Overview
Richard Briers
Known For
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
The cosy sitcom had storylines tackling mid-life crises, drunken wife-swapping...
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection has a lot of...
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at...
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Big Chris leads a chorus of characters from various animated...
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 performed Shakespearean roles in Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Hamlet (1996), and As You Like It (2006).