Acting
Richard Briers
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
The Good Life: Inside Out
Film · 2025
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
Film · 2022
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Film · 2017
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Film · 2016
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Film · 2013
Cockneys vs Zombies
Film · 2012
Run For Your Wife
Film · 2012
Horror on the High Rise
Film · 2011
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Film · 2010
All About The Good Life
Film · 2010
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Film · 2009
That's What I Call Television
Series · 2007
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
Series · 2007
Kingdom
Series · 2007
As You Like It
Film · 2006
Torchwood
Series · 2006
My Appalling School Report
Series · 2006
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Film · 2005
Our Hidden Lives
Film · 2005
Dad
Film · 2005
Extras
Series · 2005
Roobarb and Custard Too
Series · 2005
New Tricks
Series · 2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
Series · 2004
Peter Pan
Film · 2003
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
Film · 2003
Comedy Connections
Series · 2003
Unconditional Love
Film · 2002
Victoria & Albert
Film · 2001
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Series · 2001
Love's Labour's Lost
Film · 2000
Monarch of the Glen
Series · 2000
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
Series · 2000
Watership Down
Series · 1999
The Student Prince
Film · 1998
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
Series · 1998
A Respectable Trade
Series · 1998
Parkinson
Series · 1998
Spice World
Film · 1997
Midsomer Murders
Series · 1997
Brass Eye
Series · 1997
Hamlet
Film · 1996
The Adventures of Toad
Film · 1996
In the Bleak Midwinter
Film · 1995
Heavy Weather
Film · 1995
The Adventures of Mole
Film · 1995
Down to Earth
Series · 1995
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Film · 1994
Mole's Christmas
Film · 1994
Skallagrigg
Film · 1994
Frances the Firefly
Film · 1994
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Film · 1994
Much Ado About Nothing
Film · 1993
If You See God, Tell Him
Series · 1993
Swan Song
Film · 1992
Peter's Friends
Film · 1992
Mr. Bean
Series · 1990
A Chorus of Disapproval
Film · 1989
Henry V
Film · 1989
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Film · 1988
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Film · 1988
Comic Relief
Series · 1988
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Film · 1987
Lovejoy
Series · 1986
A Month in the Country
Film · 1985
Alias the Jester
Series · 1985
Screen Two
Series · 1985
All in Good Faith
Series · 1985
Ever Decreasing Circles
Series · 1984
Arms and the Man
Film · 1983
The Aerodrome
Film · 1983
Natural World
Series · 1983
It's Your Move
Film · 1982
Wogan
Series · 1982
Goodbye Mr Kent
Series · 1982
P.Q. 17
Film · 1981
Village Wooing
Film · 1979
Tales of the Unexpected
Series · 1979
Watership Down
Film · 1978
Our Flesh and Blood
Film · 1977
The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
Film · 1977
The Other One
Series · 1977
The Norman Conquests
Series · 1977
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
Series · 1977
The Sunday Drama
Series · 1977
A Small Miracle
Film · 1976
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
Series · 1976
One-Upmanship
Series · 1976
Great
Film · 1975
The Good Life
Series · 1975
Noddy
Series · 1975
The Four Musketeers
Film · 1974
Roobarb
Series · 1974
The Three Musketeers
Film · 1973
Between the Wars
Series · 1973
Rentadick
Film · 1972
Tall Stories
Series · 1971
Birds on the Wing
Series · 1971
All the Way Up
Film · 1970
From a Bird's Eye View
Series · 1970
Play for Today
Series · 1970
Play for Today
Series · 1970
Ben Travers Farces
Series · 1970
Ooh La La!
Series · 1968
Fathom
Film · 1967
NBC Experiment in Television
Series · 1967
ITV Playhouse
Series · 1967
BBC Play of the Month
Series · 1965
The Bargee
Film · 1964
All in Good Time
Film · 1964
A Home of Your Own
Film · 1964
Theatre 625
Series · 1964
Thursday Theatre
Series · 1964
Doctor in Distress
Film · 1963
Doctor Who
Series · 1963
The Girl on the Boat
Film · 1962
Brothers In Law
Series · 1962
A Matter of WHO
Film · 1961
Murder She Said
Film · 1961
Faces of Jim
Series · 1961
Faces of Jim
Series · 1961
Faces of Jim
Series · 1961
Marriage Lines
Series · 1961
Bottoms Up!
Film · 1960
Girls at Sea
Film · 1958
Armchair Theatre
Series · 1956
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
Dixon of Dock Green
Series · 1955
Bird Bath
Series
Little Red Tractor Stories
Series