Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 09, 1936
Place of Birth
Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
Credits
184 titles
Brian Blessed
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.
Known For
Filmography
Dudley & the Invasion of the Space Slugs
Arthur (voice)
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
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Actor
Best & Bester
Shouty Shirt (Voice)
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
Self
Blankety Blank
Self - Panellist
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Charlemagne (voice)
Dear Mr. Burton
Narrator
Close Enough
Sir Jack Kleghorn (voice)
Eugenius!
Space Lord
Shed of the Dead
Narrator (voice)
Robin Hood: The Rebellion
Friar Tuck
Life After Flash
Self
The Russell Howard Hour
Self
Danger Mouse
Santa Claus (voice)
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)
The Kumars
Self
Was It Something I Said?
Self - Narrator
Wizards vs Aliens
The Nekross King (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)
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant
Wojtek: The Bear That Went to War
Narrator
Sooty
Father Christmas
The Amazing World of Gumball
Santa Claus (voice)
Fee Fi Fo Yum
GTV Announcer
Mr. Bojagi
Mr. Bojagi
In Confidence
Take Me Out
Announcer (voice)
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Self
The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
The Underdog Show
All Star Mr & Mrs
Agent Crush
Boris Goudphater (voice)
Saving Planet Earth UK
Himself - Presenter
Would I Lie to You?
Self
Britain's Got More Talent
Self - Narrator
Back in Business
Trevor Pilkington
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
The Conclave
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin
As You Like It
Duke Senior/Duke Frederick