Richard Briers

Actor

Films to Rent

Show: All FilmsRental Rental DVD Rental Blu-Ray Rental VHSSales Sales DVD Sales Blu-Ray Sales VHS

Marriage Lines (TV Series) (1963-1965): Feat. Prunella Scales, Richard Briers; A classic domestic comedy with Richard Briers and Prunella Scales as a newly married couple jumping hurdles both at home and at work. Included here…
A Home of Your Own (1964): Dir. Jay Lewis
Feat. Ronnie Barker, Richard Briers, Peter Butterworth…; Classic 1960s slapstick about a cavalier construction team working on a new housing estate, this began a fruitful trend for 'wordless' English film…
Rentadick (1972): Feat. Richard Briers, James Booth, Richard Beckinsale…; From a screenplay by John Cleese and Graham Chapman, Rentadick, a band of private detectives, are hired to protect a rich scientist's business as…
Good Life, The (TV Series) (1975-1978): Feat. Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith…; The British series that became an icon of 1970s culture–clash, between the greenie Goods (Briers & Kendal), who want to become…
Norman Conquests, The (Mini-Series) (1977): Dir. Herbert Wise
Feat. Tom Conti, Richard Briers, Penelope Keith…; Six of Britain's finest take on Alan Ayckbourn's small scale, socially incisive play, set in three different rooms across one dysfunctional family…
Galton and Simpson Playhouse, The (TV Series) (1977): Feat. Arthur Lowe, Warren Mitchell, Richard Briers; Long regarded as Britain's most successful comedy duo, Richard Galton and Alan Simpson (STEPTOE AND SON) turned their hand to one–off stories…
Eric Sykes Collection (The Plank, Rhubarb Rhubarb!, It's Your Move, Mr H. Is Late, The Big Freeze, The Eric Sykes Show, The Likes of Sykes) (1979-1993): Dir. Eric Sykes
Feat. Eric Sykes, Arthur Lowe, Tommy Cooper…; A ridiculously long list of British comic talent star in these slapstick masterpieces from the 1970s and 80s, all of which are virtually dialogue…
Ever Decreasing Circles (TV Series) (1984): Feat. Richard Briers, Penelope Wilton, Peter Egan; Classic BBC comedy, where Richard Briers’ control freakery is challenged when a charming new neighbour (Egan) moves into the community. His…
All in Good Faith (TV Series) (1985-1987): Feat. Richard Briers; A vicar's life in his sleepy country parish has become rather too cozy. News of a vacancy in a demanding urban parish offers the Reverend Philip…
Twelfth Night (1988): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Richard Briers, Caroline Langrishe; Kenneth Branagh restages his Renaissance Theatre production of the popular comedy for Thames Television with a top cast of English thespians.
Chorus of Disapproval (1989): Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales…; A light and slight drama set around widower Jeremy Iron’s move to a seaside town and involvement with a local theatre group. Superb cast livens the…
Much Ado About Nothing (1993): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves…; Kenneth Branagh plunders the Bard again and pulls off a rare breed of romantic escapism. Here he somehow modifies the traditional text for an…
If You See God, Tell Him (TV Series) (1993): Feat. Richard Briers, Adrian Edmondson, Imelda Staunton; Richard Briers (ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE), injured by a freak accident that reduces his attention span to a mere 30 seconds, becomes fixated with TV ads…
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter…; Branagh swamps the gothic classic with theatricality and allows himself far too much screen time, impressing on us that his ego that is the real…
Midwinter's Tale, A (In the Bleak Midwinter) (1995): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Richard Briers, Joan Collins, Jennifer Saunders…; Disasters mount for an unemployed actor whose last–ditch passport to glory is to stage a DIY version of Hamlet. Struggling thesps and…
Watership Down (TV Series) (1999): Feat. Richard Briers, Jane Horrocks, Andrew Falvey; Extended adaptation of Richard Adam's bestselling novel following a group of rabbits leaving their endangered warren in search of a new home, and the…
Monarch of the Glen (TV Series) (2000): Dir. Edward Bennett, A.J. Quinn
Feat. Richard Briers, Susan Hampshire, Alastair Mackenzie; A whimsical drama set on the Scottish Highland estate of Glenbogle, with Richard Briers and Susan Hampshire.
Peter Pan (2003): Dir. P.J. Hogan
Feat. Jason Isaacs, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Briers…; Commendably conservative version of the now–classic J M Barrie play, in which Peter Pan persuades a family of children away to Never Never…
As You Like It (2006): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Bryce Dallas Howard, Romola Garai, Alfred Molina…; Kenneth Branagh transplants the Bard’s comedy to old Japan in this talent–stacked tale of woman's flight from persecution and into the arms…
Marple (TV Series) [Julia McKenzie] (2009-2011): Dir. John Strickland, Nicholas Renton, Charles Palmer
Feat. Julia McKenzie, Prunella Scales, Rik Mayall…; Yet another regeneration of British TV's long–running Agatha Christie serial, with Julia McKenzie taking the reins from Geraldine McEwan, who…

Main menu

Section navigation menu

Richard Briers

Films to Rent