Brian Blessed

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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Stage Name: Brian Blessed

Peran: Acting

Reputasi: 0.7356

Jenis Kelamin: Laki-laki

Tanggal Lahir: 1936-10-09

Lokasi Lahir: Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK

Riwayat Perfilman

2024

Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!

Grampy Rabbit (voice)

2024

Peppa's Cinema Party

Grampy Rabbit (voice)

2022

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Self – Actor

2022

Best & Bester

Shouty Shirt (Voice)

2021

Blankety Blank

Self - Panellist

2021

Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

Charlemagne (voice)

2020

Dear Mr. Burton

Narrator

2020

Close Enough

Sir Jack Kleghorn (voice)

2020

Eugenius!

Space Lord

2019

Shed of the Dead

Narrator (voice)

2015

Danger Mouse

Santa Claus (voice)

2015

Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots

Grampy Rabbit (voice)

2014

The Seventeenth Kind

The Voice (voice)

2014

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

Judge Jawbreaker (voice)

2014

The Kumars

Self

2012

Wizards vs Aliens

The Nekross King (voice)

2012

So You Want To Be A Pirate!

The Pirate King

2011

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

Self - Participant

2011

Sooty

Father Christmas

2011

The Amazing World of Gumball

Santa Claus (voice)

2010

Fee Fi Fo Yum

GTV Announcer

2010

Mr. Bojagi

Mr. Bojagi

2010

Take Me Out

Announcer (voice)

2008

Agent Crush

Boris Goudphater (voice)

2007

Saving Planet Earth UK

Himself - Presenter

2007

Britain's Got More Talent

Self - Narrator

2007

The Conclave

Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin

2007

Back in Business

Trevor Pilkington

2006

As You Like It

Duke Senior/Duke Frederick

2006

Day of Wrath

Lord Francisco del Ruiz

2004

Alexander

Wrestling Trainer

2004

Peppa Pig

Grampy Rabbit (voice)

2004

The Legend of the Tamworth Two

Wild Boar (voice)

2003

QI

Self

2003

The Royal

Sir Edward Fawcett

2003

Devil's Harvest

Father Gabriel Norton

2000

The Mumbo Jumbo

Lucifer Bounder

1999

Tarzan

Clayton (voice)

1999

Family Guy

Prince Vultan (voice)

1999

King Lear

King Lear

1997

Macbeth

Edward the Confessor

1996

Hamlet

Ghost of Hamlet's Father

1996

Catherine the Great

Bestuzhev

1996

The Bruce

Edward I

1996

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

Captain (voice)

1995

Kidnapped

Cluny MacPherson

1995

Soccer AM

Self

1995

Johnny And The Dead

Stickers

1994

Chasing the Deer

Maj. Elliot

1994

David Macaulay: Roman City

Gaius Valerius (voice)

1993

Sooty & Co.

Santa Claus

1993

GMTV

Self

1992

Blood and Dust

Chatillon

1992

Freddie as F.R.O.7.

El Supremo (voice)

1992

Exam Conditions

Mr. Carksdale

1992

Back in the USSR

Chazov

1991

Galahad of Everest

George Mallory/Self

1991

Prisoner of Honor

Gen. Gonse

1991

Pebble Mill

Self

1990

Have I Got News for You

Self - Host

1989

Henry V

Exeter

1989

David Macaulay: Pyramid

Ankhaf (voice)

1986

Doctor Who: Mindwarp

King Yrcanos

1986

David Macaulay: Cathedral

Master Guillaume (voice)

1986

Lovejoy

Harry Catapodis

1985

MacGyver

Atticus

1984

The Master of Ballantrae

Captain Teach

1983

Blackadder

King Richard IV

1983

High Road to China

Suleman Khan

1982

Cosmic Princess

Mentor

1980

Flash Gordon

Prince Vultan

1979

Minder

Freddie Dyer

1979

Tales of the Unexpected

Detective Sergeant Jack Nolan

1978

Blake's 7

Vargas

1977

A Christmas Carol

Narrator (voice)

1976

The Eagle Has Landed

Arthur Seymour (voice) (uncredited)

1976

I, Claudius

Augustus

1975

Into Infinity

Dr. Tom Bowen

1975

The Day After Tomorrow

Dr. Tom Bowen

1975

A Midsummer Nightmare

Det Sgt George Briggs

1975

Space: 1999

Mentor

1975

Space: 1999

Cabot Rowland

1975

Survivors

Brod

1975

The Sweeney

Frank Kemble

1975

King Arthur, the Young Warlord

Mark of Cornwall

1974

Boy Dominic

William Woodcock

1973

Thriller

Det Sgt George Briggs

1972

Arthur of the Britons

Mark of Cornwall

1971

Justice

Tiger Lawson

1971

The Trojan Women

Talthybius

1971

The Last Valley

Korski

1970

Wine of India

Will

1970

Brotherly Love

Jack Baird

1969

The Double Agent

Reg Sugden

1969

Son of Man

Peter

1968

The Expert

Hubert Innes

1968

Cold Comfort Farm

Reuben Starkadder

1965

The Troubleshooters

Eddie Barnaby

1965

Public Eye

Rev. William Pratt

1963

Doctor Who

King Yrcanos

1962

Z-Cars

PC Smith

1962

Z-Cars

PC Fancy Smith

1962

Z-Cars

PC William "Fancy" Smith

1961

The Avengers

Sergeant Hearn

1961

The Avengers

Mark Dayton

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Captain Teach