Brian Blessed
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1936-10-09 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also known As
B. Blessed
برایان بلسد
Brian Blessed
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 ...
Acting
2007
2003
as Father Gabriel Norton
1996
as Ghost of Hamlet's Father
1980
as Prince Vultan
1989
as Exeter
2007
as Trevor Pilkington
1991
as Lord Locksley
1993
as Antonio
1975
as Dr. Tom Bowen
1977
as Narrator (voice)
1992
as Voice of Rossini
1971
as Korski
1969
as Sergeant
1999
as Clayton (voice)
1970
as Will
1971
as Talthybius
2000
as Lucifer Bounder
1982
as Mentor
2007
as Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin
1996
as Bestuzhev
1994
as Atticus
1990
as Sam
1972
as Suffolk
2012
as The Pirate King (voice)
2003
as Self
2022
as Self
1992
as Mr. Carksdale
1995
as Cluny MacPherson
1992
as El Supremo (voice)
1970
as Jack Baird
1984
as Captain Teach
2022
2011
as Narrator
1998
as Old Deuteronomy
1991
as Gen. Gonse
2014
as The Voice (voice)
1997
as Edward the Confessor
2014
as Judge Jawbreaker (voice)
1983
as Suleman Khan
1991
as George Mallory/Self
1972
as Pedro
1996
as Edward I
2022
as Narrator
2006
as Lord Francisco del Ruiz
2012
as Boss Nass (voice)
1999
as Boss Nass (voice)
2015
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
1996
as Self
1989
as Narrator
1999
as Mr. Scottley
2012
as Self
1969
as Reg Sugden
1976
as Arthur Seymour (voice) (uncredited)
1975
as Mark of Cornwall
2014
1992
as Chazov
1992
as Chatillon
2004
as Wrestling Trainer
1999
as King Lear
2010
as Mr. Bojagi
2024
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
1994
as Maj. Elliot
2006
as Duke Senior/Duke Frederick
2012
as The Pirate King
1983
as Geoffrey Lyons
2006
as Sir Gregory
2019
as Narrator (voice)
2017
as Self
2004
as Narrator
2018
as Friar Tuck
1994
as Gaius Valerius (voice)
1989
as Ankhaf (voice)
1983
as Voice
1986
as Master Guillaume (voice)
2004
as Wild Boar (voice)
2020
as Space Lord
2002
2021
as Charlemagne (voice)
1986
as King Yrcanos
2020
as Narrator
1975
as Det Sgt George Briggs
2008
1969
as Peter
2008
as Boris Goudphater (voice)
2024
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
1971
as Cabot, Wolstan, Pocock, Colston, Pope Gregory, Dr. Beddoes
Production
1999
as Director
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