Charles Gray (29 August 1928 - 7 March 2000) was an English actor whose well-known roles include playing 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.
Gray was born Donald Marshall Gray in Bournemouth, Hampshire, the son of Maude Elizabeth (née Marshall) and Donald Gray, w...
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Charles Gray (29 August 1928 - 7 March 2000) was an English actor whose well-known roles include playing 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.
Gray was born Donald Marshall Gray in Bournemouth, Hampshire, the son of Maude Elizabeth (née Marshall) and Donald Gray, who was a surveyor. Gray attended Bournemouth School alongside Benny Hill, whose school had been evacuated to the same buildings, during the Second World War. Some of his friends remember that his bedroom walls were plastered with pictures of film stars.
He began his stage experience at the theatre club next to Bournemouth's Palace Court Hotel, where he was a last-minute cast replacement in The Beaux Stratagem. Gray surprised everyone, including himself, with the quality of his performance.
When Gray moved away from Bournemouth in the late...
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