Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed OBE born 9 October 1936is an English actor He is known for his distinctive bushy beard booming voice and exuberant personality and performances He portrayed PC Fancy Smith in ZCars 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 Disneys 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 nÊe 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 Blesseds greatgreatgrandfather Jabez Blessed was the father of 13 children and worked as a china and glass dealer in Brigg Lincolnshire many of Blesseds 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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