Charles Gray

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You used to, that always used to be a bit creepy with Charles Gray.

Oops, excuse me.

It's Charles Gray stroking the cat and all that.

Um, but no, a guinea pig just squinking and squonking and going, " Nee, nee, nee," you know, does, isn't really threatening.

Because, because this is like The Spy Who Loved Me, The Spy Who Loved Tea.

That's pretty cool.

And as much as this is a cool scene, John Carson is not Charles Gray and Mike is not Sarah Lawson.

Their standoff is one of the best scenes in horror, full fucking stop.

So, you know, it's not going to measure up.

So that was a thrill.

Arthur, uh, Bennington is played by Charles Gray, who, as you mentioned, played Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever.

Uh, what's the other guy? Pavel? Pavel is played by, uh, Anton Diffring.

And then, uh, my favorite character-

Hilarity.

Um, the cast is Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell, Jonathan Adams, Peter Hinwood, Meat Loaf, and Charles Gray.

Yes.

Nice.

Um, so he does a really great job.

Uh, the Criminologist is played by Charles Gray.

This part was offered to Vincent Price.

Aw.

That would've been nice.

Yeah, he was unable to do it.

And Charles Gray went to school with Benny Hill.

[sings]

Reformation by Paul Fain, with Charles Gray as Charles, Anne Morrish as Mary, Michael Turner as Michael, and Michael Tudor Barnes as Tobol.

Intelligence floats in raven sand while colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

That doesn't make sense.

Beautiful.

Where can he go? Wow.

In Revelations, by Paul Fane, Charles Gray played Charles, Anne Morrish, Mary, Michael Turner, Michael, and Michael Tudor Barnes, Tobol.

Robert was played by Christopher Schooler, Alan John Webb, Arthur Peter Tudnam, Betty Jennifer Piercy, David Clive Panto, Sally Moya Leslie, Professor Jim Davis, Michael Spice, Professor Mason, Timothy Bateson, Dr. Sanderson, Michael Jenner, Charlotte, Irene Prado, and Professor Winthrop, Geoffrey Collins.

The play was directed by Glyn Dearman.

And, of course, clever guy that I am, I'm thinking, hey, wait, is that Riff Raff in the background? Hold on, that's Tim Curry in the background.

And then you realize that, okay, there's a bunch of people in the background, and if you didn't get it by watching it, when they originally go from Dammit Janet to the criminologist, he actually shows a picture with people's heads circled.

Yeah.

This movie doesn't have a lot of subtlety.

Absolutely.

But, yes, if you want more modern, you're right.

The criminologist? Only one choice.

Only one choice ever, forever, as far as I'm concerned.

You just saw the Persian cat being stroked in the lap.

But he was played by Pleasence Savalas, Charles Gray from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Oh, Charles Gray.

And Max von Sydow.

And recently, Christoph Waltz did it in a much more recent version.

With Blofeld, yes.

So we haven't had Blofeld since the Charles Gray incarnation in Diamonds Are Forever, so that's a decade.

And technically they couldn't call him Blofeld 'cause of the rights, could they?

Mm-hmm.

You know?

Oh, yeah.

So, like, you've got, you know, Charles Gray's completely ignored.

We've def- we've gone back to that bald villain with the neck brace on.