Cast
Brian Blessed
Acting
Cast
Brian Blessed
Known for
Acting
Born
1936-10-09
From
Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also known as B. Blessed, Ψ¨Ψ±Ψ§ΫΨ§Ω Ψ¨ΩΨ³Ψ―
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 β 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 (nΓ©e 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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MOVIE1999
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
as Boss Nass (voice)
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7.4
MOVIE1999
Tarzan
as Clayton (voice)
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6.0
MOVIE2004
Alexander
as Wrestling Trainer
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6.9
MOVIE1991
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
as Lord Locksley
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6.5
MOVIE2012
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
as The Pirate King (voice)
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7.6
MOVIE2021
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Charlemagne (voice)
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7.0
MOVIE1993
Much Ado About Nothing
as Antonio
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6.3
MOVIE1980
Flash Gordon
as Prince Vultan
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6.6
MOVIE1976
The Eagle Has Landed
as Arthur Seymour (voice) (uncredited)
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6.3
MOVIE2014
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
as Judge Jawbreaker (voice)
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6.3
MOVIE1971
The Trojan Women
as Talthybius
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6.5
MOVIE1970
Brotherly Love
as Jack Baird
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7.3
MOVIE1996
Hamlet
as Ghost of Hamlet's Father
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6.4
MOVIE1996
The Bruce
as Edward I
MOVIE1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid
as Ankhaf (voice)
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5.3
MOVIE2025
Time Travel Is Dangerous!
as Gavin the Octopus (voice)
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7.1
MOVIE1989
Henry V
as Exeter
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4.0
MOVIE2024
Peppa's Cinema Party
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
MOVIE2026
Dudley & the Invasion of the Space Slugs
as Arthur (voice)
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6.5
MOVIE2012
LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out
as Boss Nass (voice)
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6.5
MOVIE1971
The Last Valley
as Korski
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5.8
MOVIE2006
As You Like It
as Duke Senior/Duke Frederick
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7.7
MOVIE1986
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
as King Yrcanos
MOVIE1992
Exam Conditions
as Mr. Carksdale
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6.0
MOVIE1983
High Road to China
as Suleman Khan
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6.5
MOVIE2005
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
as King Richard IV (archive footage) (uncredited)
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5.0
MOVIE2018
Robin Hood: The Rebellion
as Friar Tuck
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9.0
MOVIE1985
Blake's 7: The Beginning
as Vargas
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8.0
MOVIE2004
448 BC: Olympiad of Ancient Hellas
as Narrator
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5.6
MOVIE1996
Catherine the Great
as Bestuzhev
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5.3
MOVIE1992
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as El Supremo (voice)
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4.6
MOVIE1975
The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity
as Dr. Tom Bowen
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5.8
MOVIE1972
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Suffolk
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6.3
MOVIE1994
MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis
as Atticus
MOVIE2014
The Seventeenth Kind
as The Voice (voice)
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5.6
MOVIE2017
Life After Flash
as Self
MOVIE1986
David Macaulay: Cathedral
as Master Guillaume (voice)
β
6.5
MOVIE1983
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Geoffrey Lyons
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7.0
MOVIE2002
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
as Self
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6.3
MOVIE1984
The Master of Ballantrae
as Captain Teach
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4.8
MOVIE2008
Agent Crush
as Boris Goudphater (voice)
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4.3
MOVIE2006
Day of Wrath
as Lord Francisco del Ruiz
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6.6
MOVIE1972
Man of La Mancha
as Pedro
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7.6
MOVIE1969
Till Death Us Do Part
as Sergeant
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5.6
MOVIE1999
The Greatest Store in the World
as Mr. Scottley
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5.4
MOVIE1982
Cosmic Princess
as Mentor
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10.0
MOVIE2024
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
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6.2
MOVIE2012
So You Want To Be A Pirate!
as The Pirate King
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10.0
MOVIE1970
Wine of India
as Will
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5.0
MOVIE1992
Back in the USSR
as Chazov
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7.8
MOVIE2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
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6.7
MOVIE1998
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
as Old Deuteronomy
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4.9
MOVIE2019
Shed of the Dead
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE1969
The Double Agent
as Reg Sugden
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5.0
MOVIE2004
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
as Wild Boar (voice)
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5.9
MOVIE2006
The Conclave
as Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin
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6.3
MOVIE1991
Prisoner of Honor
as Gen. Gonse
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6.7
MOVIE1977
A Christmas Carol
as Narrator (voice)
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4.5
MOVIE2008
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
as Self
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6.3
MOVIE1995
Kidnapped
as Cluny MacPherson
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10.0
MOVIE1969
Son of Man
as Peter
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9.0
MOVIE2003
The Dark Side of Everest
as Self
MOVIE2022
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
as Self
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7.0
MOVIE1966
The Christmas Tree
MOVIE2005
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
as Sir Gregory(voice)
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8.0
MOVIE1975
A Midsummer Nightmare
as Det Sgt George Briggs
MOVIE2002
The Making of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
as Self - Actor
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10.0
MOVIE2015
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
β
9.0
MOVIE1994
David Macaulay: Roman City
as Gaius Valerius (voice)
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5.7
MOVIE1994
Chasing the Deer
as Maj. Elliot
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7.0
MOVIE2006
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
as Sir Gregory (voice)
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8.0
MOVIE2012
Tales of Television Centre
as Self
MOVIE2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
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7.0
MOVIE1992
Blood and Dust
as Chatillon
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8.7
MOVIE1991
Galahad of Everest
as George Mallory/Self
MOVIE1979
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
as Detective Jack Noonan
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6.0
MOVIE1983
David Macaulay: Castle
as Voice
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8.5
MOVIE2020
Eugenius!
as Space Lord
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7.0
MOVIE2000
The Mumbo Jumbo
as Lucifer Bounder
β
7.0
MOVIE1995
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
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7.8
MOVIE1990
The Castle of Adventure
as Sam
MOVIE2014
Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape
as Self
MOVIE1996
Genius: Pythagoras
as Self
MOVIE2008
The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
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9.0
MOVIE1999
King Lear
as King Lear
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7.0
MOVIE1975
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
as Mark of Cornwall
MOVIE1971
The Bristol Entertainment
as Cabot / Wolstan / Pocock / Colston / Pope Gregory / Dr. Beddoes
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7.0
MOVIE1997
Macbeth
as Edward the Confessor
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2.4
MOVIE2003
Devil's Harvest
as Father Gabriel Norton
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5.0
MOVIE2007
Back in Business
as Trevor Pilkington
MOVIE2010
Mr. Bojagi
as Mr. Bojagi
MOVIE1992
Old Rococo: The Life of Gioacchino Rossini
as Voice of Rossini
MOVIE2020
Dear Mr. Burton
as Narrator
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5.8
MOVIE2011
Wojtek: The Bear That Went to War
as Narrator
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9.0
MOVIE1989
The Old Man Of The Mountain
as Narrator
MOVIE2022
Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!
as Narrator