Personal Info
Known Credits
59
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1934-01-14 (91 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Also Known For
Richard Briers
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 i ...
Known For
Acting
2022 --
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
| (archive footage)
2017 --
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
| Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
2016 --
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
| Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
2013 --
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
| Mouse (voice)
2012 --
Cockneys vs Zombies
| Hamish
2012 --
Run For Your Wife
| Newspaper Seller
2011 --
Horror on the High Rise
|
2010 --
All About The Good Life
|
2010 --
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
| Mr. Adolphus Spanker
2009 --
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
| Roobarb/Custard (voice)
2006 --
As You Like It
| Adam
2005 --
Our Hidden Lives
| Herbert Brush
2005 --
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
| Himself
2005 --
Dad
| Larry James
2003 --
Peter Pan
| Sam "Smee" Smiegel
2002 --
Unconditional Love
| Barry Moore
2001 --
Victoria & Albert
| Joseph Paxton
2000 --
Love's Labour's Lost
| Sir Nathaniel
1998 --
The Student Prince
| Dr. Corbitt
1997 --
Spice World
| Bishop
1996 --
Hamlet
| Polonius
1996 --
The Adventures of Toad
| Rat
1995 --
The Adventures of Mole
| Rat
1995 --
Heavy Weather
| The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
1995 --
In the Bleak Midwinter
| Henry
1994 --
Mole's Christmas
| Rat
1994 --
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
| Grandfather
1994 --
Skallagrigg
| Old Arthur/George
1994 --
Frances the Firefly
| Narrator (voice)
1993 --
Much Ado About Nothing
| Signor Leonato
1992 --
Peter's Friends
| Lord Morton
1992 --
Swan Song
| Nikita
1989 --
Henry V
| Lieutenant Bardolph
1989 --
A Chorus of Disapproval
| Ted Washbrook
1988 --
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
| Malvolio
1987 --
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
| The Chief Caretaker
1983 --
The Aerodrome
| The Rector
1983 --
Arms and the Man
| Bluntschli
1982 --
It's Your Move
| The Husband
1981 --
P.Q. 17
| Jack Broome
1979 --
Village Wooing
| A
1978 --
Watership Down
| Fiver (voice)
1977 --
Our Flesh and Blood
| Mr. Smythe
1976 --
A Small Miracle
| Himself - Commentator
1975 --
Great
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel
1974 --
The Four Musketeers
| Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
1973 --
The Three Musketeers
| Louis XIII (voice)
1972 --
Rentadick
| Miles Gannet
1970 --
All the Way Up
| Nigel Hadfield
1967 --
Fathom
| Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
1964 --
All in Good Time
| The Young Husband
1964 --
A Home of Your Own
| The Husband
1964 --
The Bargee
| Tomkins
1963 --
Doctor in Distress
| Medical Student (uncredited)
1962 --
The Girl on the Boat
| Eustace Hignett
1961 --
A Matter of WHO
| Jamieson
1961 --
Murder She Said
| 'Mrs Binster'
1960 --
Bottoms Up!
| Colbourne
1958 --
Girls at Sea
| 'Popeye' Lewis