Brian Blessed
9. oktoober 1936 (89 aastat), 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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- 2027Dudley & the Invasion of the Space Slugs (Arthur (voice))
- 2025Time Travel Is Dangerous! (Gavin the Octopus (voice))
- 2024Peppa Pig: Wedding Party! (Grampy Rabbit (voice))
- 2024Peppa's Cinema Party (Grampy Rabbit (voice))
- 2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (Self)
- 2022Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth! (Narrator)
- 2022Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (Self – Actor)
- 2022Best & Bester (Shouty Shirt (Voice))
- 2022The Queen: 70 Glorious Years (Self)
- 2021Peter O'Toole Réalta & Rógaire (Self)
- 2021Blankety Blank (Self - Panellist)
- 2021Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (Charlemagne (voice))
- 2020Dear Mr. Burton (Narrator)
- 2020Close Enough (Sir Jack Kleghorn (voice))
- 2020Eugenius! (Space Lord)
- 2019Shed of the Dead (Narrator (voice))
- 2018Robin Hood: The Rebellion (Friar Tuck)
- 2017Life After Flash (Self)
- 2017The Russell Howard Hour (Self)
- 2015Danger Mouse (Santa Claus (voice))
- 2015Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots (Grampy Rabbit (voice))
- 2014Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape (Self)
- 2014The Seventeenth Kind (The Voice (voice))
- 2014Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (Judge Jawbreaker (voice))
- 2014The Kumars (Self)
- 2013Was It Something I Said? (Self - Narrator)
- 2012Wizards vs Aliens (The Nekross King (voice))
- 2012LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out (Boss Nass (voice))
- 2012So You Want To Be A Pirate! (The Pirate King)
- 2012Tales of Television Centre (Self)
- 2012Piraadid! (The Pirate King (voice))
- 2011Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (Self - Participant)
- 2011Wojtek: The Bear That Went to War (Narrator)
- 2011Sooty (Father Christmas)
- 2011The Amazing World of Gumball (Santa Claus (voice))
- 2010Fee Fi Fo Yum (GTV Announcer)
- 2010Mr. Bojagi (Mr. Bojagi)
- 2010In Confidence
- 2010Take Me Out (Announcer (voice))
- 2008Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments (Self)
- 2008The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
- 2008The Underdog Show
- 2008All Star Mr & Mrs
- 2008Agent Crush (Boris Goudphater (voice))
- 2007Saving Planet Earth UK (Himself - Presenter)
- 2007Would I Lie to You? (Self)
- 2007Britain's Got More Talent (Self - Narrator)
- 2007Back in Business (Trevor Pilkington)
- 2007The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (Self)
- 2006Das Konklave (Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin)
- 2006As You Like It (Duke Senior/Duke Frederick)
- 2006Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy (Sir Gregory (voice))
- 2006Day of Wrath (Lord Francisco del Ruiz)
- 2005Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy (Sir Gregory(voice))
- 2005The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (King Richard IV (archive footage) (uncredited))
- 2004448 BC: Olympiad of Ancient Hellas (Narrator)
- 2004Aleksander (Wrestling Trainer)
- 2004Who Do You Think You Are? (Self)
- 2004The Paul O'Grady Show
- 2004Põrsas Peppa (Grampy Rabbit (voice))
- 2004The Legend of the Tamworth Two (Wild Boar (voice))
- 2003QI (Self)
- 2003The Royal (Sir Edward Fawcett)
- 2003Devil's Harvest (Father Gabriel Norton)
- 2003The Dark Side of Everest (Self)
- 2002The Making of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Self - Actor)
- 2002I, Claudius: A Television Epic (Self)
- 2002Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (Self)
- 2001Fun at the Funeral Parlour
- 2000The Mumbo Jumbo (Lucifer Bounder)
- 2000The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
- 1999The Greatest Store in the World (Mr. Scottley)
- 1999The Big Knights (Sir Morris)
- 1999Tarzan (Clayton (voice))
- 1999Star Wars: Osa I - Nähtamatu oht (Boss Nass (voice))
- 1999Perepea (Prince Vultan (voice))
- 1999King Lear (King Lear)
- 1998Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh (Old Deuteronomy)
- 1998The Heaven and Earth Show
- 1998Fantasy World Cup (Self)
- 1997The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling (Squire Western)
- 1997Macbeth (Edward the Confessor)
- 1996Hamlet (Ghost of Hamlet's Father)
- 1996Catherine the Great (Bestuzhev)
- 1996The Bruce (Edward I)
