Sir Fredrick Gray
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Sir Fredrick Gray is a recurring James Bond character in the films The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights. He is the Minister of Defence in the films and is portrayed by British actor Geoffrey Keen.
Film Biography
Sir Fredrick Gray is the Minister of Defence for the British government. He appears along side Bond's boss M or in his office. In The Spy Who Loved Me he is introduced at the submarine crisis. Bond obviously knows Gray as they talk informally. At the end of the film he, along with General Gogol, M and Q, witness Bond and Anya Amasova under the sheets in a escape pod.In Moonraker, Gray is seen walking into a secret laboratory with M and Bond but is nothing more than an office with Sir Hugo Drax inside. Gray again at the end of the film witness Bond under the sheets, this time in space.
In For Your Eyes Only, Gray is trying to find out what happened to St. Georges, and is in the office with Bill Tanner. Again at the end of the film, Gray is embarrassed by linking the Prime Minister with Max the Parrot.
In Octopussy, Gray suggests that Bond go with Jim Fanning, the art expert to see the auction of a Fabergé egg. Gray is seen at the end of the film celebrating with Gogol and M.
In A View to a Kill, the Minister is seen talking with Bond and M about Max Zorin and microchips. At the end of A View to a Kill, Gray is again seen celebrating with M and Gogol about Bond preventing Silicon Valley from being destroyed.
In the final film that Gray appears, The Living Daylights, he is in a meeting with M, Bond and General Koskov about the defection of Koskov. Later he is seen saying that "We're the laughing stock of the intelligent community.
It is unknown what happens to Gray but in a later Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, a new Minister of Defence is seen (portrayed by Julian Fellowes) along side M and Admiral Roebuck. This suggests that Gray has retired and moved on.
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