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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
Tiny Tim (Voice)
for Tiny Tim (Voice) in The Invisible Man : The Pact of the Immortals
Suggested by nikobatman
London, present day. A young girl sets out to find her little brother, kidnapped by a mysterious masked man against whom the police seem powerless. By questioning her family's "godfather," the influential gang leader Mr. Hyde, she learns that a kind of non-aggression pact prevents certain so-called "immortal" beings from interfering in the affairs of others, and therefore he cannot help her. However, he gives her the address of a private detective specializing in the supernatural : Jack Griffin. He turns out to be a former scientist who has discovered a way to become invisible ! He cannot regain his physical appearance, but he can use his powers to help some mortals fight forces against which they would normally be helpless. Thus begins a very dangerous investigation in the supernatural underbelly of the British capital, home to many unique creatures and belligerent beings... but nothing that can frighten the Invisible Man !
