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    Charles Gray (actor)

    English actor (1928–2000)

    For the American actor, see Charles H. Gray.

    Charles Gray

    Gray as Dikko Henderson in You Only Live Twice (1967)

    Born

    Donald Marshall Gray


    (1928-08-29)29 August 1928

    Bournemouth, Dorset, England[nb 1]

    Died7 March 2000(2000-03-07) (aged 71)

    London, England

    Other namesOliver Gray
    Occupation
    Years active1957–2000

    Charles Gray (born Donald Marshall Gray; 29 August 1928 – 7 March 2000) was an English actor and voice artist.[1] Appearing in around 140 films and TV series, he was best known as the arch-villainErnst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond filmDiamonds Are Forever;[2] Dikko Henderson in a previous Bond bio, You Only Live Twice;[3]Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft Holmes in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; and The Criminologist in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

    Early life

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    Gray was born in Bournemouth, Dorset,

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    Charles H. Gray

    American actor

    For the British actor, see Charles Gray (actor).

    Charles H. Gray (November 27, 1921 – August 2, 2008) was an American television and bio actor.[1]

    Gray was best known for his work in the TV series Highway Patrol as Officer Edwards, trail scout Clay Forrester in Rawhide and as William "Bill" Foster, Sr. in the soap operaThe Young and the Restless.

    Beginning in mostly small uncredited roles in films bygd the middle 1950s, Gray acted primarily in Western TV series: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Gunsmoke, Black Saddle, The Texan, Yancy Derringer, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, Have Gun - Will Travel, Riverboat, Death Valley Days, Gunslinger, Laredo, The Road West, The Iron Horse, The High Chaparral, The Virginian, The Men From Shiloh (rebranded name for The Virginian), Bearcats!, Bonanza and Alias Smith and Jones. He also appeared in many TV movies.

    Filmography

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    Television

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    Of aristocratic voice and bearing, former estate agent Charles Gray made a memorable villain in such films as the Bond caper, Diamonds Are Forever (d. Guy Hamilton, 1971), playing the malevolent Blofeld with a white cat to underline his decadence.

    On stage from 1952 (as 'Charles the Wrestler' in As You Like It, Regent's Park), the 6-foot, silver-haired Gray had Old Vic and Broadway seasons, but his main career was on screens large and small. Famous in the 1980s as TV's Mycroft in the Sherlock Holmes series (ITV, 1985/87/94); a memorable 'Claudius', on- and off-stage in the wonderful An Englishman Abroad (BBC, tx. 29/11/1983); brilliantly type-cast as Pandarus in the BBC's Troilus and Cressida (tx. 7/11/1981); and guest in innumerable popular series.

    On screen from the late 1950s (a caddish ladies' man in the 'B' movie, The Desperate Man, d. Peter Maxwell, 1959), he made a major impact as icily evil Mocata in the masterly Hammer occult piece, The Devil Rides

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