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).

18 TV shows

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Ever Decreasing Circles, Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Tales of the Unexpected, Comedy Connections, The Good Life, If You See God, Tell Him, Roobarb, From a Bird's Eye View, Wogan, That's What I Call Television, My Appalling School Report, Down to Earth, Goodbye Mr Kent, Brothers In Law, Tall Stories, The Other One, Alias the Jester, A Bucket O' French and Saunders, Ooh La La!, Kingdom, Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden, Brass Eye, A Respectable Trade, The Norman Conquests, Bird Bath, Roobarb and Custard Too, The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything, NBC Experiment in Television, Little Red Tractor Stories, Armchair Theatre, Birds on the Wing, Ben Travers Farces, All in Good Faith, The Galton & Simpson Playhouse, Watership Down, Noddy, Faces of Jim, One-Upmanship, The Sunday Drama, Marriage Lines