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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…
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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).
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The Good Life: Inside Out
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
as (archive footage)
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
as Mouse (voice)
Cockneys vs Zombies
as Hamish
Run For Your Wife
as Newspaper Seller
Horror on the High Rise
All About The Good Life
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
as Mr. Adolphus Spanker
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
As You Like It
as Adam
No Poster
Our Hidden Lives
as Herbert Brush
No Poster
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
as Self
Dad
as Larry James
Peter Pan
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
as Robert (voice)
Unconditional Love
as Barry Moore
Victoria & Albert
as Joseph Paxton
Love's Labour's Lost
as Sir Nathaniel
The Student Prince
as Dr. Corbitt
Spice World
as Bishop
Hamlet
as Polonius
The Adventures of Toad
as Rat
Heavy Weather
as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
The Adventures of Mole
as Rat
In the Bleak Midwinter
as Henry
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
as Self
Mole's Christmas
as Rat
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Grandfather
Skallagrigg
as Old Arthur/George
Frances the Firefly
as Narrator (voice)
Much Ado About Nothing
as Signor Leonato
Peter's Friends
as Lord Morton
No Poster
Swan Song
as Nikita
Henry V
as Lieutenant Bardolph
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Ted Washbrook
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
as Malvolio
No Poster
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
as Alias (voice)
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
as The Chief Caretaker
A Month in the Country
as Arkady
The Aerodrome
as The Rector
No Poster
Arms and the Man
as Bluntschli
It's Your Move
as The Husband
P.Q. 17
as Jack Broome
No Poster
Village Wooing
as A
Watership Down
as Fiver (voice)
No Poster
The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
as Theatre Patron
Our Flesh and Blood
as Mr. Smythe
A Small Miracle
as Himself - Commentator
Great
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The Four Musketeers
as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
The Three Musketeers
as Louis XIII (voice)
Rentadick
as Miles Gannet
All the Way Up
as Nigel Hadfield
Fathom
as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
A Home of Your Own
as The Husband
The Bargee
as Tomkins
All in Good Time
as The Young Husband
Doctor in Distress
as Medical Student (uncredited)
The Girl on the Boat
as Eustace Hignett
A Matter of WHO
as Jamieson
Murder She Said
as 'Mrs Binster'
Bottoms Up!
as Colbourne
Girls at Sea
as 'Popeye' Lewis