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Acting

Richard Briers

Career: Active from 1961 to 2022, busiest in 1994 and 1995 with 4 main titles each.

Leading roles: 51
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: Hamlet
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 46 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Richard Briers Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
3.1, average 4.8
Violence
2.5, average 4.1
Tension
4.4, average 6.0
Psychological
4.3, average 5.5

Main genres

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Recurring tags

British Sitcom 8
Gentle Humor 5
Witty Dialogue 5
Character-Driven 4
Classic Television 3
Social Satire 3
Character-Driven Humor 3
Period Drama 2
Psychological Drama 2
Social Commentary 2
Family Life 2
Wit & Wordplay 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

116

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

2 titles

Bird Bath

TV show · as Narrator

Little Red Tractor Stories

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

2020s

1 title

The Good Life: Secret & Scandals

as (archive footage)

2010s

6 titles · average score 38

Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection

as Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited)

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time

as Mouse (voice)

Cockneys vs Zombies

60

as Hamish

Run For Your Wife

16

as Newspaper Seller

National Theatre Live: London Assurance

as Mr. Adolphus Spanker

2000s

22 titles · average score 68

Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley

as Roobarb/Custard (voice)

Kingdom

81

TV show · as Jim Wright

Torchwood

81

TV show · as Parker

Dad

as Larry James

Roobarb and Custard Too

TV show · as Narrator

Our Hidden Lives

as Herbert Brush

Extras

85

TV show · as Richard Briers

Agatha Christie's Marple

75

TV show · as Wilson

New Tricks

83

TV show · as James Farlow

Bob the Builder: The Knights of Can-A-Lot

as Robert (voice)

Peter Pan

70

as Sam "Smee" Smiegel

Monarch of the Glen

50

TV show · as Hector MacDonald

1990s

21 titles · average score 71

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Stephen Wentworth

Hamlet

86

as Polonius

The Adventures of Toad

as Rat

In the Bleak Midwinter

79

as Henry

Heavy Weather

75

as The Hon. Galahad Threepwood

TV show · as Tony Fairfax

The Adventures of Mole

as Rat

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

50

as Grandfather

Mole's Christmas

as Rat

If You See God, Tell Him

TV show · as Godfrey Spry

70

as Nikita

Mr. Bean

93

TV show · as Mr. Sprout

1980s

17 titles · average score 67

A Chorus of Disapproval

45

as Ted Washbrook

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

72

as Malvolio

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

as The Chief Caretaker

Lovejoy

50

TV show · as Raymond Doncaster

All in Good Faith

TV show · as Reverend Philip Lambe

Alias the Jester

TV show · as Alias

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Old Arthur/George

Ever Decreasing Circles

74

TV show

Arms and the Man

as Bluntschli

The Aerodrome

as The Rector

Natural World

80

TV show

It's Your Move

as The Husband

1970s

25 titles · average score 67

Tales of the Unexpected

72

TV show · as Albert Dobson

Watership Down

75

as Fiver (voice)

The Norman Conquests

TV show · as Reg

The Other One

TV show · as Ralph Tanner

Our Flesh and Blood

as Mr. Smythe

One-Upmanship

TV show · as Stephen Potter

Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk

TV show

The Good Life

78

TV show · as Tom Good

Noddy

TV show · as Narrator

Great

60

as Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Roobarb

72

TV show

Rentadick

40

as Miles Gannet

1960s

19 titles · average score 62

Fathom

42

as Flight Lt. Timothy Webb

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as A

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Sandy Tyrell

A Home of Your Own

66

as The Husband

All in Good Time

as The Young Husband

Theatre 625

TV show · as David Prentice

The Bargee

66

as Tomkins

Doctor Who

76

TV show · as Chief Caretaker

The Girl on the Boat

58

as Eustace Hignett

Marriage Lines

TV show · as George Starling

A Matter of WHO

63

as Jamieson

Murder She Said

82

as 'Mrs Binster'

1950s

3 titles · average score 66

Girls at Sea

as 'Popeye' Lewis

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Stanley Frelaine

Dixon of Dock Green

64

TV show · as Ken Tracey