Richard Briers

Richard Briers
Briers in 2009
Born
Richard David Briers

(1934-01-14)14 January 1934
Died17 February 2013(2013-02-17) (aged 79)
Resting placeMortlake Crematorium, London, England
OccupationActor
Years active1958–2013
Spouse
(m. 1956)
Children2, including Lucy

Richard David Briers CBE (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor whose five-decade career encompassed film, radio, stage and television.

Briers first came to prominence as George Starling in Marriage Lines (1961–66), but it was a few years later, when he narrated Roobarb (1974–76) and Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk (1976–77) and played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good Life (1975–78), that he became a household name. He starred as Martin in Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–89), and 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).