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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.
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After three onset years of the Clone Wars, two Jedi Knights return to Coruscant after General Grievous has kidnapped the Supreme Chancellor while Ahsoka Tano leads a clone battalion with Bo-Katan Kryze's Nightowls against Maul and Death Watch to retake the Mandalorian planet of Mandalore. After rescuing the leader of the Galactic Senate from the clutches of the CIS, he experiences visions of his wife Padme Amidala dying in childbirth while Yoda leads a Clone Army of the 32nd on Kashyyyk to reinforce the Wookiees against the Droid Army as Obi-Wan leads the 212th clones on the sinkhole planet of Utapau where the droid general has been located. Two genetic clones by the names of X1 and X2 Grey are under the commands of Jedi Masters Plo Koon and Ferroda on the Nemoidian planet of Cato Nemoidia. Meanwhile Anakin is tasked to spy on him and report to the Jedi Council of his motives and intentions that will change the fate of the galaxy, the Republic and the Jedi Order. On the Planet of Kaller, the enhanced clones AKA CF99/Bad Batch assists Jedi Master Depa Billaba and her Padawan Caleb Dume in a struggling battle against Separatists. After the death of Grievous and an attempt on Palpatine (revealed as Darth Sidious), seduces the young Jedi Knight to the dark side and dubs him "Darth Vader" prior to Order 66 and the rise of the Galactic Empire as the new Sith apprentice faces is former master on the volcanic world of Mustafar while the galaxy falls into total darkness.
