoria & Albert
Narrator (voice)
Frances the Firefly
Horror on the High Rise
Robert (voice)
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
Alias (voice)
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
The Good Life: Inside Out
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
62
Gender
Male
Birthday
1934-01-14
Place of Birth
Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Also Known As