Richard Briers: movies and TV shows
Richard Briers has 128 credits in the archive: 64 films and 64 TV series, from 1955 to 2025. Highest rated: Mr. Bean (8.0/10).
Career timeline
1955 – 2025 · busiest year: 1961 (6 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Good Life: Inside Out | Film | — | 91 | |
| 2022 | The Good Life: Secret & Scandals | (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 88 |
| 2017 | Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection | Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited) | Film | — | 83 |
| 2016 | British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves | Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 5.7 | 82 |
| 2013 | Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time | Mouse (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 79 |
| 2012 | Cockneys vs Zombies | Hamish | Film | 5.7 | 78 |
| 2012 | Run For Your Wife | Newspaper Seller | Film | 4.4 | 78 |
| 2011 | Horror on the High Rise | Film | — | 77 | |
| 2010 | National Theatre Live: London Assurance | Mr. Adolphus Spanker | Film | 7.0 | 76 |
| 2010 | All About The Good Life | Film | — | 76 | |
| 2009 | Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley | Roobarb/Custard (voice) | Film | 9.0 | 75 |
| 2007 | Kingdom | Jim Wright | TV | 7.1 | 73 |
| 2007 | A Bucket O' French and Saunders | TV | 6.2 | 73 | |
| 2007 | That's What I Call Television | Self | TV | — | 73 |
| 2006 | Torchwood | Parker | TV | 7.3 | 72 |
| 2006 | As You Like It | Adam | Film | 5.8 | 72 |
| 2006 | My Appalling School Report | TV | — | 72 | |
| 2005 | Extras | Richard Briers | TV | 7.8 | 71 |
| 2005 | Dad | Larry James | Film | 9.5 | 71 |
| 2005 | Roobarb and Custard Too | Narrator | TV | 7.3 | 71 |
| 2005 | The Funny Blokes of British Comedy | Self | Film | 6.5 | 71 |
| 2005 | Our Hidden Lives | Herbert Brush | Film | 4.5 | 71 |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Wilson | TV | 7.8 | 70 |
| 2004 | New Tricks | James Farlow | TV | 7.3 | 70 |
| 2003 | Peter Pan | Sam "Smee" Smiegel | Film | 7.1 | 69 |
| 2003 | Comedy Connections | TV | 6.5 | 69 | |
| 2003 | Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot | Robert (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 69 |
| 2002 | Unconditional Love | Barry Moore | Film | 6.0 | 68 |
| 2001 | Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | Self | TV | 6.1 | 67 |
| 2001 | Victoria & Albert | Joseph Paxton | Film | 7.6 | 67 |
| 2000 | Monarch of the Glen | Hector MacDonald | TV | 7.3 | 66 |
| 2000 | Love's Labour's Lost | Sir Nathaniel | Film | 5.5 | 66 |
| 2000 | The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything | TV | — | 66 | |
| 1999 | Watership Down | Captain Broom (voice) | TV | 7.2 | 65 |
| 1998 | Parkinson | Self | TV | — | 64 |
| 1998 | A Respectable Trade | Sir Charles Fairley | TV | 7.0 | 64 |
| 1998 | The Student Prince | Dr. Corbitt | Film | 5.3 | 64 |
| 1998 | Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden | Narrator | TV | 8.0 | 64 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Stephen Wentworth | TV | 7.5 | 63 |
| 1997 | Brass Eye | Self | TV | 7.6 | 63 |
| 1997 | Spice World | Bishop | Film | 4.9 | 63 |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Polonius | Film | 7.3 | 62 |
| 1996 | The Adventures of Toad | Rat | Film | — | 62 |
| 1995 | In the Bleak Midwinter | Henry | Film | 7.1 | 61 |
| 1995 | Heavy Weather | The Hon. Galahad Threepwood | Film | 8.0 | 61 |
| 1995 | Down to Earth | Tony Fairfax | TV | 7.5 | 61 |
| 1995 | The Adventures of Mole | Rat | Film | 7.5 | 61 |
| 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Grandfather | Film | 6.4 | 60 |
| 1994 | French and Saunders' Christmas Carol | Self | Film | — | 60 |
| 1994 | Mole's Christmas | Rat | Film | 5.4 | 60 |
| 1994 | Frances the Firefly | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 60 |
| 1994 | Skallagrigg | Old Arthur/George | Film | 4.0 | 60 |
| 1993 | Much Ado About Nothing | Signor Leonato | Film | 7.0 | 59 |
| 1993 | If You See God, Tell Him | Godfrey Spry | TV | 7.5 | 59 |
| 1992 | Peter's Friends | Lord Morton | Film | 6.6 | 58 |
| 1992 | Swan Song | Nikita | Film | 6.8 | 58 |
| 1990 | Mr. Bean | Mr. Sprout | TV | 8.0 | 56 |
| 1989 | Henry V | Lieutenant Bardolph | Film | 7.1 | 55 |
| 1989 | A Chorus of Disapproval | Ted Washbrook | Film | 5.4 | 55 |
