FrameThrower · Actors · Charles Gray
Charles Gray
3 films · 186 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1968–1975
Born 29 August 1928 · Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK · died 7 March 2000
Charles Gray was an English actor who was well-known for roles including the arch-villain Blofeld in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, Sherlock Holmes' brother Mycroft Holmes in the Granada television series, and as the narrator of the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975.
How their films are shot
Measured across 186 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Charles takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 71% of their frames are night, 57% low key — the look of the work Charles takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 186 frames from Charles Gray's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.