Christopher Lee
Acting
- Born:
- 1922-05-27
- Died:
- 2015-06-07
- Place of birth:
- Westminster, London, England, UK
Biography
Christopher Lee (May 5, 1922 – June 7, 2015) was an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films. Other notable roles include Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man (1973), Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in Star Wars episodes II and III (2002, 2005) and Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003). Lee considers his most important role to have been his portrayal of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998). He is well known for his deep, commanding voice. Lee has performed roles in 266 films since 1948 making him the Guinness book world record holder for most film acting roles ever. He was knighted in 2009 and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011.
Known For
Filmography
Children of The Wicker Man
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
Constel·lació Portabella
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
The Wicker Man at 50
Faces of Death
Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending
The Sound of 007: Live from the Royal Albert Hall
Peter Cushing: In His Own Words
La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català
Drácula Barcelona
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Angels in Notting Hill
Extraordinary Tales
Fifty Shades of Erotica
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
Face of Unity
The Trail of Dracula
The Girl from Nagasaki
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
The Gillian Hills Trilogy
Night Train to Lisbon
Christopher Lee: A Legacy of Horror and Terror
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Fall of the House Of Usher
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
Dracula vs. Vampir
Everything or Nothing
The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features
Dark Shadows
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
Enzo Ferrari 1898 - 1988
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
Hugo
The Wicker Tree
The Resident
Season of the Witch
Christopher Lee: Gentleman of Horror
Burke & Hare
Boogie Woogie
The Heavy
Alice in Wonderland
Glorious 39
Triage
The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Original Poem
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The Colour of Magic
Fanex Files: Hammer Films
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
The Golden Compass
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Amazon Trek: In Search of Vanishing Secrets
Rhapsody of Fire - Visions from the Enchanted Lands
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Hollywood Chinese
Ein Leben wie im Flug
Beloved Count
Bloody Jess
The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
Semperopernball
Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills
Pope John Paul II
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Different Faces, Different Flavors
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
The Story of Star Wars
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
The Two Towers: J.R.R. Tolkien: Origins of Middle-Earth
Властелин Колец: Возвращение Бомжа, или Агроном наносит ответный удар
Drácula en la Hammer
100 Greatest Scary Moments
Властелин Колец: Две сорванные башни
Whales of Atlantis: In Search of Moby Dick
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Best Ever Bond
From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II
The Fellowship of the Ring: From Book to Script
The Fellowship of the Ring: Designing and Building Middle-earth
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
The Fellowship of the Ring: Cameras in Middle-earth
Perversion Stories
To the Devil... The Death of Hammer
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Ring of Bratva
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
Quest for the Ring
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
The Wicker Man Enigma
The Devil's Island: Journey Into Jungle Alcatraz
Aeschbacher
Ghost Stories for Christmas
In the Beginning
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
Gormenghast
Ian Fleming: 007's Creator
The Many Faces of Dracula
Sleepy Hollow
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Ex-S: The Wicker Man
Jinnah
Dare To Dream: The Making of Jinnah
Tale of the Mummy
100 Years of Horror
The Mummy
Soul Music
The Odyssey
Wyrd Sisters
Soul Music
Ivanhoe
Welcome to the Discworld
100 Years of Horror
The Stupids
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Moses
The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry
Alisea and the Dream Prince
The Many Faces of Christopher Lee
A Century of Science Fiction
A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghosts of M.R. James
In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
A Feast at Midnight
The World of Hammer
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
Funny Man
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
The Rainbow Thief
Brisant
Blue Heelers
Death Train
Cyber Eden
Double Vision
Innocent Blood
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
Beauty and the Beast
Dracula in the Movies
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
Fear in the Dark
Halloween Monster Bash
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
Journey of Honor
Ghost
The Care of Time
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Treasure Island
The Miser
Stern TV
For Better or for Worse
The French Revolution
Murder Story
Night of the Eagles
The French Revolution
Around the World in 80 Days
The Return of the Musketeers
Nase vorn
Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil
Olympus Force: The Key
Seitenblicke
Creepy Classics
Mio in the Land of Faraway
The Girl
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Casanova
The Disputation
Un métier de seigneur
Jocks
Shaka Zulu
Wedden, dat..?
