Brian BlessedFilmography

The History of Warfare: The Roman Invasions of Britain

Actors: Brian Blessed

Synopsis: As one installment in a series of ambitious documentary release canvassing the history of global warfare, this outing hearkens back to the fateful year of 55 A.D., when legendary Roman emperor Julius Caesar set his mind and his heart on seizing control of Britain. Unsurprisingly, the Romans Read More

The History of Warfare: Viking Wars - The Norse Terror

Actors: Brian Blessed

Synopsis: As one in a series of documentary releases to systematically review the history of global warfare, event by event, this program travels back in time to the mythical Dark Ages - the period sandwiched in between the Fall of Rome and the Medieval Renaissance. It was during this era, as the program Read More

The History of Warfare: Wars of the Roses

Actors: Brian Blessed

Synopsis: This historical documentary takes a look at the series of dynastic civil wars known as the War of the Roses, which eventually determined the course of history for the British Isles, placing the Tudor family on the throne, making way for such legendary monarchs as Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Read More

The History of Warfare: Culloden 1746

Actors: Brian Blessed

Synopsis: In the fateful month of April 1746, the Scottish highlanders undertook their last, valiant stance against the British forces on an isolated moor. Thanks in no small part to the formidable leadership of the Duke of Cumberland, the British prevailed - effectively marking an end to Scotch rebellion Read More

As You Like It

Actors: Brian Blessed, Bryce Dallas Howard, Romola Garai

Synopsis: Director Kenneth Branagh tackles the works of William Shakespeare for the fifth time in his career as a filmmaker with this adaptation of one of The Bard's most accessible works. Rosalind is the daughter of a banished duke, and lives among a community of Westerners living in 19th century Japan. Read More

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy

Actors: Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: A farm pup that longs for the day she will become a genuine sheepdog attempts to prove herself to her demanding master while contending with some particularly troublesome rams in this family friendly tale from director Richard Overall. Mist was born one of three tiny pups on the serine grounds of Read More

Day of Wrath

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: A 16th Century Spanish sheriff presiding over a provincial city attempts to solve a gruesome series of murders in this period thriller starring Christopher Lambert. When a number of high-ranking nobles are found viciously slaughtered with large letters carved into their chests, it's up to Read More

Back in Business

Actors: Martin Kemp, Chris Barrie, Brian Blessed, Joanna Taylor, Stefan Booth

Synopsis: U.K. director Chris Munro's wicked satirical comedy Back in Business dissects and excoriates the slimy underbelly of British capitalism with a look at several high-rolling English con artists and the brouhaha surrounding their latest national scam. Joanna Taylor (Post Impact) and screen legend Read More

Alexander

Actors: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Jared Leto, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: The fourth film to chronicle the life of fourth-century B.C. ruler Alexander the Great, Oliver Stone's Alexander stars Colin Farrell as the titular Macedonian conqueror. The film follows the young king as he leads his forces on a bloody empirical conquest across the known world, taking large parts Read More

Tarzan

Actors: Brian Blessed, Glenn Close, Minnie Driver, Tony Goldwyn, Nigel Hawthorne

Synopsis: Author Edgar Rice Burroughs once suggested that animation would be the ideal medium to bring his Tarzan to the screen, and 81 years after the first film about the famous ape-man, Disney brings us the first full-length animated film starring the King of the Jungle. After a disaster at sea causes Read More

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Pernilla August

Synopsis: In 1977, George Lucas released Star Wars, the ultimate sci-fi popcorn flick-turned-pop-culture myth machine. It quickly became the biggest money-making film of all time and changed the shape of the film industry. After two successful sequels (1980's The Empire Strikes Back and 1983's Return of the Read More

The Big Knights

Actors: Brian Blessed, David Rintoul, Xander Armstrong, Timothy West, Enn Reitel

The Greatest Store in the World

Actors: Brian Blessed, Peter Capaldi, Dervla Kirwan

Synopsis: In this holiday drama for the family, an out-of-work single mom finds herself and her family homeless when their van (which they'd been living in after she lost her job) blows up. With nowhere else to turn, the family finds a secret hiding place inside a large and luxurious department store. Read More

Tom Jones

Actors: Max Beesley, Samantha Morton

Synopsis: In this TV miniseries based on the 1749 Henry Fielding novel, kindly Squire Allworthy (Benjamin Whitrow) adopts an infant boy left at his home after unmarried Jenny Jones (Camille Coduri) is paid by the real mother to admit that the child is hers. Having lost his own children in infancy, then his Read More

