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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 · 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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- Twitter Tributes
- Star on Big and Small screen
- Health Worsened in Recent Years
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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Feb 18, 2013 · Richard Briers, who has died aged 79, was one of Britain's best-loved actors. Famed for his role as the hapless Tom Good in the 1970s BBC sitcom The Good Life, Briers was an also an...
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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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Richard David Briers CBE (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...
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Mar 18, 2013 · Felicity Kendal regrets losing touch with her former onscreen husband Richard Briers before his death last month. The pair became close while playing a married couple in hit TV show The Good...
