He will probably best remember Magazine Photoshoot For playing the role of Tom Good in the hit 1970s British sitcom The Good Life alongside Felicity Kendal. The BBC 1 show was hugely popular and repeated on television Magazine Photoshoot For many many years, it followed the exploits of couple Tom and Barbara Good who decided to duck out of the London rat race and try to live a life of self-sufficiency.
In film and television, he was renowned Magazine Photoshoot For playing comedic roles, but in 1987 he joined Sir Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company in 1987 and received critical acclaim Magazine Photoshoot For his portrayal of Shakespearean characters.
Briers has been called a “national treasure” and boasts a glittering resume that includes a range of roles, in film, television, animation and theater.
Briers had been battling against emphysema Magazine Photoshoot For five years and in an interview he gave just weeks before his death, he said he said he blamed smoking on the debilitating condition. He said;
“I was diagnosed five years ago and didn’t think it would go quite as badly as it has…I used to love smoking. It’s totally my fault. So, I get very breathless, which is a pain in the backside.”
Actress Penelope Keith, who starred alongside Briers in The Good Life as next door neighbor Margot Leadbetter said;
“You will hear a lot of people saying a lot of marvelous things about Richard, and let me assure you, they are all true….He was a gentleman, he was a wonderful actor, very, very generous and one of the charming things about Richard was he was so self-deprecating.”Michael Chaplin, who created the series Monarch of the Glen that Briers starred in said;
“He was also just the loveliest man – funny, witty and endlessly kind. It was a real pleasure to have known him and worked with him.”Sir Kenneth said that Briers was a “national treasure, a great actor and a wonderful man. He was greatly loved and he will be deeply missed.”
Source: Sky News
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