1934-01-14 Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
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), and As You Like It (2006).
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The Good Life: Secret & Scandals | (archive footage) | 2022-08-12 |
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Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection | Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited) | 2017-06-12 |
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British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves | Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2016-09-12 |
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Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time | Mouse (voice) | 2013-12-16 |
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Cockneys vs Zombies | Hamish | 2012-08-31 |
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Run For Your Wife | Newspaper Seller | 2012-05-16 |
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Horror on the High Rise | 2011-07-18 | |
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National Theatre Live: London Assurance | Mr. Adolphus Spanker | 2010-06-24 |
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All About The Good Life | 2010-12-29 | |
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Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley | Roobarb/Custard (voice) | 2009-11-13 |
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As You Like It | Adam | 2006-09-01 |
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The Funny Blokes of British Comedy | Himself | 2005-03-03 |
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Dad | Larry James | 2005-02-24 |
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Our Hidden Lives | Herbert Brush | 2005-10-03 |
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Peter Pan | Sam "Smee" Smiegel | 2003-12-18 |
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Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot | Robert (voice) | 2003-03-11 |
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Unconditional Love | Barry Moore | 2002-08-23 |
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Victoria & Albert | Joseph Paxton | 2001-08-26 |
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Love's Labour's Lost | Sir Nathaniel | 2000-03-31 |
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The Student Prince | Dr. Corbitt | 1998-11-22 |
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Spice World | Bishop | 1997-12-18 |
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The Adventures of Toad | Rat | 1996-07-30 |
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Hamlet | Polonius | 1996-12-25 |
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In the Bleak Midwinter | Henry | 1995-09-29 |
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Heavy Weather | The Hon. Galahad Threepwood | 1995-12-24 |
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The Adventures of Mole | Rat | 1995-12-24 |
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Grandfather | 1994-11-04 |
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Mole's Christmas | Rat | 1994-12-25 |
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Skallagrigg | Old Arthur/George | 1994-03-09 |
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Frances the Firefly | Narrator (voice) | 1994-01-01 |
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Much Ado About Nothing | Signor Leonato | 1993-05-07 |
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Swan Song | Nikita | 1992-01-01 |
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Peter's Friends | Lord Morton | 1992-09-18 |
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A Chorus of Disapproval | Ted Washbrook | 1989-08-18 |
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Henry V | Lieutenant Bardolph | 1989-10-05 |
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Malvolio | 1988-12-30 |
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Doctor Who: Paradise Towers | The Chief Caretaker | 1987-10-26 |
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The Aerodrome | The Rector | 1983-12-13 |
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Arms and the Man | Bluntschli | 1983-01-16 |
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It's Your Move | The Husband | 1982-10-18 |
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P.Q. 17 | Jack Broome | 1981-12-15 |
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Village Wooing | A | 1979-04-17 |
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Watership Down | Fiver (voice) | 1978-10-14 |
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Our Flesh and Blood | Mr. Smythe | 1977-01-18 |
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A Small Miracle | Himself - Commentator | 1976-01-01 |
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Great | Isambard Kingdom Brunel | 1975-03-17 |
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The Four Musketeers | Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited) | 1974-10-31 |
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The Three Musketeers | Louis XIII (voice) | 1973-12-11 |
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Rentadick | Miles Gannet | 1972-12-31 |
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All the Way Up | Nigel Hadfield | 1970-06-01 |
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Fathom | Flight Lt. Timothy Webb | 1967-08-25 |
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A Home of Your Own | The Husband | 1964-01-01 |
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The Bargee | Tomkins | 1964-01-01 |
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All in Good Time | The Young Husband | 1964-01-02 |
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Doctor in Distress | Medical Student (uncredited) | 1963-07-30 |
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The Girl on the Boat | Eustace Hignett | 1962-08-05 |
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Murder She Said | 'Mrs Binster' | 1961-09-26 |
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A Matter of WHO | Jamieson | 1961-10-03 |
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Bottoms Up! | Colbourne | 1960-03-25 |
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Girls at Sea | 'Popeye' Lewis | 1958-10-01 |
