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Brian Blessed played King Vultan in the 1980 Flash Gordon movie. A Shakespearean (and friend of fellow sci-fi veteran Patrick Stewart), Blessed's wildly exuberant performance oddly became a career-defining role, with fans often uttering his catchphrases "Gordon's Alive?" and "Who wants to live forever?" in his presence. Unlike Stewart, he doesn't seem to mind. Blessed played King Yrcanos, a very similar character, including many situation similarities, in the Doctor Who serial The Trial of a Time Lord: Mindwarp, and voiced the equally intractable Boss Nass of the Gungans in Star Wars:Episode 1.

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  • Brian Blessed played King Vultan in the 1980 Flash Gordon movie. A Shakespearean (and friend of fellow sci-fi veteran Patrick Stewart), Blessed's wildly exuberant performance oddly became a career-defining role, with fans often uttering his catchphrases "Gordon's Alive?" and "Who wants to live forever?" in his presence. Unlike Stewart, he doesn't seem to mind. Blessed played King Yrcanos, a very similar character, including many situation similarities, in the Doctor Who serial The Trial of a Time Lord: Mindwarp, and voiced the equally intractable Boss Nass of the Gungans in Star Wars:Episode 1.
  • Brian Blessed (born 9 October 1936) is an English actor, known for his sonorous voice and "hearty, king-sized portrayals". Blessed portrayed King Richard IV in The Black Adder.
  • "FUCK MY GIDDY AUNT!!!"
  • Blessed reprised the role of Prince Vultan from Flash Gordon in "Road to Germany".
  • Brian Blessed is a voice actor known for his hearty king sized portrayals who played the vicious hunter known as Clayton in Tarzan.
  • Brian Blessed (born 9 October 1936) is an English actor who is known for his "hearty portrayals". He is a former RAF parachutist and undertaker.
  • WELL I WENT OVER TO ENGLAND A FEW WEEKS AGO, BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE I LIVE AND WHILE I WAS THERE PHILIP SCHOFIELD AND FERN BRITTON HAD THE SHEER GALL TO ASK ME TO PLAY ON THEIR STUPID TV SHOW KNOWN LOCALLY IN LONDON AS "ALL STAR MR AND MRS". WELL OF COURSE THEY SHOT ME WITH A TRANQUILIZER DART AND REGRETTABLY I HAD TO DO THE SHOW. WELL, THEY WOULD HAVE FED TIGERS TO ME YOU SEE AND I HATE TIGERS JUST SO SMALL AND MEATLESS.
  • According to Trix, Brian Blessed played Augustus in I, Claudius. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) He also played Rassilon in a BBC version of Remote media in Samantha Jones' subconscious. (PROSE: Interference - Book One)
  • Brian Blessed is a British theatre, television and film actor known for his sonorous voice and "hearty, king-sized portrayals". He is famous for a variety of roles, including Old Deuteronomy and Bustopher Jones in the Original London Cast of Cats, Clayton in the Disney animated film Tarzan, Boss Nass in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, and his repeated roles as King Lear.
  • Brian Blessed is an English actor, known for his sonorous voice and "hearty" king-sized portrayals. He provided the voice for the villain Clayton in the film Tarzan, Eduardo Enormomonster in Henry Hugglemonster and Boss Nass in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
  • Perhaps best known in America as Prince Vultan of the Hawkmen in the Flash Gordon movie ("GORDON'S ALIVE?!" "DIIIIIIIIIVVEEEEE!!"), he is widely regarded as one of the Largest Hams in existence. However, he is by nature a stage actor, and his hamming is by design, not by ineptitude or accident. As he has proven on (very) occasional films, he is actually capable of delivering a subtle and understated performance; he just usually doesn't bother (and is probably aware of why people hire him). His crowning moment of hamness is the Blakes Seven episode "Cygnus Alpha" in which just about every line he speaks could be replaced with "Did somebody order a Large Ham?". He keeps in shape by climbing up large mountains. About the only thing on Earth larger than BRIAN BLESSED is Mount Everest, which he
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  • The Black Adder
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