Charles Gray - Actor Profile

Charles Gray

50Movies
8.5 Best Rating

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 & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
1999 The Tichborne Claimant Arundell ★ 8.0 HIT
1995 Orson Welles: The One-Man Band Self (segment "Taylor's shop" ) (archive footage) ★ 6.4 FLOP
1991 Absolute Hell Maurice Hussey ★ 5.7 FLOP
1991 Firestar: First Contact Commodore Vandross ★ 4.5 FLOP
1990 Harry and Harriet Satan ★ 4.2 FLOP
1987 Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood Narrator (voice) ★ 6.4 FLOP
1986 The Gourmet Manley Kingston ★ 6.0 FLOP
1983 The Comedy of Errors Solinus, Duke of Ephesus ★ 6.0 FLOP
1983 An Englishman Abroad Claudius (Charles) ★ 5.7 FLOP
1983 The Jigsaw Man Sir James Chorley ★ 4.9 FLOP
1981 Troilus & Cressida Pandarus ★ 8.0 HIT
1981 Ticket to Heaven Musician ★ 6.6 HIT
1981 Shock Treatment Judge Oliver Wright ★ 5.8 FLOP
1980 The Mirror Crack'd Bates, The Butler ★ 6.1 FLOP
1979 Schalcken the Painter Narrator ★ 5.5 FLOP
1979 Mrs. R's Daughter Rogers ★ 6.0 FLOP
1979 The House on Garibaldi Street Gen. Lischke ★ 5.5 FLOP
1979 Ike Gen. "Freddie" de Guingand ★ 6.2 FLOP
1979 Julius Caesar Julius Caesar ★ 8.5 HIT
1978 Richard II Duke of York ★ 7.5 HIT
1978 The Legacy Karl Liebnecht ★ 5.4 FLOP
1977 Three Dangerous Ladies Santander ★ 5.0 FLOP
1977 Silver Bears Charles Cook ★ 5.9 FLOP
1976 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Mycroft Holmes ★ 6.2 FLOP
1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show The Criminologist ★ 7.4 HIT
1975 Night Is the Time for Killing Hilary Vance ★ 6.0 FLOP
1974 The Beast Must Die Bennington ★ 5.4 FLOP
1973 Tales That Witness Madness Nicholas (Clinic Link Episodes segment) (voice) (uncredited) ★ 5.4 FLOP
1973 Theatre of Blood Solomon Psaltery (voice) (uncredited) ★ 6.7 HIT
1972 The Millionairess Adrian Blenderbland ★ 8.5 HIT
1972 The Merchant of Venice Antonio ★ 7.0 HIT
1971 Diamonds Are Forever Ernst Stavro Blofeld ★ 6.4 FLOP
1971 When Eight Bells Toll Sir Anthony Skouras (voice) (uncredited) ★ 5.7 FLOP
1970 The Executioner Vaughan Jones ★ 5.7 FLOP
1970 Cromwell The Earl of Essex ★ 6.5 HIT
1969 The Merchant of Venice Antonio ★ 8.0 HIT
1969 The File of the Golden Goose Harrison, 'The Owl' ★ 5.2 FLOP
1969 Mosquito Squadron Air Commodore Hufford ★ 5.4 FLOP
1968 The Devil Rides Out Mocata ★ 6.5 HIT
1968 The Secret War of Harry Frigg Gen. Adrian Cox-Roberts ★ 6.0 FLOP
1967 The Man Outside Charles Griddon ★ 6.0 FLOP
1967 You Only Live Twice Dikko Henderson ★ 6.6 HIT
1967 The Night of the Generals General von Seidlitz-Gabler ★ 6.8 HIT
1965 Masquerade Benson ★ 5.0 FLOP
1960 Man in the Moon Leo ★ 6.4 FLOP
1960 The Entertainer Columnist ★ 6.2 FLOP
1959 The Desperate Man Lawson ★ 5.0 FLOP
1959 Follow a Star Taciturn Man at Party (uncredited) ★ 6.1 FLOP
1958 Heart of a Child Fritz Heiss ★ 6.5 HIT
1958 I Accuse! Captain Brossard ★ 6.1 FLOP