Richard Briers
14. jaanuar 1934 (92 aastat), Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
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).
Filmograafia
- 2025The Good Life: Inside Out
- 2022The Good Life: Secret & Scandals ((archive footage))
- 2017Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection (Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited))
- 2016British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves (Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited))
- 2013Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time (Mouse (voice))
- 2012Cockneys vs Zombies (Hamish)
- 2012Run For Your Wife (Newspaper Seller)
- 2011Horror on the High Rise
- 2010All About The Good Life
- 2010National Theatre Live: London Assurance (Mr. Adolphus Spanker)
- 2009Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley (Roobarb/Custard (voice))
- 2007A Bucket O' French and Saunders
- 2007That's What I Call Television (Self)
- 2007Kingdom (Jim Wright)
- 2006Torchwood (Parker)
- 2006As You Like It (Adam)
- 2006My Appalling School Report
- 2005Our Hidden Lives (Herbert Brush)
- 2005Roobarb and Custard Too (Narrator)
- 2005Extras (Richard Briers)
- 2005The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (Self)
- 2005Dad (Larry James)
- 2004Agatha Christie's Marple (Wilson)
- 2004New Tricks (James Farlow)
- 2003Peter Pan (Sam "Smee" Smiegel)
- 2003Comedy Connections
- 2003Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot (Robert (voice))
- 2002Unconditional Love (Barry Moore)
- 2001Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (Self)
- 2001Victoria & Albert (Joseph Paxton)
- 2000Love's Labour's Lost (Sir Nathaniel)
- 2000Monarch of the Glen (Hector MacDonald)
- 2000The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
- 1999Watership Down (Captain Broom (voice))
- 1998The Student Prince (Dr. Corbitt)
- 1998Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden (Narrator)
- 1998A Respectable Trade (Sir Charles Fairley)
- 1998Parkinson (Self)
- 1997Spice World (Bishop)
- 1997Midsomer Murders (Stephen Wentworth)
- 1997Brass Eye (Self)
- 1996Hamlet (Polonius)
- 1996The Adventures of Toad (Rat)
- 1995Heavy Weather (The Hon. Galahad Threepwood)
- 1995The Adventures of Mole (Rat)
- 1995In the Bleak Midwinter (Henry)
- 1995Down to Earth (Tony Fairfax)
- 1994French and Saunders' Christmas Carol (Self)
- 1994Mole's Christmas (Rat)
- 1994Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Grandfather)
- 1994Skallagrigg (Old Arthur/George)
- 1994Frances the Firefly (Narrator (voice))
- 1993If You See God, Tell Him (Godfrey Spry)
- 1993Much Ado About Nothing (Signor Leonato)
- 1992Peter's Friends (Lord Morton)
- 1992Swan Song (Nikita)
- 1990Mr. Bean (Mr. Sprout)
- 1989Henry V (Lieutenant Bardolph)
- 1989A Chorus of Disapproval (Ted Washbrook)
- 1988Twelfth Night, or What You Will (Malvolio)
- 1988Children's Favourites - Volume 1 (Alias (voice))
- 1987Doctor Who: Paradise Towers (The Chief Caretaker)
- 1986Lovejoy (Raymond Doncaster)
- 1985All in Good Faith (Reverend Philip Lambe)
- 1985Alias the Jester (Alias)
- 1985A Month in the Country (Arkady)
- 1985Screen Two (Old Arthur/George)
- 1984Ever Decreasing Circles
- 1983The Aerodrome (The Rector)
- 1983Natural World
- 1983Arms and the Man (Bluntschli)
- 1982It's Your Move (The Husband)
- 1982Wogan (Self)
- 1982Goodbye Mr Kent (Travis Kent)
- 1981P.Q. 17 (Jack Broome)
- 1979Village Wooing (A)
- 1979Tales of the Unexpected (Albert Dobson)
- 1978Watership Down (Fiver (voice))
- 1977The Other One (Ralph Tanner)
- 1977The Norman Conquests (Reg)
- 1977The Sunday Drama (Dennis)
- 1977The Galton & Simpson Playhouse (Henry Fairlane)
- 1977Our Flesh and Blood (Mr. Smythe)
- 1976Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
- 1976One-Upmanship (Stephen Potter)
- 1976A Small Miracle (Himself - Commentator)
- 1975The Good Life (Tom Good)
- 1975Noddy (Narrator)
- 1975Great (Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
- 1974The Four Musketeers (Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited))
- 1974Roobarb
- 1973The Three Musketeers (Louis XIII (voice))
- 1973Between the Wars (Oswald Carstairs)
- 1972Rentadick (Miles Gannet)
- 1971Tall Stories
- 1971Birds on the Wing (Charles Jackson)
- 1970Play for Today (Mr. Smythe)
- 1970Play for Today (Commander Jack Broome)
- 1970Ben Travers Farces (Charlie Tutt)
- 1970From a Bird's Eye View (George Lemon)
- 1970All the Way Up (Nigel Hadfield)
- 1968Ooh La La!
- 1967ITV Playhouse (A)
- 1967Fathom (Flight Lt. Timothy Webb)
- 1967NBC Experiment in Television ((voice))
- 1965BBC Play of the Month (Sandy Tyrell)
- 1964A Home of Your Own (The Husband)
- 1964Thursday Theatre (David Prentice)
- 1964The Bargee (Tomkins)
- 1964All in Good Time (The Young Husband)
- 1963Doctor Who (Chief Caretaker)
- 1963Doctor in Distress (Medical Student (uncredited))
- 1962The Girl on the Boat (Eustace Hignett)
- 1962Brothers In Law
- 1961Faces of Jim (John Frobisher)
- 1961Faces of Jim (Ricky Groin)
- 1961A Matter of WHO (Jamieson)
- 1961Murder She Said ('Mrs Binster')
- 1961Marriage Lines (George Starling)
- 1960Bottoms Up! (Colbourne)
- 1956Armchair Theatre (Stanley Frelaine)
- 1955Dixon of Dock Green (Ken Tracey)
- -Bird Bath (Narrator)
- -Little Red Tractor Stories (Narrator (voice))
- 1964Theatre 625 (David Prentice)
- 1961Faces of Jim (Lighthouse Assistant)
- 1958Girls at Sea ('Popeye' Lewis)
- 1956Tony Awards (Self - Nominee)