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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
Rutor Nass
for Rutor Nass in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Three years into the Clone Wars, Anakin Skywalker finds himself torn between loyalty to his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi, apprentice Ahsoka Tano and wife Padmé Amidala on one hand - and the seductive powers of the Sith and Chancellor Palpatine on the other. Struggling to do the right thing, he verifies the suspicions that Palpatine is the Sith Lord known as Darth Sidious who has been behind everything from the invasion of Naboo to the Separatist Crisis to the Clone Wars. Ultimately, Anakin's fear of losing Padmé draws him to ultimately turn his back on the Jedi Order, thus completing his journey to the Dark Side of the Force and his transformation into Darth Vader. In the waning hours of the Republic and the rise of the Galactic Empire; Padmé, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Jar-Jar Binks, R2-D2, C-3PO, Captain Rex, Admiral Yularen and the founding members of the Rebel Alliance must fight and even make the ultimate sacrifices in order to keep the fires of hope alight.
