
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).

Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997

Doctor Who
TV • 1963

Play for Today
TV • 1970

Play for Today
TV • 1970

BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965

Wogan
TV • 1982

Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004

Theatre 625
TV • 1964

Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979

Parkinson
TV • 1998

New Tricks
TV • 2004

Torchwood
TV • 2006

Screen Two
TV • 1985

Natural World
TV • 1983

Mr. Bean
TV • 1990

Lovejoy
TV • 1986

Extras
TV • 2005

Monarch of the Glen
TV • 2000