Brian Blessed

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-10-09 (89 years old)

Place of Birth

Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK

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

2003

Devil's Harvest

as Father Gabriel Norton

1996

Hamlet

as Ghost of Hamlet's Father

1980

Flash Gordon

as Prince Vultan

1989

Henry V

as Exeter

2007

Back in Business

as Trevor Pilkington

1991

1975

Into Infinity

as Dr. Tom Bowen

1977

A Christmas Carol

as Narrator (voice)

1971

1969

1999

Tarzan

as Clayton (voice)

1970

1971

The Trojan Women

as Talthybius

2000

The Mumbo Jumbo

as Lucifer Bounder

1982

2007

The Conclave

as Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin

1996

2012

1992

Exam Conditions

as Mr. Carksdale

1995

Kidnapped

as Cluny MacPherson

1992

Freddie as F.R.O.7.

as El Supremo (voice)

1970

Brotherly Love

as Jack Baird

1984

The Master of Ballantrae

as Captain Teach

1991

Prisoner of Honor

as Gen. Gonse

2014

The Seventeenth Kind

as The Voice (voice)

1997

Macbeth

as Edward the Confessor

2014

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

as Judge Jawbreaker (voice)

1983

High Road to China

as Suleman Khan

1991

Galahad of Everest

as George Mallory/Self

1972

1996

The Bruce

as Edward I

2006

Day of Wrath

as Lord Francisco del Ruiz

2015

Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots

as Grampy Rabbit (voice)

1969

The Double Agent

as Reg Sugden

1976

The Eagle Has Landed

as Arthur Seymour (voice) (uncredited)

1975

1992

1992

Blood and Dust

as Chatillon

2004

Alexander

as Wrestling Trainer

1999

King Lear

as King Lear

2010

Mr. Bojagi

as Mr. Bojagi

2024

Peppa's Cinema Party

as Grampy Rabbit (voice)

1994

Chasing the Deer

as Maj. Elliot

2006

As You Like It

as Duke Senior/Duke Frederick

2012

So You Want To Be A Pirate!

as The Pirate King

1983

2019

Shed of the Dead

as Narrator (voice)

2017

2018

1994

David Macaulay: Roman City

as Gaius Valerius (voice)

1989

David Macaulay: Pyramid

as Ankhaf (voice)

1986

David Macaulay: Cathedral

as Master Guillaume (voice)

2004

The Legend of the Tamworth Two

as Wild Boar (voice)

2020

Eugenius!

as Space Lord

2021

Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

as Charlemagne (voice)

1986

Doctor Who: Mindwarp

as King Yrcanos

2020

Dear Mr. Burton

as Narrator

1975

A Midsummer Nightmare

as Det Sgt George Briggs

1969

Son of Man

as Peter

2008

Agent Crush

as Boris Goudphater (voice)

2024

Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!

as Grampy Rabbit (voice)

1971

The Bristol Entertainment

as Cabot, Wolstan, Pocock, Colston, Pope Gregory, Dr. Beddoes

Production

1999

King Lear

as Director

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