Brian Blessed
Age: N/A | From: Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: B. Blessed , برایان بلسد
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
Homepage: https://www.gordonpoole.com/talent/brian-blessed/
Movie Involvements: 62
TV Involvements: 40
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Doctor Who
(1963) King Yrcanos
Tales of the Unexpected
(1979) Detective Sergeant Jack Nolan
Justice
(1971) Tiger Lawson
Blake's 7
(1978) Vargas
Who Do You Think You Are?
(2004) Self
Z-Cars
(1962) PC William "Fancy" Smith
Peppa Pig
(2004) Grampy Rabbit (voice)
The Avengers
(1961) Mark DaytonActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Self | |
| Narrator | ||
| Self – Actor | ||
| Self | ||
| 2021 | Self - Panellist | |
| Charlemagne (voice) | ||
| 2020 | Narrator | |
| Sir Jack Kleghorn (voice) | ||
| Space Lord | ||
| 2019 | Narrator (voice) | |
| 2018 | Friar Tuck | |
| 2017 | Self | |
| 2015 | Santa Claus (voice) | |
| 2014 | Self | |
| The Voice (voice) | ||
| Judge Jawbreaker (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| 2012 | The Nekross King (voice) | |
| Boss Nass (voice) | ||
| The Pirate King | ||
| N/A | ||
| Pirate King (voice) | ||
| 2011 | Narrator | |
| Father Christmas | ||
| Santa Claus (voice) | ||
| 2010 | GTV Announcer | |
| Mr. Bojagi | ||
| Announcer (voice) | ||
| 2008 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2007 | Himself - Presenter | |
| Self | ||
| Self - Narrator | ||
| Trevor Pilkington | ||
| Self | ||
| 2006 | Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin | |
| Duke Senior/Duke Frederick | ||
| Sir Gregory | ||
| Lord Francisco del Ruiz | ||
| 2004 | Narrator | |
| Wrestling Trainer | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| Grampy Rabbit (voice) | ||
| Wild Boar (voice) | ||
| 2003 | Self | |
| Sir Edward Fawcett | ||
| Father Gabriel Norton | ||
| Self | ||
| 2002 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 2001 | N/A | |
| 2000 | Lucifer Bounder | |
| N/A | ||
| 1999 | Mr. Scottley | |
| Clayton (voice) | ||
| Boss Nass (voice) | ||
| Prince Vultan (voice) | ||
| King Lear | ||
| 1998 | Old Deuteronomy | |
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| 1997 | Squire Western | |
| Edward the Confessor | ||
| 1996 | Ghost of Hamlet's Father | |
| Bestuzhev | ||
| Edward I | ||
| Captain (voice) | ||
| 1995 | Cluny MacPherson | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Stickers | ||
| 1994 | Maj. Elliot | |
| Atticus | ||
| Gaius Valerius (voice) | ||
| 1993 | Santa Claus | |
| Antonio | ||
| Self | ||
| 1992 | El Supremo (voice) | |
| Mr. Carksdale | ||
| Chazov | ||
| Voice of Rossini | ||
| 1991 | George Mallory/Self | |
| Gen. Gonse | ||
| Self | ||
| Lord Locksley | ||
| 1990 | Sam | |
| 1989 | Exeter | |
| Ankhaf (voice) | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1988 | N/A | |
| 1987 | Spiro | |
| 1986 | King Yrcanos | |
| Master Guillaume (voice) | ||
| Long John Silver | ||
| Harry Catapodis | ||
| 1984 | Olinthus | |
| Captain Teach | ||
| 1983 | Geoffrey Lyons | |
| N/A | ||
| King Richard IV | ||
| Suleman Khan | ||
| Voice | ||
| 1982 | Mentor | |
| Self | ||
| 1981 | Peppone | |
| 1980 | Prince Vultan | |
| 1979 | Freddie Dyer | |
| Detective Sergeant Jack Nolan | ||
| Basileos | ||
| 1978 | Vargas | |
| 1977 | Narrator | |
| 1976 | Arthur Seymour (voice) (uncredited) | |
| N/A | ||
| Augustus | ||
| 1975 | Dr. Tom Bowen | |
| Dr. Tom Bowen | ||
| N/A | ||
| Cabot Rowland | ||
| Mentor | ||
| Brod | ||
| Frank Kemble | ||
| Mark of Cornwall | ||
| 1974 | N/A | |
| William Woodcock | ||
| 1973 | Det Sgt George Briggs | |
| 1972 | Pedro | |
| Mark of Cornwall | ||
| Suffolk | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1971 | Tiger Lawson | |
| Talthybius | ||
| Korski | ||
| 1970 | Will | |
| Jack Baird | ||
| 1969 | Jim Lawsey | |
| Sergeant | ||
| 1968 | Hubert Innes | |
| Reuben Starkadder | ||
| 1967 | Porthos | |
| 1966 | N/A | |
| Porthos | ||
| 1965 | Sgt. Kite | |
| Rev. William Pratt | ||
| 1963 | King Yrcanos | |
| 1962 | PC Smith | |
| PC Fancy Smith | ||
| PC William "Fancy" Smith | ||
| 1961 | Sergeant Hearn | |
| Mark Dayton | ||
| 1951 | Captain Teach | |
| Self - Presenter | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |