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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 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. 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 (née 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. 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 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.

Brian Blessed

William Cecil Clayton
for William Cecil Clayton in My Name Stitch! (Season 3)
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6 months have passed since Stitch defeated his evil cousin Zero after finally restoring 43 good deeds and saving the world from an doomsday device. He and Yuna moves with Yuna’s parents, her cousin Tigerlily Sakai, her boyfriend Bobby, Jumba, Pleakley, Yuna’s best friend and transfer student Sasha and BooGoo to Okinawa New Town for going through life where Yuna and Sasha are making some new friends while Stitch joined the Disney Heroes as a new member including other members like Mickey Mouse and his friends, reunited with his cousins including his girlfriend Angel and discovered new more but different experiments and his new cousins. But, new challenges await Stitch and friends. Dr. Hämsterviel is still out once again for revenge with Gantu, Reuben and Evile a.k.a. Experiment 627 by his side and also serving an alien woman named Delia who desires a power cell within Stitch called the Neo-PowerChip. And someone may be brought back and returning, it revealed to be Leroy, who was in jail after previously getting defeated by Stitch and now escaping from prison for revenge to work with Hämsterviel and Delia. Suddenly, Stitch emotionally reunites with old friends of his former family….