
Biography
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor and singer. In a long career spanning more than 60 years, Lee often portrayed villains, and appeared as Count Dracula in seven Hammer Horror films, ultimately playing the role nine times. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in several Star Wars films (2002–2008), and Saruman in both the Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and the Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014).
Lee was knighted for services to drama and charity in 2009, received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011, and received the BFI Fellowship in 2013. He credited three films for making his name as an actor, A Tale of Two Cities (1958), in which he played the villainous marquis, and two horror films, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), and Dracula (1958). He considered his best performance to be that of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998), and his best film to be the British cult film The Wicker Man (1973). He frequently appeared opposite his friend Peter Cushing in horror films, and late in his career had roles in five Tim Burton films.
Prior to his acting career, Lee served in the Royal Air Force as an intelligence officer, attached to the No. 260 Squadron RAF as a liaison officer for the Special Operations Executive. Following his World War II service he retired from the RAF in 1946 with the rank of flight lieutenant.
Known as an actor with a deep, strong voice, Lee also sang, recorded opera and musical pieces between 1986 and 1998, and the symphonic metal album Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross in 2010, after having worked with several metal bands since 2005. The heavy metal follow-up Charlemagne: The Omens of Death was released in 2013 on Lee's 91st birthday. He was honoured with the "Spirit of Hammer" award at the 2010 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards ceremony.
Filmography
All 347
Movies 299
Self 59
TV Shows 48
Narrator 16
Voice 10
Director 1
Producer 1

Peter Cushing: In His Own Words (2020)

Drácula Barcelona (2017)

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions (2017)

Angels in Notting Hill (2015)

Fifty Shades of Erotica (2015)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Face of Unity (2014)

The Trail of Dracula (2013)

The Girl from Nagasaki (2013)

Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics (2013)

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (2013)

Night Train to Lisbon (2013)

Extraordinary Tales (2013)

Christopher Lee - A Legacy Of Horror & Terror (2012)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

The Fall Of The House Of Usher (2012)

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars (2012)

Dracula vs. Vampir (2012)

Everything or Nothing (2012)

Frankenweenie (2012)

The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features (2012)

Dark Shadows (2012)

Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness (2012)

Enzo Ferrari 1898 - 1988 (2012)

Hugo (2011)

The Wicker Tree (2011)

The Resident (2011)

Season of the Witch (2011)

Christopher Lee - Gentleman des Grauens (2010)

Burke & Hare (2010)

Halloween: The Inside Story (2010)

The Heavy (2010)

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Glorious 39 (2009)

Triage (2009)

Boogie Woogie (2009)

The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Original Poem (2008)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

The Colour of Magic (2008)

Fanex Files: Hammer Films (2008)

The Golden Compass (2007)

Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn (2007)

100 Years Under the Sea: Shipwrecks of the Caribbean (2007)

The Alan Titchmarsh Show (2007)

Amazon Trek: In Search of Vanishing Secrets (2007)

Rhapsody of Fire: Visions from the Enchanted Lands (2007)

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman (2007)

Hollywood Chinese (2007)

Ein Leben wie im Flug (2007)

Beloved Count (2007)

Bloody Jess (2007)

The Making of The Fellowship of the Ring (2006)

Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills (2006)

Pope John Paul II (2005)

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby (2005)

Corpse Bride (2005)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Science of Star Wars (2005)

The Story of Star Wars (2004)

Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse (2004)

Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel (2004)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Drácula en la Hammer (2003)

Whales of Atlantis: In Search of Moby Dick (2003)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Best Ever Bond (2002)

From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II' (2002)

Bond Girls Are Forever (2002)

Perversion Stories (2002)

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man (2001)

Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

A Passage to Middle-earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings' (2001)

Quest for the Ring (2001)

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome (2001)

The Wicker Man Enigma (2001)

The Devil's Island: Journey Into Jungle Alcatraz (2001)

Ghost Stories for Christmas (2000)

In the Beginning (2000)

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend (2000)

Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (2000)

Gormenghast (2000)

