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Richard Briers

Personal Information

Known ForActing
GenderMale
Born / DiedJan 14, 1934 (Died at 79)
Zodiac Sign♑Capricorn
Place of BirthRaynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Career Span1955 – 2013
Known Credits110 Titles
Official Links
ActingPopularity Score 1.7

Richard Briers

Total Works

110

59 movies • 51 shows

Avg Rating

6.7 / 10

across rated releases

Box Office

—

worldwide gross

Global Reach

#2

TMDB star index

Biography

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).

Signature Roles & Milestones

Peter Pan
7.1
Peter Pan
2003•movie
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Mr. Bean
8.0
Mr. Bean
1990•series
as Mr. Sprout
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
6.4
as Grandfather
Much Ado About Nothing
7.0
as Signor Leonato

Full Filmography & Credits

Showing 110 titles featuring Richard Briers

Peter Pan
7.1
Peter Pan
2003•movie

as Sam "Smee" Smiegel

Mr. Bean
8.0
1 eps
Mr. Bean
1990•series

as Mr. Sprout

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
6.4

as Grandfather

Much Ado About Nothing
7.0

as Signor Leonato

Watership Down
7.2
Watership Down
1978•movie

as Fiver (voice)

Doctor Who
7.9
4 eps
Doctor Who
1963•series

as Chief Caretaker

Torchwood
7.3
1 eps
Torchwood
2006•series

as Parker

Hamlet
7.3
Hamlet
1996•movie

as Polonius

Spice World
4.9
Spice World
1997•movie

as Bishop

Cockneys vs Zombies
5.7

as Hamish

Extras
7.8
1 eps
Extras
2005•series

as Richard Briers

Henry V
7.1
Henry V
1989•movie

as Lieutenant Bardolph

The Three Musketeers
6.7

as Louis XIII (voice)

Midsomer Murders
7.5
1 eps
Midsomer Murders
1997•series

as Stephen Wentworth

Murder She Said
7.3
Murder She Said
1961•movie

as 'Mrs Binster'

The Four Musketeers
6.5

as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)

Peter's Friends
6.6
Peter's Friends
1992•movie

as Lord Morton

Agatha Christie's Marple
7.8
1 eps

as Wilson

Brass Eye
7.7
1 eps
Brass Eye
1997•series

as Self

As You Like It
5.8
As You Like It
2006•movie

as Adam

Love's Labour's Lost
5.6

as Sir Nathaniel

Great
5.6
Great
1975•movie

as Isambard Kingdom Brunel

All in Good Faith
2.3
18 eps
All in Good Faith
1985•series

as Reverend Philip Lambe

New Tricks
7.3
1 eps
New Tricks
2004•series

as James Farlow

Unconditional Love
6.0
Unconditional Love
2002•movie

as Barry Moore

Lovejoy
7.4
1 eps
Lovejoy
1986•series

as Raymond Doncaster

Tales of the Unexpected
6.8
1 eps

as Albert Dobson

In the Bleak Midwinter
7.1

as Henry

The Good Life
7.7
28 eps
The Good Life
1975•series

as Tom Good

Fathom
6.0
Fathom
1967•movie

as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb

Natural World
7.4
1 eps
Natural World
1983•series
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
6.1
1 eps
A Chorus of Disapproval
5.4

as Ted Washbrook

Monarch of the Glen
7.3
33 eps
Monarch of the Glen
2000•series

as Hector MacDonald

Kingdom
7.1
1 eps
Kingdom
2007•series

as Jim Wright

Doctor in Distress
6.3
Doctor in Distress
1963•movie

as Medical Student (uncredited)

Ever Decreasing Circles
7.5
26 eps
Watership Down
7.3
1 eps
Watership Down
1999•series

as Captain Broom (voice)