Mask of Murder
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
The Best of All Time Horror Classics
Don't Scream: It's Only a Movie!
The Rosebud Beach Hotel
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
The Bengal Lancers!
The Far Pavilions
House of the Long Shadows
The Return of Captain Invincible
New Magic
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
The Last Unicorn
The Rank Charm School
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
Faerie Tale Theatre
Massarati and the Brain
Safari 3000
Champs-Elysées
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Goliath Awaits
An Eye for an Eye
Evil Stalks This House
The Salamander
Wetten, dass..?
Once Upon a Spy
Serial
Desperate Moves
1941
Bear Island
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
Jaguar Lives!
Arabian Adventure
The Passage
The Horror Show
Mickey's 50
Caravans
Circle of Iron
Return from Witch Mountain
The Pirate
Starship Invasions
The Occult: Mysteries Of The Supernatural
Playboy's Playmate Party
End of the World
Airport '77
Meatcleaver Massacre
How the West Was Won
Auf los geht's los
Charlie's Angels
Dracula and Son
Albino
To the Devil a Daughter
Killer Force
The Keeper
Saturday Night Live
Space: 1999
In Search of Dracula
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
The Man with the Golden Gun
The Four Musketeers
Diagnosis: Murder
The Three Musketeers
The Wicker Man
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Dark Places
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Nothing But the Night
Poor Devil
The Creeping Flesh
Death Line
Horror Express
Dracula A.D. 1972
Vampir Cuadecuc
Umbracle
Film '72
Hannie Caulder
I, Monster
Theatre Macabre
The House That Dripped Blood
Scars of Dracula
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Julius Caesar
One More Time
Treffpunkte
Taste the Blood of Dracula
Count Dracula
Eugenie... The Story of Her Journey into Perversion
The Bloody Judge
Scream and Scream Again
The Magic Christian
The Oblong Box
The Castle of Fu Manchu
Quelle horreur mon saigneur Dracula
Curse of the Crimson Altar
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
The Blood of Fu Manchu
The Devil Rides Out
The Face of Eve
The Movie Orgy
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
Five Golden Dragons
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
Night of the Big Heat
Theatre of Death
The Brides of Fu Manchu
Circus of Fear
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
The Skull
The Face of Fu Manchu
Ten Little Indians
She
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
The Gorgon
The Castle of the Living Dead
The Devil-Ship Pirates
Crypt of the Vampire
Horror!!!
The Whip and the Body
Horror Castle
Challenge the Devil
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Devil's Agent
The Pirates of Blood River
The Secret of the Red Orchid
The Mike Douglas Show
Hercules in the Haunted World
The Devil's Daffodil
Taste of Fear
The Terror of the Tongs
The Avengers
The Hands of Orlac
Too Hot to Handle
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
The City of the Dead
Beat Girl
Uncle Was a Vampire
The Mummy
The Treasure of San Teresa
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Stars in der Manege
Whicker's World
One Step Beyond
Corridors of Blood
The Adventures of William Tell
Dracula
A Tale of Two Cities
Ivanhoe
Battle of the V-1
The Truth About Women
Bitter Victory
Manuela
The Curse of Frankenstein
Fortune Is a Woman
The Traitor
Ill Met by Moonlight
The Battle of the River Plate
Beyond Mombasa
The Errol Flynn Theatre
Port Afrique
Alexander the Great
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Private's Progress
Storm Over the Nile
Alias John Preston
The Cockleshell Heroes
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Moby Dick—Rehearsed
Police Dog
The Dark Avenger
Contraband Spain
That Lady
Cross-Roads
Final Column
Mark Saber
The Awakening
The Mirror and Markheim
Innocents in Paris
The Top and the Ball
Babes in Bagdad
Paul Temple Returns
Top Secret
Moulin Rouge
The Crimson Pirate
Quo Vadis
Valley of the Eagles
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Prelude to Fame
They Were Not Divided
Trottie True
Hamlet
Scott of the Antarctic
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Penny and the Pownall Case
A Song for Tomorrow
One Night with You
Corridor of Mirrors
Eugen Weidmann Execution Film
Science Fiction Film Awards