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.
as Self - Presenter(2 eps)
as Arthur (voice)
as Gavin the Octopus (voice)
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
as Narrator
as Self – Actor(1 ep)
as Shouty Shirt (Voice)(52 eps)
as Self
as Self - Panellist(1 ep)
as Charlemagne (voice)
as Narrator
as Sir Jack Kleghorn (voice)(1 ep)
as Space Lord
as Narrator (voice)
as Friar Tuck
as Odin
as Self
as Self(1 ep)
as Santa Claus (voice)(1 ep)
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
as The Voice (voice)
as Judge Jawbreaker (voice)
as Self(1 ep)
as Self - Narrator(1 ep)
as The Nekross King (voice)(36 eps)
as Boss Nass (voice)
as The Pirate King
as Self
as The Pirate King (voice)
as Self - Participant(1 ep)
as Narrator
as Father Christmas(1 ep)
as Santa Claus (voice)(1 ep)
as GTV Announcer(1 ep)
as Mr. Bojagi
as Announcer (voice)(9 eps)
as Boris Goudphater (voice)
as Himself - Presenter(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Self - Narrator(17 eps)
as Trevor Pilkington
as Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin
as Duke Senior/Duke Frederick
as Sir Gregory (voice)
as Lord Francisco del Ruiz
as Sir Gregory(voice)
as King Richard IV (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Narrator
as Wrestling Trainer
as Self(1 ep)
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)(388 eps)
as Wild Boar (voice)
as Self(1 ep)
as Sir Edward Fawcett(1 ep)
as Father Gabriel Norton
as Self
as Self - Actor
as Self(1 ep)
as Lucifer Bounder
as Mr. Scottley
as Sir Morris (voice)(13 eps)
as Clayton (voice)
as Boss Nass (voice)
as Prince Vultan (voice)(1 ep)
as King Lear
as Old Deuteronomy
as Self(1 ep)
as Squire Western(5 eps)
as Edward the Confessor
as Ghost of Hamlet's Father
as Bestuzhev
as Edward I
as Captain (voice)(1 ep)
as Self
as Self
as Cluny MacPherson
as Self(1 ep)
as William Stickers(4 eps)
as Maj. Elliot
as Atticus
as Gaius Valerius (voice)
as Santa Claus(1 ep)
as Petty Officer(1 ep)
as Antonio
as Self(1 ep)
as Chatillon
as El Supremo (voice)
as Mr. Carksdale
as Chazov
as Voice of Rossini
as George Mallory/Self
as Gen. Gonse
as Self(2 eps)
as Lord Locksley
as Self - Host(2 eps)
as Sam
as Sam(8 eps)
as Exeter
as Ankhaf (voice)
as Narrator
as Yevlenko(1 ep)
as Spiro(10 eps)
as Guilhabert De Castres(4 eps)
as King Yrcanos
as Master Guillaume (voice)
as Long John Silver(10 eps)
as Lambert Sampson(1 ep)
as Harry Catapodis(2 eps)
as Vargas
as Olinthus(3 eps)
as Captain Teach
as Geoffrey Lyons
as King Richard IV(6 eps)
as Suleman Khan
as Voice
as Mentor
as Self(1 ep)
as Peppone(13 eps)
as Prince Vultan
as Freddie Dyer(1 ep)
as Detective Jack Noonan
as Detective Sergeant Jack Nolan(1 ep)
as Basileos(8 eps)
as Vargas(1 ep)
as Narrator (voice)
as Arthur Seymour (voice) (uncredited)
as Augustus(5 eps)
as Jack Treadful(1 ep)
as Dr. Tom Bowen
as Dr. Tom Bowen(1 ep)
as Det Sgt George Briggs
as Mentor(1 ep)
as Cabot Rowland(1 ep)
as Brod(1 ep)
as Frank Kemble(1 ep)
as Mark of Cornwall
as Guthrum(1 ep)
as Albert Grzymala(3 eps)
as William Woodcock(13 eps)
as Narrator (voice)(1 ep)
as Det Sgt George Briggs(1 ep)
as Pedro
as Mark of Cornwall(2 eps)
as Suffolk
as Cabot / Wolstan / Pocock / Colston / Pope Gregory / Dr. Beddoes
as Tiger Lawson(1 ep)
as Talthybius
as Korski
as Will
as Jack Baird
as Jim Lawsey(1 ep)
as Reg Sugden
as Peter
as Ted Gissing(1 ep)
as Sergeant
as Hubert Innes(1 ep)
as Reuben Starkadder(3 eps)
as Reg Sugden(1 ep)
as Jim Carter(1 ep)
as Porthos(16 eps)
as Porthos(10 eps)
as Sgt. Kite(1 ep)
as Eddie Barnaby(1 ep)
as Rev. William Pratt(1 ep)
as Peter(1 ep)
as Will(1 ep)
as King Yrcanos(4 eps)
as PC Smith(1 ep)
as PC Fancy Smith(1 ep)
as PC William "Fancy" Smith(170 eps)
as Sergeant Hearn(1 ep)
as Mark Dayton(1 ep)
as Captain Teach(1 ep)