People
Richard Briers
- Name: Richard Briers
- Birthday: 1934-01-14
- Place of birth: Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
- Popularity: 0.238
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),... Read More
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Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| The Good Life: Secret & Scandals as (archive footage) | 2022-08-12 |
| Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited) | 2017-06-12 |
| British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2016-09-12 |
| Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time as Mouse (voice) | 2013-12-16 |
| Cockneys vs Zombies as Hamish | 2012-08-31 |
| Run For Your Wife as Newspaper Seller | 2012-05-16 |
| All About The Good Life | 2010-12-29 |
| National Theatre Live: London Assurance as Mr. Adolphus Spanker | 2010-06-24 |
| Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley as Roobarb/Custard (voice) | 2009-11-13 |
| As You Like It as Adam | 2006-09-01 |
| Our Hidden Lives as Herbert Brush | 2005-10-03 |
| The Funny Blokes of British Comedy as Himself | 2005-03-03 |
| Dad as Larry James | 2005-02-24 |
| Peter Pan as Smee | 2003-12-18 |
| Unconditional Love as Barry Moore | 2002-08-23 |
| Victoria & Albert as Joseph Paxton | 2001-08-26 |
| Love's Labour's Lost as Sir Nathaniel | 2000-03-31 |
| The Student Prince as Dr. Corbitt | 1998-11-22 |
| Spice World as Bishop | 1997-12-18 |
| Hamlet as Polonius | 1996-12-25 |
| The Adventures of Toad as Rat | 1996-07-30 |
| Heavy Weather as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood | 1995-12-24 |
| The Adventures of Mole as Rat | 1995-12-24 |
| In the Bleak Midwinter as Henry | 1995-09-29 |
| Mole's Christmas as Rat | 1994-12-25 |
| Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as Grandfather | 1994-11-04 |
| Skallagrigg as Old Arthur/George | 1994-03-09 |
| Frances the Firefly as Narrator (voice) | 1994-01-01 |
| Much Ado About Nothing as Signor Leonato | 1993-05-07 |
| Peter's Friends as Lord Morton | 1992-09-18 |
| Swan Song as Nikita | 1992-01-01 |
| Henry V as Lieutenant Bardolph | 1989-10-05 |
| A Chorus of Disapproval as Ted Washbrook | 1989-08-18 |
| Twelfth Night, or What You Will as Malvolio | 1988-12-30 |
| Doctor Who: Paradise Towers as The Chief Caretaker | 1987-10-26 |
| The Aerodrome as The Rector | 1983-12-13 |
| Arms and the Man as Bluntschli | 1983-01-16 |
| It's Your Move as The Husband | 1982-10-18 |
| P.Q. 17 as Jack Broome | 1981-12-15 |
| Village Wooing as A | 1979-04-17 |
| Watership Down as Fiver (voice) | 1978-10-14 |
| Our Flesh and Blood as Mr. Smythe | 1977-01-18 |
| A Small Miracle as Himself - Commentator | 1976-01-01 |
| Great as Isambard Kingdom Brunel | 1975-03-17 |
| The Four Musketeers as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited) | 1974-10-31 |
| The Three Musketeers as Louis XIII (voice) | 1973-12-11 |
| Rentadick as Miles Gannet | 1972-12-31 |
| All the Way Up as Nigel Hadfield | 1970-06-01 |
| Fathom as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb | 1967-08-25 |
| All in Good Time as The Young Husband | 1964-01-02 |
| The Bargee as Tomkins | 1964-01-01 |
| A Home of Your Own as The Husband | 1964-01-01 |
| Doctor in Distress as Medical Student (uncredited) | 1963-07-30 |
| The Girl on the Boat as Eustace Hignett | 1962-08-05 |
| A Matter of WHO as Jamieson | 1961-10-03 |
| Murder She Said as 'Mrs Binster' | 1961-09-26 |
| Bottoms Up! as Colbourne | 1960-03-25 |
| Girls at Sea as 'Popeye' Lewis | 1958-10-01 |
