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
Peter Pan
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Mr. Bean
Mr. Sprout
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Grandfather
Much Ado About Nothing
Signor Leonato
Watership Down
Fiver (voice)
Doctor Who
Chief Caretaker
Torchwood
Parker
Hamlet
Polonius
Spice World
Bishop
Cockneys vs Zombies
Hamish
Extras
Richard Briers
Henry V
Lieutenant Bardolph
The Three Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice)
Midsomer Murders
Stephen Wentworth
Murder She Said
'Mrs Binster'
The Four Musketeers
Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
Peter's Friends
Lord Morton
Agatha Christie's Marple
Wilson
Brass Eye
Self
As You Like It
Adam
Love's Labour's Lost
Sir Nathaniel
Great
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
All in Good Faith
Reverend Philip Lambe
New Tricks
James Farlow
Unconditional Love
Barry Moore
Lovejoy
Raymond Doncaster
Tales of the Unexpected
Albert Dobson
In the Bleak Midwinter
Henry
The Good Life
Tom Good
Fathom
Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
Natural World
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self
A Chorus of Disapproval
Ted Washbrook
Monarch of the Glen
Hector MacDonald
Kingdom
Jim Wright
Doctor in Distress
Medical Student (uncredited)
Ever Decreasing Circles
Watership Down
Captain Broom (voice)
The Bargee
Tomkins
Victoria & Albert
Joseph Paxton