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