Richard Briers
ActingRichard 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).
Known For
Hamlet
Polonius
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Grandfather
Peter Pan
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Much Ado About Nothing
Signor Leonato
The Three Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice)
Watership Down
Fiver (voice)
Murder She Said
'Mrs Binster'
Spice World
Bishop
Henry V
Lieutenant Bardolph
The Four Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
Filmography — Acting
Hamlet
Polonius
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Grandfather
Peter Pan
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Much Ado About Nothing
Signor Leonato
The Three Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice)
Watership Down
Fiver (voice)
Murder She Said
'Mrs Binster'
Spice World
Bishop
Henry V
Lieutenant Bardolph
The Four Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
Love's Labour's Lost
Sir Nathaniel
As You Like It
Adam
Great
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Peter's Friends
Lord Morton
Cockneys vs Zombies
Hamish
Unconditional Love
Barry Moore
In the Bleak Midwinter
Henry
Fathom
Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
Dad
Larry James
Run For Your Wife
Newspaper Seller
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Malvolio
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
The Girl on the Boat
Eustace Hignett
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Self
Doctor in Distress
Medical Student (uncredited)
Victoria & Albert
Joseph Paxton
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Home of Your Own
The Husband
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
The Chief Caretaker
Girls at Sea
'Popeye' Lewis
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Roobarb/Custard (voice)
Swan Song
Nikita
Rentadick
Miles Gannet
A Chorus of Disapproval
Ted Washbrook
Heavy Weather
The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
The Bargee
Tomkins
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
Robert (voice)
The Adventures of Toad
Rat
A Matter of WHO
Jamieson
The Aerodrome
The Rector
The Adventures of Mole
Rat
P.Q. 17
Jack Broome
All the Way Up
Nigel Hadfield
Our Hidden Lives
Herbert Brush
Bottoms Up!
Colbourne
Skallagrigg
Old Arthur/George
Arms and the Man
Bluntschli
The Student Prince
Dr. Corbitt
Our Flesh and Blood
Mr. Smythe
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Mouse (voice)
Village Wooing
A
All in Good Time
The Young Husband
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
(archive footage)
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Self
It's Your Move
The Husband
The Good Life: Inside Out
All About The Good Life
A Small Miracle
Himself - Commentator
Mole's Christmas
Rat
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Alias (voice)
Horror on the High Rise
Frances the Firefly
Narrator (voice)