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(1936년생, Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 타잔, The Trojan Women, 헨리 5세가 있으며, 그 외에도 패밀리 가이, 페파 피그, The Avengers, 닥터 후, 검볼, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, QI, Have I Got News for You, The Wednesday Play, Natural World, Minder, BBC Play of the Month 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2027년 Dudley & the Invasion of the Space Slugs에서 Arthur (voice) 역을 맡았다. 2026년 Space: 1999 4K Double Bill - Breakaway and The Metamorph에서 Mentor 역을 맡았다. 2025년 Time Travel Is Dangerous!에서 Gavin the Octopus (voice) 역을 맡았다.