Richard Briers
Acting
Born 1934-01-14 · 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).
Filmography
The Good Life: Inside Out
Oct 28, 2025
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
Aug 12, 2022
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Jun 12, 2017
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Sep 12, 2016
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Dec 16, 2013
Cockneys vs Zombies
Aug 31, 2012
Run For Your Wife
May 16, 2012
Horror on the High Rise
Jul 18, 2011
All About The Good Life
Dec 29, 2010
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Jun 24, 2010
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Nov 13, 2009
As You Like It
Sep 1, 2006
Dad
Feb 24, 2005
Peter Pan
Dec 18, 2003
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
Mar 11, 2003
Unconditional Love
Aug 23, 2002
Victoria & Albert
Aug 26, 2001
Love's Labour's Lost
Mar 31, 2000
The Student Prince
Nov 22, 1998
Spice World
Dec 18, 1997
Hamlet
Dec 25, 1996
The Adventures of Toad
Jul 30, 1996
Heavy Weather
Dec 24, 1995
The Adventures of Mole
Dec 24, 1995
In the Bleak Midwinter
Sep 29, 1995
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Dec 30, 1994
Mole's Christmas
Dec 25, 1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Nov 4, 1994
Skallagrigg
Mar 9, 1994
Frances the Firefly
Jan 1, 1994