Ian Fleming: 007's Creator (2000)

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service (1999)

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (1999)

Jinnah (1998)

Tale of the Mummy (1998)

The Mummy (1998)

Soul Music (1997)

Wyrd Sisters (1997)

The Odyssey (1997)

Soul Music (1997)

Ivanhoe (1997)

Welcome to the Discworld (1996)

100 Years of Horror (1996)

In Search of Dracula with Jonathan Ross (1996)

The Stupids (1996)

In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes (1996)

Moses (1996)

The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry (1996)

Alisea and the Dream Prince (1996)

Sorellina e il principe del sogno (1996)

A Century of Science Fiction (1996)

The Many Faces of Christopher Lee (1996)

A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghosts of M.R. James (1995)

Moses (1995)

In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross (1995)

Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1995)

Tales of Mistery & Imagination (1995)

A Feast At Midnight (1994)

The World of Hammer: Dracula and the Undead (1994)

The World of Hammer (1994)

Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror (1994)

Funny Man (1994)

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)

Street Gear (1994)

The Rainbow Thief (1994)

Blue Heelers (1993)

Death Train (1993)

Cyber Eden (1992)

Double Vision (1992)

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992)

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992)

Beauty and the Beast (1992)

Dracula in the Movies (1992)

Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)

Fear in the Dark (1991)

Curse III: Blood Sacrifice (1991)

Journey of Honor (1991)

The Care of Time (1990)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

The Miser (1990)

Stern TV (1990)

Treasure Island (1990)

Honeymoon Academy (1989)

Murder Story (1989)

Fall of the Eagles (1989)

The French Revolution (1989)

Around the World in 80 Days (1989)

The Return of the Musketeers (1989)

Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil (1988)

Olympus Force: The Key (1988)

Seitenblicke (1987)

The Girl (1987)

Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood (1987)

The Disputation (1986)

Un métier de seigneur (1986)

Jocks (1986)

Shaka Zulu (1986)

Mask of Murder (1985)

Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch (1985)

Don't Scream: It's Only a Movie! (1985)

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes (1985)

The Rosebud Beach Hotel (1984)

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers (1984)

The Bengal Lancers! (1984)

The Far Pavilions (1984)

House of the Long Shadows (1983)

New Magic (1983)

Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler (1983)

The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)

The Last Unicorn (1982)

The Rank Charm School (1982)

Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story (1982)

Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)

Massarati and the Brain (1982)

Safari 3000 (1982)

Champs-Elysées (1982)

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! (1982)

Goliath Awaits (1981)

An Eye for an Eye (1981)

Evil Stalks This House (1981)

Wetten, dass..? (1981)

The Salamander (1981)

Once Upon a Spy (1980)

Serial (1980)

Desperate Moves (1980)

1941 (1979)

Bear Island (1979)

Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979)

Jaguar Lives! (1979)

Arabian Adventure (1979)

The Passage (1979)

Nutcracker Fantasy (1979)

The Pirate (1978)

Caravans (1978)

Circle of Iron (1978)

Return from Witch Mountain (1978)

Starship Invasions (1977)

The Occult: Mysteries Of The Supernatural (1977)

End of the World (1977)

Airport '77 (1977)

Meatcleaver Massacre (1977)

Auf los geht's los (1977)

Charlie's Angels (1976)

Dracula and Son (1976)

Albino (1976)

To the Devil a Daughter (1976)

Killer Force (1976)

The Keeper (1976)

Saturday Night Live (1975)

Space: 1999 (1975)

In Search of Dracula (1975)

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

The Four Musketeers (1974)

Diagnosis: Murder (1974)

The Three Musketeers (1973)

The Wicker Man (1973)

The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1973)

Dark Places (1973)

Eugenie de Sade (1973)

Nothing But the Night (1973)

Poor Devil (1973)

The Creeping Flesh (1973)

Death Line (1972)

Horror Express (1972)

Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)

Vampir Cuadecuc (1972)

Umbracle (1972)

Hannie Caulder (1971)

