Charles Gray (actor)
Charles Gray ( born August 29, 1928 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England; † March 7, 2000 in London, England; actually Donald Marshall Gray ) was a British actor.
Life
Gray began in 1952 as a stage actor in the role of Charles, the wrestler in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Since there was already an actor named Donald Gray in the play, he changed his first name in accordance to his role in Charles. He gained fame Cinematic in two films by the British secret agent James Bond. The oddity here: Lives In You only twice (1967 ) he gave as Dikko Henderson the Good Guy, in Diamonds Are Forever (1971 ) he played Ernst Stavro Blofeld contrast, as the villain. In the original English version of The Spy Who Loved Me, he could be heard as the voice of the pyramids event.
Gray borrowed from 1966 the actor Jack Hawkins for the dubbing of his film roles his voice after this had been removed as a result of his esophageal cancer disease of the larynx. In 1975 he played the role of the narrator in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. In No coke for Sherlock Holmes (1976 ), he assumed the role of Mycroft Holmes, the 1985 he also produced by Granada Television in the TV series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes embodied.
Ava Gardner was one for many years to his closest friends. Charles Gray died in 2000 from cancer. His grave is located - as well as that of Jack Hawkins - on the grounds of the Golders Green Crematorium in London.