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 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

Dr. Wonka

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Saruman

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Saruman

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Doctor Catheter

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

King Haggard (voice)

The Last Unicorn

Francisco Scaramanga

The Man with the Golden Gun

Paul Allen

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll

Father Pergado / Zindar

End of the World

The Creature

The Curse of Frankenstein

First High Councilor

The Golden Compass

Count Dooku

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Count Dooku

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Dr. Fu Man Chu

The Blood of Fu Manchu

Dr. Fu Man Chu

The Face of Fu Manchu

Dr. Fu Man Chu

The Castle of Fu Manchu

Capt. Allerman

Das Rätsel der roten Orchidee

Burgomaster

Sleepy Hollow

Pastor Galswells (voice)

Corpse Bride

Fu Manchu/Dracula (archive footage)

The Movie Orgy

Rochefort

The Three Musketeers

Sanson

La Révolution française

Marquis St. Evremonde

A Tale of Two Cities

General Konstanin Benin

Death Train

Dracula

Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht

Resurrection Joe

Corridors of Blood

John Preston

Alias John Preston

Fu Manchu

The Brides of Fu Manchu

Mycroft Holmes

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt

1941

Cardinal D'Ambroise

Season of the Witch

Joseph (attache)

The Crimson Pirate

Le prince des Ténèbres

Dracula père et fils

Sir Henry Baskerville

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Bailey

Hannie Caulder

Martin Wallace

Airport '77

Zetan

Circle of Iron

Count Dracula

Dracula

Jabberwocky (voice)

Alice in Wonderland

Count Dooku (voice)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Count Dracula

Dracula A.D. 1972

Monsieur Renard (voice)

Beauty and the Beast

Rochefort

The Four Musketeers

Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton

Pánico en el Transiberiano

Joaquín Morales

Triage

Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai

Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel

Blind Pew

Treasure Island

Charles

Corridor of Mirrors

Franklyn Marsh

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Kurt Menliff

La frusta e il corpo

Dracula

Scars of Dracula

(archive footage)

The Horror Show

King Lico (Licos)

Ercole al centro della terra

J.D. Morley

Curse of the Crimson Altar

Father Michael

To the Devil a Daughter

Narrator (voice) / Self

Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

Count Drago

Il castello dei morti vivi

Prof. Karl Meister

The Gorgon

Grigori Rasputin

Rasputin: The Mad Monk

Mr. Mason

The Heavy

Count Dracula

The Satanic Rites of Dracula

Uncle Rudolf

The Rainbow Thief

Chung King

The Terror of the Tongs

Dr. Pierre Gerrard

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

Luckman Skull

Serial

Captain Robeles

The Devil-Ship Pirates

Luis Morel

Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil

Col. Charles Bingham

Nothing But the Night

Older Walter Page

Glorious 39

Walter Strauss

La chute des aigles

Sardar Khan

Caravans

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Jinnah

Dracula

Taste the Blood of Dracula

Dracula

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

Stefan Crosscoe

Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch

Kato

Mio min Mio

Rochefort

The Return of the Musketeers

Self

Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills

James Hildern

The Creeping Flesh

Captain Rameses

Starship Invasions

Morgan Canfield

An Eye for an Eye

Fremont

Scream and Scream Again

Artemidorus

Julius Caesar

Lord George Jeffreys

Il trono di fuoco

Gregor

Circus of Fear

Sir Matthew Phillips

The Skull

Mr. Alfred Rhinegold

Boogie Woogie

Victor Gannon

Return from Witch Mountain

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes

Kenny King

Beat Girl

Emerich

Les Rivières pourpres 2 : Les Anges de l'apocalypse

Jonathan Blair

Penny and the Pownall Case

Clarney

Dark Shadows

Monsieur Labisse

Hugo

Self

Ian Fleming: 007's Creator

Evil Sender

The Stupids

Lord Summerisle

The Wicker Man

Lechinski

Bear Island

Doctor Pierre Gerrard

Taste of Fear

Submarine Commander Alan Grieves

The Cockleshell Heroes

Corrigan

House of the Long Shadows

Count Dracula

Dracula: Prince of Darkness

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

The House That Dripped Blood

Billali

She

Sir Richard Turkel

Tale of the Mummy

Duc de Richleau

The Devil Rides Out

Saruman the White

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Death (voice)