The Bargee
7.0
The Bargee
1964•movie

as Tomkins

Victoria & Albert
7.6
Victoria & Albert
2001•movie

as Joseph Paxton

Rentadick
4.2
Rentadick
1972•movie

as Miles Gannet

Run For Your Wife
4.4
Run For Your Wife
2012•movie

as Newspaper Seller

Bottoms Up!
6.7
Bottoms Up!
1960•movie

as Colbourne

Play for Today
6.6
1 eps
Play for Today
1970•series

as Mr. Smythe

It's Your Move
7.9
It's Your Move
1982•movie

as The Husband

Wogan
5.6
1 eps
Wogan
1982•series

as Self

BBC Play of the Month
5.2
1 eps

as Sandy Tyrell

Twelfth Night, or What You Will
7.5

as Malvolio

A Home of Your Own
6.6
A Home of Your Own
1964•movie

as The Husband

Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
6.9

as Robert (voice)

Screen Two
7.1
1 eps
Screen Two
1985•series

as Old Arthur/George

The Girl on the Boat
6.0

as Eustace Hignett

Roobarb
7.4
30 eps
Roobarb
1974•series
Alias the Jester
6.8
13 eps
Alias the Jester
1985•series

as Alias

Armchair Theatre
6.0
1 eps
Armchair Theatre
1956•series

as Stanley Frelaine

A Matter of WHO
6.4
A Matter of WHO
1961•movie

as Jamieson

Mole's Christmas
5.4
Mole's Christmas
1994•movie

as Rat

Theatre 625
7.2
1 eps
Theatre 625
1964•series

as David Prentice

All the Way Up
7.0
All the Way Up
1970•movie

as Nigel Hadfield

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
6.0

as Mouse (voice)

The Student Prince
5.2
The Student Prince
1998•movie

as Dr. Corbitt

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
6.5

as The Chief Caretaker

Comedy Connections
6.5
1 eps
Comedy Connections
2003•series
If You See God, Tell Him
7.5
4 eps

as Godfrey Spry

A Bucket O' French and Saunders
6.2
1 eps
Dixon of Dock Green
6.0
1 eps
Dixon of Dock Green
1955•series

as Ken Tracey

Comic Relief
6.0
2 eps
Comic Relief
1988•series
Heavy Weather
8.0
Heavy Weather
1995•movie

as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood

Girls at Sea
7.3
Girls at Sea
1958•movie

as 'Popeye' Lewis

Skallagrigg
4.0
Skallagrigg
1994•movie

as Old Arthur/George

From a Bird's Eye View
6.0
1 eps

as George Lemon

The Norman Conquests
6.3
3 eps

as Reg

Roobarb and Custard Too
7.3
39 eps

as Narrator

ITV Playhouse
7.0
1 eps
ITV Playhouse
1967•series

as A

Marriage Lines
7.0
43 eps
Marriage Lines
1961•series

as George Starling

The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
7.0

as (archive footage)

Dad
9.5
Dad
2005•movie

as Larry James

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
5.7

as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Adventures of Mole
7.5

as Rat

7.5
7 eps
Down to Earth
1995•series

as Tony Fairfax

The Other One
7.0
13 eps
The Other One
1977•series

as Ralph Tanner

A Respectable Trade
7.0
4 eps
A Respectable Trade
1998•series

as Sir Charles Fairley

Noddy
6.0
26 eps
Noddy
1975•series

as Narrator

The Aerodrome
7.0
The Aerodrome
1983•movie

as The Rector

National Theatre Live: London Assurance
7.0

as Mr. Adolphus Spanker

Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
7.0
30 eps
Ooh La La!
10.0
1 eps
Ooh La La!
1968•series
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
8.0
5 eps

as Narrator

Bird Bath
6.0
25 eps
Bird Bath
series

as Narrator

Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection

as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)

All in Good Time
All in Good Time
1964•movie

as The Young Husband

A Small Miracle
A Small Miracle
1976•movie

as Himself - Commentator

Our Flesh and Blood

as Mr. Smythe

P.Q. 17
P.Q. 17
1981•movie

as Jack Broome

The Adventures of Toad

as Rat

Frances the Firefly

as Narrator (voice)

A Month in the Country

as Arkady

Goodbye Mr Kent
7 eps
Goodbye Mr Kent
1982•series

as Travis Kent

NBC Experiment in Television
1 eps

as (voice)

Parkinson
1 eps
Parkinson
1998•series

as Self

Little Red Tractor Stories
4 eps

as Narrator (voice)

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
1 eps

as Henry Fairlane

Tony Awards
1 eps
Tony Awards
1956•series

as Self - Nominee