Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed is an English actor. He is known for his distinctive bushy beard, loud 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; Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon; Bustopher Jones and Old Deuteronomy in the 1981 original London production of Cats at the New London Theatre; King Richard IV in the first series of Blackadder; 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.
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🎬 Movies
Dudley & the Invasion of the Space Slugs
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2026
Time Travel Is Dangerous!
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2025
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
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2021
Shed of the Dead
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2019
Robin Hood: The Rebellion
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2018
Life After Flash
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2017
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
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2014
LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out
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2012
So You Want To Be A Pirate!
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2012
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
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2012
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
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2008
Agent Crush
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2008
Back in Business
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2007
The Conclave
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2006
As You Like It
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2006
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
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2006
Day of Wrath
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2006
The Making of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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2002
Tarzan
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1999
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
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1999
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
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1998
Hamlet
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1996
Catherine the Great
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1996
MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis
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1994
Much Ado About Nothing
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1993
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
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1992
Back in the USSR
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1992
Prisoner of Honor
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1991
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
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1991
Henry V
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1989
The Master of Ballantrae
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1984
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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1983
High Road to China
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1983
Cosmic Princess
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1982
Flash Gordon
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1980
Man of La Mancha
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1972
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
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1972
The Last Valley
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1971
Brotherly Love
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1970
📺 TV Shows
Worzel Gummidge
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2019
Small Fortune
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2019
Wizards vs Aliens
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2012
Fee Fi Fo Yum
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2010
The Legend of Dick and Dom
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2009
Little Princess
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2007
Crash Test Dummies
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2007
The Big Knights
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1999
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
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1997
My Family and Other Animals
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1987
Return to Treasure Island
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1986
Blackadder
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1983
The Aphrodite Inheritance
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1979
I, Claudius
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1976
Arthur of the Britons
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1972
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
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1967
Z Cars
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1962