"Perhaps they need a good talking to… if you don't mind my saying so. Perhaps a bit more. My girls, sir, they didn't care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of matches… and tried to burn it down. But I corrected them, sir. And when my wife tried to prevent me from doing my duty, I corrected her." - Grady's most famous line.
Charles Grady/Delbert Grady is the secondary antagonist of the film, The Shining and the novel of the same name. He was the former caretaker of the Overlook Hotel who went insane and killed his entire family before killing himself and living out eternity as a ghost.
He was portrayed by the late Philip Stone, who also played Mr. DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange and Graham in Barry Lyndon.
Biography[]
When Jack Torrance and his family arrived at the Overlook Hotel, Wendy had taken Danny on a tour through the hotel, in which they met Dick Hallorann. Meanwhile, Jack had met with the Hotel managers, and started his work as the new caretaker whilst also working on new writing as his occupation as author. However, Jack was warned by the managers who told him the story about the former caretaker who went insane, murdered his family gruesomely and committed suicide.
Right after the meeting, Jack started his work as the caretaker, Danny still meets with Dick, and Wendy is touring the hotel. However, Jack begins to see strange and horrifying dreams, which means that the spirit of the former caretaker is in the hotel, and he manipulated Jack into becoming psychotic. As Jack went insane much like the former caretaker, he created some kind of imaginative friend in the form of Lloyd.
After Jack fights with Wendy, he meets Delbert at a 1920's style party occurring at the Gold Room, in which Grady manipulates Jack into killing Dick and attempting to kill Danny and Wendy, only to fail and freeze in the Hedge Maze.