Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1/14/1934
Place of Birth
Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Richard Briers
Biography
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 performe...
Known For
Peter Pan
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Watership Down
as Fiver (voice)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
as Grandfather
Henry V
as Lieutenant Bardolph
Hamlet
as Polonius
Much Ado About Nothing
as Signor Leonato
Love's Labour's Lost
as Sir Nathaniel
Unconditional Love
as Barry Moore
The Three Musketeers
as Louis XIII (voice)
Rentadick
as Miles Gannet
Victoria & Albert
as Joseph Paxton
Cockneys vs Zombies
as Hamish
The Four Musketeers
as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
Great
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Heavy Weather
as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
In the Bleak Midwinter
as Henry
Peter's Friends
as Lord Morton
Skallagrigg
as Old Arthur/George
Murder She Said
as 'Mrs Binster'
As You Like It
as Adam