Richard Briers by Michael Coveney

Genial star of the sitcom The Good Life who impressed in a range of roles on stageWhen he played Hamlet as a young man, Richard Briers, who has died aged 79 after suffering from a lung condition, said he was the first Prince of Denmark to give the audience half an hour in the pub afterwards. He was nothing if not quick. In fact, wrote the veteran critic WA Darlington, he played Hamlet "like a demented typewriter". Br…

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