Richard Briers
6 titles
Filmography
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The Good Life
The Goods have swapped their rat-race lives for a countryside garden life. Next-door neighbours, Jerry and Margo, think they have gone mad and try to save Tom and Barbara from themselves.

Watership Down
(1978)Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.

In the Bleak Midwinter
(1995)To be or not to be? To act or not to act? The questions are the same to Joe, a struggling (read: jobless) actor whose every sinew and synapse cries out to perform and to soften the blow of not landing a part in a megabudget sci-fi movie. So in the stalwart (read: desperate) tradition of actors everywhere, Joe vows to put on a show, a special (read: even more desperate) version of the greatest play in the English tongue. Writer/director Kenneth Branagh serves up Hamlet on wry with this salute to dyed-in-the-wool and other woolly-brained thespians. Michael Maloney (Truly Madly Deeply) portrays Joe, maxing out credit cards and his wits to realize his dream. Does he succeed? Well, with Richard Briers (Branagh's Hamlet), Joan Collins (Dynasty), Nicholas Farrell (Chariots of Fire), Absolutely Fabulous alumna Jennifer Saunders and Julia Sawatha and more joining Maloney, one thing's certain. The show must go on!

Rentadick
(1972)With a laboratory under threat, the inept private detectives of Rentadick, Inc are called in to keep a dangerous nerve agent out of the wrong hands.

Hamlet
(1996)Hamlet returns home to learn that his father, the King, has recently died and his mother, Gertrude, has already married his uncle, Claudius.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(1994)Passion, obsession and horror combine to recreate the most terrifying and shattering story of all time - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It is the late eighteenth century. After the death of his beloved mother, young Victor Frankenstein leaves his father and Elizabeth, the adopted sister he passionately loves, to attend university. Here he is befriended by the cheerful Henry Clerval, and becomes o..