Christopher Lee

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1922-05-27

Deathday 2015-06-07 (93 years old)

Place of Birth Westminster, London, England, UK

Also Known As Кристофер Ли , Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, Σερ Κρίστοφερ Φρανκ Καραντίνι Λι, Κρίστοφερ Φρανκ Καραντίνι Λι, Κρίστοφερ Λι, Крістофер Лі

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

Actor

The Wicker Man At 50

as Lord Summerisle

2024
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

as Saruman (voice) (archive sound)

2024
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

as Self (archive footage)

2024
Children of the Wicker Man

as Self (archive footage)

2024
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee

as Self / Various (Archive)

2023
Faces of Death

as (archive footage)

2022
Dracula Unearthed

as Count Dracula (archive footage)

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

as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)

2015
Angels in Notting Hill

as The Boss / Mr. President (voice)

2014
2013
The Girl from Nagasaki

as Old Officer Pinkerton

2013
Night Train to Lisbon

as Father Bartholomeu

2013
Extraordinary Tales

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

2012
2012
2012
Dark Shadows

as Clarney

2012
2011
Hugo

as Monsieur Labisse

2011
The Wicker Tree

as Old Man

2011
The Resident

as August

2011
Season of the Witch

as Cardinal D'Ambroise

2010
Burke & Hare

as Old Joseph

2010
Halloween: The Inside Story

as (archive footage)

2010
The Heavy

as Mr. Mason

2010
Alice in Wonderland

as The Jabberwocky (voice)

2009
Glorious 39

as Older Walter Page

2009
Triage

as Joaquín Morales

2009
Boogie Woogie

as Mr. Alfred Rhinegold

2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars

as Count Dooku (voice)

2008
2007
The Golden Compass

as First High Councilor

2007
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

as Self (archive footage)

2007
2007
2007
Bloody Jess

as Self

2005
Pope John Paul II

as Card. Stefan Wyszyński

2005
2005
Corpse Bride

as Pastor Galswells (voice)

2005
Pope John Paul II

as Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński

2004
The Story of Star Wars

as Count Dooku (archive footage)

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

as Saruman the White (Extended Cut)

2003
Drácula en la Hammer

as Christopher Lee

2002
Best Ever Bond

as Self / Scaramanga

2002
Bond Girls Are Forever

as Francisco Scaramanga (archive footage) (uncredited)

2002
2002
Top Gear

as Francisco Scaramanga (archive footage)

2002
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones

as Count Ottokar Czernin

2001
2001
2001
Aeschbacher

as Self

2000
In the Beginning

as Rameses I

2000
Gormenghast

as Flay

1999
Sleepy Hollow

as Burgomaster

1998
Jinnah

as Muhammad Ali Jinnah

1998
Tale of the Mummy

as Sir Richard Turkel

1998
100 Years of Horror

as Presenter

1998
The Mummy

as Self - Host

1997
Soul Music

as Death (voice)

1997
Soul Music

as Death (voice)

1997
Wyrd Sisters

as Death

1997
The Odyssey

as Tiresias

1997
Ivanhoe

as Lucas de Beaumanoir

1996
The Stupids

as Evil Sender

1996
A Century of Science Fiction

as Narrator (voice)

1996
100 Years of Horror

as Self - Host

1996
Moses

as Pharaoh

1995
Moses

as Pharao Ramses

1994
A Feast At Midnight

as V. E. 'Raptor' Longfellow

1994
1994
Funny Man

as Callum Chance

1994
1994
The Rainbow Thief

as Uncle Rudolf

1994
Brisant

as Self

1993
Death Train

as General Konstanin Benin

1993
Blue Heelers

as Scott James

1992
Cyber Eden

as Cedric

1992
Double Vision

as Mr. Bernard

1992
Beauty and the Beast

as Monsieur Renard (voice)