Hamlet

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Brian Blessed, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Richard Briers

Synopsis: At least the 22nd time William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy has been brought to the screen, Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Hamlet was the first to preserve Shakespeare's entire text, uncut and unabridged. Moving the action into the 19th century, Branagh cast himself in the title role Read More

Kidnapped

Actors: Armand Assante, Brian McCardie, Patrick Malahide, Gerry O'Brien, Michael Kitchen

Synopsis: This adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of valor and derring-do is set in the late 18th century during the time that England was ruthlessly trying to vanquish Scotland's bloody bid for independence. Young Scottish nobleman David Balfour would have inherited his family's estate had not his Read More

Chasing the Deer

Synopsis: This British historical drama chronicles the failed Jacobite rebellion in Scotland which ended with a bloody battle at Culloden in the 18th century. The Jacobites were a pro-Catholic group who followed King James II. Thirty years after their first battle in which they were routed, the Jacobites Read More

Catherine the Great

Actors: Brian Blessed, Mel Ferrer, Hannes Jaenicke, Ian Richardson, Omar Sharif, Jeanne Moreau, Craig McLachlan, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul McGann

Synopsis: Marvin J. Chomsky's sweeping historical drama, Catherine the Great, features Catherine Zeta-Jones as the title character. The film traces how the leader was able to skillfully manipulate both the societal institutions of the day as well as the powerful men who surrounded her in order to gain Read More

Johnny and the Dead

Actors: Andrew Falvey, George Baker, Brian Blessed, Jane Lapotaire

Synopsis: This four-part British miniseries was based on the second of the three Johnny Maxwell books by children's author Terry Pratchett (who also wrote the teleplay). This time around, young Johnny (Andrew Falvey) came to the rescue of several restless ghosts. This required the hero to prevent a local Read More

MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Brian Blessed, Sophie Ward, Oliver Ford Davies, Christian Burgess, Kevork Malikyan, Tim Woodward

Synopsis: In this telemovie spinoff of the popular series MacGyver, the titular hero (Richard Dean Anderson) - an astonishingly resourceful scientist ere-equipped with his trusty Swiss Army Knife - embarks on an Indiana Jones-style quest to find the lost treasure of Atlantis. Brian Blessed, Sophie Ward and Read More

Much Ado About Nothing

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompson

Synopsis: Actor Kenneth Branagh made his directorial debut with a rousing screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V. Four years later, he returns to the bard's work with this lively version of one of Shakespeare's best comedies. Don Pedro (Denzel Washington), the Prince of Aragon, returns Read More

Freddie as F.R.O.7

Actors: John Sessions, Billie Whitelaw, Ben Kingsley, Jenny Agutter, Brian Blessed, Nigel Hawthorne, Michael Hordern, Jonathan Pryce

Synopsis: A steamer trunk full of the voices of British acting greats (Ben Kingsley, Billie Whitelaw, Michael Hordern, Brian Blessed, and Jonathan Pryce) enliven this absurd pop-cartoon parody of the James Bond films. In a prologue taking place in a faraway time, a widowed magician-king (voice of Michael Hordern Read More

Back in the USSR

Actors: Frank Whaley, Natalya Negoda, Roman Polanski, Andrew Divoff, Dey Young

Synopsis: In this first American film to be shot entirely in Moscow, young vacationing American Archer Sloan (Frank Whaley) gets involved in the theft of a rare religious icon. The "hot-potatoed" icon lands in Sloan's possession and one of the underworld bad guys involved in the theft is murdered. Sloan Read More

Old Rococo: The Life of Gioacchino Rossini

Actors: Colin Nears

Synopsis: Filmmaker Colin Nears examines the life and career of Italian opera composer Gioacchino Rossini in this documentary that ponders, among other things, the reasons why the prolific author of such beloved comic operas as The Barber of Seville suddenly gave up writing at the age of thirty-seven. By Read More

Lady Chatterley

Actors: Joely Richardson, Sean Bean, James Wilby, Shirley Ann Field

Synopsis: Another of writer/director Ken Russell's D.H. Lawrence adaptations, Lady Chatterley (an amalgam of three Lawrence novels) was first shown as a British TV miniseries on BBC1 from June 6 to 27, 1993. In recounting the familiar details of young, bored Lady Chatterley (Joely Richardson), her elderly Read More

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Actors: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman

