# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-blessed
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:13:00.384Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-blessed"
name: "Brian Blessed"
slug: "brian-blessed"
description: "Brian Blessed is an English actor. He is known for his distinctive bushy beard, loud 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; Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon; Bustopher Jones and Old Deuteronomy in the 1981 original London production of Cats at the New London Theatre; King Richard IV in the first series of Blackadder; 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."
tagline: "British actor (born 1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brian_Blessed_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1936-10-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://www.brianblessed.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump