Richard David Briers, CBE

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(14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor. Prominent for half a century, his career encompassed television, stage, film and radio performances.

He first came to prominence as George Starling in Marriage Lines in the 1960s, but it was in the following decade when he played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good Life (1975-78) that he became a household name. In the 1980s he starred in Ever Decreasing Circles (1984-89), and had a leading role in Monarch of the Glen (2000-2).