Richard Briers
Acting
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).
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Filmography of
Richard Briers
... 2025
(archive footage)
... 2022
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
... 2017
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
... 2016
Mouse (voice)
... 2013
Hamish
... 2012
Newspaper Seller
... 2012
... 2011
... 2010
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
... 2010
Roobarb/Custard (voice)
... 2009
Adam
... 2006
Herbert Brush
... 2005
... 2005
Larry James
... 2005
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
... 2003
Robert (voice)
... 2003
Barry Moore
... 2002
Joseph Paxton
... 2001
Sir Nathaniel
... 2000
Dr. Corbitt
... 1998
Bishop
... 1997
Polonius
... 1996
... 1996
The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
... 1995
... 1995
Henry
... 1995
... 1994
Rat
... 1994
Grandfather
... 1994
Old Arthur/George
... 1994
Narrator (voice)
... 1994
Signor Leonato
... 1993
Lord Morton
... 1992
Nikita
... 1992
Lieutenant Bardolph
... 1989
Ted Washbrook
... 1989
Malvolio
... 1988
Alias (voice)
... 1988
The Chief Caretaker
... 1987
The Rector
... 1983
Bluntschli
... 1983
The Husband
... 1982
Jack Broome
... 1981
... 1979
Fiver (voice)
... 1978
Mr. Smythe
... 1977
Himself - Commentator
... 1976
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
... 1975
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
... 1974
Louis XIII (voice)
... 1973
Miles Gannet
... 1972
Nigel Hadfield
... 1970
Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
... 1967
The Husband
... 1964
Tomkins
... 1964
The Young Husband
... 1964
Medical Student (uncredited)
... 1963
Eustace Hignett
... 1962
Jamieson
... 1961
'Mrs Binster'
... 1961
Colbourne
... 1960
'Popeye' Lewis
... 1958