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 Circle...
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
As Grandfather
Hamlet
As Polonius
Watership Down
As Fiver (voice)
Much Ado About Nothing
As Signor Leonato
In the Bleak Midwinter
As Henry
Fathom
As Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
Love's Labour's Lost
As Sir Nathaniel
It's Your Move
As The Husband
Heavy Weather
As The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
Cockneys vs Zombies
As Hamish
The Bargee
As Tomkins
Run For Your Wife
As Newspaper Seller
Rentadick
As Miles Gannet
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
As Himself
Great
As Isambard Kingdom Brunel
A Matter of WHO
As Jamieson
Swan Song
As Nikita
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
As Malvolio
Peter Pan
As Smee
Girls at Sea
As 'Popeye' Lewis
All the Way Up
As Nigel Hadfield
Arms and the Man
As Bluntschli
The Four Musketeers
As Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
The Three Musketeers
As Louis XIII (voice)
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
As (archive footage)
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
As Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
All in Good Time
As The Young Husband
Village Wooing
As A
A Chorus of Disapproval
As Ted Washbrook
The Aerodrome
As The Rector
Our Hidden Lives
As Herbert Brush
Murder She Said
As 'Mrs Binster'
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
As Mouse (voice)
Doctor in Distress
As Medical Student (uncredited)
Mole's Christmas
As Rat
The Student Prince
As Dr. Corbitt
Dad
As Larry James
Peter's Friends
As Lord Morton
Henry V
As Lieutenant Bardolph
Bottoms Up!
As Colbourne
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
As Roobarb/Custard (voice)
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
As Mr. Adolphus Spanker
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
As Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
Spice World
As Bishop
As You Like It
As Adam
A Small Miracle
As Himself - Commentator
Skallagrigg
As Old Arthur/George
Our Flesh and Blood
As Mr. Smythe
The Adventures of Mole
As Rat
A Home of Your Own
As The Husband
Unconditional Love
As Barry Moore
The Girl on the Boat
As Eustace Hignett
All About The Good Life
P.Q. 17
As Jack Broome
The Adventures of Toad
As Rat
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
As The Chief Caretaker
Victoria & Albert
As Joseph Paxton
All in Good Faith
Ever Decreasing Circles
Midsomer Murders
As Stephen Wentworth
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk
Torchwood
As Parker
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
As Self
Doctor Who
As Chief Caretaker
Tales of the Unexpected
As Albert Dobson
Monarch of the Glen
As Hector MacDonald
Comedy Connections
The Good Life
As Tom Good
Marriage Lines
The Goodies
Mr. Bean
As Mr. Sprout
Lovejoy
As Raymond Doncaster
If You See God, Tell Him
As Godfrey Spry
Roobarb
Watership Down
As Broom
From a Bird's Eye View
As George Lemon
New Tricks
As James Farlow
Wogan
As Self
Natural World
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
That's What I Call Television
My Appalling School Report
Down to Earth
Goodbye Mr Kent
Brothers In Law
One-Upmanship
Tall Stories
The Other One
As Ralph Tanner
Alias the Jester
As Alias
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
Extras
As Richard Briers
Ooh La La!
Kingdom
As Jim Wright
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
As Narrator
Brass Eye
Dixon of Dock Green
As Ken Tracey
A Respectable Trade
As Sir Charles Fairley
Screen Two
As Old Arthur/George
The Norman Conquests
As Reg
Bird Bath
As Narrator
Roobarb and Custard Too
As Narrator
Agatha Christie's Marple
As Wilson
Play for Today
As Mr. Smythe
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
NBC Experiment in Television
As (voice)
Parkinson
As Self
Tony Awards
As Self - Nominee
Little Red Tractor Stories
As Narrator (voice)
Inspector Morse
As Sir Clixby Bream
Minder
As Col. Caplan
Armchair Theatre
As Stanley Frelaine