Known for Acting
Birthday
January 14, 1934
Place of Birth
Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Biography
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).

Midsomer Murders

Agatha Christie's Marple

Doctor Who

Parkinson

Wogan

Mr. Bean

Torchwood

BBC Play of the Month

Play for Today

Play for Today

Tales of the Unexpected

Natural World

New Tricks

Theatre 625

Extras

Screen Two

Monarch of the Glen

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Lovejoy

Kingdom