1992
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

as Count Ottokar Graf Czerin

1991
Fear in the Dark

as Narrator

1991
1991
Journey of Honor

as King Philip

1990
The Care of Time

as Karlis Zander

1990
Gremlins 2: The New Batch

as Doctor Catheter

1990
The Miser

as Cardinale Spinosi

1990
Treasure Island

as Blind Pew

1990
Stern TV

as Self

1989
1989
Murder Story

as Willard Hope

1989
Night of the Eagles

as Walter Strauss

1987
Creepy Classics

as Franklyn Marsh - (archive footage)

1987
The Girl

as Peter Storm

1987
Seitenblicke

as self

1986
The Disputation

as King James of Aragon

1986
Jocks

as President White

1986
Shaka Zulu

as Lord Bathurst

1986
1985
Mask of Murder

as Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich

1985
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes

as Himself - Presenter

1984
The Bengal Lancers!

as Sir James Hunter

1984
The Far Pavilions

as Rao-Sahib

1983
New Magic

as Mr. Kellar

1982
The Last Unicorn

as King Haggard (voice)

1982
Massarati and the Brain

as Victor Leopold

1982
Safari 3000

as Count Borgia

1982
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

as Self (archive footage)

1982
Faerie Tale Theatre

as King Vladimir V

1982
1981
An Eye for an Eye

as Morgan Canfield

1981
The Salamander

as Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence

1981
Goliath Awaits

as John McKenzie

1981
1980
Once Upon a Spy

as Marcus Valorium

1980
Serial

as Luckman Skull

1980
Desperate Moves

as Dr. Carl Boxer

1979
1941

as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt

1979
Bear Island

as Lechinski

1979
Jaguar Lives!

as Adam Caine

1979
Arabian Adventure

as Caliph Alquazar

1979
The Passage

as Gypsy

1979
The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

1978
The Pirate

as Samir Al Fay

1978
Caravans

as Sardar Khan

1978
1978
1977
Starship Invasions

as Captain Rameses

1977
End of the World

as Father Pergado / Zindar

1977
Airport '77

as Martin Wallace

1977
Meatcleaver Massacre

as On-Screen Narrator

1977
1976
Dracula and Son

as Le prince des Ténèbres

1976
1976
To the Devil a Daughter

as Father Michael

1976
Killer Force

as Major Chilton

1976
The Keeper

as The Keeper

1976
Charlie's Angels

as Dale Woodman

1975
In Search of Dracula

as Self – Host / Vlad Tepes / Count Dracula

1975
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

1975
Space: 1999

as Captain Zandor

1974
The Man with the Golden Gun

as Francisco Scaramanga

1974
The Four Musketeers

as Rochefort

1974
Diagnosis: Murder

as Dr. Stephen Hayward

1973
1973
The Wicker Man

as Lord Summerisle

1973
1973
Dark Places

as Dr. Ian Mandeville

1973
Nothing But the Night

as Col. Charles Bingham

1973
Poor Devil

as Lucifer

1973
The Creeping Flesh

as James Hildern

1972
Death Line

as Stratton-Villiers, MI5

1972
Horror Express

as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton

1972
Dracula A.D. 1972

as Count Dracula

1972
1972
Umbracle

as The Man

1971
Hannie Caulder

as Bailey

1971
I, Monster

as Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake

1971
The House That Dripped Blood

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

1971
Theatre Macabre

as Self - Host

1970
Scars of Dracula

as Dracula

1970
Julius Caesar

as Artemidorus

1970
One More Time

as Dracula

1970
Count Dracula

as Dracula

1970
Eugenie

as Dolmance

1970
The Bloody Judge

as Lord George Jeffreys

1970
Treffpunkte

as Self

1969
The Magic Christian

as Ship's Vampire

1969
The Oblong Box

as Dr. J. Neuhartt

1969
The Castle of Fu Manchu

as Dr. Fu Man Chu

1968
1968
The Blood of Fu Manchu

as Dr. Fu Man Chu

1968
The Devil Rides Out

as Duc de Richleau

1968
Eve

as Colonel Stuart

1968
The Movie Orgy

as Fu Manchu/Dracula (archive footage)

