Richard Briers
Acting
Born: 1934-01-14 · Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Died: 2013-02-17
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),
🎬 Movies (20)
The Good Life: Inside Out
2025
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
2022
(archive footage)
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
2017
Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013
Mouse (voice)
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012
Hamish
Run For Your Wife
2012
Newspaper Seller
Horror on the High Rise
2011
All About The Good Life
2010
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010
Mr. Adolphus Spanker
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009
Roobarb/Custard (voice)
As You Like It
2006
Adam
Our Hidden Lives
2005
Herbert Brush
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
Self
Dad
2005
Larry James
Peter Pan
2003
Sam "Smee" Smiegel
Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot
2003
Robert (voice)
Unconditional Love
2002
Barry Moore
Victoria & Albert
2001
Joseph Paxton
Love's Labour's Lost
2000
Sir Nathaniel
📺 TV Shows (20)
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
That's What I Call Television
2007
Self
Kingdom
2007
Jim Wright
Torchwood
2006
Parker
My Appalling School Report
2006
Roobarb and Custard Too
2005
Narrator
Extras
2005
Richard Briers
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Wilson
New Tricks
2004
James Farlow
Comedy Connections
2003
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
Self
Monarch of the Glen
2000
Hector MacDonald
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
Watership Down
1999
Captain Broom (voice)
Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden
1998
Narrator
A Respectable Trade
1998
Sir Charles Fairley
Parkinson
1998
Self
Midsomer Murders
1997
Stephen Wentworth
Brass Eye
1997
Self
Down to Earth
1995
Tony Fairfax