
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).

Peter Pan
2003 · as Sam "Smee" Smiegel

The Three Musketeers
1973 · as Louis XIII (voice)

Much Ado About Nothing
1993 · as Signor Leonato

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994 · as Grandfather

Hamlet
1996 · as Polonius

Watership Down
1978 · as Fiver (voice)

Peter's Friends
1992 · as Lord Morton

Henry V
1989 · as Lieutenant Bardolph

Spice World
1997 · as Bishop

The Four Musketeers
1974 · as Louis XIII (voice) (uncredited)

Murder She Said
1961 · as 'Mrs Binster'

As You Like It
2006 · as Adam

Heavy Weather
1995 · as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood

Cockneys vs Zombies
2012 · as Hamish

Unconditional Love
2002 · as Barry Moore

Dad
2005 · as Larry James

Love's Labour's Lost
2000 · as Sir Nathaniel

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005 · as Self