Richard Briers
Born in Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK — Jan 14 1934• Died Feb 17 2013
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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 (…
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Richard Briers's Credits
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Midsomer Murders
Stephen Wentworth
Doctor Who
Chief Caretaker
Play for Today
Mr. Smythe
BBC Play of the Month
Sandy Tyrell
New Tricks
James Farlow
Agatha Christie's Marple
Wilson
Tales of the Unexpected
Albert Dobson
Theatre 625
David Prentice
Torchwood
Parker
Natural World
Screen Two
Old Arthur/George
Mr. Bean
Mr. Sprout
Swan Song
Nikita
Lovejoy
Raymond Doncaster
Monarch of the Glen
Hector MacDonald
Kingdom
Jim Wright
Extras
Richard Briers
Dixon of Dock Green
Ken Tracey
Brass Eye
Self
The Good Life
Tom Good
Ooh La La!
Hamlet
Polonius
Comedy Connections
NBC Experiment in Television
(voice)
Faces of Jim
John Frobisher
Peter Pan
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
Henry Fairlane
Ever Decreasing Circles
From a Bird's Eye View
George Lemon
Henry V
Lieutenant Bardolph
Spice World
Bishop
Watership Down
Captain Broom (voice)
Much Ado About Nothing
Signor Leonato
All in Good Faith
Reverend Philip Lambe
The Three Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice)
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
Armchair Theatre
Stanley Frelaine
Watership Down
Fiver (voice)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Grandfather
A Respectable Trade
Sir Charles Fairley
As You Like It
Adam
Murder She Said
'Mrs Binster'
The Four Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
Peter's Friends
Lord Morton
One-Upmanship
Stephen Potter
Love's Labour's Lost
Sir Nathaniel
Ben Travers Farces
Charlie Tutt
That's What I Call Television
Self
Marriage Lines
The Other One
Ralph Tanner
Heavy Weather
The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
Unconditional Love
Barry Moore
Skallagrigg
Old Arthur/George
Dad
Larry James
If You See God, Tell Him
Godfrey Spry
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Self
Run For Your Wife
Newspaper Seller
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor in Distress
Medical Student (uncredited)
The Norman Conquests
Reg
Down to Earth
Tony Fairfax
A Matter of WHO
Jamieson
The Bargee
Tomkins
Our Hidden Lives
Herbert Brush
In the Bleak Midwinter
Henry
Birds on the Wing
Charles Jackson
The Aerodrome
The Rector
Girls at Sea
'Popeye' Lewis
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
The Chief Caretaker
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
Noddy
Narrator
Victoria & Albert
Joseph Paxton
All the Way Up
Nigel Hadfield
Fathom
Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Malvolio
The Girl on the Boat
Eustace Hignett
The Adventures of Toad
Rat
Roobarb
Cockneys vs Zombies
Hamish
Bird Bath
Narrator
A Home of Your Own
The Husband
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Roobarb/Custard (voice)
The Student Prince
Dr. Corbitt
The Adventures of Mole
Rat
Rentadick
Miles Gannet
Bottoms Up!
Colbourne
Arms and the Man
Bluntschli
Tall Stories
Alias the Jester
Alias
Brothers In Law
P.Q. 17
Jack Broome
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
Robert (voice)
Our Flesh and Blood
Mr. Smythe
It's Your Move
The Husband
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
Great
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
A Small Miracle
Himself - Commentator
The Good Life: Inside Out
All in Good Time
The Young Husband
A Chorus of Disapproval
Ted Washbrook
Goodbye Mr Kent
Travis Kent
My Appalling School Report
Village Wooing
A
Horror on the High Rise
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Alias (voice)
Roobarb and Custard Too
Narrator
Little Red Tractor Stories
Narrator (voice)
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
(archive footage)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Mouse (voice)
Mole's Christmas
Rat
Frances the Firefly
Narrator (voice)
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Self
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
Narrator
All About The Good Life
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee