Richard Briers
English actor
Died when: 79 years 34 days (949 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
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).
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