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Richard Briers

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1934-01-14

Deathday: 2013-02-17 (79 years old)

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 121

Movies 67

TV Shows 54

self 11

Voice 6

Narrator 4

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Richard Briers

Biography

Filmography

all 121

Movies 67

TV Shows 54

self 11

Voice 6

Narrator 4

The Good Life: Secret & Scandals (2022)

Midsomer Murders: 25 Years of Mayhem (2022)

Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection (2017)

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves (2016)

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time (2013)

Cockneys vs Zombies (2012)

Run For Your Wife (2012)

Behind the Britcoms: From Script to Screen (2011)

All About The Good Life (2010)

National Theatre Live: London Assurance (2010)

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

Bob the Builder: Race to the Finish - The Movie (2008)

Bob the Builder: Scrambler to the Rescue (2007)

A Bucket O' French and Saunders (2007)

That's What I Call Television (2007)

Kingdom (2007)

Torchwood (2006)

As You Like It (2006)

My Appalling School Report (2006)

Bob the Builder: When Bob Became a Builder (2006)

Our Hidden Lives (2005)

Roobarb and Custard Too (2005)

Extras (2005)

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (2005)

Dad (2005)

Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)

Ronnie Barker: A BAFTA Tribute (2004)

Britain's Best Sitcom (2004)

New Tricks (2004)

Peter Pan (2003)

Comedy Connections (2003)

Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot (2003)

Unconditional Love (2002)

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001)

Victoria & Albert (2001)

Love's Labour's Lost (2000)

Monarch of the Glen (2000)

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (2000)

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (2000)

Watership Down (1999)

The Student Prince (1998)

Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden (1998)

A Respectable Trade (1998)

Parkinson (1998)

Spice World (1997)

Midsomer Murders (1997)

Brass Eye (1997)

Hamlet (1996)

The Adventures of Toad (1996)

The Adventures of Mole (1995)

Heavy Weather (1995)

The Best Bits of Mr. Bean (1995)

In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)

Down to Earth (1995)

Mole's Christmas (1994)

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

Skallagrigg (1994)

If You See God, Tell Him (1993)

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

Peter's Friends (1992)

Swan Song (1992)

Mr. Bean (1990)

Henry V (1989)

A Chorus of Disapproval (1989)

Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1988)

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers (1987)

Lovejoy (1986)

All in Good Faith (1985)

Alias the Jester (1985)

Screen Two (1985)

Ever Decreasing Circles (1984)

Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1934-01-14

Deathday
2013-02-17 (79 years old)

Birth Place
Surrey, United Kingdom

Relationships
Ann Davies (1956 - 2013)

Children
Lucy Briers

Citizenships
United Kingdom

Awards
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire