Richard Briers

Richard Briers

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

14/01/1934

Day of Death

17/02/2013
(79) years old

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 ... Read More

Filmography

Cast

2022

The Good Life: Secret & Scandals

as (archive footage)

2017

Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collec...

as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of char...

2016

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at ...

as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredite...

2012

Cockneys vs Zombies

as Hamish

2012

Run For Your Wife

as Newspaper Seller

2010

National Theatre Live: London Assurance

as Mr. Adolphus Spanker

2009

Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The ...

as Roobarb/Custard (voice)

2006

As You Like It

as Adam

2005

Our Hidden Lives

as Herbert Brush

2005

Dad

as Larry James

2003

Peter Pan

as Sam "Smee" Smiegel

2002

Unconditional Love

as Barry Moore

2001

Victoria & Albert

as Joseph Paxton

2000

Love's Labour's Lost

as Sir Nathaniel

1998

The Student Prince

as Dr. Corbitt

1997

Spice World

as Bishop

1996

Hamlet

as Polonius

1995

Heavy Weather

as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood

1994

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

as Grandfather

1994

Skallagrigg

as Old Arthur/George

1994

Frances the Firefly

as Narrator (voice)

1993

Much Ado About Nothing

as Signor Leonato

1992

Peter's Friends

as Lord Morton

1992

Swan Song

as Nikita

1989

Henry V

as Lieutenant Bardolph

1989

A Chorus of Disapproval

as Ted Washbrook

1987

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

as The Chief Caretaker

1983

The Aerodrome

as The Rector

1983

Arms and the Man

as Bluntschli

1982

It's Your Move

as The Husband

1981

P.Q. 17

as Jack Broome

1978

Watership Down

as Fiver (voice)

1977

Our Flesh and Blood

as Mr. Smythe

1976

A Small Miracle

as Himself - Commentator

1975

Great

as Isambard Kingdom Brunel

1974

The Four Musketeers

as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)

1973

The Three Musketeers

as Louis XIII (voice)

1972

Rentadick

as Miles Gannet

1970

All the Way Up

as Nigel Hadfield

1967

Fathom

as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb

1964

A Home of Your Own

as The Husband

1964

The Bargee

as Tomkins

1964

All in Good Time

as The Young Husband

1963

Doctor in Distress

as Medical Student (uncredited)

1962

The Girl on the Boat

as Eustace Hignett

1961

A Matter of WHO

as Jamieson

1961

Murder She Said

as 'Mrs Binster'

1960

Bottoms Up!

as Colbourne

1958

Girls at Sea

as 'Popeye' Lewis