Richard Briers
Birthday: 1934-01-14
Place of Birth: Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Biography: 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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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during ch...
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Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the ...
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Watership Down
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwi...
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Much Ado About Nothing
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding of...
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In the Bleak Midwinter
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by...
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Fathom
While touring abroad in Europe, beautiful American skydiver Fathom Harvill gets wrapped up in intern...
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Love's Labour's Lost
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to ha...
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It's Your Move
A silent slapstick comedy depicting the travails of young couple moving into a new home, who hire an...
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Heavy Weather
At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilful...
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Cockneys vs Zombies
A group of Cockneys arm themselves to rescue their elderly relative and his retirement home friends ...
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The Bargee
After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pr...
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Run For Your Wife
John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie ...
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Rentadick
Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disab...
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The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Movie with some of the greatest brittish comedians such as Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese....
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Great
An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engine...
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A Matter of WHO
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilli...
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Swan Song
An aging actor remembers his past stage triumphs and contemplates a dim future on the stage of an em...
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will
The tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed up ...
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Peter Pan
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales o...
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Girls at Sea
When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the officers throw a lavish party to celebrate t...
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All the Way Up
Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains, but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can ga...
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The Four Musketeers
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter...
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The Three Musketeers
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends ...
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The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
The cosy sitcom had storylines tackling mid-life crises, drunken wife-swapping and more....
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Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection has a lot of 69 episodes, the two pre-school children's...
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All in Good Time
A Guinness advert in the form of a short comic film set in a traditional country pub....
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Village Wooing
Adaptation of the play by George Bernard Shaw. (Synopsis) Richard Briers tries to woo Judi Dench in ...
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A Chorus of Disapproval
Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a w...
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The Aerodrome
In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the constructi...
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Our Hidden Lives
Based on the best-selling book by award-winning writer Simon Garfield, four stories from Britain's '...
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Murder She Said
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence...
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Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Animation telling of the adventures of Mouse, Mole, Rat and Owl. Before giving a Twelfth Night party...
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Doctor in Distress
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lanc...
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Mole's Christmas
Rat and Mole must get to Mole's home through a snowy Christmas Eve while eluding weasel pickpockets....
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The Student Prince
The Queen's youngest son is off to university, mainly because "I'm hopeless at anything else". Barry...
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Dad
Lucy Gannon (Soldier, Soldier, Bramwell, Trip Trap) has written Dad, the poignant story of Larry Jam...
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Peter's Friends
After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college...
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Henry V
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...
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Bottoms Up!
An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise th...
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Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Big Chris leads a chorus of characters from various animated children's television shows in a medley...
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National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Grace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt in return for his financial support of her family. At a house...
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British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context fro...
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Spice World
World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus h...
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As You Like It
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind a...
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A Small Miracle
On Christmas Eve, a poor old woman plays her accordion in the street. Apart from two children, the p...
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Skallagrigg
Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institution...
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The Adventures of Mole
Mole decides it's time for an adventure! It isn't long before he discovers all the fun and thrills o...
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A Home of Your Own
A Home of Your Own is a 1964 British comedy film which is a brick-by-brick account of the building a...
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Unconditional Love
After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox,...
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The Girl on the Boat
Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit...
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All About The Good Life
What was it really like behind the scenes of The Good Life? With contributions from Richard Briers, ...
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P.Q. 17
"That order to scatter was as good as a death sentence to those merchant ships. And there isn't one ...
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The Adventures of Toad
Toad's life is just one big adventure! His latest and greatest hobby is racing around the countrysid...
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Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
The Doctor and Mel visit Paradise Towers, a residential complex that promises a peaceful life to its...
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Victoria & Albert
The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in...
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Frances the Firefly
An animated fire safety PIF from the 1990s, narrated by Richard Briers. A book version of the PIF wa...
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Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot
When an old castle needs repairs, it's time to call Bob the Builder! Unfortunately a case of mistake...
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Children's Favourites - Volume 1
A compilation of episodes from The Wind in the Willows, Danger Mouse and Alias the Jester....
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