Let's Talk About Charles Gray

Charles Gray was deliciously camp in Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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

Where’s his fucking neck?

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

Only appeared in tacky, B-Grade things.

[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".

[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.

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.

Perfect in Rocky Horror.

What more do you need?

Diamonds Are Forever....

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

Charles Gray is just so deliciously camp!

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

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

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

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

She throws the table at him at 4.00.

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

a fine dance instructor as well

That man has no fucking neck!

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?

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.

^^^ GrAy ^^^

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

Where? When, OP?

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."

[quote] I keep remembering films and TV programs

We seem to be remembering only five of them.

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.

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?'

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.

KJ Apa resembles the young Connery @R9

Looks like Paul Newmann with Cushings Syndrome.

What was that?!

Out of curiosity, was he into the homosex?

It's just a jump to the left!

R25 - he was a datalounger?!

R31, yes

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.

I'd fuck him