Soul Music

Dr. Fu Manchu

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu

President White

Jocks

Chariot Driver (uncredited)

Quo Vadis

Sgt. Barney

Bitter Victory

August

The Resident

Kharis, the Mummy

The Mummy

Gypsy

The Passage

Old Joseph

Burke & Hare

Nero the magician

The Hands of Orlac

Self

Quelle horreur mon saigneur Dracula

Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake

I, Monster

Caliph Alquazar

Arabian Adventure

Mr. Midnight

The Return of Captain Invincible

Major Chilton

Killer Force

Dr. J. Neuhartt

The Oblong Box

The Lord Provost

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby

Erich

La vergine di Norimberga

Godfrey Hanson

Night of the Big Heat

Franklyn Marsh - (archive footage)

Creepy Classics

V. E. 'Raptor' Longfellow

A Feast at Midnight

Count Borgia

Safari 3000

French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited)

The Dark Avenger

Dragon #4

Five Golden Dragons

Adam Caine

Jaguar Lives!

Dr. Pearson

Curse III: Blood Sacrifice

Captain LaRoche

The Pirates of Blood River

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

(archive footage)

Faces of Death

Dolmance

De Sade 70

Old Man

The Wicker Tree

Callum Chance

Funny Man

Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich

Mask of Murder

Marcus Valorium

Once Upon a Spy

Dr. Ian Mandeville

Dark Places

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady

Saruman the White

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Colonel Stuart

The Face of Eve

Philippe Darvas

Theatre of Death

Cedric

Jackpot

Self

Cuadecuc, vampir

Peter Storm

The Girl

Host

Evil Stalks This House

King

The Rosebud Beach Hotel

Det. Holt

Valley of the Eagles

Charles Highbury

Fortune Is a Woman

Dracula (archive footage)

Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness

Lieutenant Whitlock

Innocents in Paris

Narrator

The Many Faces of Dracula

To the Devil... The Death of Hammer

Self

Everything or Nothing

Self

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

Baron Roderico da Frankurten

Tempi duri per i vampiri

On-Screen Narrator

Meatcleaver Massacre

Father Bartholomeu

Night Train to Lisbon

The Man

Umbracle

Capitán

That Lady

Slave Dealer

Babes in Bagdad

The Narrator

The Fall of the House Of Usher

Bill

Der flüsternde Tod

Russian Agent (uncredited)

Top Secret

Self (archive footage)

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

Sir Felix Raybourne

Paul Temple Returns

Jaeger

The Treasure of San Teresa

The Many Faces of Christopher Lee

Miguel

Captain America II: Death Too Soon

Newsman

Prelude to Fame

Count Ludwig Karnstein

La cripta e l'incubo

Self / Various (Archive)

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee

Dr. Stephen Hayward

Diagnosis: Murder

Self

Ein Leben wie im Flug

Mephistoles

Katarsis

Self

The Rank Charm School

Auguste

A Song for Tomorrow

Self

Rhapsody of Fire: Visions from the Enchanted Lands

Old Officer Pinkerton

The Girl from Nagasaki

Narrator

Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics

The Keeper

The Keeper

King Philip

Journey of Honor

Novak

Too Hot to Handle

Self

In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross

Ling Chu

Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen

Narrator

Fear in the Dark

Commandant Rakov

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence

The Salamander

Franz Vermes

Port Afrique

Death

Welcome to the Discworld

Karlis Zander

The Care of Time

Baron Ferdi von Staub

The Devil's Agent

Willard Hope

Murder Story

Dracula vs. Vampir

Spanish Captain

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

Self

Vem Var Dracula

Lazos

Honeymoon Academy

Self

Ex-S: The Wicker Man

Dr. Carl Boxer

Desperate Moves

Major Schultz

Private's Progress

Georges Seurat (uncredited)

Moulin Rouge

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

Extraordinary Tales

Factory proprietor (uncredited)

The Awakening

The Boss / Mr. President (voice)

