Hamlet1996
As Polonius
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Richard Briers
Born
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 (64)
Peter Pan2003
As Sam "Smee" Smiegel
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Watership Down1978
As Fiver (voice)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Three Musketeers1973
As Louis XIII (voice)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein1994
As Grandfather
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Much Ado About Nothing1993
As Signor Leonato
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Spice World1997
As Bishop
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Henry V1989
As Lieutenant Bardolph
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Four Musketeers1974
As Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
As You Like It2006
As Adam
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Murder She Said1961
As 'Mrs Binster'
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Cockneys vs Zombies2012
As Hamish
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Dad2005
As Larry James
TMDb 9.5 / 10
The Bargee1964
As Tomkins
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Peter's Friends1992
As Lord Morton
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Love's Labour's Lost2000
As Sir Nathaniel
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Unconditional Love2002
As Barry Moore
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Fathom1967
As Flight Lt. Timothy Webb
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Village Wooing
Village Wooing1979
As A
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy2005
As Self
TMDb 6.5 / 10
In the Bleak Midwinter1995
As Henry
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Run For Your Wife2012
As Newspaper Seller
TMDb 4.4 / 10
Twelfth Night, or What You Will1988
As Malvolio
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Victoria & Albert2001
As Joseph Paxton
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Heavy Weather1995
As The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
TMDb 8.0 / 10
All the Way Up1970
As Nigel Hadfield
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot2003
As Robert (voice)
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Doctor in Distress1963
As Medical Student (uncredited)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Our Hidden Lives
Our Hidden Lives2005
As Herbert Brush
TMDb 4.5 / 10
A Chorus of Disapproval1989
As Ted Washbrook
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Girls at Sea1958
As 'Popeye' Lewis
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Girl on the Boat1962
As Eustace Hignett
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers1987
As The Chief Caretaker
TMDb 6.5 / 10
A Matter of WHO1961
As Jamieson
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Our Flesh and Blood1977
As Mr. Smythe
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol1994
As Self
Bottoms Up!1960
As Colbourne
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Mole's Christmas1994
As Rat
TMDb 5.4 / 10
A Home of Your Own1964
As The Husband
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Student Prince1998
As Dr. Corbitt
TMDb 5.3 / 10
A Month in the Country1985
As Arkady
All in Good Time1964
As The Young Husband
The Aerodrome1983
As The Rector
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals2022
As (archive footage)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
National Theatre Live: London Assurance2010
As Mr. Adolphus Spanker
TMDb 7.0 / 10
It's Your Move1982
As The Husband
TMDb 7.9 / 10
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley2009
As Roobarb/Custard (voice)
TMDb 9.0 / 10
The Adventures of Toad1996
As Rat
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves2016
As Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Children's Favourites - Volume 11988
As Alias (voice)
Skallagrigg1994
As Old Arthur/George
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man1983
As Bluntschli
The Adventures of Mole1995
As Rat
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection2017
As Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
A Small Miracle1976
As Himself - Commentator
Great1975
As Isambard Kingdom Brunel
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Good Life: Inside Out2025
Swan Song
Swan Song1992
As Nikita
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Rentadick1972
As Miles Gannet
TMDb 4.2 / 10
Horror on the High Rise2011
All About The Good Life2010
P.Q. 171981
As Jack Broome
Frances the Firefly1994
As Narrator (voice)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time2013
As Mouse (voice)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb