Richard Briers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Briers

English actor

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1934

Place of Birth: Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 17-Feb-2013

Profession: actor, stage actor, voice actor, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Richard David Briers, (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).