Synopsis: This film is a '90s version of the classic Robin Hood story, with Kevin Costner starring as the good-guy thief. Costner is joined in his efforts against the murdering Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman) by Morgan Freeman who plays a philosophizing Moor, and by Nick Brimble, who plays Little John Read More

Prisoner of Honor

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Oliver Reed, Peter Firth, Jeremy Kemp, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: Directed by Ken Russell, Prisoner of Honor is a made-for-cable retelling of the 1894 court-martial of French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus. The historical drama stars Richard Dreyfuss (no relation) as the head of counter-intelligence who uncovers several damning pieces of evidence. It turns out that Read More

Castle of Adventure

Henry V

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed, Ian Holm, Paul Scofield, Emma Thompson, Robbie Coltrane

Synopsis: Kenneth Branagh makes his feature film directorial debut with this adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V. After the Chorus (Derek Jacobi) introduces the play, young king of England Henry V (Kenneth Branagh) begins an angry dialogue with King Charles of France (Paul Scofield). The king's son Read More

My Family and Other Animals

Synopsis: In this adventure for children aged five to twelve, Gerry and his family move to the Greek island of Corfu. While his family makes human friends, Gerry meets several animal companions. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 5

Actors: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Michael Jayston, Lynda Bellingham, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: Subtitled "Mindwarp," the second story arc of the 14-week Doctor Who continuity "The Trial of a Time Lord" began on October 4, 1986. In the first of the arc's four episodes, the Valeyard (Michael Jayston), still bent on condemning the Doctor (Colin Baker) for breaking the Laws of Time, offers Read More

Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 6

Actors: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Michael Jayston, Lynda Bellingham, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: In the sixth episode of the season-long continuity "The Trial of a Time Lord," the Valeyard (Michael Jayston) continues to prosecute the Doctor (Colin Baker) for violating the Laws of Time. Videotaped evidence shows the Doctor and Peri (Nicola Bryant) travelling to the planet Thoros Beta Read More

Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 8

Actors: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Tom Branch, Brian Blessed, Michael Jayston

Synopsis: In the eighth episode of the season-long continuity "The Trial of the Time Lord," the Doctor (Colin Baker) refutes videotaped evidence of his "treachery" on the planet Thoros Beta. It doesn't look good for the Doctor, however, since the tapes suggest that he willingly served up a reluctant Peri (Nicola Bryant Read More

Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 7

Actors: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Michael Jayston, Lynda Bellingham, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: In the seventh episode of the season-long continuity "The Trial of a Time Lord," videotaped evidence presented by the Valeyard (Michael Jayston) would seem to prove that the Doctor (Colin Baker) is not only guilty of violating the Laws of Time, but was also responsible for various acts of Read More

Return to Treasure Island, Vol. 1

Synopsis: Set a decade after the events of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel, this series, produced by the Disney Channel, details the exploits of a reunited Jim Hawkins (Christopher Guard) and Long John Silver (Brian Blessed). Volume One contains the episodes "The Map" and "The Mutiny." ~ Jason Ankeny, All Read More

Return to Treasure Island, Vol. 2

Synopsis: This spin-off of the classic Treasure Island story contains two episodes. In "The Island of the Damned" and "Jamaica." Together Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver encounter adventures galore as they go back to the famed island. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Return to Treasure Island, Vol. 5

Synopsis: In this last volume from the Treasure Island series, the young Mr. Hawkins and his cohort Long John Silver flee their prison captivity to return to Treasure Island, again searching for the long-lost pirate treasure. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Return to Treasure Island, Vol. 4

Synopsis: Here's another spin-off adventure from the classic Treasure Island story. Volume 4 contains two episodes: "Fugitives" and "In Chains," where the hero Jim Hawkins finds himself in jail with none other than his old pal, Long John Silver. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Return to Treasure Island, Vol. 3

Synopsis: Here's another spin-off adventure from the classic Treasure Island story. Volume 3 contains two episodes: "Manhunt" and "The Crow's Nest." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Master of Ballantrae

Synopsis: It was not unusual in the 1980s for a British TV miniseries to resurface in America in the form of a re-edited feature-length "movie." The Master of Ballantrae, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, offered a unique reversal on this process. Originally telecast in the United States as a Read More

Black Adder: The Witchsmeller Pursuivant

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray

Synopsis: The Black Death has not only decimated half of England, but has also forced King Richard IV (Brian Blessed) into his sick bed. Hoping to curry favor with the populace and become King himself, the duplicitous Edmund declares that the plague is the result of witchcraft, thus he hires the infamous Read More

