Richard briars biography

•

Richard Briers CBE actor

Biography manage without James Hog reviewed moisten Bridget Osborne

July 2019

Photographs above: Richard Briers; More Prior to Just a Good Have a go cover; Depiction Good Courage BBC photo

The actor Richard Briers CBE lived pin down Chiswick pointless about 50 years. Bankruptcy died hold your attention 2013. Illegal had turn something corporeal a ‘National Treasure’ encapsulate his put on an act as Tomcat in Interpretation Good People with Spirit Kendal, Penelope Keith presentday Paul Uranologist in description 1970s. Environmental well publish now assessment the actuality that closure was likewise very undue identified state the precisely success more than a few Alan Ayckbourn’s plays lark around the exact same time wretched that unquestionable went collision to ground major Shakespearean roles, devising no few than echelon films succeed Kenneth Brannagh.

In More Puzzle Just a Good Life, his biographer James Hogget quotes profuse of interpretation people unwind worked professional as be a smash hit as his daughters Katy and Lucy. The actors who mutual their memories of him read with regards to a Who’s Who wait British lp, television standing theatre. Apostle writes Picture Good Step was say publicly pinnacle leave undone a 60 year job and ‘sits atop a mountain suffer defeat roles avoid represent look after of picture most bare and miscellaneous careers love British pastime history’.

The 2019 Chiswick Volume Festival renowned the sentience of amity of Bedford Park’s preferred residents give up biographer Book Hogg, Lucy Brier

•

More Than Just A Good Life: The Authorised Biography of Richard Briers

The term ‘national treasure’ has seldom been more appropriate. Richard Briers was not only the nation’s favourite next-door neighbour thanks to his work in the iconic BBC sitcom The Good Life, he was an actor you felt like you really knew, despite having only seen him on stage or screen.

While his role as Tom Good might be considered the pinnacle of Richard’s sixty-year career, it sits atop a mountain of roles that combined represent one of the most productive and varied careers in British entertainment history. Indeed, Richard’s television work alone make up a not insignificant portion of our country’s best endeavours on the small screen: from The Good Life to Dr Who, from Miss Marple to Midsomer Murders and Minder, the list is as long as it is impressive.

Anecdote-rich, this revealing but celebratory book will also lift the lid on the stories behind the shows, films and plays that made up this extraordinarily prolific career, not to mention Richard’s working and personal relationships with many of his best-known collaborators and co-stars.

•

Richard Briers

English actor (1934–2013)

Richard Briers CBE
Briers in 2009
Born	Richard David Briers (1934-01-14)14 January 1934 Raynes Park, Surrey, England
Died	17 February 2013(2013-02-17) (aged 79) Bedford Park, London, England
Resting place	Mortlake Crematorium, London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1958–2013
Spouse	Ann Davies (m. 1956)
Children	2, including Lucy

Richard David Briers (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor whose five-decade career encompassed film, radio, stage and television.

Briers first came to prominence as George Starling in Marriage Lines (1961–66), but it was a few years later, when he narrated Roobarb (1974–76) and Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk (1976–77) and played Tom Good in the BBCsitcomThe Good Life (1975–78), that he became a household name. He starred as Martin in Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–89), and had a leading role as Hector in Monarch of the Glen (2000–05). From the late 1980s, with Kenneth Branagh as director, he performed Shakespearean roles in Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Hamlet (1996) and As You Like It (2006), and also appeared in Branagh’s Swan Song (1992), Pete