Famous to younger persons as an older bitchy bottom with a sharp and nasty wit (could give Paul Lynde a run for his money), but Charles Gray seems to have been so much more as an actor.

When younger he wasn't that bad looking, and certainly rather "built" in terms of stature.

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April 10, 2022 3:09 AM

Charles Gray was deliciously camp in Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Sort of grand old queen you'd find at Townhouse Bar in NYC.

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November 4, 2021 11:50 AM

Where’s his fucking neck?

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November 4, 2021 11:55 AM

Ah! Charles "No Neck" Gray....

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November 4, 2021 12:09 PM

Only appeared in tacky, B-Grade things.

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November 4, 2021 12:13 PM

[qoute] "Only appeared in tacky, B-Grade things."

Yes, R4. Iincluding the tacky, B-Grade Bond films "You Only Live Twice", and "Diamonds Are Forever".

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November 4, 2021 12:21 PM

[quote] "Only appeared in tacky, B-Grade things."

Yes, [R4]. Iincluding the tacky, B-Grade Bond films "You Only Live Twice", and "Diamonds Are Forever".

That's better.

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November 4, 2021 12:23 PM

Yes, Diamonds are Forever! He was the best Bond villain with his gymnast assassins Bambi and Thumper, and the murderous gay couple Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd.

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November 5, 2021 8:14 AM

Diamonds Are Forever....

They just don't make Bond films like that anymore, pity really....

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November 5, 2021 10:18 AM

Charles Gray is just so deliciously camp!

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November 5, 2021 10:28 AM

He's fun in a occult horror film The Devil Rides Out. Love his taste in robes.

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November 5, 2021 10:54 AM

He was in Upstairs Downstairs as older seducer of Elizabeth Bellamy. Pretty believable as an English aesthete.

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November 5, 2021 11:02 AM

In his later years he played Mycroft Holmes, brother to Sherlock, opposite Jeremy Brett.

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November 5, 2021 12:44 PM

R10 He was an 'infinite nothing" according to Maggie.

She throws the table at him at 4.00.

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November 7, 2021 5:31 AM

He was Julius Caesar in the BBC Shakespeare cycle from the late 70s early 80s

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November 7, 2021 5:43 AM

a fine dance instructor as well

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November 7, 2021 6:00 AM

That man has no fucking neck!

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November 7, 2021 6:17 AM

Notice that when Charles Grey speaks (R10) he never really opens his mouth, He's always speaking through clenched teeth. Is this some sort of English "lockjaw" accent?

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November 10, 2021 3:55 PM

Grey was the quintessential journeyman actor. Stick him in a role and as crap as the role was, he'd still make it memorably his own.

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November 10, 2021 4:01 PM

[quote] Famous to younger persons as an older bitchy bottom with a sharp and nasty wit

Where? When, OP?

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November 10, 2021 9:30 PM

Now that we're on the subject I keep remembering films and TV programs I've seen him in and how much I liked him in them. Now I'm thinking of the haunting reading he gave, as Pandarus in the BBC Shakespeare Plays "Troilus and Cressida," of the closing lines: "Till then I'll sweat and seek about for eases/And at that time bequeathe you my diseases."

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November 10, 2021 9:42 PM

[quote] I keep remembering films and TV programs

We seem to be remembering only five of them.

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November 10, 2021 9:47 PM

He played a bitchy German general in the 1967 Peter O'Toole film "Night of the Generals". It also stars Omar Sharif, Donald Pleasence and Tom Courtenay.

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November 11, 2021 1:04 PM

In some theatrical's diary (can't recall whom) there's mention of Gray somehow finding himself amid dinner company far too suburban, and loudly exclaiming, 'Who ARE all these boring cunts?'

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November 11, 2021 1:26 PM

He was a good old school British thespian.

He was in some very famous and good movies- The Entertainer, The Night of the Generals, You Only Live Twice, The Devil Rides Out, Cromwell, When Eight Bells Toll, Diamonds Are Forever, Tales That Witness Madness, The Beast Must Die, Rock Horror Picture Show, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Richard II, Jigsaw Man, and The Mirror Crack'd.

He played Mycroft Holmes in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke.

He appeared in several Shakespearean and Marlowean plays.

Don't forget his work for Hammer Horror Studios. He also narrated a good Hammer Horror documentary.

Very respected by his colleagues. He never stopped working.

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April 8, 2022 6:13 PM

KJ Apa resembles the young Connery @R9

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April 8, 2022 7:18 PM

Looks like Paul Newmann with Cushings Syndrome.

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April 8, 2022 7:31 PM

Out of curiosity, was he into the homosex?

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April 8, 2022 8:44 PM

It's just a jump to the left!

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April 8, 2022 10:58 PM

R25 - he was a datalounger?!

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April 8, 2022 11:00 PM

I seem to recall reading somewhere he liked to have dinner parties on a patio at his townhouse, and you could hear his booming voice across the entire neighborhood.

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April 8, 2022 11:08 PM