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Brian Blessed
Mexborough, 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…
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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.
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2027
Dudley & the Invasion of the Space Slugs
Movie Arthur (voice)
- 2026
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2025
Time Travel Is Dangerous!
Movie Gavin the Octopus (voice)
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2024
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
Movie Grampy Rabbit (voice)
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2024
Peppa's Cinema Party
Movie Grampy Rabbit (voice)
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2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Movie Self
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2022
Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!
Movie Narrator
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2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV show Self – Actor
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2022
Best & Bester
TV show Shouty Shirt (Voice)
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2022
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
Movie Self
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2021
Peter O'Toole Réalta & Rógaire
Movie Self
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2021
Blankety Blank
TV show Self - Panellist
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2021
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Movie Charlemagne (voice)
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2020
Dear Mr. Burton
Movie Narrator
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2020
Close Enough
TV show Sir Jack Kleghorn (voice)
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2020
Eugenius!
Movie Space Lord
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2019
Shed of the Dead
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2018
Robin Hood: The Rebellion
Movie Friar Tuck
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2017
Life After Flash
Movie Self
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2017
The Russell Howard Hour
TV show Self
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2015
Danger Mouse
TV show Santa Claus (voice)
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2015
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
Movie Grampy Rabbit (voice)
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2014
Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape
Movie Self
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2014
The Seventeenth Kind
Movie The Voice (voice)
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2014
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
Movie Judge Jawbreaker (voice)
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2014
The Kumars
TV show Self
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2013
Was It Something I Said?
TV show Self - Narrator
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2012
Wizards vs Aliens
TV show The Nekross King (voice)
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2012
LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out
Movie Boss Nass (voice)
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2012
So You Want To Be A Pirate!
Movie The Pirate King
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2012
Tales of Television Centre
Movie Self
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2012
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
Movie The Pirate King (voice)
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2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
TV show Self - Participant
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2011
Wojtek: The Bear That Went to War
Movie Narrator
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2011
Sooty
TV show Father Christmas
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2011
The Amazing World of Gumball
TV show Santa Claus (voice)
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2010
Fee Fi Fo Yum
TV show GTV Announcer
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2010
Mr. Bojagi
Movie Mr. Bojagi
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2010
In Confidence
TV show
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2010
Take Me Out
TV show Announcer (voice)
