Richard Briers

Highest Rated: 100% Henry V (1989)

Lowest Rated: 0% The V.I.P.s (1963)

Birthday: Jan 14, 1934

Birthplace: Merton, Surrey, England, UK

British leading man Richard Briers appeared in several TV adaptations of venerable stage plays in the 1960s. His interpretation of cross-dressing Lord Fancourt Babberly in Charley's Aunt managed to find a berth on American public television in 1968. The warm gust of applause greeting the actor's appearance indicated that he was already an audience favorite - as indeed he was, having appeared in such films as Girls at Sea (1962) and Fathom (1967). When American viewers next saw Briers, he was starring with Felicity Kendall on an agreeable BBC sitcom, Good Neighbors (Briers' second starring series). The series was a light, easy-going account of two city dwellers trying to make a go at country living; Richard Briers and his superb supporting cast made the slender material seem far funnier than it really was.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

		Credit
76%	Cockneys vs Zombies	Actor	—	2013
36%	As You Like It	Adam	—	2006
76%	Peter Pan	Smee	$48.5M	2003
14%	Unconditional Love	Barry Moore	—	2002
No Score Yet	Victoria & Albert	Actor	—	2001
50%	Love's Labour's Lost	Nathaniel	—	2000
No Score Yet	Winter In Watership Down	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	Escape to Watership Down	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	Journey to Watership Down	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	The Student Prince	Dr. Corbitt	—	1998
35%	Spice World	Bishop	—	1998
95%	Hamlet	Polonius	—	1996
81%	In the Bleak Midwinter (A Midwinter's Tale)	Henry Wakefield (Claudius the Ghost and the Player	—	1996
No Score Yet	Wind in the Willows	Actor	—	1996
38%	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	Grandfather	—	1994
90%	Much Ado About Nothing	Leonato	—	1993
71%	Peter's Friends	Peter's Father	—	1992
100%	Henry V	Lt. Bardolph	—	1989
No Score Yet	A Chorus of Disapproval	Ted Washbrook	—	1988
No Score Yet	It's Your Move	Actor	—	1982
82%	Watership Down	Fiver	—	1978
No Score Yet	Rat: Meet the Neighbors	Actor	—	1978
No Score Yet	All The Way Up	Actor	—	1970
33%	Fathom	Timothy	—	1967
0%	The V.I.P.s	Meteorological Official	—	1963
No Score Yet	A Matter of Who	Jamieson	—	1961
83%	Murder She Said	Mrs. Binster	—	1961
No Score Yet	The Girl on the Boat	Eustace Hignett	—	1961
No Score Yet	Bottoms Up	Colbourne	—	1960

TV

		Credit
No Score Yet	Masterpiece 1971-2014	Wilson	2009
89%	Extras 2005-2007	Himself	2007
No Score Yet	Midsomer Murders	Rev. Stephen Wentworth Appearing	2006
No Score Yet	Monarch of the Glen 2000-2005	Hector MacDonald Hector	2006 2004 2003 2002
No Score Yet	Mystery! 1980-2007	Bream	1998
No Score Yet	Inspector Morse 1987-2000		1997
100%	Mr. Bean 1990-1995		1994
68%	Doctor Who 1963-1989	Chief Caretaker	1987
No Score Yet	New Tricks 2003-2013	James Farlow
No Score Yet	Tales of the Unexpected 1979-1988	Albert Dobson
No Score Yet	The Good Life 1975-1977	Tom Good

QUOTES FROM Richard Briers CHARACTERS

Smee says: Wow. Two dead already.

Fiver says: Violet's gone.

Fiver says: So cold......so very cold....

Fiver says: So cold... so very cold.

Smee says: Captain, the ice is melting, the sun is out, the flowers are all in bloom...

Captain Hook says: He's back.