Brian Blessed
Acting
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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 Henr...
Known For
Filmography
Dudley & the Invasion of the Space Slugs
2027
as Arthur (voice)
Space: 1999 4K Double Bill - Breakaway and The Metamorph
2026
as Mentor
Time Travel Is Dangerous!
2025
as Gavin the Octopus (voice)
Peppa's Cinema Party
2024
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
Peppa Pig: Wedding Party!
2024
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
2022
as Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!
2022
as Narrator
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self – Actor
Best & Bester
2022
as Shouty Shirt (Voice)
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
2021
as Charlemagne (voice)
Peter O'Toole Réalta & Rógaire
2021
as Self
Blankety Blank
2021
as Self - Panellist
Eugenius!
2020
as Space Lord
Dear Mr. Burton
2020
as Narrator
Close Enough
2020
as Sir Jack Kleghorn (voice)
Shed of the Dead
2019
as Narrator (voice)
Robin Hood: The Rebellion
2018
as Friar Tuck
Life After Flash
2017
as Self
The Russell Howard Hour
2017
as Self
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
2015
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
Danger Mouse
2015
as Santa Claus (voice)
The Seventeenth Kind
2014
as The Voice (voice)
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
2014
as Judge Jawbreaker (voice)
Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape
2014
as Self
The Kumars
2014
as Self
Was It Something I Said?
2013
as Self - Narrator
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
2012
as The Pirate King (voice)
LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out
2012
as Boss Nass (voice)
Tales of Television Centre
2012
as Self
So You Want To Be A Pirate!
2012
as The Pirate King
Wizards vs Aliens
2012
as The Nekross King (voice)
Wojtek: The Bear That Went to War
2011
as Narrator
Sooty
2011
as Father Christmas
The Amazing World of Gumball
2011
as Santa Claus (voice)
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
as Self - Participant
Mr. Bojagi
2010
as Mr. Bojagi
Fee Fi Fo Yum
2010
as GTV Announcer
Take Me Out
2010
as Announcer (voice)
In Confidence
2010
The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
2008
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
as Self
Agent Crush
2008
as Boris Goudphater (voice)
The Underdog Show
2008
All Star Mr & Mrs
2008
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
Back in Business
2007
as Trevor Pilkington
Britain's Got More Talent
2007
as Self - Narrator
Would I Lie to You?
2007
as Self
Saving Planet Earth UK
2007
as Himself - Presenter
The Conclave
2006
as Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin
Day of Wrath
2006
as Lord Francisco del Ruiz
As You Like It
2006
as Duke Senior/Duke Frederick
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2006
as Sir Gregory (voice)
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
2005
as Sir Gregory(voice)
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
as King Richard IV (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alexander
2004
as Wrestling Trainer
448 BC: Olympiad of Ancient Hellas
2004
as Narrator
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
as Wild Boar (voice)
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
Peppa Pig
2004
as Grampy Rabbit (voice)
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
as Self
Devil's Harvest
2003
as Father Gabriel Norton
The Dark Side of Everest
2003
as Self
The Royal
2003
as Sir Edward Fawcett
QI
2003
as Self
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
2002
as Self
The Making of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
2002
as Self - Actor
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2002
as Self
Fun at the Funeral Parlour
2001
The Mumbo Jumbo
2000
as Lucifer Bounder
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
Tarzan
1999
as Clayton (voice)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999
as Boss Nass (voice)
The Greatest Store in the World
1999
as Mr. Scottley
King Lear
1999
as King Lear
Family Guy
1999
as Prince Vultan (voice)
The Big Knights
1999
as Sir Morris
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
1998
as Old Deuteronomy
The Heaven and Earth Show
1998
Fantasy World Cup
1998
as Self
Macbeth
1997
as Edward the Confessor
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
as Squire Western
Hamlet
1996
as Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Catherine the Great
1996
as Bestuzhev
The Bruce
1996
as Edward I
Genius: Pythagoras
1996
as Self
Summit Fever
1996
as Self
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996
as Captain (voice)
Kidnapped
1995
as Cluny MacPherson
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995
Soccer AM
1995
as Self
Johnny and the Dead
1995
as William Stickers
MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis
1994
as Atticus
Chasing the Deer
1994
as Maj. Elliot
David Macaulay: Roman City
1994
as Gaius Valerius (voice)
Much Ado About Nothing
1993
as Antonio
GMTV
1993
as Self
Sooty & Co.
