

Richard Briers
ActorRichard 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
2025

The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
2022
(archive footage)

Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
2017
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013
Mouse (voice)

Cockneys vs Zombies
2012
Hamish

Run For Your Wife
2012
Newspaper Seller

Horror on the High Rise
2011

National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010
Mr. Adolphus Spanker

All About The Good Life
2010

Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009
Roobarb/Custard (voice)

As You Like It
2006
Adam
- The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
Self
- Our Hidden Lives
Our Hidden Lives
2005
Herbert Brush

Dad
2005
Larry James

Peter Pan
2003
Sam "Smee" Smiegel

Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
2003
Robert (voice)

Unconditional Love
2002
Barry Moore

Victoria & Albert
2001
Joseph Paxton

Love's Labour's Lost
2000
Sir Nathaniel

The Student Prince
1998
Dr. Corbitt

Spice World
1997
Bishop

Hamlet
1996
Polonius

The Adventures of Toad
1996
Rat

In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
Henry

Heavy Weather
1995
The Hon. Galahad Threepwood

The Adventures of Mole
1995
Rat

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
Grandfather

Mole's Christmas
1994
Rat

Skallagrigg
1994
Old Arthur/George

Frances the Firefly
1994
Narrator (voice)

French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
Self

Much Ado About Nothing
1993
Signor Leonato
- Swan Song
Swan Song
1992
Nikita

Peter's Friends
1992
Lord Morton

A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
Ted Washbrook

Henry V
1989
Lieutenant Bardolph

Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
Malvolio
- Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
1988
Alias (voice)

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987
The Chief Caretaker

A Month in the Country
1985
Arkady
- Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man
1983
Bluntschli

The Aerodrome
1983
The Rector

It's Your Move
1982
The Husband

P.Q. 17
1981
Jack Broome
- Village Wooing
Village Wooing
1979
A

Watership Down
1978
Fiver (voice)

Our Flesh and Blood
1977
Mr. Smythe

A Small Miracle
1976
Himself - Commentator

Great
1975
Isambard Kingdom Brunel

The Four Musketeers
1974
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)

The Three Musketeers
1973
Louis XIII (voice)

Rentadick
1972
Miles Gannet

All the Way Up
1970
Nigel Hadfield

Fathom
1967
Flight Lt. Timothy Webb

The Bargee
1964
Tomkins

All in Good Time
1964
The Young Husband

A Home of Your Own
1964
The Husband

Doctor in Distress
1963
Medical Student (uncredited)

The Girl on the Boat
1962
Eustace Hignett

A Matter of WHO
1961
Jamieson

Murder She Said
1961
'Mrs Binster'

Bottoms Up!
1960
Colbourne

Girls at Sea
1958
'Popeye' Lewis





