īlessed went to Bolton on Dearne Secondary Modern School, and completed his national service in the RAF Regiment before enrolling at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. 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's father died aged 99 his mother died aged 87. In 2016, Blessed was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the arts and charity.īlessed 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 is known for portraying 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 in Disney's Tarzan. Brian Blessed OBE ( / ˈ b l ɛ s ɪ d/ born 9 October 1936) is an English actor.
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