Charles Gray

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-08-29 (72 years old)

Deathday

2000-03-07

Place of Birth

Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK

Charles Gray

Biography

Charles Gray (29 August 1928 - 7 March 2000) was an English actor who was well-known for roles including the arch-villain Blofeld in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, Sherlock Holmes' brother Mycroft Holmes in the Granada television series, and as the narrator of the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975.

Acting

1967

You Only Live Twice

as Dikko Henderson

1971

Diamonds Are Forever

as Ernst Stavro Blofeld

1965

Masquerade

as Benson

1970

Cromwell

as The Earl of Essex

1968

The Secret War of Harry Frigg

as Gen. Adrian Cox-Roberts

1981

Shock Treatment

as Judge Oliver Wright

1973

Theatre of Blood

as Solomon Psaltery (voice) (uncredited)

1978

The Legacy

as Karl Liebnecht

1975

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

as The Criminologist

1967

The Night of the Generals

as General von Seidlitz-Gabler

1968

1995

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

as Self (segment "Taylor's shop" ) (archive footage)

1969

The File of the Golden Goose

as Harrison, 'The Owl'

1960

1959

1983

The Comedy of Errors

as Solinus, Duke of Ephesus

1971

1975

1990

1970

The Executioner

as Vaughan Jones

1979

Julius Caesar

as Julius Caesar

1978

Richard II

as Duke of York

1969

Mosquito Squadron

as Air Commodore Hufford

1981

1967

The Man Outside

as Charles Griddon

1986

Casey at the Bat

as Mr. Dent

1976

1983

An Englishman Abroad

as Claudius (Charles)

2008

Love Don't Come Easy

as Mr. Fairbanks

1959

1974

On the Game

as Narrator (voice)

2002

Bond Girls Are Forever

as Ernst Stavro Blofeld (archive footage) (uncredited)

1980

The Mirror Crack'd

as Bates, The Butler

1979

Ike

as Gen. "Freddie" de Guingand

1983

The Jigsaw Man

as Sir James Chorley

1974

The Beast Must Die

as Bennington

1991

Absolute Hell

as Maurice Hussey

1981

Ticket to Heaven

as Musician

1972

The Millionairess

as Adrian Blenderbland

1991

Firestar: First Contact

as Commodore Vandross

1987

1979

1971

When Eight Bells Toll

as Sir Anthony Skouras (voice) (uncredited)

1977

1971

London

as Mr. Mapleton, Tailor

1998

1979

1960

The Entertainer

as Columnist

1973

Tales That Witness Madness

as Nicholas (Clinic Link Episodes segment) (voice)

1986

The Gourmet

as Manley Kingston

1958

I Accuse!

as Captain Brossard

1977

Silver Bears

as Charles Cook

1958

Heart of a Child

as Fritz Heiss

1978

Across a Crowded Room

as Harold Charles

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