Richard Briers
Acting
Born: 1934-01-14 in Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Biography
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).
Known For
Midsomer Murders
Stephen Wentworth
Doctor Who
Chief Caretaker
Play for Today
Mr. Smythe
Play for Today
Commander Jack Broome
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
Natural World
Wogan
Self
Agatha Christie's Marple
Wilson
BBC Play of the Month
Sandy Tyrell
Screen Two
Old Arthur/George
Mr. Bean
Mr. Sprout
New Tricks
James Farlow
Parkinson
Self
Torchwood
Parker
Tales of the Unexpected
Albert Dobson
ITV Playhouse
A
Theatre 625
David Prentice
Monarch of the Glen
Hector MacDonald
Extras
Richard Briers
Watership Down
Captain Broom (voice)
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self
Dixon of Dock Green
Ken Tracey
Lovejoy
Raymond Doncaster
Kingdom
Jim Wright
Comedy Connections
Peter Pan
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Grandfather
Watership Down
Fiver (voice)
Hamlet
Polonius
Brass Eye
Self
The Good Life
Tom Good
The Three Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice)
Spice World
Bishop
Much Ado About Nothing
Signor Leonato
NBC Experiment in Television
(voice)
The Four Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
Henry V
Lieutenant Bardolph
