Brian Blessed

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Born: October 9, 1936
From: 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 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.

Works

96 films

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

19996.6

Tarzan

19997.4

Alexander

20046.0

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

19916.9

Flash Gordon

19806.3

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

20126.5

Much Ado About Nothing

19936.9

Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

20217.5

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

20146.3

The Eagle Has Landed

19766.7

Hamlet

19967.3

Henry V

19897.1

The Trojan Women

19716.3

448 BC: Olympiad of Ancient Hellas

20048.0

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

Robin Hood: The Rebellion

20185.0

Brotherly Love

19706.5

Catherine the Great

19965.6

LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out

20126.5

The Hound of the Baskervilles

19836.5

High Road to China

19836.0

As You Like It

20065.8

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

19725.8

Day of Wrath

20064.3

So You Want To Be A Pirate!

20126.2

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

20056.5

Time Travel Is Dangerous!

20255.3

The Greatest Store in the World

19995.6

Exam Conditions

1992

The Last Valley

19716.5

Peppa's Cinema Party

20244.0

MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis

19946.3

The Bruce

19966.4

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

19925.3

David Macaulay: Pyramid

1989

Man of La Mancha

19726.6

David Macaulay: Cathedral

1986

The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity

19754.6

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

20027.0

The Legend of the Tamworth Two

20045.0

Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots

201510.0

Dudley & the Invasion of the Space Slugs

2026

Doctor Who: Mindwarp

19867.7

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

20084.5

The Seventeenth Kind

2014

Kidnapped

19956.3

Shed of the Dead

20194.9

The Master of Ballantrae

19846.3

Life After Flash

20175.6

Blake's 7: The Beginning

19859.0

Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh

19986.7

Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!

202410.0

The Conclave

20065.9

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

20067.0

Wine of India

197010.0

Prisoner of Honor

19916.3

Cosmic Princess

19825.4

A Christmas Carol

19776.7

Agent Crush

20084.8

The Dark Side of Everest

20039.0

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

2005

Back in the USSR

19925.0

Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape

2014

The Making of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

2002

Son of Man

196910.0

Chasing the Deer

19945.7

Till Death Us Do Part

19697.6

King Arthur, the Young Warlord

19757.0

The Christmas Tree

19667.0

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

20227.8

Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter

1979

David Macaulay: Roman City

19949.0

A Midsummer Nightmare

19758.0

The Queen: 70 Glorious Years

2022

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

19957.0

The Old Man Of The Mountain

19899.0

Back in Business

20075.0

The Bristol Entertainment

1971

Macbeth

19977.0

Blood and Dust

19927.0

Wojtek: The Bear That Went to War

20115.8

Tales of Television Centre

20128.0

Devil's Harvest

20032.4

David Macaulay: Castle

19836.0

Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!

2022

Old Rococo: The Life of Gioacchino Rossini

1992

The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord

2008

The Mumbo Jumbo

20007.0

Eugenius!

20208.5

Genius: Pythagoras

1996

Dear Mr. Burton

2020

The Double Agent

1969

King Lear

19999.0

The Castle of Adventure

19907.8

Galahad of Everest

19918.7

Mr. Bojagi

2010