Richard Briers
Acting
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).
Known for
2025The Good Life: Inside Out
2022The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
(archive footage)
2017Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
2016British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
2013Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Mouse (voice)
2012Cockneys vs Zombies
Hamish
2012Run For Your Wife
Newspaper Seller
2011Horror on the High Rise
2010National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
2010All About The Good Life
2009Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Roobarb/Custard (voice)
2006As You Like It
Adam
2005Dad
Larry James
2003Peter Pan
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
2003Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
Robert (voice)
2002Unconditional Love
Barry Moore
2001Victoria & Albert
Joseph Paxton
2000Love's Labour's Lost
Sir Nathaniel
1998The Student Prince
Dr. Corbitt
1997Spice World
Bishop
1996Hamlet
Polonius
1996The Adventures of Toad
Rat
1995In the Bleak Midwinter
Henry
1995Heavy Weather
The Hon. Galahad Threepwood