Richard Briers

Richard Briers
Date of Birth: 14 Jan 1934
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 27 (Actor)
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Peter Pan
A live-action version of Peter Pan with all of the wonder, danger and excitement of J.M. Barrie's original vision. (Universal Pictures)
Much Ado About Nothing
Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well. (imdb)
Frankenstein
When Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man he just created, the monster escapes and later swears revenge. (imdb)
In the Bleak Midwinter
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet... (imdb)
Watership Down
A group of rabbits flee their doomed warren and face many dangers to find and protect their new home. (imdb)
Peter\
Six former college friends, with two new friends, gather for a New Years Eve weekend reunion at a large English countryside manor after ten years to reminisce about the good times now long gone. (imdb)
Fathom
In Europe with a U.S. team, skydiver Fathom Harvill is approached by a Scottish colonel working for a top-secret Western agency. He's after a vital lost atomic device, and wants her to parachute into a house occupied by some Red Chinese to help get the thing back. Apart from all this there is a predatory continental doctor on his yacht to take account of. Fathom soon realises none of this is as it seems, but can she fathom the truth out? (imdb)
A Chorus of Disapproval
A man new to a smallish British town joins an amateur theatre company. Once there, he discovers that the drama on stage is quite often nothing compared to what's happening behind the scenes: seduction, romance, faction fighting, and the inevitable jealosy. (imdb)
The Aerodrome
In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport. (imdb)
Great
Great (1975) - Short Film
An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century (imdb)
Our Hidden Lives
Based on the best-selling book by award-winning writer Simon Garfield, four stories from Britain's 'lost decade' (1945 - 1955) are presented from the diaries of four very distinct people. In his book, Garfield selected some of the most expressive diarists, and focused on the post-war years giving a vivid portrait of how Britain coped in the post-war years and how little, or how much, attitudes have changed over the past 60 years. (imdb)
A Matter of WHO
Crime comedy melodrama about British health officer and American oil man who prevent a dangerous smallpox epidemic.
Cockneys vs Zombies
A gang of bank robbers fight their way out of a zombie-infested London. (imdb)
The Bargee
Hemel Pike is a canal barge casanova, aided and abetted by his illiterate cousin, Ronnie. Hemel has a girl in every town along his route, and each one is intent on marriage. He is finally caught when one of the girls, Christine, falls pregnant. Her protective father, a 'larger than life' character, who holds the canal record for drinking 29 pints of 'Brown & Mild' in a single session, is understandably upset by his daughter's situation. (imdb)
A Home of Your Own
Wordless comedy about the trials and tribulations which abound when a young couple attempt to build their dream home. (imdb)
A Respectable Trade
The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century Bristol are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances and her Yoruban slave, Mehuru. (visitbath.co.uk)
The Good Life
Opening with the midlife crisis faced by Tom Good, a 40-year-old London plastics designer, it relates the joys and miseries he and his wife Barbara experience when they attempt to escape modern commercial living by "becoming totally self-sufficient" in their home in Surbiton. (en.wikipedia.org)
Monarch of the Glen
Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is the new Laird of Glenbogle. (imdb)
Rentadick
Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both Armitage and Madam Greenfly hire different people in the same detective agency to guard the gas and steal it respectively... confusion, double crosses and hilarity ensue...
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
Humorous review of British history.
Ever Decreasing Circles
Martin is a committee man. He has numerous schemes and committees organised around the neighbourhood. He is so obsessive about every detail of everything he does he is driving his long suffering wife, Anne, slowly crazy. Then the new neighbour Paul arrives. He has a more worldly outlook than those who live under Martin's organisational spell. There is an immediate clash of personalities because Martin, unlike Paul, treats everything so seriously.
The Girl on the Boat
During the 1920s, two young men returning to England on a transatlantic liner fall in love with two fellow passengers. (Wikipedia)
Tales of the Unexpected - Season 9
Doctor Who - Season 24
The Good Life - Season 1
Roobarb and Custard
Roobarb the green dog's enthusiasm for inventions and harebrained schemes to liven up life in the garden know no bounds. It's up to Custard the indolent, grinning purple cat, and the rest of the garden animals to make sure nothing comes of them so that their idle tranquility can be preserved, and score points off Roobarb's inflated ego at the same time.
Roobarb & Custard Too
In this reboot of the 1974 classic, Roobarb and Custard Too follows a dog and cat that go on many crazy adventures.