Born: 28 August 1928 – 7 March 2000
Known for: Charles Gray was an English actor who was well known for roles including the arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, Dikko Henderson in a previous Bond film You Only Live Twice, Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft Holmes in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and as the Criminologist in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
Bournemouth Connection: Gray was born in Bournemouth and attended Bournemouth School alongside Benny Hill, whose school had been evacuated to the same buildings, during the Second World War.
He began his stage experience at the theatre club next to the Palace Court Hotel in Bournemouth, where he was a last-minute cast replacement in The Beaux' Stratagem. Gray surprised everyone, including himself, with the quality of his performance.
He moved away from Bournemouth in the late 1950s, but his parents remained at the family home until their deaths.
Series Information: This is one of 10 geocaches in the Bournemouth People (2021) series. Nine caches are stand-alone traditional caches. Each cache found will provide one of three bonus clues, which will reveal the coordinates for the tenth mystery cache. With only three clues to collect, you do not need to find all the caches in this series in order to have the information for the final, so if you are unable to find one, you should still be able to get the coordinates required. For the purpose of this series, please note that the bonus clues are numbered ‘Bonus Clue 4’, ‘Bonus Clue 5’, and ‘Bonus Clue 6’, to avoid confusion with caches found in other Bournemouth People series.
The Complete 2021 Series
Millie Bobby-Brown
Dai Dower
Tony Blackburn
Gerald Durrell
Marc Koska
Charles Gray
Virginia Wade
Leilani Dowding
Ken Baily
Frank Prentice