Richard Briers

Richard Briers

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Born 1934-01-14 Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK 8 credit(s) Popularity 1
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 ho...
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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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Torchwood poster
Torchwood
as Parker
2006-10-22
Extras poster
Extras
as Richard Briers
2005-07-21
Agatha Christie's Marple poster
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Wilson
2004-12-12
New Tricks poster
New Tricks
as James Farlow
2004-01-01
Comedy Connections poster
Comedy Connections
2003-06-09
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross poster
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self
2001-11-02
Watership Down poster
Watership Down
as Captain Broom (voice)
1999-09-28
Parkinson poster
Parkinson
as Self
1998-01-09

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