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Richard Briers

Richard Briers

Birthday: 1934-01-14 | Place of Birth: Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK

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 About Nothing (1993), Hamlet (1996), and As You Like It (2006).

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2013
Cockneys vs Zombies

as    Hamish

2011
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

as    Wilson

2006
As You Like It

as    Adam

2003
Unconditional Love

as    Barry Moore

2003
Peter Pan

as    Smee

2000
Monarch of the Glen

as    Hector MacDonald

2000
Love's Labour's Lost

as    Sir Nathaniel

1998
The Student Prince

as    Dr. Corbitt

1996
Hamlet

as    Polonius

1995
A Midwinter's Tale

as    Henry

1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

as    Grandfather

1993
If You See God, Tell Him

as    Godfrey Spry

1993
Much Ado About Nothing

as    Signor Leonato

1989
A Chorus of Disapproval

as    Ted Washbrook

1988
Twelfth Night, or What You Will

as    Malvolio

1983
The Aerodrome

as    The Rector

1978
Watership Down

as    Fiver (voice)

1977
Our Flesh and Blood

as    Mr. Smythe

1967
Fathom

as    Flight Lt. Timothy Webb

1962
A Matter of WHO

as    Jamieson