What is Richard Briers?
{{Infobox person | name = Richard Briers | image = Richard Briers Memorabilia March2009.JPG | imagesize = | caption = Briers at a [[Memorabilia (event)|Memorabilia]] event, March 2009 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|1|14|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Raynes Park]], [[Surrey]], [[England]] | death_date = 17 February 2013 (aged 79) | death_place = [[London]], England | death_cause = Emphysema | other_names = | website = }} '''Richard David Briers''', [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (14 January 1934 - 17 February 2013) was an [[English people|English]] [[actor]] whose career has contained theatre, television, film and radio. Briers was born in [[Raynes Park]], [[Surrey]], [[England]]. In 1961, Briers got the lead male role in ''[[Marriage Lines]]'' in the 1960s. It was in the next decade when he played Tom Good in the [[BBC]] [[Situation comedy|sitcom]] ''[[The Good Life]]'' that he made a household name. In the 1980s he starred in ''[[Ever Decreasing Circles]]''. He from 2000 to 2002 came back to the spotlight with a leading role in ''[[Monarch of the Glen (TV series)|Monarch of the Glen]]''. Briers was the first narrator and voice actor for the show [[Enid Blyton]]'s ''[[Noddy]]''. Richard Briers was made [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1989, and [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 2003.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2988170.stm|title=Richard Briers' classic career|first=|last=|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=13 June 2003}}</ref> Briers was a heavy smoker until he quit in 2003. He was [[diagnose]]d with [[emphysema]] in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9841239/Richard-Briers-The-Good-Life-star-battling-emphysema.html |title=Richard Briers has emphysema |access-date=2018-04-01 |archive-date=2014-12-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141202115435/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9841239/Richard-Briers-The-Good-Life-star-battling-emphysema.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==Referenc