Brian Blessed

Known for ActingBorn 1936-10-09 (age 89)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 "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.Read more

Movies & web series

Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!

Best & Bester

Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots

The Little World of Don Camillo

Wine of India

Son of Man

The Dark Side of Everest

King Lear

David Macaulay: Roman City

The Old Man Of The Mountain

Blake's 7: The Beginning

Eugenius!

The Expert

The Amazing World of Gumball

John Silver's Return to Treasure Island

Galahad of Everest

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Russell Howard Hour

Close Enough

Tales of Television Centre

448 BC: Olympiad of Ancient Hellas

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

The Big Knights

QI

Would I Lie to You?

The Royal

Public Eye

Blackadder

Nobody's House

Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

A Midsummer Nightmare

The Sweeney

War and Remembrance

Boy Dominic

Arthur of the Britons

Cold Comfort Farm

The Castle of Adventure

Wizards vs Aliens

I, Claudius

Sooty

Survivors

Doctor Who: Mindwarp

Doctor Who

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

The Avengers

Family Guy

Tarzan

The Further Adventures of the Musketeers