Brian Blessed

English actor

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2024 Blessed contributed to the spoken word intro track 'The Prophecy' from Saxon's album 'Hell, Fire and Damnation'.
2022 Brian Blessed voiced Sir Jack Kleghorn in an episode of the animated series 'Close Enough' titled 'Never Meet Your Heroes'
2022 Brian Blessed voiced Boss Nass in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
2021 Brian Blessed voiced the character Charlemagne in the animated film 'Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans'.
2021 Voiced the megalomaniacal Red Ivan in the base building game Evil Genius 2: World Domination.
2020 Brian Blessed served as a narrator in the short film 'Dear Mr. Burton'.
2019 Brian Blessed reprised his role as Gotrek Gurnisson in Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realmslayer - Blood of the Old World audio drama
2019 Brian Blessed worked as a narrator in the film 'Shed of the Dead' and appeared in the short film 'Gandidean' playing the character Jim.
2018 Brian Blessed performed as Gotrek Gurnisson in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realmslayer audio drama
2018 Brian Blessed appeared in multiple performances, including the short film 'Eric and the Barbarian' as Odin, 'Robin Hood: The Rebellion' as Friar Tuck, and a direct-to-video film 'Ode to Saint Cecilia' portraying George F. Handel.
2018 Voiced German military engineer Konrad Kyeser in the open-world medieval RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
2017 Blessed was featured in 'If you remember' music video by British indie band The Ramona Flowers, marking his first music video appearance. The video reached over 725,000 views and was directed by Roger Sargent and produced by Connor Simmons.
2016 Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Birthday Honours for services to the arts and charity.
2015 Blessed contributed vocals to the track 'Sonic Attack' on the Hawkwind album 'Space Ritual Live'.
January 30 2015 Withdrew from the King Lear production on advice of his heart specialist and was fitted with a pacemaker.
January 19 2015 Collapsed on stage during a performance of King Lear with the Guildford Shakespeare Company, but returned to complete the play after 20 minutes.
2014 Blessed appeared on Pythia's album 'Shadows of a Broken Past'.
2011 Nominated for the post of chancellor at the University of Cambridge.
2011 Became a patron of Hopefield Animal Sanctuary in Brentwood, Essex.
October 2010 Recorded voice for TomTom satellite navigation system following a Facebook campaign.

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