- 1996Dennis the Menace and Gnasher (Captain (voice))
- 1996Genius: Pythagoras (Self)
- 1995Kidnapped (Cluny MacPherson)
- 1995The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
- 1995Soccer AM (Self)
- 1995Johnny and the Dead (William Stickers)
- 1994Chasing the Deer (Maj. Elliot)
- 1994MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis (Atticus)
- 1994David Macaulay: Roman City (Gaius Valerius (voice))
- 1993Sooty & Co. (Santa Claus)
- 1993Lady Chatterley (Petty Officer)
- 1993Much Ado About Nothing (Antonio)
- 1993GMTV (Self)
- 1992De terre et de sang (Chatillon)
- 1992Freddie As F.R.O.7. (El Supremo (voice))
- 1992Exam Conditions (Mr. Carksdale)
- 1992Back in the USSR (Chazov)
- 1992Old Rococo: The Life of Gioacchino Rossini (Voice of Rossini)
- 1991Galahad of Everest (George Mallory/Self)
- 1991Prisoner of Honor (Gen. Gonse)
- 1991Pebble Mill (Self)
- 1991Robin Hood: varaste prints (Lord Locksley)
- 1990Have I Got News for You (Self - Host)
- 1990The Castle of Adventure (Sam)
- 1990The Castle of Adventure (Sam)
- 1989Henry V (Exeter)
- 1989David Macaulay: Pyramid (Ankhaf (voice))
- 1989The Old Man Of The Mountain (Narrator)
- 1988War and Remembrance (Yevlenko)
- 1988A Question of Entertainment
- 1987Minu pere ja muud loomad (Spiro)
- 1987Crossbow
- 1987The Gnostics (Guilhabert De Castres)
- 1986Doctor Who: Mindwarp (King Yrcanos)
- 1986David Macaulay: Cathedral (Master Guillaume (voice))
- 1986John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (Long John Silver)
- 1986Lovejoy (Harry Catapodis)
- 1985Blake's 7: The Beginning (Vargas)
- 1984The Last Days of Pompeii (Olinthus)
- 1984The Master of Ballantrae (Captain Teach)
- 1983The Hound of the Baskervilles (Geoffrey Lyons)
- 1983Natural World
- 1983Blackadder (Richard IV)
- 1983Blackadder (King Richard IV)
- 1983High Road to China (Suleman Khan)
- 1983David Macaulay: Castle (Voice)
- 1982Cosmic Princess (Mentor)
- 1982The Kenny Everett Television Show (Self)
- 1981The Little World of Don Camillo (Peppone)
- 1980Flash Gordon (Prince Vultan)
- 1979Minder (Freddie Dyer)
- 1979Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter (Detective Jack Noonan)
- 1979Tales of the Unexpected (Detective Sergeant Jack Nolan)
- 1979The Aphrodite Inheritance (Basileos)
- 1978Blake's 7 (Vargas)
- 1977A Christmas Carol (Narrator (voice))
- 1976The Eagle Has Landed (Arthur Seymour (voice) (uncredited))
- 1976I, Claudius (Augustus)
- 1976Nobody's House (Jack Treadful)
- 1975The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity (Dr. Tom Bowen)
- 1975The Day After Tomorrow (Dr. Tom Bowen)
- 1975A Midsummer Nightmare (Det Sgt George Briggs)
- 1975Space: 1999 (Mentor)
- 1975Space: 1999 (Cabot Rowland)
- 1975Survivors (Brod)
- 1975The Sweeney (Frank Kemble)
- 1975King Arthur, the Young Warlord (Mark of Cornwall)
- 1974Churchill's People (Guthrum)
- 1974Notorious Woman (Albert Grzymala)
- 1974Boy Dominic (William Woodcock)
- 1973European Heritage (Narrator (voice))
- 1973Thriller (Det Sgt George Briggs)
- 1972Man of La Mancha (Pedro)
- 1972Arthur of the Britons (Mark of Cornwall)
- 1972Henry VIII and His Six Wives (Suffolk)
- 1972Shirley's World
- 1971The Bristol Entertainment (Cabot / Wolstan / Pocock / Colston / Pope Gregory / Dr. Beddoes)
- 1971Justice (Tiger Lawson)
- 1971The Trojan Women (Talthybius)
- 1971The Last Valley (Korski)
- 1970Wine of India (Will)
- 1970Brotherly Love (Jack Baird)
- 1969Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (Jim Lawsey)
- 1969The Double Agent (Reg Sugden)
- 1969Son of Man (Peter)
- 1969ITV Saturday Night Theatre (Ted Gissing)
- 1969Till Death Us Do Part (Sergeant)
- 1968The Expert (Hubert Innes)
- 1968Cold Comfort Farm (Reuben Starkadder)
- 1967ITV Playhouse (Reg Sugden)
- 1967ITV Playhouse (Jim Carter)
- 1967The Further Adventures of the Musketeers (Porthos)
- 1966The Christmas Tree
- 1966The Three Musketeers (Porthos)
- 1965BBC Play of the Month (Sgt. Kite)
- 1965The Troubleshooters (Eddie Barnaby)
- 1965Public Eye (Rev. William Pratt)
- 1963Doctor Who (King Yrcanos)
- 1962Z-Cars (PC Smith)
- 1962Z-Cars (PC Fancy Smith)
- 1962Z-Cars (PC William "Fancy" Smith)
- 1961The Avengers (Sergeant Hearn)
- -Have I Got a Bit More News for You (Self - Presenter)
- 1964The Wednesday Play (Peter)
- 1964The Wednesday Play (Will)
- 1961The Avengers (Mark Dayton)
- 1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (Captain Teach)