Acting credits
105
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Richard Briers
Acting
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Movies: 57Series: 48
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: 6.67
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
7.0
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
as (archive footage)
2022 Movie
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
2017 Movie
5.7
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016 Movie
6.0
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
as Mouse (voice)
2013 Movie
5.7
Cockneys vs Zombies
as Hamish
2012 Movie
4.4
Run For Your Wife
as Newspaper Seller
2012 Movie
Horror on the High Rise
2011 Movie
All About The Good Life
2010 Movie
7.0
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
as Mr. Adolphus Spanker
2010 Movie
9.0
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
2009 Movie
5.7
As You Like It
as Adam
2006 Movie
10.0
Dad
as Larry James
2005 Movie
7.1
Peter Pan
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
2003 Movie
6.9
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
as Robert (voice)
2003 Movie
5.9
Unconditional Love
as Barry Moore
2002 Movie
7.6
Victoria & Albert
as Joseph Paxton
2001 Movie
5.5
Love's Labour's Lost
as Sir Nathaniel
2000 Movie
4.3
The Student Prince
as Dr. Corbitt
1998 Movie
4.9
Spice World
as Bishop
1997 Movie
7.3
Hamlet
as Polonius
1996 Movie
The Adventures of Toad
as Rat
1996 Movie
7.5
Heavy Weather
as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
1995 Movie
6.0
The Adventures of Mole
as Rat
1995 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Richard Briers.
6.2
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
1 eps
2007 Series
7.1
Kingdom
as Jim Wright • 1 eps
2007 Series
7.3
Torchwood
as Parker • 1 eps
2006 Series
6.0
Roobarb and Custard Too
as Narrator • 39 eps
2005 Series
7.8
Extras
as Richard Briers • 1 eps
2005 Series
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Wilson • 1 eps
2004 Series
7.4
New Tricks
as James Farlow • 1 eps
2004 Series
2.0
Comedy Connections
1 eps
2003 Series
6.0
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self • 1 eps
2001 Series
7.3
Monarch of the Glen
as Hector MacDonald • 33 eps
2000 Series
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2 eps
2000 Series
7.2
Watership Down
as Captain Broom (voice) • 1 eps
1999 Series
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
as Narrator • 5 eps
1998 Series
6.0
A Respectable Trade
as Sir Charles Fairley • 4 eps
1998 Series
Parkinson
as Self • 1 eps
1998 Series
7.5
Midsomer Murders
as Stephen Wentworth • 1 eps
1997 Series
7.6
Brass Eye
as Self • 1 eps
1997 Series
Down to Earth
as Tony Fairfax • 7 eps
1995 Series
6.7
If You See God, Tell Him
as Godfrey Spry • 4 eps
1993 Series
8.0
Mr. Bean
as Mr. Sprout • 1 eps
1990 Series
7.3
Lovejoy
as Raymond Doncaster • 1 eps
1986 Series
2.1
All in Good Faith
as Reverend Philip Lambe • 18 eps
1985 Series
6.6
Alias the Jester
as Alias • 13 eps
1985 Series
6.8
Screen Two
as Old Arthur/George • 1 eps
1985 Series