Charles Gray

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 96

Gender Male

Birthday August 29, 1928

Day of Death March 7, 2000 (71 years old)

Place of Birth Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK

Also Known As

Чарльз Грей
Donald Marshall Gray

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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.

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Acting

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1 episode as Officer Edwards (#1430)

2021

2008

as Mr. Fairbanks

2002

as Ernst Stavro Blofeld (archive footage) (uncredited)

2000

1 episode as Self

1998

as Arundell

1995

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

1994

4 episodes

1992

2 episodes

1991		Performance 1 episode as Maurice Hussey
1991		Absolute Hell as Maurice Hussey
1991		Firestar: First Contact as Commodore Vandross

1990

as Satan

1989

4 episodes as Sebastian

1988

1 episode

1987		The New Statesman 2 episodes as Roland Gidleigh-Park
1987		Dreams Lost, Dreams Found as Jason Klein
1987		Cariani and the Courtesans as Narrator
1987		Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Narrator (voice)
1987		Porterhouse Blue 4 episodes as Sir Cathcart D'Eath

1986		C.A.T.S. Eyes 1 episode
1986		Casey at the Bat as Mr. Dent
1986		The Gourmet as Manley Kingston

1985		Bergerac 1 episode as Bart Bellow
1985		Sherlock Holmes 4 episodes as Mycroft Holmes

1983		The BBC Television Shakespeare 1 episode as Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
1983		The Comedy of Errors as Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
1983		An Englishman Abroad as Claudius (Charles)
1983		The Jigsaw Man as Sir James Chorley

1982

as Earl Spencer

1981		The BBC Television Shakespeare 1 episode as Pandarus
1981		Troilus & Cressida as Pandarus
1981		Ticket to Heaven as Musician
1981		Shock Treatment as Judge Oliver Wright

1980

as Bates, The Butler

1979		Schalcken the Painter as Narrator
1979		Mrs. R's Daughter as Rogers
1979		The House on Garibaldi Street as Gen. Lischke
1979		Ike 3 episodes as Gen. 'Freddie' DeGuingand
1979		Ike as Gen. "Freddie" de Guingand
1979		Hazell 1 episode
1979		The BBC Television Shakespeare 1 episode as Julius Caesar
1979		Julius Caesar as Julius Caesar

1978		The BBC Television Shakespeare 1 episode as Duke of York
1978		Richard II as Duke of York
1978		The Legacy as Karl Liebnecht
1978		Across a Crowded Room as Harold Charles

1977		Six Characters in Search of an Author as The Director
1977		Three Dangerous Ladies as Santander
1977		Silver Bears as Charles Cook
1977		The Galton & Simpson Playhouse 1 episode

1976

as Mycroft Holmes

1975		The Philanthropist as Braham
1975		The Rocky Horror Picture Show as The Criminologist
1975		The Venturers 1 episode
1975		Thriller 1 episode as Hilary Vance
1975		Night is the Time For Killing as Hilary Vance

1974		Fall of Eagles 1 episode as Rodzianko
1974		The Beast Must Die as Bennington
1974		On the Game as Narrator (voice)

1973		Tales That Witness Madness as Nicholas (Clinic Link Episodes segment) (voice)
1973		BBC Play of the Month 1 episode as Mr. Beebe
1973		Theatre of Blood as Solomon Psaltery (voice) (uncredited)
1973		The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes 1 episode as Eugene Valmont
1973		The Upper Crusts 6 episodes

1972		Upstairs, Downstairs 1 episode as Sir Edwin Partridge
1972		BBC Play of the Month 1 episode as Adrian Blenderbland
1972		The Millionairess as Adrian Blenderbland
1972		The Merchant of Venice as Antonio

1971		London as Mr. Mapleton, Tailor
1971		BBC Play of the Month 1 episode as Gayev
1971		The Cherry Orchard as Gayev
1971		Diamonds Are Forever as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
1971		Play for Today 1 episode
1971		When Eight Bells Toll as Sir Anthony Skouras (voice) (uncredited)

1970		The Executioner as Vaughan Jones
1970		Cromwell as The Earl of Essex

1969		The Merchant of Venice as Antonio
1969		The File of the Golden Goose as Harrison, 'The Owl'
1969		Mosquito Squadron as Air Commodore Hufford
1969		The Nine Ages of Nakedness as Narrator

1968		The Jazz Age 1 episode
1968		The Devil Rides Out as Mocata
1968		The Secret War of Harry Frigg as Gen. Adrian Cox-Roberts

1967		The Man Outside as Charles Griddon
1967		You Only Live Twice as Dikko Henderson
1967		Hallmark Hall of Fame 1 episode as Bounine
1967		The Night of the Generals as General von Seidlitz-Gabler

1965		Masquerade as Benson
1965		Tea Party

1962		Maigret 1 episode
1962		Out of This World 1 episode

1961

12 episodes as Pico McGuire

1960		Man in the Moon as Leo
1960		The Entertainer as Columnist

1959		No Hiding Place 1 episode
1959		Tommy the Toreador as Gomez
1959		The Desperate Man as Lawson

1958		Gunsmoke 1 episode as Bob Gringle
1958		Heart of a Child as Fritz Heiss
1958		I Accuse! as Captain Brossard

1956

1 episode as Tyler 1 episode as Sheriff

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