I confess I mostly loved him for “Good Neighbors”, but everywhere else he popped up, he was just as fun to watch. 
RIP
Me, too. I know him most from “Good Neighbors”, but he was also very good in Much Ado about Nothing and Twelfth Night.
RIP 
There was a third season to The Good Life/Good Neighbors? I thought it ended after two, when their house was ransacked by burglars. 
Aside from that, I’ll always remember Richard from this classic bit:
Love it! This could just as well have been me and my daughter at Christmas service last year: didn’t know the bloody words to some hymns and couldn’t find them in the hymnal!
Even though he would always be in my mind the guy who was sleeping with my girlfriend Felicity Kendall, he was good in everything he was in. He was quite good as part of Branagh’s acting troop. Particularly as Polonius in Hamlet and Bardolph in Henry V. I also liked him in Monarch of the Glen.
Damn. Briers was one of my absolute favorite actors.
Do enjoy this scene from my obligatory Christmas movie, A Midwinter’s Tale. Richard Briers is a member of a theater company trying to stage a fund-raising performance of Hamlet. With 6 people. In 2 weeks. Written and directed by Kenneth Branaugh.
I’m so sad. 
That’s a shame; I always liked his self-deprecating claim that he was the fastest Hamlet of his generation. Plus he played Bob the Builder’s Dad.
I loved The Good Neighbors, and he made a very a very bizarre Doctor Who villain in “Paradise Towers.” He always was a pleasure to watch.
They may have run them as two seasons in the States, but they were four (short) seasons in the UK. There was a Christmas special later the year of the burglary (in which the Leadbetters’ present was a cow) so presumably the self-sufficiency thing was still up and running despite burglars.
I also loved his work in Ever Decreasing Circles, he could play unlovable just as well as lovable characters.
Every time I hang up the phone in the bedroom, I think of him straightening the cord.
And (Monarch of the Glen) the expression on his face when ‘Stupid’ the dog finally learnt to fetch - with a stick of dynamite.
One of my obligate christmas movies, as well, highly recommended.
So sad, RIP
I admit a major reason I liked “Good Neighbors” was the charms of Felicity Kendal. However, the four leads were all excellent, and it was a great show. RIP Mr. Briers, and thanks.
Paul Eddington is gone too.
I adored Felicity Kendall. Part of the reason I never married was that I could never find a girl like Barbara.
Whaddya mean your girlfriend? :dubious:
RIP Richard…
Way back in the day I worked in a real estate office. It stood on the corner of a busy road and a side road. On the other corner was a bakery. About 3 or 4 mornings a week about 10.00-10.30 this little black VW would turn into the side road and pull up. Out would get the deliciously pert Kendall and jiggle into the bakery. Even now I can see that arse in tight trousers/jeans/skirt.
Jesus that was some sight.
Oh, all the best Richard - where ever you are now.
I really liked the sub-plot in The Good life that Jerry desperately fancied Barbara (who wouldn’t) and Tom used to flirt outrageously with Margot - and you could see every now and then Margot would just let her mind wander a bit. Was she thinking of what could happen - or something that did, a long time ago?
I have a totally unconfiormed theory that the characters had some common back-story in their past where somethings may have happened at cross-purposes (prior to marriages, of course).
Yesssssss … especially the way she would casually brush her hair back out of her face with her hand, or when she wore those oversized reading glasses.
Oh, Lord in Heaven, please send me a girl like Barbara!
Felicity still looks wonderful. We love you too Richard…