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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 16
Top works
- Jeeves & Wooster : The Collected Radio Dramas
- The Nation's Favourite Shakespeare
- A little light weeding
- Best Stories for Five Year Olds
- Green Life
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Film & TV
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…
Known for
- The Good Life: Inside Out2025
- The Good Life: Secret & Scandals — (archive footage)2022
- Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection — Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)2017
- British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves — Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)2016
- Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time — Mouse (voice)2013
- Cockneys vs Zombies — Hamish2012
- Run For Your Wife — Newspaper Seller2012
- Horror on the High Rise2011
- National Theatre Live: London Assurance — Mr. Adolphus Spanker2010
- All About The Good Life2010
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 341
- Total plays
- 1,767
Tags
spoken word
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Surrey
- Place of death
- London
- Spouse
- Ann Davies
- Child
- Lucy Briers
- Occupation
- stage actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- Shakespearean comedy
- Image
- Richard Briers Memorabilia March 2009 crop.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1934-01-14
- date of death
- 2013-02-17
- Commons category
- Richard Briers
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
- cause of death
- pulmonary emphysema
- start of work period
- 1958-00-00
- end of work period
- 2012-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
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