Richard Briers1934 - 2013
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Actor
Popularity
2.2
Famous
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).
Credits
2017
as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
2016
Comedy • Documentary
as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
2009
Animation • Family • Music
as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
