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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Richard Briers (1934 - ) Actor, comedian Born: January 14, 1934, Merton, Surrey, England Education: Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts This British character actor has had a long career in TV, but has enjoyed a late-career renaissance thanks to director-actor Kenneth Branagh, who has cast him in six features and one short since HENRY V in 1989. Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Briers made his London debut in 1959 in Gilt and Gingerbread. For the next 30 years, he alternated his TV and film work with such plays as Present Laughter (1965), The Real Inspector Hound (1968), Butley (1972), Run for Your Wife (1983), Twelfth Night (1987-88) y Sueño de una noche de Verano (1990). But it was as a TV comic that Briers won his greatest fame in England, appearing in the popular shows The Good Life (BBC, 1975), Ever Decreasing Circles (BBC-1, 1989), Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean (ITV, 1990) y Marriage Lines. He also appeared in the playwright Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests (PBS, 1978) y Just Between Ourselves. Briers' big screen career began with the British features BOTTOMS UP (1960), MURDER, SHE SAID (1961), THE GIRL ON THE BOAT ( 1962) and A MATTER OF WHO (1962) and the multi-national THE V.I.P.S (1963). He appeared in Raquel Welch spy spoof FATHOM (1967), the comedy ALL THE WAY UP (1970) and did a voice-over for the animated WATERSHIP DOWN (1978). But he was largely unknown in the US until he began appearing in Kenneth Branagh films, a quien conoció cuando ingresó a la Renaissance Theatre Company and began taking on more classical roles, including El Rey Lear y Tío Vanya. On film, Branagh cast the actor—who still thought of himself as a sitcom clown—as Bardolph in HENRY V (1989), Stephen Fry's father in the comedy LOS AMIGOS DE PETER (1992), Don Leonato in MUCHO RUIDO Y POCAS NUECES (1993), the blind grandfather in the controversial FRANKENSTEIN DE MARY SHELLEY (1994) and as a cranky old trouper in SUEÑO DE UNA NOCHE DE INVIERNO (1995). Sticking with Branagh, Briers next filmed the role of Polonius in HAMLET (1996). Briers, who is married to actress Ann Davies, has done some recent work sans Branagh, including the comedy ADORABLE SEDUCTOR (1988), the harrowing period drama SKALLAGRIGG (1994) and the comedy HEAVY WEATHER (PBS, 1996), with Peter O'Toole and Judy Parfitt.
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