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Feb 18, 2013 · Actor Richard Briers, best known for his role in TV's The Good Life, has died at the age of 79, his agent has said. The star, who was also an accomplished stage actor, had been battling a...
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Feb 18, 2013 · LONDON (AP) — British actor Richard Briers, an avuncular comic presence on TV and movie screens for decades, has died at the age of 79. Briers’ agent, Christopher Farrar, said Monday that the actor died at his London home on Sunday. A former heavy smoker, he had suffered from emphysema.
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Stars including Ricky Gervais and Stephen Fry paid tribute to the actor on Twitter. Fry said in a tweet: “Oh no, I’ve just heard that Richard Briers has died. How sad. He was the most adorable and funny man imaginable.” After a long career in popular television, Briers joined Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company in 1987, and his already ve...
His big screen career began with the British features Bottoms Up (1960), Murder She Said (1961), The Girl On The Boat and A Matter of Who (both 1962) and the multi-national The VIPs (1963), followed by Raquel Welch’s spy spoof Fathom (1967). Over the next 36 years, he alternated his TV and film work with such plays as Present Laughter (1965), The R...
Briers also often appeared in the works of the prolific playwright Alan Ayckbourn, playing leading roles in Relatively Speaking, Absurd Person Singular and Absent Friends on the stage and The Norman Conquests and Just Between Ourselves on television. In recent years the actor saw his health deteriorate after being diagnosed with emphysema five year...
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Just two weeks after the actor Richard Briers told press he was struggling with lung disease his death has been confirmed by his agent. The Good Life star was 79 and had been battling emphysema ...
Feb 18, 2013 · Monday 18 February 2013 12:29, UK. 2:22. The Good Life's Richard Briers Dies. Why you can trust Sky News. Actor Richard Briers - known to millions for TV's The Good Life - has died at the age of 79. The star, who was also famous for his Shakespearean roles, had been battling a serious lung condition for a number of years.
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Feb 18, 2013 · LONDON (Reuters) - British actor Richard Briers, best known for the 1970s TV sit-com "The Good Life" but also for his Shakespearean roles, has died at the age of 79, prompting a flood of...
Ruth Elkins. Monday February 18 2013, 12.59pm, The Times. Richard Briers, the actor known to millions for his role in the 1970s sitcom The Good Life, has died at the age of 79. He passed away...
