Brian Blessed: movies and TV shows
Brian Blessed has 191 credits in the archive: 97 films and 94 TV series, from 1951 to 2026. Highest rated: The Expert (9.0/10).
Career timeline
1951 – 2026 · busiest year: 1975 (8 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Dudley & the Invasion of the Space Slugs | Arthur (voice) | Film | — | 89 |
| 2025 | Time Travel Is Dangerous! | Gavin the Octopus (voice) | Film | 5.3 | 88 |
| 2024 | Peppa's Cinema Party | Grampy Rabbit (voice) | Film | 4.0 | 87 |
| 2024 | Peppa Pig: Wedding Party! | Grampy Rabbit (voice) | Film | 10.0 | 87 |
| 2022 | Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg | Self – Actor | TV | 2.8 | 85 |
| 2022 | Best & Bester | Shouty Shirt (Voice) | TV | 10.0 | 85 |
| 2022 | Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self | Film | 7.8 | 85 |
| 2022 | The Queen: 70 Glorious Years | Self | Film | — | 85 |
| 2022 | Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth! | Narrator | Film | — | 85 |
| 2021 | Blankety Blank | Self - Panellist | TV | 7.0 | 84 |
| 2021 | Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans | Charlemagne (voice) | Film | 7.6 | 84 |
| 2020 | Close Enough | Sir Jack Kleghorn (voice) | TV | 7.9 | 83 |
| 2020 | Eugenius! | Space Lord | Film | 8.5 | 83 |
| 2020 | Dear Mr. Burton | Narrator | Film | — | 83 |
| 2019 | Shed of the Dead | Narrator (voice) | Film | 4.9 | 82 |
| 2018 | Robin Hood: The Rebellion | Friar Tuck | Film | 5.0 | 81 |
| 2017 | The Russell Howard Hour | Self | TV | 8.0 | 80 |
| 2017 | Life After Flash | Self | Film | 5.6 | 80 |
| 2015 | Danger Mouse | Santa Claus (voice) | TV | 6.3 | 78 |
| 2015 | Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots | Grampy Rabbit (voice) | Film | 10.0 | 78 |
| 2014 | Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return | Judge Jawbreaker (voice) | Film | 6.3 | 77 |
| 2014 | The Seventeenth Kind | The Voice (voice) | Film | — | 77 |
| 2014 | The Kumars | Self | TV | 5.0 | 77 |
| 2014 | Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape | Self | Film | — | 77 |
| 2013 | Was It Something I Said? | Self - Narrator | TV | 6.6 | 76 |
| 2012 | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | The Pirate King (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 75 |
| 2012 | Wizards vs Aliens | The Nekross King (voice) | TV | 7.5 | 75 |
| 2012 | LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out | Boss Nass (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 75 |
| 2012 | So You Want To Be A Pirate! | The Pirate King | Film | 6.2 | 75 |
| 2012 | Tales of Television Centre | Self | Film | 8.0 | 75 |
| 2011 | The Amazing World of Gumball | Santa Claus (voice) | TV | 8.5 | 74 |
| 2011 | Celebrity Antiques Road Trip | Self - Participant | TV | 6.0 | 74 |
| 2011 | Sooty | Father Christmas | TV | 7.5 | 74 |
| 2011 | Wojtek: The Bear That Went to War | Narrator | Film | 5.8 | 74 |
| 2010 | In Confidence | TV | — | 73 | |
| 2010 | Take Me Out | Announcer (voice) | TV | 6.0 | 73 |
| 2010 | Mr. Bojagi | Mr. Bojagi | Film | — | 73 |
| 2010 | Fee Fi Fo Yum | GTV Announcer | TV | — | 73 |
| 2008 | All Star Mr & Mrs | TV | — | 71 | |
| 2008 | Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments | Self | Film | 4.5 | 71 |
| 2008 | The Underdog Show | TV | — | 71 | |
| 2008 | Agent Crush | Boris Goudphater (voice) | Film | 4.8 | 71 |
