Christopher Lee

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-05-27 (93 years old)

Deathday

2015-06-07

Place of Birth

Westminster, London, England, UK

Christopher Lee

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...

Acting

1990

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

as Doctor Catheter

1982

The Last Unicorn

as King Haggard (voice)

1974

The Man with the Golden Gun

as Francisco Scaramanga

1977

End of the World

as Father Pergado / Zindar

1957

2007

The Golden Compass

as First High Councilor

1965

The Face of Fu Manchu

as Dr. Fu Man Chu

1968

The Blood of Fu Manchu

as Dr. Fu Man Chu

1969

The Castle of Fu Manchu

as Dr. Fu Man Chu

1962

Secret of the Red Orchid

as Capt. Allerman

1999

Sleepy Hollow

as Burgomaster

2005

Corpse Bride

as Pastor Galswells (voice)

1968

The Movie Orgy

as Fu Manchu/Dracula (archive footage)

1973

1958

A Tale of Two Cities

as Marquis St. Evremonde

1993

Death Train

as General Konstanin Benin

1970

Count Dracula

as Dracula

1958

Corridors of Blood

as Resurrection Joe

1955

Alias John Preston

as John Preston

1966

1979

1941

as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt

2011

Season of the Witch

as Cardinal D'Ambroise

1952

The Crimson Pirate

as Joseph (attache)

1976

Dracula and Son

as Le prince des Ténèbres

1959

The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Sir Henry Baskerville

1971

1977

Airport '77

as Martin Wallace

1978

1958

Dracula

as Count Dracula

2010

Alice in Wonderland

as Jabberwocky (voice)

2008

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

as Count Dooku (voice)

1972

Dracula A.D. 1972

as Count Dracula

1992

Beauty and the Beast

as Monsieur Renard (voice)

1974

1972

Horror Express

as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton

2009

Triage

as Joaquín Morales

1967

The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism

as Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai

1990

Treasure Island

as Blind Pew

1948

1965

1963

The Whip and the Body

as Kurt Menliff

1970

1979

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

1961

Hercules in the Haunted World

as King Lico (Licos)

1968

1976

To the Devil a Daughter

as Father Michael

1964

The Gorgon

as Prof. Karl Meister

1966

Rasputin: The Mad Monk

as Grigori Rasputin

1973

2010

The Heavy

as Mr. Mason

1994

The Rainbow Thief

as Uncle Rudolf

1961

1959

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

as Dr. Pierre Gerrard

1980

Serial

as Luckman Skull

1964

The Devil-Ship Pirates

as Captain Robeles

1973

Nothing But the Night

as Col. Charles Bingham

2009

Glorious 39

as Older Walter Page

1989

Night of the Eagles

as Walter Strauss

1978

Caravans

as Sardar Khan

1998

Jinnah

as Muhammad Ali Jinnah

1973

The Creeping Flesh

as James Hildern

1977

Starship Invasions

as Captain Rameses

1981

An Eye for an Eye

as Morgan Canfield

1970

The Bloody Judge

as Lord George Jeffreys

1970

Julius Caesar

as Artemidorus

1966

1965

The Skull

as Sir Matthew Phillips

2009

Boogie Woogie

as Mr. Alfred Rhinegold

1978

1960

Beat Girl

as Kenny King

1948

2012

Dark Shadows

as Clarney

2011

Hugo

as Monsieur Labisse

1996

The Stupids

as Evil Sender

1973

The Wicker Man

as Lord Summerisle

1979

Bear Island

as Lechinski

1961

Taste of Fear

as Doctor Pierre Gerrard

1955

The Cockleshell Heroes

as Submarine Commander Alan Grieves

1966

1971

The House That Dripped Blood

as John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")

1965

She

as Billali

1998

Tale of the Mummy

as Sir Richard Turkel

1968

The Devil Rides Out

as Duc de Richleau

2012

1997

Soul Music

as Death (voice)

1967

1986

Jocks

as President White

1951

Quo Vadis

as Chariot Driver (uncredited)

1957

Bitter Victory

as Sgt. Barney

2011

The Resident

as August

1959

The Mummy

as Kharis, the Mummy

1979

The Passage

as Gypsy

2010

Burke & Hare

as Old Joseph

1960

The Hands of Orlac

as Nero the magician

1971

I, Monster

as Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake

1979

Arabian Adventure

as Caliph Alquazar

1976

Killer Force

as Major Chilton

1969

The Oblong Box

as Dr. J. Neuhartt

2005

1963

1967

Night of the Big Heat

as Godfrey Hanson

1987

Creepy Classics

as Franklyn Marsh - (archive footage)

1994

A Feast at Midnight

as V. E. 'Raptor' Longfellow

1982

Safari 3000

as Count Borgia

1955

The Dark Avenger

as French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited)

1967

1979

Jaguar Lives!

as Adam Caine

1991

1962

The Pirates of Blood River

as Captain LaRoche

2023

Faces of Death

as (archive footage)

