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Brian Blessed

Brian Blessed

Actor · Born 1936-10-09 · Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK

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Biography

Brian Blessed OBE (born 9 October 1936)is an English actor. He is known for his distinctive bushy beard, booming voice, and exuberant personality and performances. He portrayed PC "Fancy" Smith in Z-Cars; Augustus in the 1976 BBC television production of I, Claudius; King Richard IV in the first series of Blackadder; Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon; Bustopher Jones and Old Deuteronomy in the 1981 original London production of Cats at the New London Theatre; Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, in Henry V; Boss Nass in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace; and the voice of Clayton and the Tarzan yell in Disney's Tarzan. In 2016, Blessed was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the arts and charity. Blessed was born on 9 October 1936 at Montagu Hospital in Mexborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of William Blessed, a socialist coal miner at Hickleton Main Colliery (and himself the son of a coal miner) and cricketer for the Yorkshire second team, and Hilda (née Wall). He had a brother Alan, seven years younger, and the pair "went everywhere together" when they were growing up. Alan Blessed died from leukaemia aged 52; their mother died aged…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) — Boss Nass (voice)
  2. Tarzan (1999) — Clayton (voice)
  3. Family Guy (1999) — Prince Vultan (voice)
  4. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) — Lord Locksley
  5. Alexander (2004) — Wrestling Trainer
  6. The Amazing World of Gumball (2011) — Santa Claus (voice)
  7. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) — The Pirate King (voice)
  8. Flash Gordon (1980) — Prince Vultan
  9. Much Ado About Nothing (1993) — Antonio
  10. Peppa Pig (2004) — Grampy Rabbit (voice)
  11. Doctor Who (1963) — King Yrcanos
  12. Blackadder (1983) — King Richard IV
  13. Hamlet (1996) — Ghost of Hamlet's Father
  14. Henry V (1989) — Exeter
  15. Close Enough (2020) — Sir Jack Kleghorn (voice)
  16. The Eagle Has Landed (1976) — Arthur Seymour (voice) (uncredited)
  17. Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014) — Judge Jawbreaker (voice)
  18. Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021) — Charlemagne (voice)
  19. QI (2003) — Self
  20. Space: 1999 (1975) — Mentor
  21. The Avengers (1961) — Sergeant Hearn
  22. I, Claudius (1976) — Augustus
  23. Would I Lie to You? (2007) — Self
  24. LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out (2012) — Boss Nass (voice)
  25. High Road to China (1983) — Suleman Khan
  26. As You Like It (2006) — Duke Senior/Duke Frederick
  27. Have I Got News for You (1990) — Self - Host
  28. Robin Hood: The Rebellion (2018) — Friar Tuck
  29. Man of La Mancha (1972) — Pedro
  30. MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis (1994) — Atticus
  31. The Last Valley (1971) — Korski
  32. Lovejoy (1986) — Harry Catapodis
  33. Blake's 7 (1978) — Vargas
  34. Tales of the Unexpected (1979) — Detective Sergeant Jack Nolan
  35. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983) — Geoffrey Lyons
  36. Shed of the Dead (2019) — Narrator (voice)
  37. Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (2002) — Self
  38. So You Want To Be A Pirate! (2012) — The Pirate King
  39. War and Remembrance (1988) — Yevlenko
  40. The Trojan Women (1971) — Talthybius

Directed

  1. King Lear (1999) — Director