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Brian Blessed
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Brian Blessed OBE (/ˈblɛsɪd/; born 9 October 1936) is an English actor, presenter, writer and mountaineer. Blessed 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. In 2016, Blessed was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the arts and charity.
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Space: 1999 4K Double Bill - Breakaway and The Metamorph
Time Travel Is Dangerous
Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Shed of the Dead
Robin Hood: The Rebellion
Life After Flash
Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape
Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape
The Seventeenth Kind
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out
So You Want To Be A Pirate!
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
Wojtek: The Bear That Went to War- BEBeheading Buddha
The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
Agent Crush
Back in Business
The Conclave
As You Like It
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
Day of Wrath
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy
448 BC: Olympiad of Ancient Hellas
The Dark Side of Everest
Devil's Harvest
The Making of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
I, Claudius: A Television Epic
The Mumbo Jumbo
Tarzan
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Macbeth
Catherine the Great
The Bruce
Kidnapped
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis
David Macaulay: Roman City
Chasing the Deer
Much Ado About Nothing
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
Prisoner of Honor
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves- WAWaiting for Godot
Henry V
David Macaulay: Pyramid
David Macaulay: Cathedral
The Master of Ballantrae
The Hound of the Baskervilles
High Road to China
Flash Gordon
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter
The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
Man of La Mancha
Henry VIII and His Six Wives- THThe Bristol Entertainment
The Trojan Women
The Last Valley
Brotherly Love
Son of Man
Till Death Us Do Part
The Christmas Tree