| 2008 | The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord | Film | — | 71 | |
| 2007 | Would I Lie to You? | Self | TV | 7.8 | 70 |
| 2007 | Britain's Got More Talent | Self - Narrator | TV | 2.7 | 70 |
| 2007 | Saving Planet Earth UK | Himself - Presenter | TV | — | 70 |
| 2007 | The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self | Film | — | 70 |
| 2007 | Back in Business | Trevor Pilkington | Film | 5.0 | 70 |
| 2006 | Day of Wrath | Lord Francisco del Ruiz | Film | 4.3 | 69 |
| 2006 | As You Like It | Duke Senior/Duke Frederick | Film | 5.8 | 69 |
| 2006 | Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy | Sir Gregory (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 69 |
| 2006 | The Conclave | Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomin | Film | 5.9 | 69 |
| 2005 | The Funny Blokes of British Comedy | King Richard IV (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.5 | 68 |
| 2005 | Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy | Sir Gregory(voice) | Film | — | 68 |
| 2004 | Peppa Pig | Grampy Rabbit (voice) | TV | 6.6 | 67 |
| 2004 | The Paul O'Grady Show | TV | 5.1 | 67 | |
| 2004 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | TV | 7.0 | 67 |
| 2004 | Alexander | Wrestling Trainer | Film | 6.0 | 67 |
| 2004 | 448 BC: Olympiad of Ancient Hellas | Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 67 |
| 2004 | The Legend of the Tamworth Two | Wild Boar (voice) | Film | 5.0 | 67 |
| 2003 | QI | Self | TV | 7.9 | 66 |
| 2003 | The Dark Side of Everest | Self | Film | 9.0 | 66 |
| 2003 | The Royal | Sir Edward Fawcett | TV | 7.8 | 66 |
| 2003 | Devil's Harvest | Father Gabriel Norton | Film | 2.4 | 66 |
| 2002 | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | Self | TV | 6.1 | 65 |
| 2002 | I, Claudius: A Television Epic | Self | Film | 7.0 | 65 |
| 2002 | The Making of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Self - Actor | Film | — | 65 |
| 2001 | Fun at the Funeral Parlour | TV | 7.0 | 64 | |
| 2000 | The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything | TV | — | 63 | |
| 2000 | The Mumbo Jumbo | Lucifer Bounder | Film | 7.0 | 63 |
| 1999 | Family Guy | Prince Vultan (voice) | TV | 7.4 | 62 |
| 1999 | Tarzan | Clayton (voice) | Film | 7.4 | 62 |
| 1999 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | Boss Nass (voice) | Film | 6.6 | 62 |
| 1999 | The Greatest Store in the World | Mr. Scottley | Film | 5.6 | 62 |
| 1999 | The Big Knights | Sir Morris | TV | 8.0 | 62 |
| 1999 | King Lear | King Lear | Film | 9.0 | 62 |
| 1999 | King Lear | Film | 9.0 | 62 | |
| 1998 | The Heaven and Earth Show | TV | 4.4 | 61 | |
| 1998 | Fantasy World Cup | Self | TV | 5.0 | 61 |
| 1998 | Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh | Old Deuteronomy | Film | 6.7 | 61 |
| 1997 | The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling | Squire Western | TV | 7.5 | 60 |
| 1997 | Macbeth | Edward the Confessor | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 1996 | The Bruce | Edward I | Film | 6.4 | 59 |
| 1996 | Dennis the Menace and Gnasher | Captain (voice) | TV | 6.3 | 59 |
| 1996 | Catherine the Great | Bestuzhev | Film | 5.6 | 59 |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Ghost of Hamlet's Father | Film | 7.3 | 59 |
| 1996 | Genius: Pythagoras | Self | Film | — | 59 |
| 1995 | Soccer AM | Self | TV | 6.3 | 58 |