| 1988 | Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Malvolio | Film | 7.4 | 54 |
| 1988 | Children's Favourites - Volume 1 | Alias (voice) | Film | — | 54 |
| 1987 | Doctor Who: Paradise Towers | The Chief Caretaker | Film | 6.5 | 53 |
| 1986 | Lovejoy | Raymond Doncaster | TV | 7.4 | 52 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Old Arthur/George | TV | 7.1 | 51 |
| 1985 | All in Good Faith | Reverend Philip Lambe | TV | 2.3 | 51 |
| 1985 | Alias the Jester | Alias | TV | 6.8 | 51 |
| 1985 | A Month in the Country | Arkady | Film | — | 51 |
| 1984 | Ever Decreasing Circles | TV | 7.5 | 50 | |
| 1983 | Natural World | TV | 7.4 | 49 | |
| 1983 | Arms and the Man | Bluntschli | Film | — | 49 |
| 1983 | The Aerodrome | The Rector | Film | 7.0 | 49 |
| 1982 | Wogan | Self | TV | 5.3 | 48 |
| 1982 | Goodbye Mr Kent | Travis Kent | TV | — | 48 |
| 1982 | It's Your Move | The Husband | Film | 7.9 | 48 |
| 1981 | P.Q. 17 | Jack Broome | Film | — | 47 |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Albert Dobson | TV | 6.8 | 45 |
| 1979 | Village Wooing | A | Film | — | 45 |
| 1978 | Watership Down | Fiver (voice) | Film | 7.2 | 44 |
| 1977 | The Sunday Drama | Dennis | TV | 5.0 | 43 |
| 1977 | The Galton & Simpson Playhouse | Henry Fairlane | TV | — | 43 |
| 1977 | The Norman Conquests | Reg | TV | 6.3 | 43 |
| 1977 | The Other One | Ralph Tanner | TV | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1977 | Our Flesh and Blood | Mr. Smythe | Film | — | 43 |
| 1976 | Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk | TV | 7.0 | 42 | |
| 1976 | One-Upmanship | Stephen Potter | TV | 7.7 | 42 |
| 1976 | A Small Miracle | Himself - Commentator | Film | — | 42 |
| 1975 | The Good Life | Tom Good | TV | 7.8 | 41 |
| 1975 | Noddy | Narrator | TV | 6.0 | 41 |
| 1975 | Great | Isambard Kingdom Brunel | Film | 5.6 | 41 |
| 1974 | The Four Musketeers | Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited) | Film | 6.4 | 40 |
| 1974 | Roobarb | TV | 7.4 | 40 | |
| 1973 | The Three Musketeers | Louis XIII (voice) | Film | 6.7 | 39 |
| 1973 | Between the Wars | Oswald Carstairs | TV | 9.0 | 39 |
| 1972 | Rentadick | Miles Gannet | Film | 4.2 | 38 |
| 1971 | Birds on the Wing | Charles Jackson | TV | 9.0 | 37 |
| 1971 | Tall Stories | TV | — | 37 | |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Mr. Smythe | TV | 6.6 | 36 |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Commander Jack Broome | TV | 6.6 | 36 |
| 1970 | From a Bird's Eye View | George Lemon | TV | 6.0 | 36 |
| 1970 | Ben Travers Farces | Charlie Tutt | TV | — | 36 |
| 1970 | All the Way Up | Nigel Hadfield | Film | 7.0 | 36 |
| 1968 | Ooh La La! | TV | 10.0 | 34 | |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse | A | TV | 7.0 | 33 |
| 1967 | NBC Experiment in Television | (voice) | TV | — | 33 |
| 1967 | Fathom | Flight Lt. Timothy Webb | Film | 6.1 | 33 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Sandy Tyrell | TV | 5.3 | 31 |
| 1964 | Theatre 625 | David Prentice | TV | 7.2 | 30 |
| 1964 | Thursday Theatre | David Prentice | TV | — | 30 |
| 1964 | The Bargee | Tomkins | Film | 7.0 | 30 |
| 1964 | A Home of Your Own | The Husband | Film | 6.6 | 30 |
| 1964 | All in Good Time | The Young Husband | Film | — | 30 |
| 1963 | Doctor Who | Chief Caretaker | TV | 7.9 | 29 |
| 1963 | Doctor in Distress | Medical Student (uncredited) | Film | 6.3 | 29 |
| 1962 | The Girl on the Boat | Eustace Hignett | Film | 6.0 | 28 |
| 1962 | Brothers In Law | TV | 7.0 | 28 | |
| 1961 | Faces of Jim | John Frobisher | TV | — | 27 |
| 1961 | Faces of Jim | Lighthouse Assistant | TV | — | 27 |
| 1961 | Faces of Jim | Ricky Groin | TV | — | 27 |
| 1961 | Marriage Lines | George Starling | TV | 7.0 | 27 |
| 1961 | Murder She Said | 'Mrs Binster' | Film | 7.3 | 27 |
| 1961 | A Matter of WHO | Jamieson | Film | 6.4 | 27 |
| 1960 | Bottoms Up! | Colbourne | Film | 6.7 | 26 |
| 1958 | Girls at Sea | 'Popeye' Lewis | Film | 7.3 | 24 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | — | 22 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Stanley Frelaine | TV | 6.0 | 22 |
| 1955 | Dixon of Dock Green | Ken Tracey | TV | 6.0 | 21 |
| Bird Bath | Narrator | TV | 6.0 | — | |
| Little Red Tractor Stories | Narrator (voice) | TV | — | — |