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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-08-29 (96 years old)

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.

Known For

Acting

2021

2008

Love Don't Come Easy as Mr. Fairbanks

2002

Bond Girls Are Forever as Ernst Stavro Blofeld (archive footage) (uncredited)

1999

1998

1995

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band as Self (segment "Taylor's shop" ) (archive footage)

1994

1992

1991

Absolute Hell as Maurice Hussey
Firestar: First Contact as Commodore Vandross
Performance as Maurice Hussey

1990

1989

Blackeyes as Sebastian

1988

1987

Porterhouse Blue as Sir Cathcart D'Eath
The New Statesman as Roland Gidleigh-Park

1986

Casey at the Bat as Mr. Dent
The Gourmet as Manley Kingston

1985

1984

Sherlock Holmes as Mycroft Holmes

1983

The Comedy of Errors as Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
An Englishman Abroad as Claudius (Charles)
The Jigsaw Man as Sir James Chorley

1982

1981

Shock Treatment as Judge Oliver Wright
Troilus & Cressida as Pandarus
Ticket to Heaven as Musician
Bergerac as Bart Bellow

1980

The Mirror Crack'd as Bates, The Butler

1979

Julius Caesar as Julius Caesar
Ike as Gen. "Freddie" de Guingand
Ike as Gen. 'Freddie' DeGuingand

1978

The Legacy as Karl Liebnecht
Richard II as Duke of York
The BBC Television Shakespeare as Solinus, Duke of Ephesus

1977

Silver Bears as Charles Cook

1976

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution as Mycroft Holmes

1975

The Rocky Horror Picture Show as The Criminologist

1974

On the Game as Narrator (voice)
The Beast Must Die as Bennington
Fall of Eagles as Rodzianko

1973

Theatre of Blood as Solomon Psaltery (voice) (uncredited)
Tales That Witness Madness as Nicholas (Clinic Link Episodes segment) (voice)
Thriller as Hilary Vance

1972

The Millionairess as Adrian Blenderbland

1971

Diamonds Are Forever as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
When Eight Bells Toll as Sir Anthony Skouras (voice) (uncredited)
London as Mr. Mapleton, Tailor
Upstairs, Downstairs as Sir Edwin Partridge

1970

Cromwell as The Earl of Essex
The Executioner as Vaughan Jones

1969

The File of the Golden Goose as Harrison, 'The Owl'
Mosquito Squadron as Air Commodore Hufford

1968

The Secret War of Harry Frigg as Gen. Adrian Cox-Roberts

1967

You Only Live Twice as Dikko Henderson
The Night of the Generals as General von Seidlitz-Gabler
The Man Outside as Charles Griddon

1965

Masquerade as Benson
BBC Play of the Month as Adrian Blenderbland

1962

1961

Gunslinger as Pico McGuire

1960

The Entertainer as Columnist

1959

1958

I Accuse! as Captain Brossard
Heart of a Child as Fritz Heiss

1955

Gunsmoke as Sheriff
Highway Patrol as Officer Edwards (#1430)
Gunsmoke as Tyler
Gunsmoke as Bob Gringle

1951