DEATH Gray/Filer 1973

PA Library file picture dated 14th Sept 1973 of actor Charles Gray.The British actor Charles Gray, best known for playing arch-villain Ernst Stavros Blofeld in James Bond movie Diamonds are Forever, died yesterday at the age of 71,it was announced today 8th March 2000. The star, who played a string of villains and colonial types in everything from Hammer horror films to TV series such as Hannay and the recent Longitude,died at London s Brompton Hospital yesterday morning.See PA Story DEATH Gray. PA Photo.