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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 14, 1934
Died
February 17, 2013
Place of Birth
Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Richard Briers
1.1 Popularity
Biography
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).
Known For
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The Good Life: Inside Out
2025
7.0
(archive footage)
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
2022
0.0
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
2017
5.7
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
6.0
Mouse (voice)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013
5.7
Hamish
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012
4.4
Newspaper Seller
Run For Your Wife
2012
0.0
Horror on the High Rise
2011
0.0
All About The Good Life
2010
7.0
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010
Credits
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The Good Life: Inside Out
2025
0.0
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
as (archive footage)
2022
7.0
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
2017
0.0
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
5.7
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
as Mouse (voice)
2013
6.0
Cockneys vs Zombies
as Hamish
2012
5.7
Run For Your Wife
as Newspaper Seller
2012
4.4
Horror on the High Rise
2011
0.0
All About The Good Life
2010
0.0
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
as Mr. Adolphus Spanker
2010
7.0
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
2009
9.0
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
6.2
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That's What I Call Television
as Self
2007
0.0
Kingdom
as Jim Wright
2007
7.1
Torchwood
as Parker
2006
7.3
As You Like It
as Adam
2006
5.7
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My Appalling School Report
2006
0.0
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Our Hidden Lives
as Herbert Brush
2005
3.3
Roobarb and Custard Too
as Narrator
2005
6.0
Extras
as Richard Briers
2005
7.8
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The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
as Himself
2005
6.0
Dad
as Larry James
2005
10.0
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Wilson
2004
7.8
New Tricks
as James Farlow
2004
7.4
Peter Pan
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
2003
7.1
Comedy Connections
2003
2.0
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot
as Robert (voice)
2003
6.9
Unconditional Love
as Barry Moore
2002
5.9
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self
2001
6.0
Victoria & Albert
as Joseph Paxton
2001
7.6
Love's Labour's Lost
as Sir Nathaniel
2000
5.5
Monarch of the Glen
as Hector MacDonald
2000
7.3
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
0.0
Watership Down
as Captain Broom (voice)
1999
7.2
The Student Prince
as Dr. Corbitt
1998
4.3
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
as Narrator
1998
0.0
A Respectable Trade
as Sir Charles Fairley
1998
6.0
Parkinson
as Self
1998
0.0
Spice World
as Bishop
1997
4.9
Midsomer Murders
as Stephen Wentworth
1997
7.5
Brass Eye
as Self
1997
7.6
Hamlet
as Polonius
1996
7.3
The Adventures of Toad
as Rat
1996
0.0
The Adventures of Mole
as Rat
1995
6.0
Heavy Weather
as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
1995
7.5
In the Bleak Midwinter
as Henry
1995
7.1
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Down to Earth
as Tony Fairfax
1995
0.0
Mole's Christmas
as Rat
1994
4.8
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Grandfather
1994
6.4
Skallagrigg
as Old Arthur/George
1994
1.0
Frances the Firefly
as Narrator (voice)
1994
0.0
If You See God, Tell Him
as Godfrey Spry
1993
6.7
Much Ado About Nothing
as Signor Leonato
1993
6.9
Peter's Friends
as Lord Morton
1992
6.6
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Swan Song
as Nikita
1992
6.8
Mr. Bean
as Mr. Sprout
1990
8.0
Henry V
as Lieutenant Bardolph
1989
7.2
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Ted Washbrook
1989
5.3
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
as Malvolio
1988
6.9
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Children's Favourites - Volume 1
as Alias (voice)
1988
0.0
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
as The Chief Caretaker
1987
6.5
Lovejoy
as Raymond Doncaster
1986
7.3
All in Good Faith
as Reverend Philip Lambe
1985
2.1
Alias the Jester
as Alias
1985
6.6
Screen Two
as Old Arthur/George
1985
6.8
Ever Decreasing Circles
1984
7.3
The Aerodrome
as The Rector
1983
7.0
Natural World
1983
7.2
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Arms and the Man
as Bluntschli
1983
0.0
It's Your Move
as The Husband
1982
8.2
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
Goodbye Mr Kent
as Travis Kent
1982
0.0
P.Q. 17
as Jack Broome
1981
0.0
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Village Wooing
as A
1979
0.0
Tales of the Unexpected
as Albert Dobson
1979
6.7
Watership Down
as Fiver (voice)
1978
7.2
The Other One
as Ralph Tanner
1977
7.0
The Norman Conquests
as Reg
1977
6.3
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
as Henry Fairlane
1977
0.0
Our Flesh and Blood
as Mr. Smythe
1977
0.0
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
1976
0.0
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One-Upmanship
1976
9.0
A Small Miracle
as Himself - Commentator
1976
0.0
The Good Life
as Tom Good
1975
7.6
Noddy
as Narrator
1975
6.0
Great
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
1975
5.6
The Four Musketeers
as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
1974
6.4
Roobarb
1974
7.1
The Three Musketeers
as Louis XIII (voice)
1973
6.7
Rentadick
as Miles Gannet
1972
3.8
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Tall Stories
1971
0.0
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Birds On The Wing
as Charles Jackson
1971
0.0
Play for Today
as Mr. Smythe
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Commander Jack Broome
1970
6.3
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Ben Travers Farces
as Charlie Tutt
1970
0.0
From a Bird's Eye View
as George Lemon
1970
5.5
All the Way Up
as Nigel Hadfield
1970
6.0
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Ooh La La!
1968
0.0
Fathom
as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
1967
5.9
NBC Experiment in Television
as (voice)
1967
0.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Sandy Tyrell
1965
5.0
A Home of Your Own
as The Husband
1964
6.0
Theatre 625
as David Prentice
1964
7.2
The Bargee
as Tomkins
1964
6.9
All in Good Time
as The Young Husband
1964
0.0
Doctor Who
as Chief Caretaker
1963
7.9
Doctor in Distress
as Medical Student (uncredited)
1963
6.2
The Girl on the Boat
as Eustace Hignett
1962
5.6
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Brothers In Law
1962
0.0
A Matter of WHO
as Jamieson
1961
6.2
Murder She Said
as 'Mrs Binster'
1961
7.3
Marriage Lines
1961
5.5
Bottoms Up!
as Colbourne
1960
6.4
Girls at Sea
as 'Popeye' Lewis
1958
6.0
Armchair Theatre
as Stanley Frelaine
1956
5.8
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
Dixon of Dock Green
as Ken Tracey
1955
5.3
Little Red Tractor Stories
as Narrator (voice)
N/A
0.0
Bird Bath
as Narrator
N/A
6.0