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).
TV Shows(59)
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
That's What I Call Television
Self
2007
Kingdom
Jim Wright
2007
Torchwood
Parker
2006
My Appalling School Report
2006
Roobarb and Custard Too
Narrator
2005
Extras
Richard Briers
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
Wilson
2004
New Tricks
James Farlow
2004
Comedy Connections
2003
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self
2001
Monarch of the Glen
Hector MacDonald
2000
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
Watership Down
Captain Broom (voice)
1999
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
Narrator
1998
A Respectable Trade
Sir Charles Fairley
1998
Parkinson
Self
1998
Midsomer Murders
Stephen Wentworth
1997
Brass Eye
Self
1997
Down to Earth
Tony Fairfax
1995
If You See God, Tell Him
Godfrey Spry
1993
Mr. Bean
Mr. Sprout
1990
Lovejoy
Raymond Doncaster
1986
All in Good Faith
Reverend Philip Lambe
1985
Alias the Jester
Alias
1985
Screen Two
Old Arthur/George
1985
Ever Decreasing Circles
1984
Natural World
1983
Wogan
Self
1982
Goodbye Mr Kent
Travis Kent
1982
Tales of the Unexpected
Albert Dobson
1979
The Other One
Ralph Tanner
1977
The Norman Conquests
Reg
1977
The Sunday Drama
Dennis
1977
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
Henry Fairlane
1977
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
1976
One-Upmanship
Stephen Potter
1976
The Good Life
Tom Good
1975
Noddy
Narrator
1975
Roobarb
1974
Tall Stories
1971
Birds on the Wing
Charles Jackson
1971
Play for Today
Mr. Smythe
1970
Ben Travers Farces
Charlie Tutt
1970
From a Bird's Eye View
George Lemon
1970
Ooh La La!
1968
ITV Playhouse
A
1967
NBC Experiment in Television
(voice)
1967
BBC Play of the Month
Sandy Tyrell
1965
Theatre 625
David Prentice
1964
Doctor Who
Chief Caretaker
1963
Brothers In Law
1962
Faces of Jim
John Frobisher
1961
Marriage Lines
George Starling
1961
Armchair Theatre
Stanley Frelaine
1956
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956
Dixon of Dock Green
Ken Tracey
1955
Bird Bath
Narrator
Little Red Tractor Stories
Narrator (voice)
Movies(63)
The Good Life: Inside Out
2025
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
(archive footage)
2022
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
2017
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Mouse (voice)
2013
Cockneys vs Zombies
Hamish
2012
Run For Your Wife
Newspaper Seller
2012
Horror on the High Rise
2011
All About The Good Life
2010
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
2010
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Roobarb/Custard (voice)
2009
As You Like It
Adam
2006
Our Hidden Lives
Herbert Brush
2005
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Self
2005
Dad
Larry James
2005
Peter Pan
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
2003
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
Robert (voice)
2003
Unconditional Love
Barry Moore
2002
Victoria & Albert
Joseph Paxton
2001
Love's Labour's Lost
Sir Nathaniel
2000
The Student Prince
Dr. Corbitt
1998
Spice World
Bishop
1997
Hamlet
Polonius
1996
The Adventures of Toad
Rat
1996
Heavy Weather
The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
1995
The Adventures of Mole
Rat
1995
In the Bleak Midwinter
Henry
1995
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Self
1994
Mole's Christmas
Rat
1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Grandfather
1994
Skallagrigg
Old Arthur/George
1994
Frances the Firefly
Narrator (voice)
1994
Much Ado About Nothing
Signor Leonato
1993
Peter's Friends
Lord Morton
1992
Swan Song
Nikita
1992
Henry V
Lieutenant Bardolph
1989
A Chorus of Disapproval
Ted Washbrook
1989
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Malvolio
1988
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Alias (voice)
1988
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
The Chief Caretaker
1987
The Aerodrome
The Rector
1983
Arms and the Man
Bluntschli
1983
It's Your Move
The Husband
1982
P.Q. 17
Jack Broome
1981
Village Wooing
A
1979
Watership Down
Fiver (voice)
1978
Our Flesh and Blood
Mr. Smythe
1977
A Small Miracle
Himself - Commentator
1976
Great
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
1975
The Four Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
1974
The Three Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice)
1973
Rentadick
Miles Gannet
1972
All the Way Up
Nigel Hadfield
1970
Fathom
Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
1967
A Home of Your Own
The Husband
1964
The Bargee
Tomkins
1964
All in Good Time
The Young Husband
1964
Doctor in Distress
Medical Student (uncredited)
1963
The Girl on the Boat
Eustace Hignett
1962
A Matter of WHO
Jamieson
1961
Murder She Said
'Mrs Binster'
1961
Bottoms Up!
Colbourne
1960
Girls at Sea
'Popeye' Lewis
1958