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