Acting credits
108
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Richard Briers
Acting
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Movies: 58Series: 50
TMDB ID: 29859
IMDb ID: nm0001972
Known for: Acting
Born: January 14, 1934
Died: February 17, 2013
Age: 79
Place of birth: Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1955 - 2025
Years active: 71
Average TMDB rating: 6.71
Wikidata: Q2734945
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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Richard Briers.
The Good Life: Inside Out
2025 • Movie
as (archive footage)
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
2022 • Movie
as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
2017 • Movie
as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016 • Movie
as Mouse (voice)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013 • Movie
as Hamish
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012 • Movie
as Newspaper Seller
Run For Your Wife
2012 • Movie
Horror on the High Rise
2011 • Movie
All About The Good Life
2010 • Movie
as Mr. Adolphus Spanker
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010 • Movie
as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009 • Movie
as Adam
As You Like It
2006 • Movie
as Larry James
Dad
2005 • Movie
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Peter Pan
2003 • Movie
as Robert (voice)
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
2003 • Movie
as Barry Moore
Unconditional Love
2002 • Movie
as Joseph Paxton
Victoria & Albert
2001 • Movie
as Sir Nathaniel
Love's Labour's Lost
2000 • Movie
as Dr. Corbitt
The Student Prince
1998 • Movie
as Bishop
Spice World
1997 • Movie
as Polonius
Hamlet
1996 • Movie
as Rat
The Adventures of Toad
1996 • Movie
as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
Heavy Weather
1995 • Movie
as Rat
The Adventures of Mole
1995 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Richard Briers.
1 eps
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007 • Series
as Jim Wright • 1 eps
Kingdom
2007 • Series
as Parker • 1 eps
Torchwood
2006 • Series
as Narrator • 39 eps
Roobarb and Custard Too
2005 • Series
as Richard Briers • 1 eps
Extras
2005 • Series
as Wilson • 1 eps
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 • Series
as James Farlow • 1 eps
New Tricks
2004 • Series
1 eps
Comedy Connections
2003 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001 • Series
as Hector MacDonald • 33 eps
Monarch of the Glen
2000 • Series
2 eps
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000 • Series
as Captain Broom (voice) • 1 eps
Watership Down
1999 • Series
as Narrator • 5 eps
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
1998 • Series
as Sir Charles Fairley • 4 eps
A Respectable Trade
1998 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Parkinson
1998 • Series
as Stephen Wentworth • 1 eps
Midsomer Murders
1997 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Brass Eye
1997 • Series
as Tony Fairfax • 7 eps
Down to Earth
1995 • Series
as Godfrey Spry • 4 eps
If You See God, Tell Him
1993 • Series
as Mr. Sprout • 1 eps
Mr. Bean
1990 • Series
as Raymond Doncaster • 1 eps
Lovejoy
1986 • Series
as Reverend Philip Lambe • 18 eps
All in Good Faith
1985 • Series
as Alias • 13 eps
Alias the Jester
1985 • Series
as Old Arthur/George • 1 eps
Screen Two
1985 • Series