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