Black Adder: The Queen of Spain's Beard

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray

Synopsis: It is now the year 1492: Edmund (Rowan Atkinson) is still jockeying to become King of England, while the actual monarch, Richard IV (Brian Blessed), is busily making enemies of everyone in Europe. In order to prevent a war with Spain, Edmund is ordered to marry that country's Princess Maria Read More

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Actors: Ian Richardson, Martin Shaw, Nicholas Clay, Denholm Elliott

Synopsis: In this classic mystery story, Sherlock Holmes (Ian Richardson) is requested to investigate deaths around the Baskerville mansion because Henry (Martin Shaw), the last direct heir to the Baskerville fortune is worried that he may die by their unique curse; a ghost hound has eliminated his Read More

Black Adder: The Black Seal

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray

Synopsis: The inaugural season of the British satirical comedy series The Black Adder ended on July 20, 1983, with the episode titled "The Black Seal." Having exhausted all efforts to usurp the throne of England, Edmund (Rowan Atkinson) resorts to drastic measures -- which, characteristically, are Read More

Black Adder: The Archbishop

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray

Synopsis: Though he'd much rather be King of England, Edmund (Rowan Atkinson) is willing to accept the lesser post of Archbishop of Canterbury. But there's a catch: the Archbishop is out of favor with King Richard IV (Brian Blessed), thus all of Edmund's predecessors have met with sudden and violent deaths. Read More

The High Road to China

Actors: Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley, Robert Morley

Synopsis: O'Malley (Tom Selleck) is a heavy-drinking, tough biplane pilot flying the skies of China for fun and profit when Eve (Bess Armstrong) seeks him out to help her find her father before he is declared dead and she loses an inheritance to the evil Bentik (Robert Morley). O'Malley does not really want Read More

Black Adder: The Foretelling

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray

Synopsis: "The Foretelling" marked the official inauguration of the satirical British comedy series The Black Adder. The year is 1485: Riding out of the nowhere into the now is Edmund (Rowan Atkinson), Duke of Edinburgh -- better known as The Black Adder -- the demented, embittered, and ruthlessly ambitious Read More

Black Adder: Born to Be King

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray

Synopsis: The second episode of The Black Adder's first season, "Born to Be King," was a reworking of the series' unsold pilot episode. Having inadvertently placed Richard IV (Brian Blessed) on the throne of England, the scheming Edmund (Rowan Atkinson) must find some way to discredit the heir apparent Read More

The Joy of Bach

Flash Gordon

Actors: Sam Jones, Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: Heroic earthling Flash Gordon saves the world from the nefarious Ming the Merciless in this lavish, intentionally campy adaptation of the famous sci-fi comic strip. The story is as basic as space operas get: Ming (Max von Sydow) has developed a plan to destroy the Earth, and Flash (Sam J. Jones) Read More

Blakes 7: Cygnus Alpha

Actors: Gareth Thomas, Sally Knyvette, Michael Keating, Paul Darrow, David Jackson

Synopsis: Blake (Gareth Thomas) and his fellow escapees pilot the Liberator to the prison planet Cygnus Alpha. Here he frees several convicts who agree to join Blake in his ongoing battle against the Federation. Unfortunately, several of these new insurgents fall ill to a deadly virus. The only serum Read More

The Story of David

Synopsis: Filmed in Israel and Spain, the four-hour made-for-TV The Story of David stars Timothy Bottoms as the Biblical king. The "David and Goliath" legend is presented as credibly as possible, while David's later disastrous romance with Bathsheba (Jane Seymour) is handled with taste and decorum. Also in Read More

Appointment with a Killer

Synopsis: Appointment with a Killer began life as a British TV movie, then took up residence in the US as part of ABC's Wide World Mystery anthology. As with most videotaped thrillers of this ilk, the cast is headed by a well-known American actor, in this case Joanna Pettet. The plot concerns a murder that Read More

King Arthur, the Young Warlord

Synopsis: The early years of the future King Arthur are recounted in this film from Sidney Hayers. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

I, Claudius

Actors: Derek Jacobi, Sian Phillips, Brian Blessed, Margaret Tyzack, John Hurt

Synopsis: This 13-episode miniseries was adapted from the book by Robert Graves, which chronicles the tumultuous life and times of Claudius (Derek Jacobi), who despite a deformed leg and a speech impediment through prophecy becomes the Roman Empire. An aging Claudius looks back at the bizarre and Read More

