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).
64 movies · 59 shows
The Good Life: Inside Out
2025·0.0
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
2022·7.0
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
2017·0.0
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016·5.7
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013·6.0
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012·5.7
Run For Your Wife
2012·4.4
Horror on the High Rise
2011·0.0
All About The Good Life
2010·0.0
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010·7.0
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009·9.0
As You Like It
2006·5.8
Our Hidden Lives
2005·4.5
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005·6.5
Dad
2005·9.5
Peter Pan
2003·7.1
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
2003·6.9
Unconditional Love
2002·6.0
Victoria & Albert
2001·7.6
Love's Labour's Lost
2000·5.5
The Student Prince
1998·5.3
Spice World
1997·4.9
Hamlet
1996·7.3
The Adventures of Toad
1996·0.0
Heavy Weather
1995·8.0
The Adventures of Mole
1995·7.5
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995·7.1
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994·0.0
Mole's Christmas
1994·5.4
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994·6.4
Skallagrigg
1994·4.0
Frances the Firefly
1994·0.0
Much Ado About Nothing
1993·6.9
Peter's Friends
1992·6.6
Swan Song
1992·6.8
Henry V
1989·7.1
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989·5.4
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988·7.4
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
1988·0.0
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987·6.5
A Month in the Country
1985·0.0
The Aerodrome
1983·7.0
Arms and the Man
1983·0.0
It's Your Move
1982·7.9
P.Q. 17
1981·0.0
Village Wooing
1979·0.0
Watership Down
1978·7.2
Our Flesh and Blood
1977·0.0
A Small Miracle
1976·0.0
Great
1975·5.6
The Four Musketeers
1974·6.5
The Three Musketeers
1973·6.7
Rentadick
1972·4.2
All the Way Up
1970·7.0
Fathom
1967·6.1
A Home of Your Own
1964·6.6
The Bargee
1964·7.0
All in Good Time
1964·0.0
Doctor in Distress
1963·6.3
The Girl on the Boat
1962·6.0
A Matter of WHO
1961·6.4
Murder She Said
1961·7.3
Bottoms Up!
1960·6.7
Girls at Sea
1958·7.3