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.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING TITLE CREDIT BOX OFFICE YEAR
75% Cockneys vs Zombies
  • Actor
— 2013
36% As You Like It
  • Adam
— 2006
77% 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
39% Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  • Grandfather
— 1994
89% 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

RATING TITLE CREDIT YEAR
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
  • 2003
  • 2002
No Score Yet Mystery!
1980-2007
  • Bream
  • 1998
100% Mr. Bean
1990-1995
  • 1994
No Score Yet 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

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