Richard Briers

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).

Cast

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
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
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
Unknown
P.Q. 17
Jack Broome
The Adventures of Toad
Rat
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
The Chief Caretaker
Victoria & Albert
Joseph Paxton
Frances the Firefly
Narrator (voice)
Horror on the High Rise
Unknown
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot
Robert (voice)
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Alias (voice)
The Good Life: Inside Out
Unknown