Richard Briers
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).
Movies
The Good Life: Inside Out
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
(archive footage)
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Mouse (voice)
Cockneys vs Zombies
Hamish
Run For Your Wife
Newspaper Seller
Horror on the High Rise
All About The Good Life
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Roobarb/Custard (voice)
As You Like It
Adam
Our Hidden Lives
Herbert Brush
Dad
Larry James
Peter Pan
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot
Robert (voice)
Unconditional Love
Barry Moore
Victoria & Albert
Joseph Paxton
Love's Labour's Lost
Sir Nathaniel
The Student Prince
Dr. Corbitt
Spice World
Bishop
Hamlet
Polonius
The Adventures of Toad
Rat
Heavy Weather
The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
The Adventures of Mole
Rat
In the Bleak Midwinter
Henry
Mole's Christmas
Rat
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Grandfather
Skallagrigg
Old Arthur/George
Frances the Firefly
Narrator (voice)
Much Ado About Nothing
Signor Leonato
Peter's Friends
Lord Morton
Swan Song
Nikita
Henry V
Lieutenant Bardolph
A Chorus of Disapproval
Ted Washbrook
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Malvolio
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Alias (voice)
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
The Chief Caretaker
The Aerodrome
The Rector
Arms and the Man
Bluntschli
It's Your Move
The Husband
P.Q. 17
Jack Broome
Village Wooing
A
Watership Down
Fiver (voice)
Our Flesh and Blood
Mr. Smythe
Great
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The Four Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
The Three Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice)
Rentadick
Miles Gannet
All the Way Up
Nigel Hadfield
Fathom
Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
A Home of Your Own
The Husband
The Bargee
Tomkins
All in Good Time
The Young Husband
Doctor in Distress
Medical Student (uncredited)
The Girl on the Boat
Eustace Hignett
A Matter of WHO
Jamieson
Murder She Said
'Mrs Binster'
Bottoms Up!
Colbourne
Girls at Sea
'Popeye' Lewis
TV Series
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
1 Episode
Kingdom
Jim Wright
1 Episode
Torchwood
Parker
1 Episode
My Appalling School Report
4 Episodes
Roobarb and Custard Too
Narrator
39 Episodes
Extras
Richard Briers
1 Episode
Agatha Christie's Marple
Wilson
1 Episode
New Tricks
James Farlow
1 Episode
Comedy Connections
1 Episode
Monarch of the Glen
Hector MacDonald
33 Episodes
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2 Episodes
Watership Down
Captain Broom (voice)
1 Episode
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
Narrator
5 Episodes
A Respectable Trade
Sir Charles Fairley
4 Episodes
Midsomer Murders
Stephen Wentworth
1 Episode
Down to Earth
Tony Fairfax
7 Episodes
If You See God, Tell Him
Godfrey Spry
4 Episodes
Mr. Bean
Mr. Sprout
1 Episode
Lovejoy
Raymond Doncaster
1 Episode
All in Good Faith
Reverend Philip Lambe
18 Episodes
Alias the Jester
Alias
13 Episodes
Screen Two
Old Arthur/George
1 Episode
Ever Decreasing Circles
26 Episodes
Natural World
1 Episode
Goodbye Mr Kent
Travis Kent
7 Episodes
Tales of the Unexpected
Albert Dobson
1 Episode
The Other One
Ralph Tanner
13 Episodes
The Norman Conquests
Reg
3 Episodes
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
Henry Fairlane
1 Episode
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
30 Episodes
One-Upmanship
17 Episodes
The Good Life
Tom Good
28 Episodes
Noddy
Narrator
11 Episodes
Roobarb
30 Episodes
Tall Stories
6 Episodes
Birds On The Wing
Charles Jackson
6 Episodes
Play for Today
Mr. Smythe
1 Episode
Ben Travers Farces
Charlie Tutt
7 Episodes
From a Bird's Eye View
George Lemon
1 Episode
Ooh La La!
1 Episode
NBC Experiment in Television
(voice)
1 Episode
BBC Play of the Month
Sandy Tyrell
1 Episode
Theatre 625
David Prentice
1 Episode
Doctor Who
Chief Caretaker
4 Episodes
Brothers In Law
13 Episodes
Marriage Lines
43 Episodes
Armchair Theatre
Stanley Frelaine
1 Episode
Dixon of Dock Green
Ken Tracey
1 Episode
Little Red Tractor Stories
Narrator (voice)
4 Episodes
Bird Bath
Narrator
25 Episodes