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).
Filmography
all 112
Movies 62
TV Shows 50
self 9
Narrator 6
Voice 3
Archive Footage
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals (2022)
Movie
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard and the other lot of characters.
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection (2017)
Movie
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves (2016)
Movie
Mouse
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time (2013)
Movie
Hamish
Cockneys vs Zombies (2012)
Movie
7
Newspaper Seller
Run For Your Wife (2012)
Movie
Self - Actor
Behind the Britcoms: From Script to Screen (2011)
Movie
Self / Tom Good
All About The Good Life (2010)
Movie
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
National Theatre Live: London Assurance (2010)
Movie
Roobarb/Custard (voice)
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley (2009)
Movie
Robert
Bob the Builder: Race to the Finish - The Movie (2008)
Movie
Robert
Bob the Builder: Scrambler to the Rescue (2007)
Movie
A Bucket O' French and Saunders (2007)
TV
That's What I Call Television (2007)
TV
Jim Wright
Kingdom (2007)
TV
6
Parker
Torchwood (2006)
TV
6.07
Narrator
Bird Bath (2006)
TV
Adam
As You Like It (2006)
Movie
My Appalling School Report (2006)
TV
Robert
Bob the Builder: When Bob Became a Builder (2006)
Movie
Herbert Brush
Our Hidden Lives (2005)
Movie
Custard / Narrator / Roorbarb
Roobarb and Custard Too (2005)
TV
Richard Briers
Extras (2005)
TV
6.29
Self
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (2005)
Movie
Larry James
Dad (2005)
Movie
Wilson
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
TV
6.11
Self
Ronnie Barker: A BAFTA Tribute (2004)
Movie
Self
Britain's Best Sitcom (2004)
TV
New Tricks (2004)
TV
Smee
Peter Pan (2003)
Movie
6.6
Comedy Connections (2003)
TV
Robert
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot (2003)
Movie
Barry Moore
Unconditional Love (2002)
Movie
Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001)
TV
Sir Nathaniel
Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
Movie
Hector MacDonald
Monarch of the Glen (2000)
TV
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (2000)
TV
Broom
Watership Down (1999)
TV
Dr. Corbitt
The Student Prince (1998)
Movie
Narrator
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden (1998)
TV
Sir Charles Fairley
A Respectable Trade (1998)
TV
Bishop
Spice World (1997)
Movie
5.19
Stephen Wentworth
Midsomer Murders (1997)
TV
6
Brass Eye (1997)
TV
5.4
Polonius
Hamlet (1996)
Movie
Rat
The Adventures of Toad (1996)
Movie
Rat
The Adventures of Mole (1995)
Movie
The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
Heavy Weather (1995)
Movie
Henry Wakefield (Claudius, the Ghost, and the Player King)
In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
Movie
Tony Fairfax
Down to Earth (1995)
TV
Rat
Mole's Christmas (1994)
Movie
Grandfather
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
Movie
1
Old Arthur/George
Skallagrigg (1994)
Movie
Godfrey Spry
If You See God, Tell Him (1993)
TV
Signor Leonato
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Movie
4
Lord Morton
Peter's Friends (1992)
Movie
Nikita
Swan Song (1992)
Movie
Mr. Sprout
Mr. Bean (1990)
TV
6.52
Lieutenant Bardolph
Henry V (1989)
Movie
Ted Washbrook
A Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
Movie
Malvolio
Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1988)
Movie
The Chief Caretaker
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers (1987)
Movie
Raymond Doncaster
Lovejoy (1986)
TV
5
Reverend Philip Lambe
All in Good Faith (1985)
TV
Alias
Alias the Jester (1985)
TV
Old Arthur/George
Screen Two (1985)
TV
Martin Bryce
Ever Decreasing Circles (1984)
TV
The Rector
The Aerodrome (1983)
Movie
Natural World (1983)
TV
6
Bluntschli
Arms and the Man (1983)
Movie
The Husband
It's Your Move (1982)
Movie
Self
Wogan (1982)
TV
Goodbye Mr Kent (1982)
TV
Commander Jack Broome
P.Q. 17 (1981)
Movie
Albert Dobson
Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
TV
Fiver
Watership Down (1978)
Movie
6
Ralph Tanner
The Other One (1977)
TV
Reg
The Norman Conquests (1977)
TV
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse (1977)
TV
Mr. Smythe
Our Flesh and Blood (1977)
Movie
Narrator
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk (1976)
TV
Himself - Commentator
A Small Miracle (1976)
Movie
Tom Good
The Good Life (1975)
TV
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Great (1975)
Movie
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
Movie
3.2
Narrator
Roobarb (1974)
TV
Louis XIII (voice)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
Movie
4
Miles Gannet
Rentadick (1972)
Movie
Tall Stories (1971)
TV
The Goodies (1970)
TV
Play for Today (1970)
TV
George Lemon
From a Bird's Eye View (1970)
TV
Nigel Hadfield
All the Way Up (1970)
Movie
Actor
Last to Go (1969)
Movie
Ooh La La! (1968)
TV
Timothy
Fathom (1967)
Movie
The young husband
All in Good Time (1964)
Movie
The Husband
A Home of Your Own (1964)
Movie
Tomkins
The Bargee (1964)
Movie
Chief Caretaker
Doctor Who (1963)
TV
5.28
Medical Student (uncredited)
Doctor in Distress (1963)
Movie
3.5
Eustace Hignett
The Girl on the Boat (1962)
Movie
Roger Thursby
Brothers In Law (1962)
TV
John Frobisher / Lighthouse Assistant / Ricky Groin
Faces of Jim (1961)
TV
Jamieson
A Matter of WHO (1961)
Movie
'Mrs Binster'
Murder She Said (1961)
Movie
6
George Starling
Marriage Lines (1961)
TV
Colbourne
Bottoms Up! (1960)
Movie
'Popeye' Lewis
Girls at Sea (1958)
Movie
Ken Tracey
Dixon of Dock Green (1955)
TV
One-Upmanship
TV
voice
NBC Experiment in Television
TV
Ratings
Average 5.73
Based on 819 Thousand movie and tv ratings over time
1955
1976
1993
1978
2022
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Information
Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1934-01-14
Deathday2013-02-17 (79 years old)
Birth PlaceSurrey, United Kingdom
RelationshipsAnn Davies (1956-01-01 - 2013-01-01)
ChildrenLucy Briers
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
AwardsCommander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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