1993
as Santa Claus
Lady Chatterley
1993
as Petty Officer
Old Rococo: The Life of Gioacchino Rossini
1992
as Voice of Rossini
Exam Conditions
1992
as Mr. Carksdale
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
1992
as El Supremo (voice)
Back in the USSR
1992
as Chazov
Blood and Dust
1992
as Chatillon
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991
as Lord Locksley
Prisoner of Honor
1991
as Gen. Gonse
Galahad of Everest
1991
as George Mallory/Self
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self
The Castle of Adventure
1990
as Sam
Have I Got News for You
1990
as Self - Host
The Castle of Adventure
1990
as Sam
Henry V
1989
as Exeter
The Old Man Of The Mountain
1989
as Narrator
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
as Ankhaf (voice)
A Question of Entertainment
1988
War and Remembrance
1988
as Yevlenko
My Family and Other Animals
1987
as Spiro
The Gnostics
1987
as Guilhabert De Castres
Crossbow
1987
David Macaulay: Cathedral
1986
as Master Guillaume (voice)
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
1986
as King Yrcanos
Lovejoy
1986
as Harry Catapodis
John Silver's Return to Treasure Island
1986
as Long John Silver
Blake's 7: The Beginning
1985
as Vargas
The Master of Ballantrae
1984
as Captain Teach
The Last Days of Pompeii
1984
as Olinthus
High Road to China
1983
as Suleman Khan
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1983
as Geoffrey Lyons
David Macaulay: Castle
1983
as Voice
Blackadder
1983
as King Richard IV
Natural World
1983
Cosmic Princess
1982
as Mentor
The Kenny Everett Television Show
1982
as Self
The Little World of Don Camillo
1981
as Peppone
Flash Gordon
1980
as Prince Vultan
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
1979
as Detective Jack Noonan
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Detective Sergeant Jack Nolan
Minder
1979
as Freddie Dyer
The Aphrodite Inheritance
1979
as Basileos
Blake's 7
1978
as Vargas
A Christmas Carol
1977
as Narrator (voice)
The Eagle Has Landed
1976
as Arthur Seymour (voice) (uncredited)
I, Claudius
1976
as Augustus
Nobody's House
1976
as Jack Treadful
The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity
1975
as Dr. Tom Bowen
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
1975
as Mark of Cornwall
A Midsummer Nightmare
1975
as Det Sgt George Briggs
The Sweeney
1975
as Frank Kemble
Survivors
1975
as Brod
The Day After Tomorrow
1975
as Dr. Tom Bowen
Space: 1999
1975
as Mentor
Space: 1999
1975
as Cabot Rowland
Boy Dominic
1974
as William Woodcock
Churchill's People
1974
as Guthrum
Notorious Woman
1974
as Albert Grzymala
Thriller
1973
as Det Sgt George Briggs
European Heritage
1973
as Narrator (voice)
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972
as Suffolk
Man of La Mancha
1972
as Pedro
Shirley's World
1972
Arthur of the Britons
1972
as Mark of Cornwall
The Last Valley
1971
as Korski
The Trojan Women
1971
as Talthybius
The Bristol Entertainment
1971
as Cabot / Wolstan / Pocock / Colston / Pope Gregory / Dr. Beddoes
Justice
1971
as Tiger Lawson
Wine of India
1970
as Will
Brotherly Love
1970
as Jack Baird
Till Death Us Do Part
1969
as Sergeant
The Double Agent
1969
as Reg Sugden
Son of Man
1969
as Peter
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
1969
as Jim Lawsey
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Ted Gissing
The Expert
1968
as Hubert Innes
Cold Comfort Farm
1968
as Reuben Starkadder
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
1967
as Porthos
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Reg Sugden
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Jim Carter
The Christmas Tree
1966
The Three Musketeers
1966
as Porthos
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Sgt. Kite
Public Eye
1965
as Rev. William Pratt
The Troubleshooters
1965
as Eddie Barnaby
The Wednesday Play
1964
as Peter
The Wednesday Play
1964
as Will
Doctor Who
1963
as King Yrcanos
Z-Cars
1962
as PC Smith
Z-Cars
1962
as PC Fancy Smith
Z-Cars
1962
as PC William "Fancy" Smith
The Avengers
1961
as Sergeant Hearn
The Avengers
1961
as Mark Dayton
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Captain Teach