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Richard Briers

September 2021

  • An image from the poster for Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film Jaws. The Shark is Broken play tells the story of how it was made.

    Back for another bite: why classic 70s and 80s screen classics are new stars of the stage

    The boat in Jaws, the flashy car in Back to the Future, and the kitchen in The Good Life: it seems we all want to recapture those moments – but in the theatre

August 2020

  • Kristin Scott Thomas and Chiwetel Ejiofor in The Seagull

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Seagulls and samovars: the best of Chekhov, with Dench, McKellen and more – in pictures

    In a new series, we open up Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton’s archive of stage photos. This week: Anton Chekhov productions with a cast including the Redgraves, Dominic West and Chiwetel Ejiofor

June 2016

  • Dark humour ... Adrian Edmondson, Imelda Staunton and Richard Briers in If you See God, Tell Him.

    Your next box set
    If You See God, Tell Him review: a Richard Briers sitcom that’s the opposite of The Good Life

    After a bump on the head Briers’ Godfrey Spry believes he has to do exactly what the adverts say – with often disastrous results

May 2015

  • Jeremy Brett (left) and Richard Briers, two versions of classic English style

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 20 May 1975: Archetypal English fashion for men

    Originally published in the Guardian on 20 May 1975: Actors Richard Briers and Jeremy Brett typify two versions of the classic English look for men

March 2013

  • Brian Logan

    Critic's notebook
    Grieve for The Good Life? Not this Young One

    Brian Logan
    For comedy-watchers of Brian Logan's vintage, The Good Life was notable chiefly for one thing only: it was the icon of bourgeois entertainment that, in 1983, was ripped to shreds by Vyvyan the punk in The Young Ones

22 February 2013

  • roobarb and custard bob godfrey

    Roobarb animator Bob Godfrey dies aged 91

  • Richard Briers in the TV program The Norman Conquests, 1977

    MediaGuardian
    Media Talk podcast: Richard Briers remembered, and Radio 5 Live changes

19 February 2013

  • Jessica Hynes - Nov 2009

    Laughing stock: the week in comedy
    RIP Richard Briers, Hynes's new sitcom and Gervais and Cleese – oops

    Also this week, Ronnie Corbett couldn't make it in comedy now, Billy Connolly smoked the Bible and Marmite man Judd Apatow

18 February 2013

  • In praise of ...
    In praise of … If You See God, Tell Him

  • Michael Billington

    Richard Briers was a potent presence on stage, as well as in The Good Life

    Michael Billington
  • Richard Briars in Monarch of the Glen.

    TV and radio blog
    Richard Briers: a life in clips

  • Richard Briers in the TV program The Norman Conquests, 1977

    Richard Briers: a life in pictures

  • Richard Briers obituary

  • The Good Life's Richard Briers dies at 79

November 2012

  • Richard Briers

    30 minutes with …
    Richard Briers on Cockneys Vs Zombies: 'I've popped up to play these terrible killers. It's great'

    The veteran actor may be jumping out of his deckchair to kill zombies in his new film – but don't, whatever you do, call him cool, learns Stuart Heritage

September 2012

  • Cockneys v Zombies

    Cockneys vs Zombies – review

    Flesh-eating monsters meet their match in Richard Briers in an oddly amusing horror, writes Philip French

May 2009

  • Richard Briers (centre) backs the campaign against the Heathrow third runway

    Environment blog
    The Good Life's Richard Briers digs for victory over third runway

    Leo Hickman: Richard Briers – the hapless Tom Good in the BBC's 1970s sitcom The Good Life – has officially come out against a third runway at Heathrow by signing up to Greenpeace's Airplot campaign

November 2008

  • My mentor
    My mentors

    Richard Briers on the men who gave him a helping hand

October 2005

  • 'He was one of the greats'

    Following the death of Ronnie Barker, Richard Briers remembers a loyal friend of the highest talent.

February 2005

  • Hard-hitting Briers drama boosts BBC1

    TV overnights: Richard Briers' return to TV in a harrowing drama about Alzheimer's disease drew nearly 6 million viewers to BBC1 last night. By Dominic Timms.

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