The Good Life: Inside Out
2025 · Movie
Richard Briers
1934-01-14
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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).
Filmography
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
2022 · Movie
as (archive footage)
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
2017 · Movie
as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016 · Movie
as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013 · Movie
as Mouse (voice)
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012 · Movie
as Hamish
Run For Your Wife
2012 · Movie
as Newspaper Seller
Horror on the High Rise
2011 · Movie
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010 · Movie
as Mr. Adolphus Spanker
All About The Good Life
2010 · Movie
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009 · Movie
as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
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That's What I Call Television
2007 · TV Show
as Self
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007 · TV Show
Kingdom
2007 · TV Show
as Jim Wright
As You Like It
2006 · Movie
as Adam
Torchwood
2006 · TV Show
as Parker
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My Appalling School Report
2006 · TV Show
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The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005 · Movie
as Self
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Our Hidden Lives
2005 · Movie
as Herbert Brush
Dad
2005 · Movie
as Larry James
Extras
2005 · TV Show
as Richard Briers
Roobarb and Custard Too
2005 · TV Show
as Narrator
New Tricks
2004 · TV Show
as James Farlow
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · TV Show
as Wilson
Peter Pan
2003 · Movie
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
2003 · Movie
as Robert (voice)
Comedy Connections
2003 · TV Show
Unconditional Love
2002 · Movie
as Barry Moore
Victoria & Albert
2001 · Movie
as Joseph Paxton
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001 · TV Show
as Self
Love's Labour's Lost
2000 · Movie
as Sir Nathaniel
Monarch of the Glen
2000 · TV Show
as Hector MacDonald
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000 · TV Show
Watership Down
1999 · TV Show
as Captain Broom (voice)
The Student Prince
1998 · Movie
as Dr. Corbitt
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
1998 · TV Show
as Narrator
A Respectable Trade
1998 · TV Show
as Sir Charles Fairley
Parkinson
1998 · TV Show
as Self
Spice World
1997 · Movie
as Bishop
Midsomer Murders
1997 · TV Show
as Stephen Wentworth
Brass Eye
1997 · TV Show
as Self
Hamlet
1996 · Movie
as Polonius
The Adventures of Toad
1996 · Movie
as Rat
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995 · Movie
as Henry
Heavy Weather
1995 · Movie
as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
The Adventures of Mole
1995 · Movie
as Rat
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Down to Earth
1995 · TV Show
as Tony Fairfax
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994 · Movie
as Grandfather
Mole's Christmas
1994 · Movie
as Rat
Skallagrigg
1994 · Movie
as Old Arthur/George
Frances the Firefly
1994 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994 · Movie
as Self
Much Ado About Nothing
1993 · Movie
as Signor Leonato
If You See God, Tell Him
1993 · TV Show
as Godfrey Spry
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Swan Song
1992 · Movie
as Nikita
Peter's Friends
1992 · Movie
as Lord Morton
Mr. Bean
1990 · TV Show
as Mr. Sprout
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989 · Movie
as Ted Washbrook
Henry V
1989 · Movie
as Lieutenant Bardolph
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988 · Movie
as Malvolio
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Children's Favourites - Volume 1
1988 · Movie
as Alias (voice)
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987 · Movie
as The Chief Caretaker
Lovejoy
1986 · TV Show
as Raymond Doncaster
A Month in the Country
1985 · Movie
as Arkady
Alias the Jester
1985 · TV Show
as Alias
Screen Two
1985 · TV Show
as Old Arthur/George
All in Good Faith
1985 · TV Show
as Reverend Philip Lambe
Ever Decreasing Circles
1984 · TV Show
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Arms and the Man
1983 · Movie
as Bluntschli
The Aerodrome
1983 · Movie
as The Rector
Natural World
1983 · TV Show
It's Your Move
1982 · Movie
as The Husband
Wogan
1982 · TV Show
as Self
Goodbye Mr Kent
1982 · TV Show
as Travis Kent
P.Q. 17
1981 · Movie
as Jack Broome
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Village Wooing
1979 · Movie
as A
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · TV Show
as Albert Dobson
Watership Down
1978 · Movie
as Fiver (voice)
Our Flesh and Blood
1977 · Movie
as Mr. Smythe
The Other One
1977 · TV Show
as Ralph Tanner
The Norman Conquests
1977 · TV Show
as Reg
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
1977 · TV Show
as Henry Fairlane
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The Sunday Drama
1977 · TV Show
as Dennis
A Small Miracle
1976 · Movie
as Himself - Commentator
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
1976 · TV Show
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One-Upmanship
1976 · TV Show
as Stephen Potter
Great
1975 · Movie
as Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The Good Life
1975 · TV Show
as Tom Good
Noddy
1975 · TV Show
as Narrator
The Four Musketeers
1974 · Movie
as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
Roobarb
1974 · TV Show
The Three Musketeers
1973 · Movie
as Louis XIII (voice)
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Between the Wars
1973 · TV Show
as Oswald Carstairs
Rentadick
1972 · Movie
as Miles Gannet
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Tall Stories
1971 · TV Show
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Birds on the Wing
1971 · TV Show
as Charles Jackson
All the Way Up
1970 · Movie
as Nigel Hadfield
From a Bird's Eye View
1970 · TV Show
as George Lemon
Play for Today
1970 · TV Show
as Mr. Smythe, Commander Jack Broome
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Ben Travers Farces
1970 · TV Show
as Charlie Tutt
Ooh La La!
1968 · TV Show
Fathom
1967 · Movie
as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
NBC Experiment in Television
1967 · TV Show
as (voice)
ITV Playhouse
1967 · TV Show
as A
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · TV Show
as Sandy Tyrell
The Bargee
1964 · Movie
as Tomkins
All in Good Time
1964 · Movie
as The Young Husband
A Home of Your Own
1964 · Movie
as The Husband
Theatre 625
1964 · TV Show
as David Prentice
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Thursday Theatre
1964 · TV Show
as David Prentice
Doctor in Distress
1963 · Movie
as Medical Student (uncredited)
Doctor Who
1963 · TV Show
as Chief Caretaker
The Girl on the Boat
1962 · Movie
as Eustace Hignett
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Brothers In Law
1962 · TV Show
A Matter of WHO
1961 · Movie
as Jamieson
Murder She Said
1961 · Movie
as 'Mrs Binster'
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Faces of Jim
1961 · TV Show
as John Frobisher, Lighthouse Assistant, Ricky Groin
Marriage Lines
1961 · TV Show
as George Starling
Bottoms Up!
1960 · Movie
as Colbourne
Girls at Sea
1958 · Movie
as 'Popeye' Lewis
Armchair Theatre
1956 · TV Show
as Stanley Frelaine
Tony Awards
1956 · TV Show
as Self - Nominee
Dixon of Dock Green
1955 · TV Show
as Ken Tracey
Bird Bath
· TV Show
as Narrator
Little Red Tractor Stories
· TV Show
as Narrator (voice)
