Richard Briers
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).
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).
Known for
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Cockneys vs Zombies
Run For Your Wife
All About The Good Life
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
Kingdom
Torchwood
As You Like It
Roobarb and Custard Too
Extras
Agatha Christie's Marple
New Tricks
Peter Pan
Comedy Connections
Unconditional Love
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Love's Labour's Lost
Monarch of the Glen
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
Watership Down
The Student Prince
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
A Respectable Trade
Spice World
Midsomer Murders
Brass Eye
Hamlet
The Adventures of Toad
The Adventures of Mole
In the Bleak Midwinter
Mole's Christmas
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Skallagrigg
Much Ado About Nothing
Peter's Friends
Mr. Bean
Henry V
A Chorus of Disapproval
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Lovejoy
All in Good Faith
Alias the Jester
Screen Two
Ever Decreasing Circles
The Aerodrome
Natural World
It's Your Move
Wogan
Goodbye Mr Kent
P.Q. 17
Tales of the Unexpected
Watership Down
The Other One
The Norman Conquests
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
Our Flesh and Blood
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
A Small Miracle
The Good Life
Great
The Four Musketeers
Roobarb
The Three Musketeers
Rentadick
The Goodies
Play for Today
From a Bird's Eye View
All the Way Up
Fathom
All in Good Time
The Bargee
Doctor Who
Doctor in Distress
The Girl on the Boat
A Matter of WHO
Murder She Said
Marriage Lines
Bottoms Up!
Girls at Sea
Dixon of Dock Green
Acting
2017
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
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Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
2009
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
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Roobarb/Custard (voice)