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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Complete Filmography

Passing Through
2021
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...

Love Don't Come Easy
2008
as Mr. Fairbanks
Nicolette wants her niece to love and live happily ever after with, Clay, the man that she has picked out for her. Nicolette has vowed to not let Nikk...

Bond Girls Are Forever
2002
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld (archive footage) (uncredited)
Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's Ur...

The Tichborne Claimant
1998
as Arundell
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...

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
1995
as Self (segment "Taylor's shop" ) (archive footage)
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...

Absolute Hell
1991
as Maurice Hussey
Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, le...

Firestar: First Contact
1991
as Commodore Vandross

Harry and Harriet
1990
as Satan
A bodyswitch comedy directed by Cyril Frankel.

Dreams Lost, Dreams Found
1987
as Jason Klein
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...

Cariani and the Courtesans
1987
as Narrator
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...

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
as Narrator (voice)
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...

Casey at the Bat
1986
as Mr. Dent
Down-on-his-luck baseball player Casey Frank (Elliott Gould) follows his dreams to become the biggest star in the game.

The Gourmet
1986
as Manley Kingston
A rich, bored gourmand who has tasted all there is of exotic meals, even human flesh, gets a tip-off from a rich midget. The midget had tasted everyth...

The Comedy of Errors
1983
as Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
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...

An Englishman Abroad
1983
as Claudius (Charles)
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 Jigsaw Man
1983
as Sir James Chorley
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...

Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
1982
as Earl Spencer
Dramatization of the romance and July 1981 wedding of Great Britain's Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.

Troilus & Cressida
1981
as Pandarus
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 ...

Ticket to Heaven
1981
as Musician
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of ...

Shock Treatment
1981
as Judge Oliver Wright
Brad and Janet are now married and on the rocks. Ostensibly to fix their marriage, the couple goes on the game show 'Marriage Maze' with the eccentric...

The Mirror Crack'd
1980
as Bates, The Butler
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Schalcken the Painter
1979
as Narrator
Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?

Mrs. R's Daughter
1979
as Rogers
When a young woman is brutally raped and beaten, her mother sets out to find justice for her.

The House on Garibaldi Street
1979
as Gen. Lischke
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.

Ike
1979
as Gen. "Freddie" de Guingand
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal rel...

Julius Caesar
1979
as Julius Caesar
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.

Richard II
1978
as Duke of York
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 Legacy
1978
as Karl Liebnecht
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...

Across a Crowded Room
1978
as Harold Charles
Two egotistical superstars develop a grand passion which threatens to disrupt a West End theatre production.

Six Characters in Search of an Author
1977
as The Director
An acting company prepares to rehearse the play The Rules of the Game by Luigi Pirandello. As the rehearsal is about to begin, they are interrupted by...

Three Dangerous Ladies
1977
as Santander
Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with t...

Silver Bears
1977
as Charles Cook
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...

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
as Mycroft Holmes
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 Philanthropist
1975
as Braham
The original play by Christopher Hampton, was adapted into this made-for-TV movie and it offers witty dialogue in the midst of remarkable conflict amo...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975
as The Criminologist
After getting a flat tire, two sweethearts discover the eerie mansion of a flamboyant scientist and houseful of wild characters. Through elaborate dan...

Night is the Time For Killing
1975
as Hilary Vance
Film starring Judy Geeson, James Smilie, Charles Gray, Alister Williamson

The Beast Must Die
1974
as Bennington
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...

On the Game
1974
as Narrator (voice)
Comic look at the history of prostitution.

Tales That Witness Madness
1973
as Nicholas (Clinic Link Episodes segment) (voice)
Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains ...

Theatre of Blood
1973
as Solomon Psaltery (voice) (uncredited)
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

The Millionairess
1972
as Adrian Blenderbland
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
1972
as Antonio
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...

London
1971
as Mr. Mapleton, Tailor
Five comedy vignettes: 1) Churchill, 2) Swinging London, 3) Four Clubmen, 4) Stately Homes, 5) Tailors.

The Cherry Orchard
1971
as Gayev
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate aft...

Diamonds Are Forever
1971
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
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...

When Eight Bells Toll
1971
as Sir Anthony Skouras (voice) (uncredited)
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...

The Executioner
1970
as Vaughan Jones
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.

Cromwell
1970
as The Earl of Essex
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 Merchant of Venice
1969
as Antonio
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 File of the Golden Goose
1969
as Harrison, 'The Owl'
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...

Mosquito Squadron
1969
as Air Commodore Hufford
England, World War II. Quint Munroe, RAF officer and new leader of a Mosquito squadron, is tasked with destroying a secret Nazi base in France while t...

The Nine Ages of Nakedness
1969
as Narrator
A man attempts to deal with the bevy of naked beauties who have been bothering his family for generations.

The Devil Rides Out
1968
as Mocata
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 Secret War of Harry Frigg
1968
as Gen. Adrian Cox-Roberts
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...

The Man Outside
1967
as Charles Griddon
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...

You Only Live Twice
1967
as Dikko Henderson
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the c...

The Night of the Generals
1967
as General von Seidlitz-Gabler
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...

Masquerade
1965
as Benson
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.

Tea Party
1965
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 does...

Man in the Moon
1960
as Leo
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 Entertainer
1960
as Columnist
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Tommy the Toreador
1959
as Gomez
Tommy is a happy sailor, travelling the world, singing his favourite songs. When he visits Spain, he gets mistaken for a famous bullfighter. Tommy fin...

The Desperate Man
1959
as Lawson
Two reporters are held hostage in old castle, by thief, looking for jewels, that he had buried, after robbing a local house.

Heart of a Child
1958
as Fritz Heiss
A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.

I Accuse!
1958
as Captain Brossard
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...