Richard David Briers was an English actor whose five-decade career encompassed film, radio, stage and television.
Briers in 2009
Marriage Lines is a British television sitcom first broadcast between 1963 and 1966. The series gave Richard Briers and Prunella Scales, its lead stars, a significant boost in their careers. At first titled The Marriage Lines, the programme was written by Richard Waring, and was later adapted for radio.
Richard Briers as George Starling and Prunella Scales as Kate Starling