Brian Blessed Relieved By Ancestor’s Change in Luck | Who Do You Think You Are

[@laurathornton1456]

How does anyone not just fall in love with Brian Blessed immediately? He has the perfect name. I always feel Blessed every time I see him!

[@scarletfluerr]

I agree, as an American I haven't seen him quite as much as the Brits would have, but I do like him he's charismatic and funny his mannerisms remind me of the classic Santa Claus.

[@maybee...]

I was thinking the same thing. An absolute delight!

[@kelpengineer5303]

Indeed... I’ve been a fan since my first encounter with his acting on Space 1999 back in the 70s.

[@jjmunna]

What you wrote is wonderful x

[@catrionagoldthorp9040]

Such a lovely man.He was so involved with everyone.

[@blindness134]

Brian Blessed's laughter, his kind, elegant manners and genuine humanity are some of the things I'm never getting tired of. This gentle giant of a man is a real treasure.

[@mavisformula]

I agree, it is a pity you don't see this sort of charm, manners and decency so much, a lot could learn from his example

[@laurathornton1456]

@@mavisformula can we clone him? We are losing the greats so fast!

[@jerryhosford4557]

A true gentleman, in every sense of the word.

[@scott917]

I am from Texas and have no idea who this guy is - but how can you not like him and love his enthusiasm. What a great spirit he has.

[@victormgv]

Dude look up this man’s clips on KZbin. He has stories for days! It’s like a unreal epic character you hear about in stories.

[@Joekidd1961]

He was in the movie Flash Gordon and also in a lot of Shakespeare plays. He is best known for Flash Gordon though when he finds out Flash is alive, he says, "GORDON'S ALIVE???" If you type in that into KZbin you'll find it.

[@ImCarolB]

The first season of Blackadder is a must. He's larger than life.

[@StevenCampbell1955]

Brian Blessed acted in some of the BlackAdder series. Do look him up there as you will be amused no end. I offer , merely as an example, this snippet for your delectation. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYjWfJuDhplkors

[@keefymarchant8285]

@@Joekidd1961 He is also an explorer, He has climbed Mount everest, been a zoo keeper and kept animals

[@artsed08]

No coward soul is mine No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere I see Heaven's glories shine And Faith shines equal arming me from Fear.

[@RikDog91]

What he said at the end about his ancestor. The emotion. My God, what a beautiful man.

[@juliancharles-fellows4008]

Thank you, he is a blessed soul, and a Honorary Wallace from the Clan Wallace in Scotland.

[@cloudsparrow7729]

Brian Blessed just makes the world a better place. He's like Newfoundland dogs, sparrows and Laurel and Hardy films.

[@Jenjenilou]

"Well I''ll be buggered" ... "I'll be damned." Hahaha - he's got a lovely turn of phrase has our Brian. Blessed by name, Blessed by nature!

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

A good egg, indeed.

[@tracyleesmith781]

Im from Louisiana & i didn't know who this amazingly enthusiastic man is & his name is my favorite word, Blessed. His story is sad but happily ever after! I was in tears when he said this line when he "talked" to Jabez. This is truly a wonderful history. ❤✌🏾

[@cramyt]

pride of England he is haha

[@melanieviselli9706]

I am so glad the two brothers Jabez and Barnabus were able to reconnect as adults.

[@sbonnet2004]

Agreed, I think that moment is one of the best in the entire series, comparable to Charles Dance finding out about his half-sister.

[@loris7660]

I wonder if it was an uncommon last name. Maybe someone commented to one of the men they they'd met someone with the same last name in another town. That may explain it. However it happened, how wonderful.

[@bigman25plus25]

Maybe they new each other from the get go... maybe Jabez ran away from the workhouse to shack up with this brother

[@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods]

@@bigman25plus25 That's kind of what I think. They planned this together.

[@viscountbp]

@@sbonnet2004 imagine the tension of going to another town to see if he's really your brother and then to see the doors open and it's really him.

