Richard Briers
Born: 1934-01-14 Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Died: 2013-02-17
Richard David Briers, CBE 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 ...
Acting (in our collection)
Cockneys vs Zombies
(2012)
As You Like It
(2006)
Peter Pan
(2003)
Monarch of the Glen
(2000)
Hamlet
(1996)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(1994)
Much Ado About Nothing
(1993)
Henry V
(1989)
Watership Down
(1978)
The Norman Conquests
(1977)
Fathom
(1967)
Murder She Said
(1961)