Richard Briers
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).
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(Grandfather)
Hamlet
(Polonius)
Watership Down
(Fiver (voice))
Much Ado About Nothing
(Signor Leonato)
In the Bleak Midwinter
(Henry)
Fathom
(Flight Lt. Timothy Webb)
Love's Labour's Lost
(Sir Nathaniel)
It's Your Move
(The Husband)
Heavy Weather
(The Hon. Galahad Threepwood)
Cockneys vs Zombies
(Hamish)
The Bargee
(Tomkins)
Run For Your Wife
(Newspaper Seller)
Rentadick
(Miles Gannet)
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
(Himself)
Great
(Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
A Matter of WHO
(Jamieson)
Swan Song
(Nikita)
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
(Malvolio)
Peter Pan
(Smee)
Girls at Sea
('Popeye' Lewis)
All the Way Up
(Nigel Hadfield)
Arms and the Man
(Bluntschli)
The Four Musketeers
(Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited))
The Three Musketeers
(Louis XIII (voice))
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
((archive footage))
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
(Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited))
All in Good Time
(The Young Husband)
Village Wooing
(A)
A Chorus of Disapproval
(Ted Washbrook)
The Aerodrome
(The Rector)
Our Hidden Lives
(Herbert Brush)
Murder She Said
('Mrs Binster')
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
(Mouse (voice))
Doctor in Distress
(Medical Student (uncredited))
Mole's Christmas
(Rat)
The Student Prince
(Dr. Corbitt)
Dad
(Larry James)
Peter's Friends
(Lord Morton)
Henry V
(Lieutenant Bardolph)
Bottoms Up!
(Colbourne)
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
(Roobarb/Custard (voice))
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
(Mr. Adolphus Spanker)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
(Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited))
Spice World
(Bishop)
As You Like It
(Adam)
A Small Miracle
(Himself - Commentator)
Skallagrigg
(Old Arthur/George)
Our Flesh and Blood
(Mr. Smythe)
The Adventures of Mole
(Rat)
A Home of Your Own
(The Husband)
Unconditional Love
(Barry Moore)
The Girl on the Boat
(Eustace Hignett)
All About The Good Life
P.Q. 17
(Jack Broome)
The Adventures of Toad
(Rat)
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
(The Chief Caretaker)
Victoria & Albert
(Joseph Paxton)
All in Good Faith
Ever Decreasing Circles
Midsomer Murders
(Stephen Wentworth)
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
Torchwood
(Parker)
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
(Self)
Doctor Who
(Chief Caretaker)
Tales of the Unexpected
(Albert Dobson)
Monarch of the Glen
(Hector MacDonald)
Comedy Connections
The Good Life
(Tom Good)
Marriage Lines
The Goodies
Mr. Bean
(Mr. Sprout)
Lovejoy
(Raymond Doncaster)
If You See God, Tell Him
(Godfrey Spry)
Roobarb
Watership Down
(Broom)
From a Bird's Eye View
(George Lemon)
New Tricks
(James Farlow)
Wogan
(Self)
Natural World
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
That's What I Call Television
My Appalling School Report
Down to Earth
Goodbye Mr Kent
Brothers In Law
One-Upmanship
Tall Stories
The Other One
(Ralph Tanner)
Alias the Jester
(Alias)
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
Extras
(Richard Briers)
Ooh La La!
Kingdom
(Jim Wright)
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
(Narrator)
Brass Eye
Dixon of Dock Green
(Ken Tracey)
A Respectable Trade
(Sir Charles Fairley)
Screen Two
(Old Arthur/George)
The Norman Conquests
(Reg)
Bird Bath
(Narrator)
Roobarb and Custard Too
(Narrator)
Agatha Christie's Marple
(Wilson)
Play for Today
(Mr. Smythe)
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
NBC Experiment in Television
((voice))
Parkinson
(Self)
Tony Awards
(Self - Nominee)
Little Red Tractor Stories
(Narrator (voice))
Inspector Morse
(Sir Clixby Bream)
Minder
(Col. Caplan)
Play for Today
(Commander Jack Broome)
Armchair Theatre
(Stanley Frelaine)