[@SuburbanSavage]

He is the human embodiment of an exclamation point

[@brienneoffriggintarth5510]

Well said!

[@Azoreanislandgirl64]

I cried along side you Mr Blessed. life isn't about money , it's about perseverance, courage , and resilience. loving life, and living positive.

[@potatotrain7813]

My absolute favourite. What a treasure. And so personally affected by the life of his family members.

[@stanleywoodison8699]

He seems to have been around for ever ,I remember him in Z Cars in the 60s and he hardly seems to have changed over the years.

[@keep_it_real_1]

"Guts, courage and imagination, this is what life is about" amazingly true words

[@blackswan8651]

This story could be a movie.. "Brothers Blessed"

[@tesscardenas1600]

Yes! Great movie idea.

[@adamshattuck1985]

as a man with multiple brothers, the feeling you get knowing you find your brother and know their good is the most wonderful thing.

[@melanieviselli9706]

Brian Blessed gets more adorable every time I watch one of these videos with him. I love how engrossed he becomes in the information. He just has that great personality. And when you do genealogy research for a long time, it becomes so easy to form bonds of a sort with some of the characters you meet in your family tree.

[@divox9pqr]

Brian, as you found “guts, courage, and imagination” in your forefathers, I begin thinking about my own previous generations that came to an urban life from the farm and prospered through hardship and trial...Amazing.

[@OffGridInvestor]

Here in Australia with the CV, many are looking to buy land away from the cities now. To escape disease if it comes again in our generation.

[@thaitim007]

Flash Gordon 1980, Blackadder 1st series.. quite a few old films. He was also a theatre actor. Lovely guy.

[@kirishima2370]

Jabez, I'm sure, would have been very very proud of Brian

[@Ninkopi]

@Montgomery15 Snooker Videos It made me cry too

[@Ninkopi]

He definetly would. Who wouldn't be, he's so kind

[@0000moz]

This is the most touching episode I have seen of this. Brian Blessed like your Great Great Grandfather Jebez you too are an extraordinary man. I am so happy for you to have gone through this journey and thank you for sharing it with the world.

[@juliancharles-fellows4008]

Thank you, he is a blessed soul, and a Honorary Wallace from the Clan Wallace in Scotland.

[@gragrn]

Going by his great-great grandsons enormous level of charisma I'd say Jabez would have been a fantastic salesman.

[@lea6555]

My thoughts were 'the apple hasn't fallen far from that particular tree "😂

[@kirstymacfarlane3815]

I fell in love with Brian Blessed as a child. I can go years without seeing him but this has been such a wonderful journey for him to share and I love him as much as ever.

[@Juliemorgana]

When you learn about your ancestors and then visit their graves, you really can feel like you are meeting them, you are relating to, or with, them. It's genuine, what Brian Blessed is feeling here.

[@unapologeticallyme8513]

His visit to his ancestors grave was priceless to watch ♡

[@babs675]

Brian Blessed, such a happy, beautiful man. Always loved his work.

[@thebarefootwitch5564]

“He didn’t need the purple pill! Randy lad!” 😂 gotta love Brian Blessed.

[@fioname3495]

Blessed don't need the Purple Pill. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😂🙏✌🏼❤️

[@fiona-lyons]

I simply live this man and his passion for life - and yes I believe him when he says he never cried, not even as a baby.

[@SpearOfLughh]

So strange to hear my county finally getting recognition :D I live in Grimsby and have traveled (by foot) all over this beautiful Lincolnshire. I have been to Brigg, Winterton and everywhere inbetween. Interesting to think i may have walked the same path as Brian Blessed AND his ancestors. Truly marvelous to me, may God bless him and his lineage.

[@mgoblue8168]

My great great grandmother was from Wellingore in Lincolnshire. We have been to the Cliff Villages south of Lincoln many times. The countryside there feels like home even though we were born and grew up in the US.

[@kcmac66]

"There was nothing wrong with him, was there? He didn't need the purple pill"....I died.

[@fava7753]

Brian Blessed , a national treasure , one truly amazing man . .

