Cast
Brian Blessed
Acting
Cast
Brian Blessed
Known for
Acting
Born
1936-10-09
From
Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also known as B. Blessed, برایان بلسد
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.
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
as Boss Nass (voice)
Tarzan
as Clayton (voice)
Alexander
as Wrestling Trainer
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
as Lord Locksley
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Charlemagne (voice)
Much Ado About Nothing
as Antonio
Flash Gordon
as Prince Vultan
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
as The Pirate King (voice)
Hamlet
as Ghost of Hamlet's Father
The Eagle Has Landed
as Arthur Seymour (voice) (uncredited)
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
as Judge Jawbreaker (voice)
Henry V
as Exeter
High Road to China
as Suleman Khan
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Suffolk
Brotherly Love
as Jack Baird
LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out
as Boss Nass (voice)
David Macaulay: Pyramid
as Ankhaf (voice)
As You Like It
as Duke Senior/Duke Frederick
Catherine the Great
as Bestuzhev
Day of Wrath
as Lord Francisco del Ruiz
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
as King Richard IV (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Last Valley
as Korski
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
So You Want To Be A Pirate!
as The Pirate King
David Macaulay: Roman City
as Gaius Valerius (voice)
Time Travel Is Dangerous!
as Gavin the Octopus (voice)
The Trojan Women
as Talthybius
Man of La Mancha
as Pedro
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
as Self
MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis
as Atticus
The Seventeenth Kind
as The Voice (voice)
Robin Hood: The Rebellion
as Friar Tuck
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
as Mark of Cornwall
Kidnapped
as Cluny MacPherson
The Greatest Store in the World
as Mr. Scottley
Life After Flash
as Self
Shed of the Dead
as Narrator (voice)
Peppa's Cinema Party
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
as Old Deuteronomy
448 BC: Olympiad of Ancient Hellas
as Narrator
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Geoffrey Lyons
Tales of Television Centre
as Self
Back in the USSR
as Chazov
The Conclave
as Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin
The Bruce
as Edward I
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
as Self
Prisoner of Honor
as Gen. Gonse
Agent Crush
as Boris Goudphater (voice)
The Master of Ballantrae
as Captain Teach
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as El Supremo (voice)
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
as King Yrcanos
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
as Wild Boar (voice)
Wine of India
as Will
Cosmic Princess
as Mentor
Son of Man
as Peter
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
A Christmas Carol
as Narrator (voice)
Till Death Us Do Part
as Sergeant
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
as Sir Gregory (voice)
Exam Conditions
as Mr. Carksdale
Eugenius!
as Space Lord
Back in Business
as Trevor Pilkington
The Double Agent
as Reg Sugden
Macbeth
as Edward the Confessor
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
David Macaulay: Cathedral
as Master Guillaume (voice)
Into Infinity
as Dr. Tom Bowen
Blood and Dust
as Chatillon
The Mumbo Jumbo
as Lucifer Bounder
Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!
as Narrator
Devil's Harvest
as Father Gabriel Norton
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
as Self
The Castle of Adventure
as Sam
King Lear
as King Lear
Chasing the Deer
as Maj. Elliot
The Old Man Of The Mountain
as Narrator
The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
A Midsummer Nightmare
as Det Sgt George Briggs
The Bristol Entertainment
as Cabot / Wolstan / Pocock / Colston / Pope Gregory / Dr. Beddoes
Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape
as Self
Blake's 7: The Beginning
as Vargas
Wojtek: The Bear That Went to War
as Narrator
David Macaulay: Castle
as Voice
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
as Detective Jack Noonan
The Dark Side of Everest
as Self
Old Rococo: The Life of Gioacchino Rossini
as Voice of Rossini
The Christmas Tree
Mr. Bojagi
as Mr. Bojagi
Galahad of Everest
as George Mallory/Self
The Making of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
as Self - Actor
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
as Sir Gregory(voice)
Genius: Pythagoras
as Self
Dear Mr. Burton
as Narrator