Brian Blessed
Actor

Brian Blessed

7 Movies
1 TV Shows
8 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 8
Birthday October 9, 1936 (89 years old)
Place of Birth Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As B. Blessed, Ψ¨Ψ±Ψ§ΫŒΨ§Ω† Ψ¨Ω„Ψ³Ψ―
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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 (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.

Filmography (182)

Time Travel Is Dangerous! 2025
Peppa's Cinema Party 2024
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party! 2024
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years 2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba 2022
Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth! 2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg 2022
Best & Bester 2022
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans 2021
Blankety Blank 2021
Eugenius! 2020
Dear Mr. Burton 2020
Close Enough 2020
Shed of the Dead 2019
Robin Hood: The Rebellion 2018
Life After Flash 2017
The Russell Howard Hour 2017
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots 2015
Danger Mouse 2015
The Seventeenth Kind 2014
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return 2014
Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape 2014
The Kumars 2014
Was It Something I Said? 2013
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! 2012
LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out 2012
Tales of Television Centre 2012
So You Want To Be A Pirate! 2012
Wizards vs Aliens 2012
Wojtek: The Bear That Went to War 2011
Sooty 2011
The Amazing World of Gumball 2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 2011
Mr. Bojagi 2010
Fee Fi Fo Yum 2010
Take Me Out 2010
In Confidence 2010
The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord 2008
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments 2008
Agent Crush 2008
The Underdog Show 2008
All Star Mr & Mrs 2008
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas 2007
Back in Business 2007
Britain's Got More Talent 2007
Would I Lie to You? 2007
Saving Planet Earth UK 2007
The Conclave 2006
Day of Wrath 2006
As You Like It 2006
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy 2006
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy 2005
Alexander 2004
448 BC: Olympiad of Ancient Hellas 2004
The Legend of the Tamworth Two 2004
The Paul O'Grady Show 2004
Peppa Pig 2004
Who Do You Think You Are? 2004
Devil's Harvest 2003
The Dark Side of Everest 2003
The Royal 2003
QI 2003
I, Claudius: A Television Epic 2002
The Making of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 2002
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway 2002
Fun at the Funeral Parlour 2001
The Mumbo Jumbo 2000
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything 2000
Tarzan 1999 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999
The Greatest Store in the World 1999
King Lear 1999
Family Guy 1999
The Big Knights 1999
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh 1998
The Heaven and Earth Show 1998
Fantasy World Cup 1998
Macbeth 1997
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling 1997
Hamlet 1996
Catherine the Great 1996
The Bruce 1996
Genius: Pythagoras 1996
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher 1996
Kidnapped 1995
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond 1995
Soccer AM 1995
Johnny and the Dead 1995
MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis 1994
Chasing the Deer 1994
David Macaulay: Roman City 1994
Much Ado About Nothing 1993
GMTV 1993
Sooty & Co. 1993
Lady Chatterley 1993
Old Rococo: The Life of Gioacchino Rossini 1992
Exam Conditions 1992
Freddie As F.R.O.7. 1992
Back in the USSR 1992
Blood and Dust 1992
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 1991
Prisoner of Honor 1991
Galahad of Everest 1991
Pebble Mill 1991
The Castle of Adventure 1990
Have I Got News for You 1990
The Castle of Adventure 1990
Henry V 1989
The Old Man Of The Mountain 1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid 1989
A Question of Entertainment 1988
War and Remembrance 1988
My Family and Other Animals 1987
The Gnostics 1987
Crossbow 1987
David Macaulay: Cathedral 1986
Doctor Who: Mindwarp 1986
Lovejoy 1986
John Silver's Return to Treasure Island 1986
Blake's 7: The Beginning 1985
The Master of Ballantrae 1984
The Last Days of Pompeii 1984
High Road to China 1983
The Hound of the Baskervilles 1983
David Macaulay: Castle 1983
Blackadder 1983
Natural World 1983
Cosmic Princess 1982
The Kenny Everett Television Show 1982
The Little World of Don Camillo 1981
Flash Gordon 1980
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter 1979
Tales of the Unexpected 1979
Minder 1979
The Aphrodite Inheritance 1979
Blake's 7 1978
A Christmas Carol 1977
The Eagle Has Landed 1976
I, Claudius 1976
Nobody's House 1976
Into Infinity 1975
King Arthur, the Young Warlord 1975
A Midsummer Nightmare 1975
The Sweeney 1975
Survivors 1975
The Day After Tomorrow 1975
Space: 1999 1975
Boy Dominic 1974
Churchill's People 1974
Notorious Woman 1974
Thriller 1973
European Heritage 1973
Henry VIII and His Six Wives 1972
Man of La Mancha 1972
Shirley's World 1972
Arthur of the Britons 1972
The Last Valley 1971
The Trojan Women 1971
The Bristol Entertainment 1971
Justice 1971
Wine of India 1970
Brotherly Love 1970
Till Death Us Do Part 1969
The Double Agent 1969
Son of Man 1969
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) 1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre 1969
The Expert 1968
Cold Comfort Farm 1968
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers 1967
ITV Playhouse 1967
The Christmas Tree 1966
The Three Musketeers 1966
BBC Play of the Month 1965
Public Eye 1965
The Troubleshooters 1965
The Wednesday Play 1964
Doctor Who 1963
Z-Cars 1962
The Avengers 1961
Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951
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