
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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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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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 |
49% | 40% | Love's Labour's Lost | Nathaniel (Character) | $284.3K | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Student Prince | Dr. Corbitt (Character) | - | 1997 |
34% | 45% | Spice World | Bishop (Character) | $29.6M | 1997 |
95% | 90% | Hamlet | Polonius (Character) | $4.4M | 1996 |
81% | 88% | A Midwinter's Tale | Henry Wakefield (Character) | $466.8K | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Skallagrigg |
Old Arthur/ |
- | 1994 |
38% | 49% | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Grandfather (Character) | $22M | 1994 |
90% | 86% | Much Ado About Nothing | Seigneur Leonato (Governor of Messina) (Character) | $22.5M | 1993 |
100% | 89% | Henry V | Bardolph (Character) | $10.2M | 1989 |
No Score Yet | 30% | A Chorus of Disapproval | Ted Washbrook (Character) | - | 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% | 41% | 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
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Agatha Christie's Marple | Unknown (Character) | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bob the Builder: Project Build It | Robert (Character) | 2004-2010 |
88% | 94% | Kingdom | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
94% | 74% | Torchwood | Parker (Guest Star) | 2008 |
88% | 87% | Extras | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Monarch of the Glen | Unknown (Character) | 2000-2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Midsomer Murders | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brass Eye | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Masterpiece Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lovejoy | Unknown (Character) | 1993 |
100% | 90% | Mr. Bean | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ever Decreasing Circles | Unknown (Character) | 1989 1986-1987 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All in Good Faith | Unknown (Character) | 1985-1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Goodies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Norman Conquests | Reg (Character) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Good Life | Unknown (Character) | 1975-1977 |
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.