Angels in Notting Hill

Mr. Bernard

Double Vision

Harry Cooper

Cross-Roads

Self / Scaramanga

Best Ever Bond

Stratton-Villiers, MI5

Death Line

Self

The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry

Palace Guard (uncredited)

Hamlet

Presenter

100 Years of Horror

Self

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

Satanus / Van Krig

Le boucher, la star et l'orpheline

Self

Christopher Lee - Gentleman des Grauens

Self

Face of Unity

Samir Al Fay

The Pirate

Gil Rossi

Beyond Mombasa

Lord Summerisle

The Wicker Man At 50

Lord Summerisle

Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending

King James of Aragon

The Disputation

Narrator

Enzo Ferrari 1898 - 1988

Self

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'

Self

Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King

Self

Hollywood Chinese

Nectenabus (voice)

Alexander the Great

Chris Lewis

They Were Not Divided

Hon. Bongo Icklesham

Trottie True

Voice (voice)

Manuela

Ship's Vampire

The Magic Christian

Karaga Pasha

Storm Over the Nile

Manolo

The Battle of the River Plate

Doctor Neumann

The Traitor

German officer at The Dentist's office

Ill Met by Moonlight

Francois Thiers

The Truth About Women

Mr. U.N. Owen (voice)

Ten Little Indians

Lucifer

Poor Devil

Pirelli's Assistant

One Night with You

Bernard Day

Scott of the Antarctic

Dracula

One More Time

Cardinale Spinosi

L'avaro

Brunner

Battle of the V-1

Self

Dare To Dream: The Making of Jinnah

Count Dooku (archive footage)

The Story of Star Wars

Self

Quest for the Ring

Self

Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'

Narrator

The Occult: Mysteries Of The Supernatural

Narrator (voice)

Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn

Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)

Terreur et glamour : montée et déclin du studio Hammer

Himself

Drácula Barcelona

Self (Archival Footage)

The Trail of Dracula

Victor Leopold

Massarati and the Brain

King Vladimir V

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

Johnny, a constable

Police Dog

Self / Count Dooku

From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'

Himself - Presenter

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes

Count Ottokar Graf Czernin

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service

(archive footage)

Fifty Shades of Erotica

Filly

Olympus Force: The Key

Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man

Narrator (voice)

A Century of Science Fiction

Narrator (voice)

The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Original Poem

Self

Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring

Mr. Kellar

New Magic

Self – Host / Vlad Tepes / Count Dracula

Vem var Dracula?

Self

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

Self

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend

Sir James Hunter

The Bengal Lancers!

Christopher Lee

Drácula en la Hammer

Himself

Peter Cushing: In His Own Words

Prof. Alan Driscoll

The City of the Dead

Self

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars

Father

The Top and the Ball

Himself

The Wicker Man Enigma

Prince Philip

Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story

Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'

Self

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

Self

Christopher Lee: A Legacy of Horror and Terror

Self - Host

The Mummy

The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features

Narrador (voz)

Contraband Spain

Self

Bloody Jess

Self

Perversion Stories

In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes

Self

Beloved Count

Self

Fanex Files: Hammer Films

Narrator

Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler

Self

The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'

Fog

Un métier de seigneur

Self (archive footage)

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

Visitant

The Mirror and Markheim

Self

Horror!!!

Self - Narrator (voice)

Les baleines de l'Atlantide

Narrator

Amazon Trek: In Search of Vanishing Secrets

Narrator

Iles du Diable: l'Archipel des Mondes Perdus

Self (archive footage)

Children of the Wicker Man

Saruman (voice)

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

Self (archive footage)

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

The Best of All Time Horror Classics

Herzog Anthony von Wolfenbüttel

Saraband for Dead Lovers

Kharis, the Mummy (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lolita

The Making of 'The Two Towers'

Self

How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective

Self

Mickey's 50

A Stage Manager /Flask

Moby Dick Rehearsed

Count Dracula (archive footage)

Innocent Blood

Pharaoh

Moïse

Ramses

Moses

(archive footage)

Constel·lació Portabella

Saruman (Extended Cut)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Corrigan (archive footage) (uncredited)

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Self - (archive footage)

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

314

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-05-27

Place of Birth

Westminster, London, England, UK

Also Known As

Christopher Frank Carandini Lee