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Willoughby Gray
Acting

Willoughby Gray
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1916-11-06,London, England, UK
Gender
Male
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Willoughby Gray (5 November 1916 – 13 February 1993) was an English actor of stage and screen born in London. (Though several sources suggest he was born in Aberdeen, Scotland). He was the stepson of Henry Pownall, as his father, Captain John Gray, was killed in Iraq close to the time of his birth. John Willoughby Gray served with distinction during the Second World War with GHQ Liaison Regiment (Phantom). For most of the campaign in Europe he commanded a patrol with 11th Armoured Division. For his gallant and distinguished services in the North West Europe campaign, he was appointed MBE. His recommendation reads: "Captain Gray has commanded a divisional patrol with outstanding success throughout the campaign. The resource and initiative shown by him at all times has resulted in a great deal of vital information reaching Army and Corps HQ much more quickly than would otherwise have been the case, In addition, he has shown great enterprise and complete disregard for his own personal safety on many occasions, notably whilst carrying out reconnaissances in the Antwerp area during the advance through Belgium. The bearing of this officer under arduous conditions and his cheerfulness and willingness to do any work delegated to him unhesitatingly have been an example to those with whom he came in contact." He achieved popularity in the mid-1950s after making 38 appearances on the television series The Adventures of Robin Hood. He appeared as 'Pete' in Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party on its very first run in 1958, this being just one of countless stage performances he made. Though over-shadowed by his stage career, Gray made a handful of incredibly popular films, notably as a priest in Laurence Olivier's film Richard III (1955), The Mummy (1959), Absolution (1978), The Hit(1984), the James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) as retired Nazi doctor and Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) henchman Karl Mortner/Hans Glaub,[1] and as the elderly and kind king in The Princess Bride (1987). In the late 1980s, he appeared in the BBC drama Howards' Way as banker Sir John Stevens. In Sergei Bondarchuk's 1970 film Waterloo, he is credited as both an actor (playing Captain Ramsey) and a military consultant.[2] Gray died aged 76 in February 1993. His wife, who wrote as Felicity Gray,(Nee Margaret Andraea) was a choreographer, speaker and writer on ballet, who notably taught Gene Tierney for her role in Never Let Me Go. Description above from the Wikipedia article Willoughby Gray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

A View to a Kill

6.2

A View to a Kill
1985-05-24

The Man Outside

6.5

The Man Outside
1967-08-24

6.472

The Hit
1984-09-07

6.478

Absolution
1978-06-05

Stranger from Venus

5.229

Stranger from Venus
1954-08-23

7.098

Waterloo
1970-10-26

8

Top Secret
1952-11-10

The Princess Bride

7.698

The Princess Bride
1987-09-25

7

Pygmalion
1948-02-08

The Dirty Dozen

7.591

The Dirty Dozen
1967-06-15

6

The Gamekeeper
1980-09-20

4.429

Dead Cert
1974-05-01

Guilt Is My Shadow

5.714

Guilt Is My Shadow
1950-03-22

6.722

The Mummy
1959-08-01

5.31

Solarbabies
1986-11-26

6.231

Young Winston
1972-07-20

The Woman with No Name

8

The Woman with No Name
1950-10-31

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

6.667

Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1962-08-16

The Adventures of Robin Hood

6.421

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955-09-26

0

Waugh on Crime
1970-12-04

The Adventures of Robin Hood

6.421

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955-09-26

The Adventures of Robin Hood

6.421

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955-09-26

The Adventures of Robin Hood

6.421

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955-09-26

The Adventures of Robin Hood

6.421

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955-09-26

The Adventures of Robin Hood

6.421

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955-09-26

The Adventures of Robin Hood

6.421

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955-09-26

The Adventures of Robin Hood

6.421

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955-09-26

The Adventures of Robin Hood

6.421

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955-09-26

The Adventures of Robin Hood

6.421

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955-09-26

6.4

The Buccaneers
1956-09-19

6.4

The Buccaneers
1956-09-19

6.4

The Buccaneers
1956-09-19

6.4

The Buccaneers
1956-09-19

6.4

The Buccaneers
1956-09-19

The Adventures of William Tell

6.75

The Adventures of William Tell
1958-09-15

5.7

Howards' Way
1985-09-01

The Adventures of William Tell

6.75

The Adventures of William Tell
1958-09-15

7.8

The Avengers
1961-01-07

BBC Play of the Month

5.25

BBC Play of the Month
1965-10-19

4.5

The Regiment
1972-02-21

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

7

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969-01-11

W. Somerset Maugham

0

W. Somerset Maugham
1969-06-03