Richard Briers
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).
122 acting credits
Acting · 122
Midsomer Murders
1997
Doctor Who
1963
Play for Today
1970
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Tony Awards
1956
Wogan
1982
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
New Tricks
2004
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Natural World
1983
Torchwood
2006
Screen Two
1985
Mr. Bean
1990
ITV Playhouse
1967
Theatre 625
1964
Lovejoy
1986
Parkinson
1998
Monarch of the Glen
2000
Extras
2005
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
Kingdom
2007
Dixon of Dock Green
1955
Brass Eye
1997
Peter Pan
2003
Watership Down
1999
The Good Life
1975
Hamlet
1996
The Three Musketeers
1973
Ooh La La!
1968
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
Much Ado About Nothing
1993
Spice World
1997
Comedy Connections
2003
The Sunday Drama
1977
If You See God, Tell Him
1993
Armchair Theatre
1956
Henry V
1989
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
Watership Down
1978
A Respectable Trade
1998
NBC Experiment in Television
1967
The Four Musketeers
1974
Ever Decreasing Circles
1984
The Other One
1977
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
1977
Roobarb
1974
Unconditional Love
2002
From a Bird's Eye View
1970
As You Like It
2006
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
Faces of Jim
1961
Murder She Said
1961
All in Good Faith
1985
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Ben Travers Farces
1970
Peter's Friends
1992
Marriage Lines
1961
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
One-Upmanship
1976
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010
Down to Earth
1995
Love's Labour's Lost
2000
That's What I Call Television
2007
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009
Alias the Jester
1985
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
Rentadick
1972
Roobarb and Custard Too
2005
Fathom
1967
Run For Your Wife
2012
Doctor in Distress
1963
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
1976
The Norman Conquests
1977
Birds on the Wing
1971
Heavy Weather
1995
Swan Song
1992
Victoria & Albert
2001
Brothers In Law
1962
The Student Prince
1998
The Aerodrome
1983
The Bargee
1964
A Home of Your Own
1964
Bottoms Up!
1960
Bird Bath
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Girls at Sea
1958
Dad
2005
All the Way Up
1970
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
2003
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
Skallagrigg
1994
Little Red Tractor Stories
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Goodbye Mr Kent
1982
The Adventures of Toad
1996
The Adventures of Mole
1995
Noddy
1975
My Appalling School Report
2006
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987
Our Hidden Lives
2005
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
1998
A Matter of WHO
1961
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
Great
1975
It's Your Move
1982
The Girl on the Boat
1962
Arms and the Man
1983
Mole's Christmas
1994
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
2022
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
1988
Village Wooing
1979
Tall Stories
1971
All About The Good Life
2010
Our Flesh and Blood
1977
The Good Life: Inside Out
2025
P.Q. 17
1981
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013
A Small Miracle
1976
All in Good Time
1964
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
2017
Horror on the High Rise
2011
Frances the Firefly
1994