More Than Just A Good Life

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  • ISBN 9781472129239
  • Weight: 302g
  • Dimensions: 124 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Sep 2019
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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'A great celebration of one of our most loved national treasures' Felicity Kendal
The term 'national treasure' has seldom been more appropriate. Richard Briers was not only the nation's favourite next-door neighbour thanks to his work in the iconic BBC sitcom The Good Life, he was an actor you felt like you really knew, despite having only seen him on stage or screen.

While his role as Tom Good might be considered the pinnacle of Richard's sixty-year career, it sits atop a mountain of roles that combined represent one of the most productive and varied careers in British entertainment history. Indeed, Richard's television work alone makes up a not insignificant portion of our country's best endeavours on the small screen, from Jackanory and the anarchic Roobarb and Custard through to Dr Who, Inspector Morse, Ever Decreasing Circles, Extras, and the long-running comedy drama, Monarch of the Glen.

On the big screen Richard appeared alongside Raquel Welch, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Kathy Bates and Michael Keaton, and he even taught Keanu Reeves how to act like Sir Henry Irving.

But it was on the stage where Richard felt most at home as, in addition to testing him as an actor, it would often satisfy his passion for taking risks. Appearances in the West End were often interspersed with pantomime seasons or a world tour playing King Lear alongside Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson. He was, as he always described himself, 'just a jobbing actor'.

Anecdote-rich, this revealing but celebratory book will also lift the lid on the stories behind the shows, films and plays that made up this extraordinarily prolific career, not to mention Richard's working and personal relationships with many of his best-known collaborators and co-stars.

James Hogg is a biographer and collaborator hailing from the Yorkshire Dales. He is the author of What's the Bleeding Time?, the biography of actor and naturalist James Robertson Justice; Little Ern!: The Authorised Biography of Ernie Wise; and Hello Darlings!: The Authorised Biography of Kenny Everett. He has also collaborated on several bestselling autobiographies including Our Life on Ice with Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean; Absolute Pandemonium and The Panther In My Kitchen with Brian Blessed; Strongman with Eddie Hall; and the Cross Sports Book Awards longlisted What Doesn't Kill You with Johnny Herbert. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife and two children.