Charles Gray (August 29, 1928 – March 7, 2000) was an English actor, born Donald Marshall Gray.

Charles Gray as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in ‘Diamonds are Forever’.

He appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). In the earlier You Only Live Twice (1967), he had played a British agent, Dikko Henderson, making him one of a small number of actors to have played a villain and a Bond ally in the series.

He is perhaps best known for portraying The Criminologist (the narrator) in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and a similar character, Judge Oliver Wright, in its 1981 sequel Shock Treatment. He is also remembered as the satanist Mocata in the Hammer film The Devil Rides Out (1968).

He was Mycroft Holmes in both the 1976 film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and opposite Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock in four episodes of the Granada Television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He also played Mycroft in two episodes of the final Jeremy Brett series, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994), where Mycroft became the lead character due to Brett’s illness.

Other television appearances includes Dennis Potter’s Blackeyes, The New Statesman, Thriller, plus a range of Shakespearean roles.