Charles Gray (August 29, 1928 - March 7, 2000) was an English actor, born Donald Marshall Gray in Bournemouth, Hampshire, (now Bournemouth, Dorset) August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in leap years). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... Bournemouth is a large resort town on the south coast of England. ... Hampshire, sometimes historically Southamptonshire or Hamptonshire, (abbr. ... Bournemouth is a large resort town on the south coast of England. ... Dorset (pronounced DOR-sit or [dÉ”.sÉ™t], and sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the south-west of England, on the English Channel coast. ...

Charles Gray as Ernst Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever

Donald Gray attended Bournemouth School along side 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. Donald surprised everyone, even himself, with the quality of his performance. Image File history File links Charles Gray as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) This is a screenshot of a copyrighted movie or television program. ... Image File history File links Charles Gray as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) This is a screenshot of a copyrighted movie or television program. ... Diamonds Are Forever is the seventh film in the EON Productions James Bond series. ... Bournemouth School (also known as Bournemouth Grammar School or Bournemouth School for Boys and commonly abbreviated to BS or BSB), is a boys grammar school and sixth form college occupying a site located in Charminster, Bournemouth, Dorset, England and teaching children from years 7 to 13 (ages 11 to 18). ... Alfred Hawthorn Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992), better known as Benny Hill, was a prolific English comic, actor & singer, best known for his television programme, The Benny Hill Show. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

When Donald moved away from Bournemouth in the late 1950s, his parents remained at the family home, until their deaths. On becoming a professional actor, Donald had to change his name, as there was already an actor Donald Gray. He chose Charles Gray partly because Charles was the name of his maternal grandfather, partly because he had a close friend named Charles, and partly because he thought it sounded nice. Donald Gray (3 March 1914 to 7 April 1978) was a South African actor, most famous for providing the voices to Colonel White, Captain Black and the Mysterons in the TV series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and for being the reason that Donald Marshall Gray changed his name to...

He appears as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever (1971), which he also released a remix of the title song several years later. It got to Number 2 in the UK Singles Chart in 1993. In the earlier You Only Live Twice (1967), he had played a British agent, Henderson, making him one of a small number of actors to have played a villain and a Bond ally in the series. Blofeld redirects here. ... The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond 007 is a fictional British agent[1], created in 1952 by writer Ian Fleming, featured in several novels and short stories. ... Diamonds Are Forever is the seventh film in the EON Productions James Bond series. ... The UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Ian Flemings You Only Live Twice is the fifth film in the EON Productions James Bond series, the fifth to star Sean Connery as British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond 007, and the sixth film to feature James Bond. ...

He is perhaps best known for portraying The Criminologist (the narrator) in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and a similar character, Judge Oliver Wright, in its 1981 sequel Shock Treatment. He is also remembered as the satanist Mocata in the Hammer film The Devil Rides Out 1968. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS) (first released in the United Kingdom on 14 August 1975) is a science fiction-comedy-horror musical film directed by Jim Sharman from a screenplay by Sharman and Richard OBrien. ... Shock Treatment was the less successful and critically panned follow-up to the classic cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS). ...

He was Mycroft Holmes in both the 1976 film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and opposite Jeremy Brett's Sherlock in four episodes of the Granada Television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He also played Mycroft in two episodes of the final Jeremy Brett series, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994), where Mycroft became the lead character due to Brett's illness. Mycroft Holmes as depicted by Sidney Edward Paget in Strand Magazine Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character in the stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. ... The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche by Nicholas Meyer. ... Jeremy Brett in the role of Sherlock Holmes. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the name given to the series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company Granada Television between 1984 and 1994, although only the first two series bore that title on screen. ...

Other television appearances includes Dennis Potter's Blackeyes , The New Statesman, Thriller, plus a range of Shakespearean roles. Liber Amoris Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935—7 June 1994) was a controversial British dramatist who is best known for several widely acclaimed television dramas which mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. ... Blackeyes was a 1989 BBC TV series, written and directed by British playwright Dennis Potter, starring Gina Bellman as the title character. ... Rik Mayall as Alan Bstard in The New Statesman The New Statesman was an award-winning British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time. ... Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. ... Shakespeare redirects here. ...

He regularly provided the voice for Jack Hawkins, who had his voice box removed to combat throat cancer, for example in the film Theatre of Blood. Gray himself died of cancer in 2000. John Edward Jack Hawkins (September 14, 1910 - July 18, 1973) was a British film actor of the 1950s and 1960s. ... Voicebox redirects here. ... Throat cancer is a common way of referring to some head and neck cancers, usually squamous cell carcinomas. ... DVD cover of Theatre of Blood Theatre of Blood was a 1973 horror film starring Vincent Price as vengeful actor Edward Lionheart and Diana Rigg as his daughter Edwina Lionheart. ...

External links

• Charles Gray at the Internet Movie Database