The Young Warlord

Synopsis: When the Saxons threaten the safety of England in 500 AD, a strong warrior known as Arthur works to bring a number of tribes together to fight off the invaders. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Man of La Mancha

Actors: Miriam Acevedo, Rolando DeSantis, Connel Miles, Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, John Castle

Synopsis: Dale Wasserman's long-running Broadway smash comes to the screen in this musical based on Miguel de Cervantes' classic satire Don Quixote de la Mancha. Cervantes (Peter O'Toole) is arrested and put in prison by the soldiers of the Spanish Inquisition after staging a comic performance which mocked Read More

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Actors: David Baillie, Peter Clay, Sarah Long, Mark York, Keith Michell, Donald Pleasence, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Asher, Frances Cuka

Synopsis: Henry VIII and His Six Wives is a feature film based upon the 1971 BBC miniseries The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Keith Michell weathers several makeup changes as the much-married titular monarch. While the miniseries was able to explore the political and personal reasons for the selection (and Read More

The Trojan Women

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Geneviève Bujold, Vanessa Redgrave, Irene Papas, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: The Trojan Women is a film of the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, which is a highly mannered, ritual-like stage play. It was not easy to transform it into a movie while remaining faithful to the play, but there are many rewards for the patient viewer. The score by Mikis Theodorakis (Zorba the Greek Read More

The Last Valley

Actors: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport, Per Oscarsson

Synopsis: Noted novelist and sometime film director James Clavell, wrote, directed, and produced this adaptation of J.B. Pick's novel, set during the Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648. During the chaotic confrontations and shifting alliances of the war, a hidden valley protected from the outside world becomes Read More

Cold Comfort Farm

Synopsis: Adapted from the 1932 comic novel by Stella Gibbons, this version of Cold Comfort Farm stars Sarah Badel as Flora Post, a precocious 19-year-old whose parents were lost to the Spanish plague. Left with only 100 pounds a year for survival, Flora writes to several relatives in hopes of finding one Read More

Brotherly Love

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Susannah York, Michael Craig, Harry Andrews, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also harbors an incestuous yearning for his sister Hilary (Susannah York Read More

Avengers: The Morning After

Synopsis: This time the villain is a treacherous double agent named Merlin (Peter Barkworth), who uses sleeping gas to elude his captors. Knocked cold by the snooze gas, Steed, Tara, and Merlin awaken in a deserted -- and heavily guarded -- small town. Handcuffed to Merlin, Steed must rely upon his aid to Read More

Alf 'n' Family

Synopsis: The British television series Til Death Do Us Part was the forerunner to the American TV hit All in the Family. The original series' Archie Bunker was Alf Garnett, a bigoted, profane cockney played by Warren Mitchell. The "Edith" was the dimwitted Else, portrayed by Dandy Nichols. The British Read More

Till Death Us Do Part

Actors: Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Anthony Booth, Una Stubbs, Liam Redmond

Synopsis: This film is taken from the popular British television series. Alf Garnett (Warren Mitchell) is a middle-aged bigot who loves the Queen and all that for which the kingdom (or what is left of it) stands, right or wrong. He puts up with his dizzy wife, Else (Dandy Nichols), his liberated daughter (Una Stubbs Read More

Avengers: The Superlative Seven

Synopsis: Invited to an airborne costume party, Steed and six other guests find themselves stranded on a desert island. The castaways then learn that there's a highly trained assassin in their midst. As the festivities degenerate into a campy replay of Ten Little Indians, Emma tries to figure out a means of Read More

The Three Musketeers

Actors: Brian Blessed, Gary Watson, Jeremy Young, Jeremy Brett, Mary Peach

Synopsis: It is possible that Alexandre Dumas' classic swashbuckling novel The Three Musketeers has undergone more stage, film, and TV adaptations than any other literary property. Whether this is true or not, it is a matter of record that Britain's BBC offered two separate miniseries versions of the Dumas Read More

The Christmas Tree

Synopsis: In this holiday tale three London urchins find adventure as they struggle to bring a Christmas tree across town to a hospital. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Z Cars [TV Series]

Actors: Stratford Johns, Frank Windsor, James Ellis, Dudley Foster, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: The incredibly durable cop show Z Cars (pronounced "Zed Cars") was one of the great guilty pleasures of British television -- a program which everyone watched, but no one would admit to watching. Created by Troy Kennedy Martin, the series focused on a "typical" crime-ridden Liverpool police Read More