Have a Brian Blessed Day!

[TheMightyFavog]

[Robeson]

1. I'll always remember him as Augustus in "I Claudius"....

....

http://www.linsdomain.com/Derek/i,claudius/poison5.jpg

[Va Lefty]

3. Me too! Just like Patrick Stewart will always be Sejanus!

[Robeson]

5. Exactly. I've watched every episode of Star Trek Next Generation...

...a million and a half times, but I always think of him as Sejanus when I see him!

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. He's always Picard to me

[u4ic]

2. That face was born

to play Shakespeare...

and the King in Blackadder

[Robeson]

4. Another great role...

...just one after the other.

[TheMightyFavog]

6. And Vultan in Flash Gordon.

One of my favorite movies.

[Shakespeare]

9. He rocked as Exeter in Branagh's Henry V....

And as Antonio in Much Ado. And the man looks amazing to be 69!!

[u4ic]

10. I also saw him in a kids show

I believe he was some sort of gardener/grounds keeper.

I don't know the name of it, but I remember his character being a very kindly, quiet chap...certainly a departure from all the roles I'd seen him in.

[Deja Q]

7. K&R! (He's hotter w/out the beard)

:woohoo:

Beardless:


As Vargas in Blake's 7 episode "Cygnus Alpha" (1978)


In Doctor Who, story "Mindwarp" (1986)

[Rob H.]

8. He also played Clayton in Disney's 'Tarzan'

And yes, I'm fully aware that I'm a dork. :P

[CBHagman]

15. Hey, didn't the great Nigel Hawthorne work on that too?

Yup, he was.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120855/

There's something endearing about actors like Blessed and Hawthorne voicing Disney characters.

[yellowdogintexas]

11. Brian Blessed absolutely rocks!

That voice!!!!

so wonderful as Claudius, so perfect
and so crazed as King in Blackadder I

we will watch any thing we find that he is in, along with Richard Briers !

[CBHagman]

16. Then you must watch a LOT of Kenneth Branagh movies.

There's always a great part for Richard Briers!

[yellowdogintexas]

17. yep! and a lot of British TV (BBCA and PBS)

I love Richard Briers

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Loved him on Blackadder I

[Aristus]

14. He also played J.S. Bach in a school film I saw in music class

when I was a kid.

I like everything he's done (although I thought doing the voice of the Gungans (sp?) king in "The Phantom Menace was a come-down for him).

He played a Soviet general (masterfully, too) in "War And Remembrance". And his Augustus in "I, Claudius" was simply astonishing. His death scene was mind-boggling. He portrayed Augustus as dying with his eyes open, and had to endure a death scene probably 5 minutes long, unblinking and unmoving, while his wife, Livia, issues a long, berating monologue to his dead body. It left me speechless.