"FILE - This Nov. 13, 2003 photo from files shows veteran actor Richard Briers, 69, at Buckingham Palace, London after receiving an award. British actor Richard Briers, an avuncular presence on TV and movie screens for decades, has died at the age of 79. Briers' agent says the actor died at his London home on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. A former heavy smoker, he had suffered from emphysema. Briers starred in the 1970's sitcom ""The Good Life"" as Tom Good, a man who decides to quit the urban rat race for a life of self-sufficiency. It is regularly voted one of the greatest British sitcoms of all time, and is still repeated on television. (AP Photo/PA, Kirsty Wigglesworth)  UNITED KINGDOM OUT  NO SALES  NO ARCHIVE"
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