| 1995 | The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond | Film | 7.0 | 58 | |
| 1995 | Johnny and the Dead | William Stickers | TV | 6.5 | 58 |
| 1995 | Kidnapped | Cluny MacPherson | Film | 6.3 | 58 |
| 1994 | MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis | Atticus | Film | 6.3 | 57 |
| 1994 | David Macaulay: Roman City | Gaius Valerius (voice) | Film | 9.0 | 57 |
| 1994 | Chasing the Deer | Maj. Elliot | Film | 5.7 | 57 |
| 1993 | Lady Chatterley | Petty Officer | TV | 6.3 | 56 |
| 1993 | GMTV | Self | TV | 5.8 | 56 |
| 1993 | Sooty & Co. | Santa Claus | TV | 7.2 | 56 |
| 1993 | Much Ado About Nothing | Antonio | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1992 | Freddie As F.R.O.7. | El Supremo (voice) | Film | 5.3 | 55 |
| 1992 | Exam Conditions | Mr. Carksdale | Film | — | 55 |
| 1992 | Back in the USSR | Chazov | Film | 5.0 | 55 |
| 1992 | Blood and Dust | Chatillon | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1992 | Old Rococo: The Life of Gioacchino Rossini | Voice of Rossini | Film | — | 55 |
| 1991 | Pebble Mill | Self | TV | 4.1 | 54 |
| 1991 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Lord Locksley | Film | 6.9 | 54 |
| 1991 | Prisoner of Honor | Gen. Gonse | Film | 6.3 | 54 |
| 1991 | Galahad of Everest | George Mallory/Self | Film | 8.7 | 54 |
| 1990 | Have I Got News for You | Self - Host | TV | 7.2 | 53 |
| 1990 | The Castle of Adventure | Sam | TV | — | 53 |
| 1990 | The Castle of Adventure | Sam | Film | 7.8 | 53 |
| 1989 | David Macaulay: Pyramid | Ankhaf (voice) | Film | — | 52 |
| 1989 | Henry V | Exeter | Film | 7.1 | 52 |
| 1989 | The Old Man Of The Mountain | Narrator | Film | 9.0 | 52 |
| 1988 | War and Remembrance | Yevlenko | TV | 7.9 | 51 |
| 1988 | A Question of Entertainment | TV | — | 51 | |
| 1987 | Crossbow | TV | 6.3 | 50 | |
| 1987 | The Gnostics | Guilhabert De Castres | TV | — | 50 |
| 1987 | My Family and Other Animals | Spiro | TV | 5.8 | 50 |
| 1986 | Lovejoy | Harry Catapodis | TV | 7.4 | 49 |
| 1986 | Doctor Who: Mindwarp | King Yrcanos | Film | 7.7 | 49 |
| 1986 | John Silver's Return to Treasure Island | Long John Silver | TV | 8.8 | 49 |
| 1986 | David Macaulay: Cathedral | Master Guillaume (voice) | Film | — | 49 |
| 1985 | Blake's 7: The Beginning | Vargas | Film | 9.0 | 48 |
| 1984 | The Last Days of Pompeii | Olinthus | TV | 7.4 | 47 |
| 1984 | The Master of Ballantrae | Captain Teach | Film | 6.3 | 47 |
| 1983 | Natural World | TV | 7.4 | 46 | |
| 1983 | Blackadder | King Richard IV | TV | 8.0 | 46 |
| 1983 | High Road to China | Suleman Khan | Film | 5.9 | 46 |
| 1983 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Geoffrey Lyons | Film | 6.5 | 46 |
| 1983 | David Macaulay: Castle | Voice | Film | 6.0 | 46 |
| 1982 | The Kenny Everett Television Show | Self | TV | 7.3 | 45 |
| 1982 | Cosmic Princess | Mentor | Film | 5.4 | 45 |
| 1981 | The Little World of Don Camillo | Peppone | TV | 10.0 | 44 |
| 1980 | Flash Gordon | Prince Vultan | Film | 6.3 | 43 |
| 1979 | Minder | Freddie Dyer | TV | 7.2 | 42 |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Detective Sergeant Jack Nolan | TV | 6.8 | 42 |
| 1979 | The Aphrodite Inheritance | Basileos | TV | 7.8 | 42 |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter | Detective Jack Noonan | Film | — | 42 |
| 1978 | Blake's 7 | Vargas | TV | 7.3 | 41 |
