What is Brian Blessed?
{{Infobox person | honorific_suffix = [[OBE]] | name = Brian Blessed | image = Brian Blessed by Offwhitehouse.jpg | image_size = | caption = Brian Blessed at [[Cambridge Film Festival]] in 2007 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1936|10|9|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=%2F61cw2GEAYP4cwmdOMP0MQ&scan=1|title=Index entry|access-date=4 November 2010|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/21354 |title= BFI biodata |publisher= Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date= 16 April 2009 |access-date= 2011-07-08 |archive-date= 2013-04-02 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130402075151/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/21354 |url-status= dead }}</ref> | birth_place = [[Mexborough]], [[Yorkshire]], England | alma_mater = [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]] | occupation = Actor, author, comedian, director, presenter | years_active = 1962–present | spouse = [[Hildegarde Neil]] (m. 1978–2023; her death) | children = 2 }} '''Brian Blessed''' [[OBE]] (born 9 October 1936) is an [[English people|English]] actor. ==Early life== The son of William Blessed, a [[socialism|socialist]] miner, and Hilda Wall, Blessed was born at the Montague Hospital<ref>{{cite book |last=Blessed |first=Brian |title=The Dynamite Kid |url=https://archive.org/details/dynamitekid0000bles |year=1992 |publisher= Bloomsbury |location= London, UK |isbn=0-7475-1275-2 |edition=1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/dynamitekid0000bles/page/1 1] |chapter=1}}</ref> in the town of [[Mexborough]], Yorkshire.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nndb.com/people/866/000084614/ |title=Brian Blessed |publisher=[[NNDB]] |access-date=2008-05-05 }}</ref> He attended [[Bolton on Dearne]] [[Secondary 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 o