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