Brian Blessed

Brian Blessed

Acting
Born 1936-10-09Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
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.

Titles

Trollhunters: El despertar de los titanes
Trollhunters: El despertar de los titanes
Charlemagne (voice) • 2021
Película
8/10
Shed of the Dead
Shed of the Dead
Narrator (voice) • 2019
Película
5/10
Robin Hood: The Rebellion
Robin Hood: The Rebellion
Friar Tuck • 2018
Película
5/10
Life After Flash
Life After Flash
Self • 2017
Película
6/10
El regreso de Dorothy al mundo de Oz
El regreso de Dorothy al mundo de Oz
Judge Jawbreaker (voice) • 2014
Película
6/10
¡Piratas!
¡Piratas!
The Pirate King (voice) • 2012
Película
7/10
Lego Star Wars: El imperio contra todos
Lego Star Wars: El imperio contra todos
Boss Nass (voice) • 2012
Película
6/10
The Conclave
The Conclave
Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin • 2007
Película
6/10
Como gustéis
Como gustéis
Duke Senior/Duke Frederick • 2006
Película
6/10
El inquisidor
El inquisidor
Lord Francisco del Ruiz • 2006
Película
4/10
Peppa Pig
Peppa Pig
Grampy Rabbit (voice) • 2004
Serie
7/10
Tarzán
Tarzán
Clayton (voice) • 1999
Película
7/10
La guerra de las galaxias. Episodio I: La amenaza fantasma
La guerra de las galaxias. Episodio I: La amenaza fantasma
Boss Nass (voice) • 1999
Película
7/10
Hamlet
Hamlet
Ghost of Hamlet's Father • 1996
Película
7/10
Catalina la Grande
Catalina la Grande
Bestuzhev • 1996
Película
6/10
MacGyver y el tesoro perdido de la Atlántida
MacGyver y el tesoro perdido de la Atlántida
Atticus • 1994
Película
6/10
Mucho ruido y pocas nueces
Mucho ruido y pocas nueces
Antonio • 1993
Película
7/10
Robin Hood, príncipe de los ladrones
Robin Hood, príncipe de los ladrones
Lord Locksley • 1991
Película
7/10
Enrique V
Enrique V
Exeter • 1989
Película
7/10
El perro de los Baskerville
El perro de los Baskerville
Geoffrey Lyons • 1983
Película
7/10
La gran ruta hacia China
La gran ruta hacia China
Suleman Khan • 1983
Película
6/10
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon
Prince Vultan • 1980
Película
6/10
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Suffolk • 1972
Película
6/10
El último valle
El último valle
Korski • 1971
Película
6/10
Las Troyanas
Las Troyanas
Talthybius • 1971
Película
6/10
Till Death Us Do Part
Till Death Us Do Part
Sergeant • 1969
Película
7/10