Richard Briers profile
Actor profile

Richard Briers

14th January 1934 Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK 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).

63 Movies 59 TV Shows 122 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Dad poster
Dad 24th February 2005 as Larry James
Peter Pan poster
Peter Pan 18th December 2003 as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Hamlet poster
Hamlet 25th December 1996 as Polonius
Henry V poster
Henry V 5th October 1989 as Lieutenant Bardolph
P.Q. 17 poster
P.Q. 17 15th December 1981 as Jack Broome
Great poster
Great 17th March 1975 as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Fathom poster
Fathom 25th August 1967 as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
Extras poster
Extras 21st July 2005 as Richard Briers
Lovejoy poster
Lovejoy 10th January 1986 as Raymond Doncaster
Noddy poster
Noddy 24th March 1975 as Narrator