Charles Gray

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 95

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

2021

2008

as Mr. Fairbanks

2002

as Ernst Stavro Blofeld (archive footage) (uncredited)

1999

(1 episode) as Self

1998

as Arundell

1995

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

1994

(4 episodes)

1992

(2 episodes)

1991		Absolute Hell as Maurice Hussey
1991		Performance (1 episode) 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		Casey at the Bat as Mr. Dent
1986		The Gourmet as Manley Kingston

1985

(1 episode)

1984

(4 episodes) as Mycroft Holmes

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		Troilus & Cressida as Pandarus
1981		Bergerac (1 episode) as Bart Bellow
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		Julius Caesar as Julius Caesar

1978		Richard II as Duke of York
1978		The BBC Television Shakespeare (1 episode) as Pandarus (1 episode) as Duke of York (1 episode) as Solinus, Duke of Ephesus (1 episode) as Julius Caesar
1978		The Legacy as Karl Liebnecht
1978		Hazell (1 episode)

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		Night is the Time For Killing as Hilary Vance

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

1973		Tales That Witness Madness as Nicholas (Clinic Link Episodes segment) (voice)
1973		Thriller (1 episode) as Hilary Vance
1973		Theatre of Blood as Solomon Psaltery (voice) (uncredited)
1973		The Upper Crusts (6 episodes)

1972		The Millionairess as Adrian Blenderbland
1972		The Merchant of Venice as Antonio

1971		London as Mr. Mapleton, Tailor
1971		The Cherry Orchard as Gayev
1971		Diamonds Are Forever as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
1971		Upstairs, Downstairs (1 episode) as Sir Edwin Partridge
1971		The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1 episode) as Eugene Valmont
1971		When Eight Bells Toll as Sir Anthony Skouras (voice) (uncredited)

1970		Play for Today (1 episode)
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		The Night of the Generals as General von Seidlitz-Gabler

1965		BBC Play of the Month (1 episode) as Mr. Beebe (1 episode) as Adrian Blenderbland (1 episode) as Gayev
1965		Masquerade as Benson
1965		Tea Party

1962

(1 episode)

1961

(12 episodes) as Pico McGuire

1960		Maigret (1 episode)
1960		Man in the Moon as Leo
1960		The Entertainer as Columnist

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

1958		Heart of a Child as Fritz Heiss
1958		I Accuse! as Captain Brossard

1955		Highway Patrol (1 episode) as Officer Edwards (#1430)
1955		Gunsmoke (1 episode) as Bob Gringle (1 episode) as Tyler (1 episode) as Sheriff

1951

(1 episode) as Bounine

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