Brian Blessed
Acting
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.
Time Travel Is Dangerous!
Gavin the Octopus (voice)
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
Grampy Rabbit (voice)
Peppa's Cinema Party
Grampy Rabbit (voice)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!
Narrator
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
Self
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Charlemagne (voice)
Dear Mr. Burton
Narrator
Eugenius!
Space Lord
Shed of the Dead
Narrator (voice)
Robin Hood: The Rebellion
Friar Tuck
Life After Flash
Self
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
Grampy Rabbit (voice)
Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape
Self
The Seventeenth Kind
The Voice (voice)
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
Judge Jawbreaker (voice)
LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out
Boss Nass (voice)
So You Want To Be A Pirate!
The Pirate King
Tales of Television Centre
Self
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
The Pirate King (voice)
Wojtek: The Bear That Went to War
Narrator
Mr. Bojagi
Mr. Bojagi
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Self
The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
Agent Crush
Boris Goudphater (voice)
Back in Business
Trevor Pilkington
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
The Conclave
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin
As You Like It
Duke Senior/Duke Frederick
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Sir Gregory
Day of Wrath
Lord Francisco del Ruiz
Mist: The Story of a Sheepdog Puppy
Sir Gregory(voice)
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
King Richard IV (archive footage) (uncredited)
448 BC: Olympiad of Ancient Hellas
Narrator
Alexander
Wrestling Trainer
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
Wild Boar (voice)
The Dark Side of Everest
Self
Devil's Harvest
Father Gabriel Norton
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
Self
The Mumbo Jumbo
Lucifer Bounder
The Greatest Store in the World
Mr. Scottley
Tarzan
Clayton (voice)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Boss Nass (voice)
King Lear
King Lear
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Old Deuteronomy
Macbeth
Edward the Confessor
Hamlet
Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Catherine the Great
Bestuzhev
The Bruce
Edward I
Genius: Pythagoras
Self
Kidnapped
Cluny MacPherson
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
Chasing the Deer
Maj. Elliot
MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis
Atticus
David Macaulay: Roman City
Gaius Valerius (voice)
Much Ado About Nothing
Antonio
Blood and Dust
Chatillon
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
El Supremo (voice)
Exam Conditions
Mr. Carksdale
Back in the USSR
Chazov
Old Rococo: The Life of Gioacchino Rossini
Voice of Rossini
Galahad of Everest
George Mallory/Self
Prisoner of Honor
Gen. Gonse
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Lord Locksley
The Castle of Adventure
Sam
Henry V
Exeter
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Ankhaf (voice)
The Old Man Of The Mountain
Narrator
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
King Yrcanos
David Macaulay: Cathedral
Master Guillaume (voice)
Blake's 7: The Beginning
Vargas
The Master of Ballantrae
Captain Teach
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Geoffrey Lyons
High Road to China
Suleman Khan
David Macaulay: Castle
Voice
Cosmic Princess
Mentor
Flash Gordon
Prince Vultan
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
Detective Jack Noonan
A Christmas Carol
Narrator (voice)
The Eagle Has Landed
Arthur Seymour (voice) (uncredited)
Into Infinity
Dr. Tom Bowen
A Midsummer Nightmare
Det Sgt George Briggs
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
Mark of Cornwall
Man of La Mancha
Pedro
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Suffolk
The Bristol Entertainment
Cabot / Wolstan / Pocock / Colston / Pope Gregory / Dr. Beddoes
The Trojan Women
Talthybius
The Last Valley
Korski
Wine of India
Will
Brotherly Love
Jack Baird
The Double Agent
Reg Sugden
Son of Man
Peter
Till Death Us Do Part
Sergeant
The Christmas Tree