Richard David Briers, CBE (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor. His fifty-year career encompassed television, stage, film and radio.

Briers first came to prominence as 'George Starling' in Marriage Lines (1961–66), but it was a decade later, when he narrated Roobarb and Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk (1974–76) and when he played 'Tom Good' in the BBC sitcom The Good Life (1975–78), that he became a household name. Later, he starred as 'Martin' in Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–89), and he had a leading role as 'Hector' in Monarch of the Glen (2000–02). From the late 1980s, with Kenneth Branagh as director, he performed Shakespearean roles.

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