Richard Briers
Birthday: 1934-01-14 | Place of Birth: Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UKRichard 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).
Known For
Acting
Role
as (archive footage)
as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)
as Mouse (voice)
as Newspaper Seller
as Wilson
as Mr. Adolphus Spanker
as Roobarb/Custard (voice)
as Wilson
as Adam
as Herbert Brush
as Larry James
as Narrator
as Barry Moore
as Robert (voice)
as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
as Hector MacDonald
as Sir Nathaniel
as Dr. Corbitt
as Sir Charles Fairley
as Polonius
as Rat
as Henry
as Rat
as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
