Richard Briers
Born January 14, 1934 (Age: 92)
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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).
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).
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Filmography
Horror on the High Rise
2011
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as
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Age: 77
Peter Pan
2003
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as Sam "Smee" Smiegel
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Age: 69
Love's Labour's Lost
2000
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as Sir Nathaniel
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Age: 66
Spice World
1997
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as Bishop
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Age: 63
Hamlet
1996
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as Polonius
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Age: 62
The Adventures of Toad
1996
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as Rat
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Age: 62
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
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as Self
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Age: 60
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
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as Grandfather
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Age: 60
Frances the Firefly
1994
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 59
Much Ado About Nothing
1993
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as Signor Leonato
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Age: 59
Henry V
1989
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as Lieutenant Bardolph
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Age: 55
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
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as Ted Washbrook
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Age: 55
No Image
Village Wooing
1979
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as A
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Age: 45
Watership Down
1978
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as Fiver (voice)
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Age: 44
The Four Musketeers
1974
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as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 40
The Three Musketeers
1973
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as Louis XIII (voice)
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Age: 39
A Matter of WHO
1961
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as Jamieson
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Age: 27