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Richard Briers

Richard Briers

Acting • 1934-01-14 • Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK

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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Doctor Who7.9

Doctor Who

1963

Watership Down7.2

Watership Down

1978

Hamlet7.3

Hamlet

1996

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein6.4

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

1994

Peter Pan7.1

Peter Pan

2003

The Good Life7.7

The Good Life

1975

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