Biography
Richard David Briers, CBE 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
Cast Credits
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
Character: (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2022
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Character: Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
MOVIE • 2017
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Character: Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
MOVIE • 2016
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Character: Mouse (voice)
MOVIE • 2013
Cockneys vs Zombies
Character: Hamish
MOVIE • 2012
Run For Your Wife
Character: Newspaper Seller
MOVIE • 2012
Horror on the High Rise
Character:
MOVIE • 2011
All About The Good Life
Character:
MOVIE • 2010
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Character: Mr. Adolphus Spanker
MOVIE • 2010
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Character: Roobarb/Custard (voice)
MOVIE • 2009
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
Character:
TV • 2007
That's What I Call Television
Character: Self
TV • 2007
Kingdom
Character: Jim Wright
TV • 2007
Torchwood
Character: Parker
TV • 2006
As You Like It
Character: Adam
MOVIE • 2006
My Appalling School Report
Character:
TV • 2006
Our Hidden Lives
Character: Herbert Brush
MOVIE • 2005
Roobarb and Custard Too
Character: Narrator
TV • 2005
Extras
Character: Richard Briers
TV • 2005
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Character: Himself
MOVIE • 2005