1967
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism

as Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai

1967
Five Golden Dragons

as Dragon #4

1967
Theatre of Death

as Philippe Darvas

1967
1967
Night of the Big Heat

as Godfrey Hanson

1966
1966
Circus of Fear

as Gregor

1966
Rasputin: The Mad Monk

as Grigori Rasputin

1966
1965
The Skull

as Sir Matthew Phillips

1965
The Face of Fu Manchu

as Dr. Fu Man Chu

1965
Ten Little Indians

as Mr. U.N. Owen (voice)

1965
She

as Billali

1965
1964
The Gorgon

as Prof. Karl Meister

1964
The Devil-Ship Pirates

as Captain Robeles

1964
Crypt of the Vampire

as Count Ludwig Karnstein

1964
Horror!!!

as Self

1963
The Whip and the Body

as Kurt Menliff

1963
Horror Castle

as Erich

1963
Challenge the Devil

as Mephistoles

1962
The Devil's Agent

as Baron Ferdi von Staub

1962
The Pirates of Blood River

as Captain LaRoche

1962
Secret of the Red Orchid

as Capt. Allerman

1962
1961
Hercules in the Haunted World

as King Lico (Licos)

1961
1961
Taste of Fear

as Doctor Pierre Gerrard

1961
1961
The Avengers

as Professor Stone

1961
The Avengers

as Colonel Mannering

1960
The Hands of Orlac

as Nero the magician

1960
1960
1960
The City of the Dead

as Prof. Alan Driscoll

1960
Beat Girl

as Kenny King

1959
Uncle Was a Vampire

as Baron Roderico da Frankurten

1959
The Mummy

as Kharis, the Mummy

1959
The Man Who Could Cheat Death

as Dr. Pierre Gerrard

1959
The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Sir Henry Baskerville

1959
One Step Beyond

as Wilhelm Reitlinger

1958
Corridors of Blood

as Resurrection Joe

1958
Dracula

as Count Dracula

1958
A Tale of Two Cities

as Marquis St. Evremonde

1958
1958
Ivanhoe

as Sir Otto from the Rhine

1957
The Truth About Women

as Francois Thiers

1957
Bitter Victory

as Sgt. Barney

1957
Manuela

as Voice (voice)

1957
1957
Fortune Is a Woman

as Charles Highbury

1957
The Traitor

as Doctor Neumann

1957
Ill Met by Moonlight

as German officer at The Dentist's office

1956
Beyond Mombasa

as Gil Rossi

1956
Port Afrique

as Franz Vermes

1956
Alexander the Great

as Nectenabus (voice)

1956
Private's Progress

as Major Schultz

1956
The Errol Flynn Theatre

as The Visitant

1956
The Errol Flynn Theatre

as Compte de Merret

1956
The Errol Flynn Theatre

as Maurice Gabet

1956
The Errol Flynn Theatre

as General Hamelin

1955
Storm Over the Nile

as Karaga Pasha

1955
Alias John Preston

as John Preston

1955
The Cockleshell Heroes

as Submarine Commander Alan Grieves

1955
Police Dog

as Johnny, a constable

1955
The Dark Avenger

as French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited)

1955
Contraband Spain

as Narrador (voz)

1955
That Lady

as Capitán

1955
Cross-Roads

as Harry Cooper

1955
1954
The Awakening

as Factory proprietor (uncredited)

1954
1953
Innocents in Paris

as Lieutenant Whitlock

1953
1952
Moulin Rouge

as Georges Seurat (uncredited)

1952
Babes in Bagdad

as Slave Dealer

1952
Paul Temple Returns

as Sir Felix Raybourne

1952
Top Secret

as Russian Agent (uncredited)

1952
The Crimson Pirate

as Joseph (attache)

1951
Quo Vadis

as Chariot Driver (uncredited)

1951
1951
Captain Horatio Hornblower

as Spanish Captain

1950
Prelude to Fame

as Newsman

1950
They Were Not Divided

as Chris Lewis

1949
Trottie True

as Hon. Bongo Icklesham

1948
Hamlet

as Palace Guard (uncredited)

1948
Scott of the Antarctic

as Bernard Day

1948
Penny and the Pownall Case

as Jonathan Blair

1948
1948
One Night with You

as Pirelli's Assistant

1948

Producer

1973