Richard David Briers, CBE (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor. His fifty-year career encompassed television, stage, film and radio. Briers first came to prominence as George Starling in Marriage Lines (1961–66), but it was a decade later, when he narrated Roobarb and Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk (1974–76) and when he played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good Life (1975–78), that he became a household name. Later, he starred as Martin in Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–89), and he 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). (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2025년 The Good Life: Inside Out에 출연했다. 2022년 The Good Life: Secret & Scandals에서 (archive footage) 역을 맡았다. 2017년 Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection에서 Narrator, Roobarb, Custard / lot of characters. (uncredited) 역을 맡았다.