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Charles Gray
Actor· Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK
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
The roles that explain the career.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Criminologist · 1975
You Only Live Twice
Dikko Henderson · 1967
Diamonds Are Forever
Ernst Stavro Blofeld · 1971
Theatre of Blood
1973
The Mirror Crack'd
Bates, The Butler · 1980
The Devil Rides Out
Mocata · 1968
The Night of the Generals
General von Seidlitz-Gabler · 1967
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Mycroft Holmes · 1976
Filmography
44 credits across 1 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Song Sung Blue | Esquire #4 (as Charles H. Gray Jr.) | Film |
| 1999 | The Tichborne Claimant | Arundell | Film |
| 1995 | Orson Welles: The One-Man Band | Self (segment "Taylor's shop" ) (archive footage) | Film |
| 1991 | Absolute Hell | Maurice Hussey | Film |
| 1990 | Harry and Harriet | Satan | Film |
| 1988 | Small World | Rudyard Parkinson | TV |
| 1987 | Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood | Narrator (voice) | Film |
| 1983 | An Englishman Abroad | Claudius (Charles) | Film |
| 1983 | The Jigsaw Man | Sir James Chorley | Film |
| 1983 | The Comedy of Errors | Solinus, Duke of Ephesus | Film |
| 1981 | Troilus & Cressida | Pandarus | Film |
| 1981 | Shock Treatment | Judge Oliver Wright | Film |
| 1980 | The Mirror Crack'd | Bates, The Butler | Film |
| 1979 | Ike | Gen. "Freddie" de Guingand | Film |
| 1979 | Schalcken the Painter | Narrator | Film |
| 1979 | Julius Caesar | Julius Caesar | Film |
| 1978 | Richard II | Duke of York | Film |
| 1978 | The Legacy | Karl Liebnecht | Film |
| 1977 | Three Dangerous Ladies | Santander | Film |
| 1977 | Silver Bears | Charles Cook | Film |
| 1976 | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Mycroft Holmes | Film |
| 1976 | Seven Nights in Japan | Henry Hollander | Film |
| 1976 | The Island | Mr. Santander | Film |
| 1975 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | The Criminologist | Film |
| 1974 | The Beast Must Die | Bennington | Film |
| 1973 | Tales That Witness Madness | Nicholas (Clinic Link Episodes segment) (voice) (uncredited) | Film |
| 1973 | The Song of Songs | Count Von Mertzbach | TV |
| 1972 | The Millionairess | Adrian Blenderbland | Film |
| 1971 | When Eight Bells Toll | Sir Anthony Skouras (voice) (uncredited) | Film |
| 1971 | Diamonds Are Forever | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | Film |
| 1970 | Cromwell | The Earl of Essex | Film |
| 1970 | The Executioner | Vaughan Jones | Film |
| 1969 | The File of the Golden Goose | Harrison, 'The Owl' | Film |
| 1969 | Mosquito Squadron | Air Commodore Hufford | Film |
| 1968 | The Secret War of Harry Frigg | Gen. Adrian Cox-Roberts | Film |
| 1968 | The Devil Rides Out | Mocata | Film |
| 1967 | The Night of the Generals | General von Seidlitz-Gabler | Film |
| 1967 | You Only Live Twice | Dikko Henderson | Film |
| 1965 | Masquerade | Benson | Film |
| 1965 | Tea Party | Willy | Film |
| 1960 | Man in the Moon | Leo | Film |
| 1960 | The Entertainer | Columnist | Film |
| 1959 | Tommy the Toreador | Gomez | Film |
| 1958 | I Accuse! | Captain Brossard | Film |
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