FrameThrower · Actors · Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed
3 films · 76 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1980–2012
Born 9 October 1936 · Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
Brian Blessed OBEis an English actor. He is known for his distinctive bushy beard, booming voice, and exuberant personality and performances. He portrayed PC "Fancy" Smith in Z-Cars; Augustus in the 1976 BBC television production of I, Claudius; King Richard IV in the first series of Blackadder; Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon; Bustopher Jones and Old Deuteronomy in the 1981 original London production of Cats at the New London Theatre; Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, in Henry V; Boss Nass in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace; and the voice of Clayton and the Tarzan yell in Disney's Tarzan.
In 2016, Blessed was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 76 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1980–2012
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
How their films are shot
Measured across 76 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Brian takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 44% of their frames are interior — the look of the work Brian takes.
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 76 frames from Brian Blessed's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.