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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
Pizza Tower Guy
for Pizza Tower Guy in Pizza Tower (1990s Live Action)
Suggested by talalagirlg46
In the neon-soaked chaos of 90s,Peppino Spaghetti, a down-on-his-luck Italian chef, runs across his fragility pizzeria business, then takes a darker turn when a mysterious corporation known only as Pizzaface Enterprises threatens to demonlish "pizza megaplexes" To save his restaurant, Peppino must infiltrate the sureal Pizza Tower, a colossal,other worldly skyscraper rumored to be part gladiatorial arena.Each floor is themed after bizarre food-inspired realms - motten cheese foundries,susage-stuffed fractories,nightmarish dessert corridors,and more - all corrupted chefs. Though anxious and clumsy in real life, while there's many different types of wacky worlds inside that enormous tower. Peppino unleashes an unpredictable energy, hurling himself through obstacles with manic determination,Along side his mischievous partner,Gustavo (and their trusty rat, Brick), Peppino must battle rival chefs,sureal monsters, and living food abominations in an escalating war of kitchen chaos. It blends slapstick comedy.Practical effects, and over-the-top stunts in the style of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1984) and Pee-wee's big adventure, but with a gritter undercurrent of 1990s live action. Sometimes it does show where Peppino and friends weren't inside Pizza Tower... Tone: A mix of absurd comedy, campy horror, and action spectacle - think The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!Colliding with Evil Dead || and Poilce Squad, all wrapped in greasy VHS-era charm.