I, Monster (1971)

Theatre Macabre (1971)

First Love (1971)

The House That Dripped Blood (1971)

Scars of Dracula (1970)

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

Julius Caesar (1970)

Treffpunkte (1970)

Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)

One More Time (1970)

Count Dracula (1970)

Eugenie (1970)

The Bloody Judge (1970)

Scream and Scream Again (1970)

The Magic Christian (1969)

Whicker's World (1969)

The Oblong Box (1969)

The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)

Quelle horreur mon saigneur Dracula (1969)

Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)

The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)

The Devil Rides Out (1968)

Eve (1968)

The Movie Orgy (1968)

Theatre of Death (1967)

The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967)

Five Golden Dragons (1967)

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)

Night of the Big Heat (1967)

The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)

Circus of Fear (1966)

Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)

Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)

The Skull (1965)

The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)

Ten Little Indians (1965)

She (1965)

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)

The Gorgon (1964)

The Castle of the Living Dead (1964)

The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964)

Crypt of the Vampire (1964)

Horror!!! (1964)

The Whip and the Body (1963)

Horror Castle (1963)

Challenge the Devil (1963)

Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)

The Devil's Agent (1962)

The Pirates of Blood River (1962)

Secret of the Red Orchid (1962)

Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)

The Devil's Daffodil (1961)

Taste of Fear (1961)

The Terror of the Tongs (1961)

The Avengers (1961)

Too Hot to Handle (1960)

The Hands of Orlac (1960)

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)

The City of the Dead (1960)

Beat Girl (1960)

Uncle Was A Vampire (1959)

The Mummy (1959)

The Treasure of San Teresa (1959)

The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

Stars in der Manege (1959)

One Step Beyond (1959)

Corridors of Blood (1958)

The Adventures of William Tell (1958)

Dracula (1958)

A Tale of Two Cities (1958)

Ivanhoe (1958)

Battle of the V-1 (1958)

Bitter Victory (1957)

Manuela (1957)

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Fortune Is a Woman (1957)

The Traitor (1957)

Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)

The Truth About Women (1957)

The Battle of the River Plate (1956)

Beyond Mombasa (1956)

Port Afrique (1956)

Alexander the Great (1956)

Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1956)

Private's Progress (1956)

Storm Over the Nile (1955)

Alias John Preston (1955)

The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)

The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1955)

That Lady (1955)

Police Dog (1955)

The Dark Avenger (1955)

Contraband Spain (1955)

Cross-Roads (1955)

Moby Dick—Rehearsed (1955)

The Awakening (1954)

The Mirror and Markheim (1954)

Innocents in Paris (1953)

The Top and the Ball (1953)

Moulin Rouge (1952)

Babes in Bagdad (1952)

Paul Temple Returns (1952)

Top Secret (1952)

The Crimson Pirate (1952)

Valley of the Eagles (1951)

Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

Prelude to Fame (1950)

They Were Not Divided (1950)

Trottie True (1949)

Hamlet (1948)

Scott of the Antarctic (1948)

Penny and the Pownall Case (1948)

A Song for Tomorrow (1948)

One Night with You (1948)

Corridor of Mirrors (1948)

Final Column

Tortures of Hope

Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror

Man in Demand
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Information
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday1922-05-27
Deathday2015-06-07 (93 years old)
Birth nameChristopher Frank Carandini Lee
Place of birthBelgravia, United Kingdom
Height
RelationshipsBirgit Kroencke (1961-03-17 - 2015-06-07)
ChildrenChristina Lee
FatherGeoffrey Trollope Lee
MotherEstelle Maria Carandini
SiblingsXandra Carandini Lee
RelativesGuido Carandini, Ian Fleming, Andrea Carandini
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesLondon, United Kingdom
Also known asКристофер Ли , Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, Σερ Κρίστοφερ Φρανκ Καραντίνι Λι, Κρίστοφερ Φρανκ Καραντίνι Λι, Κρίστοφερ Λι
AwardsKnight Bachelor, Steiger Award, Academy Fellowship Award, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award
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