Richard Briers
Actor
- Marriage Lines (TV Series) (1963-1965)
- Feat. Prunella Scales, Richard Briers
- A classic domestic comedy with Richard Briers and Prunella Scales as a newly married couple jumping hurdles both at home and at work. Included here…
- A Home of Your Own (1964)
- Dir. Jay Lewis
Feat. Ronnie Barker, Richard Briers, Peter Butterworth…
- Classic 1960s slapstick about a cavalier construction team working on a new housing estate, this began a fruitful trend for 'wordless' English film…
- Rentadick (1972)
- Feat. Richard Briers, James Booth, Richard Beckinsale…
- From a screenplay by John Cleese and Graham Chapman, Rentadick, a band of private detectives, are hired to protect a rich scientist's business as…
- Good Life, The (TV Series) (1975-1978)
- Feat. Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith…
- The British series that became an icon of 1970s culture–clash, between the greenie Goods (Briers & Kendal), who want to become…
- Norman Conquests, The (Mini-Series) (1977)
- Dir. Herbert Wise
Feat. Tom Conti, Richard Briers, Penelope Keith…
- Six of Britain's finest take on Alan Ayckbourn's small scale, socially incisive play, set in three different rooms across one dysfunctional family…
- Galton and Simpson Playhouse, The (TV Series) (1977)
- Feat. Arthur Lowe, Warren Mitchell, Richard Briers
- Long regarded as Britain's most successful comedy duo, Richard Galton and Alan Simpson (STEPTOE AND SON) turned their hand to one–off stories…
- Eric Sykes Collection (The Plank, Rhubarb Rhubarb!, It's Your Move, Mr H. Is Late, The Big Freeze, The Eric Sykes Show, The Likes of Sykes) (1979-1993)
- Dir. Eric Sykes
Feat. Eric Sykes, Arthur Lowe, Tommy Cooper…
- A ridiculously long list of British comic talent star in these slapstick masterpieces from the 1970s and 80s, all of which are virtually dialogue…
- Ever Decreasing Circles (TV Series) (1984)
- Feat. Richard Briers, Penelope Wilton, Peter Egan
- Classic BBC comedy, where Richard Briers’ control freakery is challenged when a charming new neighbour (Egan) moves into the community. His…
- All in Good Faith (TV Series) (1985-1987)
- Feat. Richard Briers
- A vicar's life in his sleepy country parish has become rather too cozy. News of a vacancy in a demanding urban parish offers the Reverend Philip…
- Twelfth Night (1988)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Richard Briers, Caroline Langrishe
- Kenneth Branagh restages his Renaissance Theatre production of the popular comedy for Thames Television with a top cast of English thespians.
- Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales…
- A light and slight drama set around widower Jeremy Iron’s move to a seaside town and involvement with a local theatre group. Superb cast livens the…
- Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves…
- Kenneth Branagh plunders the Bard again and pulls off a rare breed of romantic escapism. Here he somehow modifies the traditional text for an…
- If You See God, Tell Him (TV Series) (1993)
- Feat. Richard Briers, Adrian Edmondson, Imelda Staunton
- Richard Briers (ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE), injured by a freak accident that reduces his attention span to a mere 30 seconds, becomes fixated with TV ads…
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter…
- Branagh swamps the gothic classic with theatricality and allows himself far too much screen time, impressing on us that his ego that is the real…
- Midwinter's Tale, A (In the Bleak Midwinter) (1995)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Richard Briers, Joan Collins, Jennifer Saunders…
- Disasters mount for an unemployed actor whose last–ditch passport to glory is to stage a DIY version of Hamlet.
Struggling thesps and…
- Watership Down (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Richard Briers, Jane Horrocks, Andrew Falvey
- Extended adaptation of Richard Adam's bestselling novel following a group of rabbits leaving their endangered warren in search of a new home, and the…
- Monarch of the Glen (TV Series) (2000)
- Dir. Edward Bennett, A.J. Quinn
Feat. Richard Briers, Susan Hampshire, Alastair Mackenzie
- A whimsical drama set on the Scottish Highland estate of Glenbogle, with Richard Briers and Susan Hampshire.
- Peter Pan (2003)
- Dir. P.J. Hogan
Feat. Jason Isaacs, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Briers…
- Commendably conservative version of the now–classic J M Barrie play, in which Peter Pan persuades a family of children away to Never Never…
- As You Like It (2006)
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Bryce Dallas Howard, Romola Garai, Alfred Molina…
- Kenneth Branagh transplants the Bard’s comedy to old Japan in this talent–stacked tale of woman's flight from persecution and into the arms…
- Marple (TV Series) [Julia McKenzie] (2009-2011)
- Dir. John Strickland, Nicholas Renton, Charles Palmer
Feat. Julia McKenzie, Prunella Scales, Rik Mayall…
- Yet another regeneration of British TV's long–running Agatha Christie serial, with Julia McKenzie taking the reins from Geraldine McEwan, who…