| 1977 | A Christmas Carol | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.7 | 40 |
| 1976 | I, Claudius | Augustus | TV | 7.8 | 39 |
| 1976 | The Eagle Has Landed | Arthur Seymour (voice) (uncredited) | Film | 6.7 | 39 |
| 1976 | Nobody's House | Jack Treadful | TV | 8.5 | 39 |
| 1975 | The Sweeney | Frank Kemble | TV | 8.1 | 38 |
| 1975 | Space: 1999 | Mentor | TV | 7.1 | 38 |
| 1975 | Space: 1999 | Cabot Rowland | TV | 7.1 | 38 |
| 1975 | Survivors | Brod | TV | 7.9 | 38 |
| 1975 | The Day After Tomorrow: Into Infinity | Dr. Tom Bowen | Film | 4.6 | 38 |
| 1975 | A Midsummer Nightmare | Det Sgt George Briggs | Film | 8.0 | 38 |
| 1975 | King Arthur, the Young Warlord | Mark of Cornwall | Film | 7.0 | 38 |
| 1975 | The Day After Tomorrow | Dr. Tom Bowen | TV | 4.5 | 38 |
| 1974 | Churchill's People | Guthrum | TV | 5.0 | 37 |
| 1974 | Boy Dominic | William Woodcock | TV | 8.0 | 37 |
| 1974 | Notorious Woman | Albert Grzymala | TV | 6.5 | 37 |
| 1973 | Thriller | Det Sgt George Briggs | TV | 7.0 | 36 |
| 1973 | European Heritage | Narrator (voice) | TV | — | 36 |
| 1972 | Arthur of the Britons | Mark of Cornwall | TV | 8.0 | 35 |
| 1972 | Shirley's World | TV | 6.0 | 35 | |
| 1972 | Henry VIII and His Six Wives | Suffolk | Film | 5.8 | 35 |
| 1972 | Man of La Mancha | Pedro | Film | 6.6 | 35 |
| 1971 | Justice | Tiger Lawson | TV | 7.3 | 34 |
| 1971 | The Trojan Women | Talthybius | Film | 6.2 | 34 |
| 1971 | The Last Valley | Korski | Film | 6.5 | 34 |
| 1971 | The Bristol Entertainment | Cabot / Wolstan / Pocock / Colston / Pope Gregory / Dr. Beddoes | Film | — | 34 |
| 1970 | Brotherly Love | Jack Baird | Film | 6.5 | 33 |
| 1970 | Wine of India | Will | Film | 10.0 | 33 |
| 1969 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre | Ted Gissing | TV | 7.0 | 32 |
| 1969 | Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) | Jim Lawsey | TV | 7.0 | 32 |
| 1969 | The Double Agent | Reg Sugden | Film | — | 32 |
| 1969 | Till Death Us Do Part | Sergeant | Film | 7.6 | 32 |
| 1969 | Son of Man | Peter | Film | 10.0 | 32 |
| 1968 | The Expert | Hubert Innes | TV | 9.0 | 31 |
| 1968 | Cold Comfort Farm | Reuben Starkadder | TV | 8.0 | 31 |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse | Reg Sugden | TV | 7.0 | 30 |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse | Jim Carter | TV | 7.0 | 30 |
| 1967 | The Further Adventures of the Musketeers | Porthos | TV | 7.7 | 30 |
| 1966 | The Three Musketeers | Porthos | TV | 6.0 | 29 |
| 1966 | The Christmas Tree | Film | 7.0 | 29 | |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Sgt. Kite | TV | 5.3 | 28 |
| 1965 | Public Eye | Rev. William Pratt | TV | 8.2 | 28 |
| 1965 | The Troubleshooters | Eddie Barnaby | TV | 7.3 | 28 |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play | Peter | TV | 5.2 | 27 |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play | Will | TV | 5.2 | 27 |
| 1963 | Doctor Who | King Yrcanos | TV | 7.9 | 26 |
| 1962 | Z-Cars | PC Smith | TV | 7.3 | 25 |
| 1962 | Z-Cars | PC Fancy Smith | TV | 7.3 | 25 |
| 1962 | Z-Cars | PC William "Fancy" Smith | TV | 7.3 | 25 |
| 1961 | The Avengers | Sergeant Hearn | TV | 7.8 | 24 |
| 1961 | The Avengers | Mark Dayton | TV | 7.8 | 24 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Captain Teach | TV | 8.8 | 14 |
| Have I Got a Bit More News for You | Self - Presenter | TV | 7.1 | — |