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.
Charles Gray Biography / Wiki
Name | Charles Gray |
Also Know | Oliver Gray |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK |
Date of Birth | 1928-08-29 |
Age(as in 2022) | 71 |
Deathday | 2000-03-07 |
Charles Gray Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Tea Party | 1965-03-25 | Mysteries abound. What is going on between the wife and her brother? Are they indeed brother and sister? Sisson has his doubts about that … . Why do… | |
The Nine Ages of Nakedness | narrator | 1969-06-01 | A man attempts to deal with the bevy of naked beauties who have been bothering his family for generations…. |
On the Game | Narrator (voice) | 1974-02-01 | Comic look at the history of prostitution…. |
The Merchant of Venice | Antonio | 1969-12-01 | A short film directed by Orson Welles based on William Shakespeare’s play of the same name. While actually completed, it is frequently cited as an unf… |
The Gourmet | Manley Kingston | 1989-12-19 | A rich old gourmet that has decided to taste all there is of exotic meals has already tried the most, even human flesh, when he gets a tip from a rich… |
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood | Narrator | 1987-01-01 | A retrospective of the films of Britain’s Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. Included are clips fro… |
The Devil Rides Out | Mocata | 1968-07-20 | The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul … |
The File of the Golden Goose | Harrison, ‘The Owl’ | 1969-10-13 | U.S. Secret Service agent Peter Novak goes undercover with Scotland Yard officer Thompson to halt a murderous gang of counterfeiters known as the Gold… |
The Comedy of Errors | Solinus, Duke of Ephesus | 1983-12-24 | Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just de… |
Julius Caesar | Julius Caesar | 1979-02-11 | The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic…. |
Firestar: First Contact | Commodore Vandross | 1991-01-01 | … |
Night is the Time For Killing | Hilary Vance | 1975-01-07 | Film starring Judy Geeson, James Smilie, Charles Gray, Alister Williamson… |
The Desperate Man | Lawson | 1959-12-01 | Two reporters are held hostage in old castle, by thief, looking for jewels, that he had buried, after robbing a local house…. |
Diamonds Are Forever | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | 1971-12-13 | Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who’s guilty. The missio… |
Mosquito Squadron | Air Commodore Hufford | 1969-01-18 | While a WW2, RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade, he receives a bombing mission against a secret Nazi V-2 rocket testing facility in Fra… |
Troilus & Cressida | Pandarus | 1981-11-07 | The bitter Trojan War drags on – the Greeks blame Achilles’ apathy for low morale, while Troy’s hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal … |
An Englishman Abroad | Claudius | 1983-11-29 | Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he’s the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with … |
The Millionairess | Adrian Blenderbland | 1972-09-12 | One of Shaw’s later plays, The Millionairess explores his fascination with the machinations of capitalism. Epifania is glamorous, clever… and also t… |
The Merchant of Venice | Antonio | 1972-04-16 | Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay and Charles Gray star in the adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic play. The Venice Titian and the Belmont of Bottice… |
Dreams Lost, Dreams Found | Jason Klein | 1987-09-13 | A young American widow is mysteriously drawn to a historic castle in the Scottish Highlands and finds herself at the center of a 200-year old ghost st… |
Richard II | Duke of York | 1978-12-10 | Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet … |
The Beast Must Die | Bennington | 1974-04-01 | Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the big… |
London | Mr. Mapleton, Tailor | 1971-12-31 | Five comedy vignettes: 1) Churchill, 2) Swinging London, 3) Tailors, 4) Stately Homes, 5) Tailors…. |
Shock Treatment | Judge Oliver Wright | 1981-10-30 | Janet and Brad Majors, unhappily married, are separated after appearing on a game show. Janet becomes a superstar while Brad is thrown into a mental h… |
The Executioner | Vaughan Jones | 1970-09-06 | A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent…. |
The Man Outside | Charles Griddon | 1967-08-24 | Bill MacLean is a former CIA agent living in London. He had been fired when he stuck up for one of the men in his command who turned out to be branded… |
The Jigsaw Man | Sir James Chorley | 1984-08-24 | Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to… |
Absolute Hell | Maurice Hussey | 1991-10-04 | Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after WW2. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, p… |
Cariani and the Courtesans | Narrator | 1987-08-05 | When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in the rooms below, he is drawn into a web of danger a… |
Masquerade | Benson | 1965-04-13 | The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince…. |
The Secret War of Harry Frigg | Gen. Adrian Cox-Roberts | 1968-02-29 | When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orde… |
Man in the Moon | Leo | 1960-10-31 | William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby … |
The House on Garibaldi Street | Gen. Lischke | 1979-05-28 | When Israeli officials learn than Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him…. |
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story | Earl Spencer | 1982-09-17 | Dramatization of the romance and July 1981 wedding of Great Britain’s Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer…. |
Casey at the Bat | Mr. Dent | 1986-01-20 | Down-on-his-luck baseball player Casey Frank (Elliott Gould) follows his dreams to become the biggest star in the game…. |
The Legacy | Karl Liebnecht | 1978-09-01 | A couple attempts to unravel a sinister plot within the English countryside estate of a dying man who has gathered an eclectic and notable group of ho… |
The Night of the Generals | General von Seidlitz-Gabler | 1967-01-29 | A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute’s killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, tw… |
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band | (segment “Taylor’s shop” / segment “The merchant of Venice”) (archive footage) | 1995-10-08 | Orson Welles’ archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic partner… |
Harry and Harriet | Satan | 1990-07-18 | A bodyswitch comedy directed by Cyril Frankel…. |
Three Dangerous Ladies | Santander | 1977-06-05 | Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series “Classics Dark and Dangerous” edited together into one horror film anthology with t… |
The Tichborne Claimant | Arundell | 1998-08-01 | Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwrec… |
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Mycroft Holmes | 1976-10-24 | Concerned about his friend’s cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. … |
The Rocky Horror Picture Show | The Criminologist | 1975-08-14 | This low-budget freak show/cult-classic/cultural institution concerns the misadventures of Brad Majors and Janet Weiss inside a strange mansion that t… |
Schalcken the Painter | Narrator | 1979-12-22 | Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?… |
Silver Bears | Charles Cook | 1977-06-03 | Financial wizard “Doc” Fletcher is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he ar… |
Passing Through | 2021-03-15 | Set amidst the rich sounds and diverse tapestry of the American landscape, Passing Through tells the incredible true story of a young man who journeys… | |
You Only Live Twice | Dikko Henderson | 1967-06-13 | A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the c… |
Cromwell | The Earl of Essex | 1970-09-16 | Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell … |
The Mirror Crack’d | Bates, The Butler | 1980-09-19 | Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim…. |
Heart of a Child | Fritz Heiss | 1958-04-30 | A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher…. |
Mrs. R’s Daughter | Rogers | 1979-09-19 | A small-town teen is raped while on an outing with a group of men. The local authorities mishandle the case, leading to the the acquittal of the accu… |
The Entertainer | Columnist | 1960-07-25 | Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business…. |
When Eight Bells Toll | Sir Anthony Skouras (voice) (uncredited) | 1971-03-09 | In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coas… |
Tales That Witness Madness | Nicholas (Clinic Link Episodes segment) (voice) | 1973-01-01 | Dr Tremayne is an enigmatic Psychiatrist running an asylum housing four very special cases. Visited by colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazi… |
I Accuse! | Captain Brossard | 1958-03-05 | Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an ac… |
Theatre of Blood | Solomon Psaltery (voice) (uncredited) | 1973-03-16 | A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition…. |
Ticket to Heaven | Musician | 1981-10-09 | David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of … |
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