Richard Briers
Highest Rated: 100% Henry V (1989)
Lowest Rated: 14% Unconditional Love (2002)
Birthday: Jan 14, 1934
Birthplace: Merton, Surrey, England, UK
This British character actor has had a long career in TV, but has enjoyed a late-career renaissance thanks to director-actor Kenneth Branagh, who has cast him in six features and one short since "Henry V" in 1989. Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Briers made his London debut in 1959 in "Gilt and Gingerbread." For the next 30 years, he alternated his TV and film work with such plays as "Present Laughter" (1965), "The Real Inspector Hound" (1968), "Butley" (1972), "Run for Your Wife" (1983), "Twelfth Night" (1987-88) and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (as Bottom, 1990).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76% | 45% | Cockneys vs Zombies | Hamish (Character) | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dad | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 77% | 74% | Peter Pan | Smee (Character) | $48.4M | 2003 |
| 14% | 68% | Unconditional Love | Barry Moore (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 50% | 40% | Love's Labour's Lost | Nathaniel (Character) | $284.3K | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Student Prince | Dr. Corbitt (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 36% | 45% | Spice World | Bishop (Character) | $29.6M | 1997 |
| 95% | 89% | Hamlet | Polonius (Character) | $4.4M | 1996 |
| 81% | 88% | A Midwinter's Tale | Henry Wakefield (Character) | $466.8K | 1995 |
| 42% | 49% | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Grandfather (Character) | $22.0M | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Skallagrigg |
Old Arthur/ |
- | 1994 |
| 90% | 86% | Much Ado About Nothing | Seigneur Leonato (Governor of Messina) (Character) | $22.5M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 32% | A Chorus of Disapproval | Ted Washbrook (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 100% | 89% | Henry V | Bardolph (Character) | $10.2M | 1989 |
| 82% | 86% | Watership Down | Fiver (Voice) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rentadick | Miles Gannet (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All the Way Up | Nigel Hadfield (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 33% | 42% | Fathom | Flight Lt. Timothy Webb (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Home of Your Own | The Husband (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Matter of Who | Jamieson (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girl on the Boat | Eustace Hignett (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bottoms Up | Colbourne (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girls at Sea | "Popeye" Lewis (Character) | - | 1958 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88% | 93% | Kingdom | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 94% | 74% | Torchwood | Parker (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 88% | 89% | Extras | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Monarch of the Glen | Unknown (Character) | 2000-2002 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Midsomer Murders | Stephen Wentworth (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brass Eye | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Masterpiece Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1996 |
| 100% | 92% | Mr. Bean | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of the Unexpected | Albert Dobson (Character) | 1988 |
| 68% | 79% | Doctor Who | Chief Caretaker (Character) | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Goodies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Good Life | Tom Good (Character) | 1975-1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bob the Builder | Robert (Voice) |