1970

Eugenie

as Dolmance

2011

The Wicker Tree

as Old Man

1994

Funny Man

as Callum Chance

1985

Mask of Murder

as Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich

1980

Once Upon a Spy

as Marcus Valorium

1973

Dark Places

as Dr. Ian Mandeville

1968

Eve

as Colonel Stuart

1967

Theatre of Death

as Philippe Darvas

1992

Cyber Eden

as Cedric

1972

1987

The Girl

as Peter Storm

1951

1957

Fortune Is a Woman

as Charles Highbury

1953

Innocents in Paris

as Lieutenant Whitlock

1959

Uncle Was a Vampire

as Baron Roderico da Frankurten

1977

Meatcleaver Massacre

as On-Screen Narrator

2013

Night Train to Lisbon

as Father Bartholomeu

1972

Umbracle

as The Man

1955

That Lady

as Capitán

1952

Babes in Bagdad

as Slave Dealer

1976

1952

Top Secret

as Russian Agent (uncredited)

1982

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

as Self (archive footage)

1952

Paul Temple Returns

as Sir Felix Raybourne

1950

Prelude to Fame

as Newsman

1964

Crypt of the Vampire

as Count Ludwig Karnstein

2024

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee

as Self / Various (Archive)

1974

Diagnosis: Murder

as Dr. Stephen Hayward

1963

Challenge the Devil

as Mephistoles

1948

2013

The Girl from Nagasaki

as Old Officer Pinkerton

1976

The Keeper

as The Keeper

1991

Journey of Honor

as King Philip

1960

1961

1991

Fear in the Dark

as Narrator

1994

1981

The Salamander

as Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence

1956

Port Afrique

as Franz Vermes

1990

The Care of Time

as Karlis Zander

2022

Dracula Unearthed

as Count Dracula (archive footage)

1962

The Devil's Agent

as Baron Ferdi von Staub

1989

Murder Story

as Willard Hope

1951

1996

1989

1980

Desperate Moves

as Dr. Carl Boxer

1956

Private's Progress

as Major Schultz

1952

Moulin Rouge

as Georges Seurat (uncredited)

2013

Extraordinary Tales

as Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')

1954

The Awakening

as Factory proprietor (uncredited)

2015

Angels in Notting Hill

as The Boss / Mr. President (voice)

2002

Bond Girls Are Forever

as Francisco Scaramanga (archive footage) (uncredited)

1992

Double Vision

as Mr. Bernard

1955

Cross-Roads

as Harry Cooper

2002

Best Ever Bond

as Self / Scaramanga

1972

Death Line

as Stratton-Villiers, MI5

1948

Hamlet

as Palace Guard (uncredited)

1998

1975

2014

1978

The Pirate

as Samir Al Fay

1956

Beyond Mombasa

as Gil Rossi

-

The Wicker Man At 50

as Lord Summerisle

1986

The Disputation

as King James of Aragon

1950

They Were Not Divided

as Chris Lewis

1948

One Night with You

as Pirelli's Assistant

1948

1949

Trottie True

as Hon. Bongo Icklesham

1955

Storm Over the Nile

as Karaga Pasha

1956

Alexander the Great

as Nectenabus (voice)

1957

The Truth About Women

as Francois Thiers

1957

Manuela

as Voice (voice)

1957

The Traitor

as Doctor Neumann

1957

Ill Met by Moonlight

as German officer at The Dentist's office

1965

Ten Little Indians

as Mr. U.N. Owen (voice)

1969

The Magic Christian

as Ship's Vampire

1973

Poor Devil

as Lucifer

1970

One More Time

as Dracula

1990

The Miser

as Cardinale Spinosi

1958

2004

The Story of Star Wars

as Count Dooku (archive footage)

2017

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)

2017

1982

Massarati and the Brain

as Victor Leopold

1955

Police Dog

as Johnny, a constable

1985

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes

as Himself - Presenter

1996

A Century of Science Fiction

as Narrator (voice)

1983

New Magic

as Mr. Kellar

1975

In Search of Dracula

as Self – Host / Vlad Tepes / Count Dracula

1984

The Bengal Lancers!

as Sir James Hunter

2003

Drácula en la Hammer

as Christopher Lee

1960

The City of the Dead

as Prof. Alan Driscoll

2001

1998

The Mummy

as Self - Host

1955

Contraband Spain

as Narrador (voz)

2010

Halloween: The Inside Story

as (archive footage)

2007

2007

2007

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

as Self (archive footage)

1964

Horror!!!

as Self

2024

Children of the Wicker Man

as Self (archive footage)

2024

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

as Self (archive footage)

1948

Saraband for Dead Lovers

as Herzog Anthony von Wolfenbüttel

1962

Lolita

as Kharis, the Mummy (archive footage) (uncredited)

1978

1955

Moby Dick Rehearsed

as A Stage Manager /Flask

Production

1973

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