[@PaulNurse1]

What a wonderful human being Brian blessed is.

[@hullahoney1]

I love this Brian is one of my fav's . When doing my Genealogy I hear my Uncles saying " Why were they in London " Brought back many memories. so Happy His story had a wonderful ending.

[@TennesseeMelanie]

I just love Brian...he FEELS his ancestors.

[@Truebritify]

One of the best I have seen. What a lovely, caring and enthusiastic man Brian is. A national treasure.

[@koreywhite9437]

Brian Blessed is such a joy to watch he’s reactions are just perfect

[@captaintyrrell6428]

"He was a randy lad, he served his country well!" I love Brian Blessed. Modern Britain needs more 'randy lads'.

[@OffGridInvestor]

Instead of just importing jihadis.

[@linusp9316]

@@OffGridInvestor Thanks for spoiling a decent sentiment with moronic, ignorant xenophobia.. really doing your country proud too, I'm sure.

[@HeavyH2006]

What a wonderfully moving recital celebrating the life of those before him.... such vigour and poise. Thank you for sharing.

[@TheLadyLuck523]

Brian Blessed is such a treasure of a man! So full of life. He will always be one of my favorites to watch no matter what he does.

[@hellopancakes3877]

BRIAN BLESSED!

[@absurdlyy9009]

This man is so wholesome

[@absurdlyy9009]

I keep coming back to this video. he talks with so much love in his voice. makes me feel warm inside .❤

[@markybhoyflorida]

Just when you thought you couldn't love Blessed any more...

[@okeefe757]

Exasperated Joy-the persona and personality of Brian Blessed. One of my favorites.

[@EnglishSaxons]

So full of life even at this great age ,thank god for this man

[@monaubedei2739]

I so love to her him speak with such expression and enthusiasm!

[@Nell0111]

That was so wonderful ! What a man !

[@mosquito5]

What a wonderful conclusion to ones history ..especially through such terrible traumatic events to find a a family members who survived to be successful in the own right. One of the most moving life stories of this series Brian what wonderful gift ..

[@patoguayabero]

Beautiful human being.

[@annieberardino8732]

Omg... what a rollercoaster! Totally crying ...his emotional words about his Ancestor had me bawlin...😢😭😭

[@tyeslater24]

I have no idea who Brian is but i think i love him lol

[@alphalunamare]

1:55 Can just hear the walls: 'You took your bloody time' :-)

[@davidbrooks187]

One of our countries greatest ever actors. Total legend 🇬🇧

[@JV-the-Tossh]

Somehow I feel the description saying "Several children" is an understatement.

[@goya6493]

What an absolutely adorable man with such a truly Favored family. Much Love Brian Blessed 🥰🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@TheSpinDoctor]

I must be hormonal as i cried when he was at the grave!

[@dawngay2709]

I so love Brian's passion.

[@TheGiokink]

I love Brian Blessed, what a character

[@noahbrown6970]

You sort of forget how lucky us younger generations are to have as much access to family and information as we do. Brian sought out information about his great-great-grandfather, as he didn't know what he did for a living, how long he lived for, where he lived and who he was married to, not even his name...I've met two of my great-great-grandparents. Just shows the absolute leaps and bounds we've made in the last 100+ years 💜💜💜

[@markhughes7927]

Heart-warming - the will to live and triumph over adversity. To put the Poor House behind you and significant flowering is phenomenal - perhaps there was a secret life in it not yet known.

[@davidjackson1986]

What a man mr blessed is..love him

[@jameswg13]

Brian blessed is a national treasure

[@cate4338]

heartbreaking - heartwarming - wonderful that there were lives well lived... to honour them is the very least we can do... crying with you Brian.

[@seaninness334]

"No purple pill for Jabez..." lol... ;)

[@ronfrancois]

What a rollercoaster of a history. Forces the emotion out of you. Just like Brian's final exhausted tears.

[@adiscourse9489]

This man is over the top and I love it! ❤️

[@chantalmassicotte3934]

He is a National treasure. I love that man!

