Charles Gray
Born: 1928-08-29 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK
Died: 2000-03-07
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2021
2008
- Love Don't Come Easy as Mr. Fairbanks
2000
- Longitude as Admiral Balchen
1999
- Where Are They Now? as Self
- The Tichborne Claimant as Arundell
- One Man Band as Tailor
1996
- Madson as Sir Ranald Hearnley
1995
- Orson Welles: The One-Man Band as Self (segment "Taylor's shop" ) (archive footage)
1994
- Scarlett as The Judge
1992
- Tales from the Poop Deck as Admiral Dennis De'Ath
1991
- Performance as Maurice Hussey
- Absolute Hell as Maurice Hussey
- Firestar: First Contact as Commodore Vandross
1990
- Harry and Harriet as Satan
1989
- Blackeyes as Sebastian
- The Nineteenth Hole as Col. Westray
1988
1987
- The New Statesman as Roland Gidleigh-Park
- Porterhouse Blue as Sir Cathcart D'Eath
- Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Narrator (voice)
- Dreams Lost, Dreams Found as Jason Klein
- Cariani and the Courtesans as Narrator
1986
- Casey at the Bat as Mr. Dent
- The Gourmet as Manley Kingston
1985
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Mycroft Holmes
1983
- The Jigsaw Man as Sir James Chorley
- An Englishman Abroad as Claudius (Charles)
- The Comedy of Errors as Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
1982
- Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story as Earl Spencer
1981
- Bergerac as Bart Bellow
- Shock Treatment as Judge Oliver Wright
- Ticket to Heaven as Musician
- Troilus & Cressida as Pandarus
1980
- The Mirror Crack'd as Bates, The Butler
1979
- Ike as Gen. 'Freddie' de Guingand
- Ike as Gen. "Freddie" de Guingand
- Mrs. R's Daughter as Rogers
- The House on Garibaldi Street as Gen. Lischke
- Julius Caesar as Julius Caesar
- Schalcken the Painter as Narrator
1978
- The Legacy as Karl Liebnecht
- Richard II as Duke of York
- Across a Crowded Room as Harold Charles
1977
- The Sunday Drama as Delaforce
- The Galton & Simpson Playhouse as Charles
- Silver Bears as Charles Cook
- Three Dangerous Ladies as Santander
- Six Characters in Search of an Author as The Director
1976
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution as Mycroft Holmes
1975
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show as The Criminologist
- The Philanthropist as Braham
- Night Is the Time for Killing as Hilary Vance
1974
- Churchill's People as Duke of Portland
- Fall of Eagles as Rodzianko
- The Beast Must Die as Bennington
- On the Game as Narrator (voice)
1973
- Thriller as Hilary Vance
- Theatre of Blood as Solomon Psaltery (voice) (uncredited)
- Tales That Witness Madness as Nicholas (Clinic Link Episodes segment) (voice) (uncredited)
- The Upper Crusts as Lord Robin Seacroft
1972
- The Millionairess as Adrian Blenderbland
- The Merchant of Venice as Antonio
1971
- Upstairs, Downstairs as Sir Edwin Partridge
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Eugene Valmont
- Diamonds Are Forever as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
- A Ghost Story for Christmas as Narrator
- When Eight Bells Toll as Sir Anthony Skouras (voice) (uncredited)
- The Cherry Orchard as Gayev
1970
- Play for Today
- Cromwell as The Earl of Essex
- The Executioner as Vaughan Jones
1969
- Mosquito Squadron as Air Commodore Hufford
- The File of the Golden Goose as Harrison, 'The Owl'
- The Nine Ages of Nakedness as Narrator
- The Merchant of Venice as Antonio
1968
- The Devil Rides Out as Mocata
- The Secret War of Harry Frigg as Gen. Adrian Cox-Roberts
1967
- Omnibus as Narrator
- You Only Live Twice as Dikko Henderson
- The Night of the Generals as General von Seidlitz-Gabler
- The Man Outside as Charles Griddon
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Charles Strickland
- Masquerade as Benson
- Tea Party
1962
- Out of This World as Abel Jones
- Suspense as Verdon
1961
- Drama 61-67 as David
1960
- Maigret
- Danger Man as Alex
- Armchair Mystery Theatre as Madingley
- Somerset Maugham Hour as Major Templeton
- The Entertainer as Columnist
- Man in the Moon as Leo
1959
- No Hiding Place
- Follow a Star as Taciturn Man at Party (uncredited)
- The Desperate Man as Lawson
- Tommy the Toreador as Gomez
1958
- I Accuse! as Captain Brossard
- Heart of a Child as Fritz Heiss
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Philip Comely
1955
- Gunsmoke as Sheriff
- Highway Patrol as Officer Edwards (#1430)
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Bounine