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Brian Blessed
Known for: ActingBrian 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.
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Peppa Pig
as Grampy Rabbit (voice) 
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
as Boss Nass (voice) 
Tarzan
as Clayton (voice) 
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
as Lord Locksley 
Hamlet
as Ghost of Hamlet's Father 
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
as The Pirate King (voice) 
Flash Gordon
as Prince Vultan 
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
as Squire Western 
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Charlemagne (voice) 
Wizards vs Aliens
as The Nekross King (voice) 
Much Ado About Nothing
as Antonio 
Best & Bester
as Shouty Shirt (Voice) 
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
as Judge Jawbreaker (voice) 
Henry V
as Exeter 
The Last Days of Pompeii
as Olinthus 
Agent Crush
as Boris Goudphater (voice) 
John Silver's Return to Treasure Island
as Long John Silver 
As You Like It
as Duke Senior/Duke Frederick 
Take Me Out
as Announcer (voice) 
High Road to China
as Suleman Khan 
Robin Hood: The Rebellion
as Friar Tuck 
Day of Wrath
as Lord Francisco del Ruiz 
LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out
as Boss Nass (voice) 
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as El Supremo (voice) 
Man of La Mancha
as Pedro 
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Geoffrey Lyons 
Time Travel Is Dangerous!
as Gavin the Octopus (voice) 
David Macaulay: Pyramid
as Ankhaf (voice) 
The Last Valley
as Korski 
Shed of the Dead
as Narrator (voice) 
The Trojan Women
as Talthybius 
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Suffolk 
The Mumbo Jumbo
as Lucifer Bounder 
Life After Flash
as Self 
Back in the USSR
as Chazov 
Kidnapped
as Cluny MacPherson 
The Dark Side of Everest
as Self 
Prisoner of Honor
as Gen. Gonse 
Till Death Us Do Part
as Sergeant 
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
as Mark of Cornwall 
Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!
as Narrator 
David Macaulay: Roman City
as Gaius Valerius (voice) 
Devil's Harvest
as Father Gabriel Norton