Richard Briers
Acting
Biography
Richard David Briers, CBE 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).
Born: January 14, 1934
Place of Birth: Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as (archive footage)
as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Mouse (voice)
as Hamish
as Newspaper Seller
as Mr. Adolphus Spanker
as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
as Jim Wright
as Parker
as Adam
as Narrator
as Richard Briers
as Larry James
as Wilson
as James Farlow
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
as Robert (voice)
as Barry Moore
as Joseph Paxton
as Sir Nathaniel
as Hector MacDonald
as Captain Broom (voice)
as Dr. Corbitt
as Narrator
as Sir Charles Fairley
as Self
as Bishop
as Stephen Wentworth
as Self
as Polonius
as Rat
as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
as Rat
as Henry
as Tony Fairfax
as Rat
as Grandfather
as Old Arthur/George
as Narrator (voice)
as Signor Leonato
as Lord Morton
as Mr. Sprout
as Lieutenant Bardolph
as Ted Washbrook
as Malvolio
as The Chief Caretaker
as Raymond Doncaster
as Reverend Philip Lambe
as Alias
as Old Arthur/George
as The Rector
as The Husband
as Self
as Jack Broome
as Albert Dobson
as Fiver (voice)
as Ralph Tanner
as Reg
as Henry Fairlane
as Mr. Smythe
as Himself - Commentator
as Tom Good
as Narrator
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
as Louis XIII (voice)
as Miles Gannet
as Mr. Smythe
as Commander Jack Broome
as George Lemon
as Nigel Hadfield
as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
as (voice)
as Sandy Tyrell
as David Prentice
as The Young Husband
as Tomkins
as The Husband
as Chief Caretaker
as Medical Student (uncredited)
as Eustace Hignett
as Jamieson
as 'Mrs Binster'
as Colbourne
as 'Popeye' Lewis
as Stanley Frelaine
as Self - Nominee
as Ken Tracey
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)