Actor
Richard Briers
January 14, 1934 · Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
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).
Notable work
7.1Peter Pan (2003)
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
8Mr. Bean (1990)
as Mr. Sprout
6.4Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
as Grandfather
6.9Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
as Signor Leonato
7.2Watership Down (1978)
as Fiver (voice)
7.9Doctor Who (1963)
as Chief Caretaker
7.3Torchwood (2006)
as Parker
7.3Hamlet (1996)
as Polonius
4.9Spice World (1997)
as Bishop
5.7Cockneys vs Zombies (2012)
as Hamish
7.8Extras (2005)
as Richard Briers
7.1Henry V (1989)
as Lieutenant Bardolph
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