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).
Known for
Midsomer Murders
Stephen Wentworth
Doctor Who
Chief Caretaker
Agatha Christie's Marple
Wilson
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
Play for Today
Mr. Smythe
Play for Today
Commander Jack Broome
Mr. Bean
Mr. Sprout
New Tricks
James Farlow
BBC Play of the Month
Sandy Tyrell
Torchwood
Parker
Tales of the Unexpected
Albert Dobson
Natural World
Peter Pan
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Watership Down
Fiver (voice)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Grandfather
Screen Two
Old Arthur/George
Extras
Richard Briers
The Three Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice)
Dixon of Dock Green
Ken Tracey
Theatre 625
David Prentice
Lovejoy
Raymond Doncaster
Unconditional Love
Barry Moore
Hamlet
Polonius
Monarch of the Glen
Hector MacDonald
Love's Labour's Lost
Sir Nathaniel
Much Ado About Nothing
Signor Leonato
Victoria & Albert
Joseph Paxton
Run For Your Wife
Newspaper Seller
Henry V
Lieutenant Bardolph
As You Like It
Adam
The Girl on the Boat
Eustace Hignett
Kingdom
Jim Wright
A Matter of WHO
Jamieson
Cockneys vs Zombies
Hamish
Heavy Weather
The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
The Good Life
Tom Good
All the Way Up
Nigel Hadfield
Great
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Brass Eye
Self
Watership Down
Captain Broom (voice)
The Four Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
Murder She Said
'Mrs Binster'
A Home of Your Own
The Husband
Peter's Friends
Lord Morton
P.Q. 17
Jack Broome
The Student Prince
Dr. Corbitt
In the Bleak Midwinter
Henry
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Malvolio
The Adventures of Toad
Rat
Rentadick
Miles Gannet
All in Good Faith
Reverend Philip Lambe
A Chorus of Disapproval
Ted Washbrook
Skallagrigg
Old Arthur/George
Arms and the Man
Bluntschli
Ooh La La!
Ever Decreasing Circles
Comedy Connections
Dad
Larry James
It's Your Move
The Husband
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Alias (voice)
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Himself
A Small Miracle
Himself - Commentator
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Roobarb/Custard (voice)
Our Hidden Lives
Herbert Brush
Fathom
Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
Bottoms Up!
Colbourne
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
Henry Fairlane
Doctor in Distress
Medical Student (uncredited)
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
From a Bird's Eye View
George Lemon
The Bargee
Tomkins
Marriage Lines
A Respectable Trade
Sir Charles Fairley
Horror on the High Rise
Our Flesh and Blood
Mr. Smythe
Spice World
Bishop
Alias the Jester
Alias
All About The Good Life
All in Good Time
The Young Husband
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
That's What I Call Television
Self
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
The Chief Caretaker
Bird Bath
Narrator
NBC Experiment in Television
(voice)
The Other One
Ralph Tanner
Armchair Theatre
Stanley Frelaine
The Good Life: Inside Out
Roobarb
Down to Earth
Tony Fairfax
The Adventures of Mole
Rat
Roobarb and Custard Too
Narrator
If You See God, Tell Him
Godfrey Spry
One-Upmanship
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
Little Red Tractor Stories
Narrator (voice)
The Norman Conquests
Reg
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
Birds On The Wing
Charles Jackson
Noddy
Narrator
Girls at Sea
'Popeye' Lewis
Goodbye Mr Kent
Travis Kent
Ben Travers Farces
Charlie Tutt
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot
Robert (voice)
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
Narrator
The Aerodrome
The Rector
My Appalling School Report
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
Brothers In Law
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Mouse (voice)
Mole's Christmas
Rat
Swan Song
Nikita
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
(archive footage)
Tall Stories
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
Village Wooing
A
Frances the Firefly
Narrator (voice)
Wogan
Self
Parkinson
Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self