[@MediaArchive2-z9f]

Amazong. This is just like something Sir Charles Dickens wrote about in his novels Great Expectations and David Copperfield. It's extraordinary how Jaybez and his children survived the horror of the workhouses.

[@jeancater1388]

I just love Brian Blessed.

[@d.c.holshouser6716]

This is beautiful the emotion nearly overwhelms

[@peterturner9941]

I read Emily Bronte's poem No Coward Soul Is Mine at my mum's funeral.

[@Ninkopi]

I love this man, he's so interested in everything and warm and kind

[@sodoffbaldrick3038]

So glad this ended the way it did for him...such a lovely man.

[@trishayamada807]

Awww! I cried with him. ❤️

[@technoshaman001]

Yes me too

[@christineramsay1897]

Bless all the Blesseds! "No Coward's Soul is Mine" xx

[@t123a698]

I heard that as "Noël Coward's soul is mine" the first time around.

[@fionaterry-chandler8056]

The graveyard scene at the end is utterly moving.

[@patriciaalderson1742]

I absolutely love these stories, thanks for sharing

[@logothaironsides2942]

How very honest he is. I love that. So sad that the girls did not make it but hooray for the gutsy boys

[@tinamarinelli4325]

This is the most emotional who do you think they are ive watched

[@carmanahhain622]

What a delightful man to watch😊

[@Artari]

What a beautiful man he is ❤

[@yogi1kenobi]

What a national treasure this man is

[@nickbarton3191]

Couldn't have a better thing said about someone's life than "you lived life, a great example".

[@SandraNelson063]

There's a movie here.

[@kcmac66]

There really is.

[@rhaivaen]

Brian is so lovely

[@shawnchristopherwhite3271]

What a charming man!

[@christopheranders6725]

Your family is proud of the actor as well ❤️

[@jonxcrosse3482]

After reading his book, I cannot tell you what an impact it had looking at his great great grandfather’s grave, which made him cry. Brian Blessed never cried once in his life, even as a baby. This was a very profound moment for him.

[@bernieespinal1905]

Truly one of the best stories

[@hxjp]

thank you brian for being the ghost of christmas past. marvelous. seeing this makes me want to find i claudius, to watch again! i saw a talk on i claudius' film history, it is highly regarded still for filling the frame, and the chapter on you was so great! thank you for sharing.

[@TheGloriousUncertainty]

The brothers truly were blessed...

[@keep_it_real_1]

Wow...what a fabulous man Brian is and a very emotional end to a wonderful discovery of his past ❤️

[@pameladelano4111]

I don’t know who this man is, but I’ve come to adore him while watching his search.

[@rdo1231]

I love this man - so charismatic and funny

[@Mrgingerdread1]

Amazing, i used to work down Coleharbour lane in ascrap metal yard.

[@peggycooper920]

He was perfect as "The Great Augustus" in "I Claudius".

[@timburr4453]

We in America on a clear night can actually hear Brian Blessed's voice booming across the Atlantic sometimes

[@priceless24757]

Chills hearing about these brothers reuniting 🥰

[@pixiniarts]

I would put money on the brothers finding a way to keep in contact down the years, and when the brother ran from the workhouse, he would have needed a place to lay low and hide... He would need a confidant, help, and there was only one person he would have known and trusted to provide that...

[@richardbidinger2577]

A personality bigger than the man himself.

[@Capohanf1]

I can relate to Brian's elation. When I began looking for my Great Great Grandfather all the family knew was that he had died of "the fever" in a Civil War training camp in Texas. Apparently NOT even his ONLY son (my Great Grandfather) that was born the same year he died ever knew his father's name. After a few years of cross checking military record, marriage records and the like I found his name, a name that had been lost to the family for 3 Generations, Evan! Sitting in the library, looking at the microfilmed record I felt like yelling just like Brian did!

[@roseypuddin8805]

A lovely history of a lovely man X

[@lucu01]

i see Brian Blessed's name, I click ! what a story, an adventure, fascinating stuff