Richard David Briers, CBE (14 January 1934 - 17 February 2013) was an English actor. His fifty-year career encompassed television, stage, film and radio.
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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 of Hector in Monarch of the Glen (2000-02). From the late 1980s, with Kenneth Branagh as director, he performed Shakespearean roles.

Early life [edit]
Briers was born in Raynes Park, Surrey, the son of Joseph Benjamin Briers and Morna Phyllis (née Richardson). He was the first cousin once removed of actor Terry-Thomas (or Terry-Thomas was his father's cousin). He spent his childhood in Raynes Park in a flat in Pepys Court behind the now demolished Rialto cinema and Guildford. His father drifted between jobs, while his mother wished for a showbusiness career; she went on to become a member of Equity. Morna was also a pianist and a successful drama and music teacher.
Briers attended Rokeby Prep School in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, and the Ridgeway School in Wimbledon, which he left at the age of 16 without any formal qualifications. His sister, Jane, is also an actress.
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