Richard Briers, The Good Life star, dies aged 79

Briers had a long and successful TV and theatre career

Actor Richard Briers, best accepted for his role in TV's The Good Life, has died at the age of 79, his abettor has said. 
The star, who was aswell an able date actor, had been aggressive a austere lung action for several years. 

Briers died "peacefully" at his London home on Sunday, his abettor added.
Briers afresh abhorrent years of smoker for his emphysema.

"It's absolutely my fault," he said. "So, I get actual breathless, which is a affliction in the backside. Trying to get upstairs... oh God, it's ridiculous. Of course, if you're blood-soaked about 80 it's depressing, because you've had it anyway."


His agent, Christopher Farrar, said: "Richard was a admirable man, a able able and an complete joy to plan alongside.


Briers aswell starred in shows including Marriage Lines, Ever Decreasing Circles, Monarch Of The Glen additional a role in Doctor Who and Torchwood.

He appeared in abounding films, a lot of afresh in British ball blur Cockneys against Zombies, additional a adornment role in Run For Your Wife, based on Ray Cooney's 1980s date farce.

Briers anecdotal the 1970s children's animation alternation Roobarb And Custard and aswell provided the articulation for the actualization of Fiver in the activated affection Watership Down (1978).

"The nation has absent one of its a lot of favourite actors of all time," said Michael Grade, who ran BBC One if Ever Decreasing Circles was on the air.

"He was up there with Ronnie Barker and Alan Bennett. He was just a treasure. He was so balmy and so acclaim funny, and such a accurate actor."

Speaking to 5 live, Lord Grade added: "If you advised him like a star, I anticipate he got embarrassed. He was one of those wonderful, genuine, able actors with absolute brilliant superior but abasement to go forth with it.
"There was annihilation he couldn't do, and he consistently had a twinkle. You were consistently admiring to see him. It's just a shock and really, absolutely sad."

"He was consistently affable and he would allege to the aggregation - which was not consistently that common. And he was consistently nervous. It was the a lot of agreeable time - if I anticipate of The Good Life, I smile."
Briers's godson, the amateur and administrator Samuel West, whose mother Prunella Scales was in Marriage Lines, tweeted: "What a lot of joy he spread."

Scales declared Briers as "very skilful, actual professional, and off awning a baby acquaintance and a actual accommodating colleague".

The Good Life: Briers and Felicity Kendal won millions of TV fans with the hit series

Comedian and biographer Barry Cryer told 5 reside Briers had been an "enormously popular, admired man", abacus he was a "formidable amateur and the a lot of modest, you know, aloof in his humility!".

After a continued career in accepted television, Briers abutting Kenneth Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company in 1987, and his career confused on to above classical roles.

He said at the time: "Ken offered me Malvolio in his assembly of Twelfth Night at the actual time I had absitively to aggrandize my career if I realised I had gone as far as I could accomplishing sitcoms. As anon as I formed with him, I anticipation he was absolutely exceptional."

After arena Malvolio, Briers took on the acting claiming of King Lear, followed by the appellation role in Uncle Vanya and Menenius in Coriolanus.

Sir Kenneth said on Monday: "He was a civic treasure, a abundant amateur and a admirable man. He was abundantly admired and he will be acutely missed."

Stephen Fry tweeted: "How sad. He was the a lot of ambrosial and funny man imaginable."
Briers was built-in in London on 14 January, 1934 and was aggressive to be an amateur by his mother, a music and ball teacher.

He accomplished at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and won a scholarship to Liverpool Playhouse in 1956. Two years after he fabricated his aboriginal West End actualization in Gilt And Gingerbread.

His big awning career began with the British appearance Bottoms Up (1960), Murder She Said (1961), The Girl On The Boat and A Matter of Who (both 1962) and the multi-national The VIPs (1963), followed by Raquel Welch's spy bluff Fathom (1967).

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