Telly Savalas He attribute his success to "his complete ability to be himself." Savalas had his first lead role in a film in "Crooks and Coronets" (1969), a British crime comedy. More widely seen was the James Bond movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), where Savalas played Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Savalas had the lead in a Western shot in Spain, "Land Raiders" (1970), then was second-billed to Clint Eastwood in the war-heist film "Kelly's Heroes" (1970), shot in Yugoslavia, directed by Hutton. He was second-billed to Charles Bronson in an Italian–French crime film, "Violent City" (1970), then went to Hollywood to
Charles Gray (actor) War murder-mystery film "The Night of the Generals". The following year he played Dikko Henderson, an Australian intelligence officer assigned to their Embassy in Tokyo, in the 1967 Bond film "You Only Live Twice". Four years later he appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever", both films starring Sean Connery as Bond. Gray's most prolific work as an actor was between 1968 and 1979, when he appeared in more than forty major film and television productions. From this period he is perhaps best known for portraying the Criminologist (the narrator) in "The Rocky Horror