Richard Briers
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).
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Full filmography
- Midsomer Murders (1997) as Stephen Wentworth
- Doctor Who (1963) as Chief Caretaker
- Play for Today (1970) as Mr. Smythe
- Play for Today (1970) as Commander Jack Broome
- Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) as Wilson
- Tony Awards (1956) as Self - Nominee
- Tales of the Unexpected (1979) as Albert Dobson
- Wogan (1982) as Self
- New Tricks (2004) as James Farlow
- Natural World (1983)
- Mr. Bean (1990) as Mr. Sprout
- BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Sandy Tyrell
- Screen Two (1985) as Old Arthur/George
- Torchwood (2006) as Parker
- ITV Playhouse (1967) as A
- Theatre 625 (1964) as David Prentice
- Parkinson (1998) as Self
- Monarch of the Glen (2000) as Hector MacDonald
- Extras (2005) as Richard Briers
- Lovejoy (1986) as Raymond Doncaster
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001) as Self
- Dixon of Dock Green (1955) as Ken Tracey
- Kingdom (2007) as Jim Wright
- Peter Pan (2003) as Sam "Smee" Smiegel