Donald Marshall "Charles" Gray (29 August 1928 – 7 March 2000) was an English actor.
He was known for appearing in two James Bond films (most notably as recurring villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever) as well as for playing the Criminologist in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
He also had an extensive career on British television, notably playing Mycroft Holmes alongside Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes (a role he had previously played in The Seven Per Cent Solution).
Selected Filmography:
- The Entertainer (1960) as Columnist
- The Night of the Generals (1967) as General Herbert von Seidlitz-Gabler
- James Bond:
- You Only Live Twice (1967) as Dikko Henderson
- Diamonds Are Forever (1971) as Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his body doubles
- The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) as the Pyramids lights show voice
- The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968) as Brigadier Adrian Cox-Roberts
- The Devil Rides Out (1968) as Mocata
- Cromwell (1970) as the Earl of Essex
- When Eight Bells Toll (1971) as the voice of Sir Anthony Skouras
- Theatre of Blood (1973) as the voice of Solomon Psaltery
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1973) as Eugene Valmont
- The Beast Must Die (1974) as Arthur Bennington
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) as The Criminologist
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) as Mycroft Holmes
- The Legacy (1978) as Karl Liebnecht
- Shock Treatment (1981) as Judge Oliver Wright note
- Sherlock Holmes (1985–94) as Mycroft Holmes