Brian Blessed

Acting 2 Film 1991 – 1999

09 Oct 1936 (89 yaş)

Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK

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 87, and their father died aged 99. Blessed's great-great-grandfather, Jabez Blessed, was the father of 13 children and worked as a china and glass dealer in Brigg, Lincolnshire; many of Blessed's relatives hail from Brigg.

Blessed went to Bolton on Dearne Secondary Modern School, and completed his national service in the RAF, in Bicester, before enrolling at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 1956.

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Boss Nass (voice) Clayton (voice) Charlemagne (voice) Lord Locksley Father Gabriel Norton Ghost of Hamlet's Father Prince Vultan Exeter Trevor Pilkington Antonio Dr. Tom Bowen Narrator (voice) Voice of Rossini Korski Sergeant Will Talthybius Lucifer Bounder Mentor Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin Bestuzhev Atticus Sam Suffolk The Pirate King (voice) Mr. Carksdale Cluny MacPherson El Supremo (voice) Jack Baird Captain Teach Old Deuteronomy Gen. Gonse The Voice (voice) Edward the Confessor Judge Jawbreaker (voice) Suleman Khan George Mallory/Self Pedro Edward I Lord Francisco del Ruiz Grampy Rabbit (voice) Mr. Scottley Reg Sugden Arthur Seymour (voice) (uncredited) Mark of Cornwall Chazov Chatillon Wrestling Trainer King Lear Mr. Bojagi Maj. Elliot Duke Senior/Duke Frederick The Pirate King Geoffrey Lyons Sir Gregory (voice) Friar Tuck Gaius Valerius (voice) Ankhaf (voice) Voice Master Guillaume (voice) Wild Boar (voice) Space Lord King Yrcanos Det Sgt George Briggs Peter Boris Goudphater (voice) Cabot / Wolstan / Pocock / Colston / Pope Gregory / Dr. Beddoes Gavin the Octopus (voice) Detective Jack Noonan Sir Gregory(voice) King Richard IV (archive footage) (uncredited) Vargas Self - Actor Frank Kemble Prince Vultan (voice) Detective Sergeant Jack Nolan Sergeant Hearn Freddie Dyer Brod Augustus Harry Catapodis Basileos King Richard IV Hubert Innes Porthos William Woodcock Sgt. Kite GTV Announcer Self - Narrator Squire Western PC Smith PC Fancy Smith Long John Silver Santa Claus (voice) Tiger Lawson Olinthus Captain (voice) The Nekross King (voice) Santa Claus Father Christmas Sir Edward Fawcett Self – Actor Sir Jack Kleghorn (voice) Jim Lawsey William Stickers Reuben Starkadder Self - Panellist Peppone PC William "Fancy" Smith Self - Presenter Self - Participant Spiro Rev. William Pratt Eddie Barnaby Cabot Rowland Announcer (voice) Himself - Presenter Mark Dayton Shouty Shirt (Voice) Self - Host Petty Officer Guthrum Guilhabert De Castres Sir Morris Jack Treadful Albert Grzymala Jim Carter Yevlenko Ted Gissing

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