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

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

20126.5

Much Ado About Nothing

19936.9

Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

20217.5

Flash Gordon

19806.3

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

20146.3

Henry V

19897.1

Hamlet

19967.3

The Eagle Has Landed

19766.7

The Trojan Women

19716.3

Brotherly Love

19706.5

As You Like It

20065.8

High Road to China

19836.0

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

Robin Hood: The Rebellion

20185.0

The Last Valley

19716.5

Catherine the Great

19965.6

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

20056.5

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

19925.3

The Hound of the Baskervilles

19836.5

Exam Conditions

1992

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

19725.8

The Bruce

19966.4

Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots

201510.0

LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out

20126.5

Day of Wrath

20064.3

448 BC: Olympiad of Ancient Hellas

20048.0

Man of La Mancha

19726.6

MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis

19946.3

Time Travel Is Dangerous!

20255.3

So You Want To Be A Pirate!

20126.2

Doctor Who: Mindwarp

19867.7

Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!

202410.0

David Macaulay: Pyramid

1989

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

20084.5

The Greatest Store in the World

19995.6

Dudley & the Invasion of the Space Slugs

2026

David Macaulay: Cathedral

1986

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

19986.7

The Legend of the Tamworth Two

20045.0

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

2005

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

20227.8

A Midsummer Nightmare

19758.0

The Conclave

20065.9

Peppa's Cinema Party

20244.0

I, Claudius: A Television Epic

20027.0

The Making of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

2002

King Arthur, the Young Warlord

19757.0

The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity

19754.6

Agent Crush

20084.8

The Seventeenth Kind

2014

Back in the USSR

19925.0

Life After Flash

20175.6

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

20067.0

A Christmas Carol

19776.7

Tales of Television Centre

20128.0

The Dark Side of Everest

20039.0

Till Death Us Do Part

19697.6

Prisoner of Honor

19916.3

The Master of Ballantrae

19846.3

Blake's 7: The Beginning

19859.0

Shed of the Dead

20194.9

Cosmic Princess

19825.4

Wine of India

197010.0

Macbeth

19977.0

Kidnapped

19956.3

The Christmas Tree

19667.0

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

19957.0

David Macaulay: Roman City

19949.0

The Queen: 70 Glorious Years

2022

Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter

1979

Chasing the Deer

19945.7

Blood and Dust

19927.0

The Double Agent

1969

The Bristol Entertainment

1971

Back in Business

20075.0

Son of Man

196910.0

Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape

2014

The Mumbo Jumbo

20007.0

Wojtek: The Bear That Went to War

20115.8

Devil's Harvest

20032.4

The Old Man Of The Mountain

19899.0

Dear Mr. Burton

2020

King Lear

19999.0

The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord

2008

Galahad of Everest

19918.7

Eugenius!

20208.5

Old Rococo: The Life of Gioacchino Rossini

1992

Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!

2022

David Macaulay: Castle

19836.0

Genius: Pythagoras

1996

The Castle of Adventure

19907.8

Mr. Bojagi

2010