Richard Briers

Acting Jan 14, 1934 Feb 17, 2013 (aged 79) Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK

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).

126 Acting Credits

Richard Briers

Acting

Peter Pan

Mr. Bean

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Much Ado About Nothing

Watership Down

Doctor Who

Torchwood

Hamlet

Spice World

Cockneys vs Zombies

Extras

Henry V

The Three Musketeers

Midsomer Murders

Murder She Said

The Four Musketeers

Peter's Friends

Agatha Christie's Marple

Brass Eye

As You Like It

Great

Love's Labour's Lost

All in Good Faith

New Tricks