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Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed is credited on 85 releases across 19 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1980–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
85
Pressings credited
19
Albums
5
Decades active
52
In collections
Biography
Brian Blessed ( BLES-id; born 9 October 1936) 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. In 2016, Blessed was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the arts and charity.
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Credited work
85 releases · 19 albums · active 1980–2025
- Performance · 86
- Other credits · 37
Studios: The Town House · The Music Centre, Wembley · Advision Studios · Utopia Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Pythia
- Queen
- Original London Cast
- Eden Burning
- Rick Wakeman
- Hawkwind
- Mitch Leigh
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