
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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as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)

as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)

as Mouse (voice)

as Hamish

as Newspaper Seller

as Mr. Adolphus Spanker

as Roobarb/Custard (voice)

as Adam

as Herbert Brush

as Larry James

as Sam "Smee" Smiegel

as Martin Bryce (archive footage)

as Robert (voice)

as Barry Moore

as Tom Good (archive footage)

as Joseph Paxton

as Sir Nathaniel

as Dr. Corbitt

as Bishop

as Polonius

as Rat

as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood

as Rat

as Henry

as Rat

as Grandfather

as Old Arthur/George

as Narrator (voice)

as Signor Leonato

as Lord Morton

as Nikita

as Lieutenant Bardolph

as Ted Washbrook

as Malvolio

as Alias (voice)

as The Chief Caretaker

as Arkady

as The Rector

as Bluntschli

as The Husband

as Jack Broome

as A

as Fiver (voice)

as Theatre Patron

as Mr. Smythe

as Himself - Commentator

as Isambard Kingdom Brunel

as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)

as Louis XIII (voice)

as Miles Gannet

as Nigel Hadfield

as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb

as The Husband

as Tomkins

as The Young Husband

as Medical Student (uncredited)

as Eustace Hignett

as Jamieson

as 'Mrs Binster'

as Colbourne

as 'Popeye' Lewis