Surbiton's main claim to popular fame is as an icon of suburbia in such British television programmes as The Good Life ( starring Richard Briers, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington and Felicity Kendal ), though location filming was done in Northwood, North-West London ), and John Sessions ' comedy series Stella Street, which has on occasion led to the town being nicknamed " Suburbiton ".

Richard David Briers, CBE ( born 14 January 1934 ) is an English actor, whose career has encompassed theatre, television, film and radio.

Richard Briers is also a non-medical patron of the TOFS ( Tracheo-Oesophageal Fistula Support ) charity, which supports children and the families of children born unable to swallow.

Phyllida Law is Thompson's mother and along with Richard Briers, Imelda Staunton and Alex Lowe appeared with Branagh and Thompson in Branagh's adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing the following year.

Like the original, it is written by Grange Calveley and narrated by Richard Briers.

Esmonde and Larbey teamed up with Michael Gambon and Briers again for BBC's 1977 comedy The Other One, a sitcom about a man who is a liar who attempts to hide his insecurities through charade ; it was successful enough for a second series in 1979.

Briers played Martin Bryce, an obsessive middle-aged man who is at the centre of his local suburban community.

If You See God, Tell Him is a black comedy television series starring Richard Briers, Adrian Edmondson, and Imelda Staunton.

Hector is played by English actor Richard Briers.

For Thames TV that year he also appeared in and wrote The Eric Sykes 1990 Show with Tommy Cooper and Dandy Nichols and It's Your Move, a wordless slapstick comedy depicting the travails of a couple ( Richard Briers and Sylvia Syms ) moving into a new home, who hire an accident-prone firm of house removers, headed by Sykes.

Briers has also appeared in nine of Kenneth Branagh's films, such as Henry V ( as Bardolph, 1989 ), Much Ado About Nothing ( as Signor Leonato, 1993 ) and as Polonius in Hamlet ( 1996 ).

The series 4 release ( on two DVDs ) also contains an interview with Richard Briers as well as the Royal Command Performance episode.

She starred opposite Richard Briers in the BBC situation comedy Ever Decreasing Circles, she has also appeared in Doctor Who and the period drama Downton Abbey.

The story has also been adapted as a serial in six half-hour episodes for BBC Radio 4, starring Richard Briers as Uncle Fred and Hugh Grant as Pongo, with narration by Paul Eddington.

Over Christmas 1987 the season ended with Branagh's production of Twelfth Night also at Riverside Studios, starring Richard Briers as Malvolio, Frances Barber as Viola, and with an original score directed on stage by Scottish actor, musician and composer Patrick Doyle ( who later achieved fame as an international film composer ).

Briers was the original narrator and voice actor for the Enid Blyton series Noddy.

British ads for 9Lives later featured the voice of Richard Briers.

The first major Renaissance production was Branagh's Christmas 1987 staging of Twelfth Night at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, starring Richard Briers as Malvolio and Frances Barber as Viola, and with an original score by actor, musician and composer Patrick Doyle, who two years later was to compose the music for Branagh's film adaptation of Henry V. This Twelfth Night was later adapted for television.

The actor Richard Briers was a second cousin of Terry-Thomas, and became President of Parkinson's UK as a result of his disease.

The series was voiced by actor Richard Briers and the famous theme tune was written by Johnny Hawksworth.

* Richard Briers, actor

* Richard Briers ( born 1934 ), a British actor

In the 1960s the BBC produced the earliest of Richard Waring's domestic comedies, Marriage Lines ( 1961 – 66 ), with Richard Briers and Prunella Scales, and a then-rare workplace comedy with The Rag Trade ( 1961 – 63, 1977 – 78 ).

Her career break came with the early 1960s sitcom Marriage Lines starring opposite Richard Briers.

The Good Life was written by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey for Richard Briers, the only cast member with a previously established high profile.

However she did not become a household name until she appeared with Richard Briers in the 1984 BBC situation comedy, Ever Decreasing Circles which ran for five years.

London appearances included Michael Frayn's The Two of Us with Richard Briers at the Garrick, David Hare's Slag at the Royal Court, and Born Yesterday, directed by Tom Stoppard at Greenwich in 1973.

" John Simon complained as well of cutting that left the film's best actors ( he mentions McEwan and Briers ) with little to do.

The novel Uncle Dynamite was adapted as a serial in six half-hour episodes for BBC Radio 4, starring Richard Briers as Uncle Fred and Hugh Grant as Pongo, with narration by Paul Eddington.

Set in Surbiton, Surrey it concerns itself with the attempt by Tom and Barbara Good ( Briers and Kendal ) to be self-sufficient after they decide to leave the rat race.

After the short-lived Now And Then ( 1983, ITV ) they returned to form with Ever Decreasing Circles, which reunited the writers with Briers.

Briers starred as Martin Bryce, an irritating know-it-all with an obsessive personality who likes to interfere in the lives of all those around him.

On 30 May 2009, Warrington reached the Semi Finals of the Rugby League Challenge Cup, beating Hull Kingston Rovers 24 – 25 via a drop goal from Lee Briers in Golden Point Extra time to earn a place in the last four with Wigan, St Helens and Huddersfield ( who at that point had still yet to play their matches ).

Before being hit, Briers had pushed one spectator to safety and protected another with his body.

The Briers made a heroic climb over the Panamints to safety, while the Bennetts waited huddled around their wagons with water but no food.

After a lengthy spell in self-imposed retirement, he appeared in 2004 in a series of four half-hour radio sitcoms for BBC Radio 4, entitled Stanley Baxter and Friends ; the success of this has led to further series entitled The Stanley Baxter Playhouse in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010, and Two Pipe Problems with Richard Briers in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

At the Young Vic he directed A Servant To Two Masters ( national & international tour & West End ), As I Lay Dying, Twelfth Night, Blood Wedding, The Jungle Book, Grimm Tales (& international tour ), More Grimm Tales (& Broadway ), The Slab Boys Trilogy, Oedipus ; for the National Theatre: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Billy Liar ( national tour ), Accidental Death of an Anarchist ( national tour ), Whale, Romeo and Juliet, The Villains Opera ; for the RSC: Midnight ’ s Children ( Barbican, national tour & Apollo Theatre, New York ), Love in a Wood, Tales from Ovid ( Young Vic ), The Comedy of Errors ( national / international tour & Young Vic ), Spring Awakening: for Kenneth Branagh ’ s Renaissance Theatre Company: Coriolanus ( with Branagh, Judi Dench, Richard Briers and Iain Glenn ) and Traveling Tales.

The arena has hosted numerous Tim Hortons Briers and Scotties Tournament of Hearts, as well as the Memorial Cup.

Briers has spent much of his career in theatre work, including appearances in plays by Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw.

Briers was a member of Kenneth Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company, taking on classical and Shakespearean roles including Malvolio in Twelfth Night and the title roles in King Lear and Uncle Vanya.

However, several notable British actors and comedians appear alongside Atkinson in sketches as various one-off supporting characters, including Richard Briers, Angus Deayton, Nick Hancock, Paul Bown, Caroline Quentin, Danny La Rue, Roger Lloyd Pack, David Schneider and Richard Wilson.