He spent his childhood at Raynes Park in a flat, Number 2 Pepys Court, behind the now demolished Rialto cinema, and later at Guildford. He was the first cousin once removed of actor Terry-Thomas (Terry-Thomas was his father's cousin). 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).īriers was born on 14 January 1934 in Raynes Park, Surrey, the son of Joseph Benjamin Briers (1901-1980) and his second wife Morna Phyllis (1909-1992), daughter of Frederick Richardson, of the Indian Civil Service. He starred as Martin in Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–89), and had a leading role as Hector in Monarch of the Glen (2000–05). SkylArk (1976–77) and played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good Life (1975–78), that he became a household name. Richard David Briers CBE (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor whose five-decade career encompassed film, radio, stage and television.īriers 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.
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