Brian Blessed, Esq's Biography

Brian Blessed, Esq's Professional Career

Career

actor; pres: Cncl for Nat Parks, Yorkshire Wildlife Tst; tstee Bowles Rocks Tst; patron: Freshfields, Kinder Mountain Rescue, The Nepal Tst, Scope; Theatre RSC: Claudius in Hamlet, Hastings in Richard III, Exeter in Henry V; other roles incl: Maxim Gorky in State of Revolution, John Freeman in Metropolis, Old Deuteronomy in Cats, Henry II in The Lion in Winter; An Evening with Brian Blessed (one man show) 1992-93 & 1995-96, Hard Times (West End), Sir Tunbelly Clumsey in The Relapse (RNT), Baron Bomburst in Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang (London Palladium) 2002-03; Television PC Fancy Smith in Z Cars, Augustus Caesar in I Claudius, Albert in George's Sand, King Guthram in Churchill's People, Porthos in The Three Musketeers, Pepone in The Little World of Don Camillo, Spiro in My Family and Other Animals, King Richard in Blackadder (first series), The Boy Dominic, Prof Atticus in Magyver - Lost Treasure of Atlantis, Squire Western in Tom Jones; Films Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon, Long John Silver in Return to Treasure Island, Talthybius in Trojan Women, Pedro in Man of La Mancha, Exeter in Henry V, General Zukov in War and Remembrance, Lord Locksley in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, General Gonse in Prisoners of Honour, Antonio in Much Ado About Nothing, The Ghost in Hamlet, Lear (also dir), Clayton in Walt Disney's Tarzan, Boss Nass in Star Wars - The Phantom Menace, Leonidas in Alexander The Great, both Duke Sr and Duke Friedrich in As You Like It (dir Kenneth Branagh), Pope Piccolomini in The Conclave, Back in Business, Re-Evolution, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

Brian Blessed, Esq's Publications

Books and Publications

The Turquoise Mountain, The Dynamite Kid, Nothing's Impossible, Blessed Everest, Quest for the Lost World

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