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Brian BlessedOBE (born 9 October 1936) is an English actor.

Early life

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The son of William Blessed, a socialist miner, and Hilda Wall, Blessed was born at the Montague Hospital^[3] in the town of Mexborough, Yorkshire.^[4] He attended Bolton on DearneSecondary Modern School, but after his father suffered an industrial accident, he was forced to leave school early at 14 and spent several years working at a variety of jobs, ranging from undertaker to plasterer's assistant. He completed his National Service as a parachutist in the Royal Air Force. He began his acting training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, alongside Patrick Stewart. He has written about his early life in his autobiography, Dynamite Kid (1992).

Career

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An early role was that of PC "Fancy" Smith in the BBC police drama Z-Cars from 1962 to 1965. In 1966, Blessed appeared in Incident at Vichy at the Phoenix Theatre in