Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1934-01-14
Day of Death
2013-02-17
Place of Birth
Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Richard Briers
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).
Filmography (63)
The Good Life: Inside Out
2025
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
2022
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
2017
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012
Run For Your Wife
2012
Horror on the High Rise
2011
All About The Good Life
2010
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009
As You Like It
2006Our Hidden Lives
2005The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
