Richard Briers
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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 (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
Credits
Peter Pan (2003)
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
as Grandfather
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
as Signor Leonato
The Three Musketeers (1973)
as Louis XIII (voice)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
Watership Down (1978)
as Fiver (voice)
Spice World (1997)
as Bishop
Hamlet (1996)
as Polonius
Henry V (1989)
as Lieutenant Bardolph
Peter's Friends (1992)
as Lord Morton
Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
as Sir Nathaniel
Cockneys vs Zombies (2012)
as Hamish
Murder She Said (1961)
as 'Mrs Binster'
Unconditional Love (2002)
as Barry Moore
As You Like It (2006)
as Adam
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves (2016)
as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
Heavy Weather (1995)
as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
as Henry
The Bargee (1964)
as Tomkins
Village Wooing (1979)
as A
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (2005)
as Self
A Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
as Ted Washbrook
Run For Your Wife (2012)
as Newspaper Seller
Doctor in Distress (1963)
as Medical Student (uncredited)
Victoria & Albert (2001)
as Joseph Paxton
The Girl on the Boat (1962)
as Eustace Hignett
The Adventures of Toad (1996)
as Rat
Fathom (1967)
as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
Dad (2005)
as Larry James
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers (1987)
as The Chief Caretaker
Girls at Sea (1958)
as 'Popeye' Lewis
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol (1994)
as Self
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot (2003)
as Robert (voice)
Bottoms Up! (1960)
as Colbourne
National Theatre Live: London Assurance (2010)
as Mr. Adolphus Spanker
Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1988)
as Malvolio
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley (2009)
as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
Arms and the Man (1983)
as Bluntschli
Rentadick (1972)
as Miles Gannet
Swan Song (1992)
as Nikita
A Home of Your Own (1964)
as The Husband
The Student Prince (1998)
as Dr. Corbitt
A Month in the Country (1985)
as Arkady
Our Hidden Lives (2005)
as Herbert Brush
A Matter of WHO (1961)
as Jamieson
All the Way Up (1970)
as Nigel Hadfield
Skallagrigg (1994)
as Old Arthur/George
The Adventures of Mole (1995)
as Rat
Our Flesh and Blood (1977)
as Mr. Smythe
Children's Favourites - Volume 1 (1988)
as Alias (voice)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time (2013)
as Mouse (voice)
It's Your Move (1982)
as The Husband
Mole's Christmas (1994)
as Rat
The Aerodrome (1983)
as The Rector
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals (2022)
as (archive footage)
The Good Life: Inside Out (2025)
Actor
Great (1975)
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
All in Good Time (1964)
as The Young Husband
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection (2017)
as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
A Small Miracle (1976)
as Himself - Commentator
Frances the Firefly (1994)
as Narrator (voice)
Horror on the High Rise (2011)
Actor
All About The Good Life (2010)
Actor
P.Q. 17 (1981)
as Jack Broome