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