Christopher Lee
Born:5/27/1922•Died:6/7/2015
Place of Birth:Westminster, London, England, UK
Biography
Christopher Lee 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.
Filmography
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
20246.6
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
20248.5
Children of the Wicker Man
20240.0
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
20247.7
Faces of Death
20230.0
Dracula Unearthed
20227.0
Peter Cushing: In His Own Words
20207.5
Drácula Barcelona
20175.8
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
20176.0
Angels in Notting Hill
20155.5
Fifty Shades of Erotica
20157.0
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
20147.3
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
20140.0
Face of Unity
20140.0
The Trail of Dracula
201310.0
The Girl from Nagasaki
20135.6
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
20136.9
Night Train to Lisbon
20136.5
Extraordinary Tales
20136.4
Christopher Lee: A Legacy of Horror and Terror
20127.5
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
20127.4
The Fall of the House Of Usher
20127.9
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
20126.2
Dracula vs. Vampir
20120.0
Everything or Nothing
20127.1
The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features
201210.0
Dark Shadows
20126.1
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
20128.0
Enzo Ferrari 1898 - 1988
20120.0
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
20126.0
Hugo
20117.2
The Wicker Tree
20114.0
The Resident
20115.8
Season of the Witch
20115.5
Christopher Lee: Gentleman of Horror
201010.0
Burke & Hare
20106.1
Halloween: The Inside Story
20107.3
The Heavy
20104.9
Alice in Wonderland
20106.6
Glorious 39
20096.1
Triage
20096.0
Boogie Woogie
20095.1
The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Original Poem
20087.0
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
20086.1
Fanex Files: Hammer Films
20087.0
The Golden Compass
20076.1
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
20079.0
Amazon Trek: In Search of Vanishing Secrets
20070.0
Rhapsody of Fire: Visions from the Enchanted Lands
20076.5
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
20079.0
Hollywood Chinese
20070.0
Ein Leben wie im Flug
20070.0
Beloved Count
20070.0
Bloody Jess
20077.0
Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills
20068.2
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
20055.4
Corpse Bride
20057.6
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
20057.0
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
20057.5
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
20046.0
The Story of Star Wars
20047.1
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
20046.1
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
20038.1
Drácula en la Hammer
20030.0
The Making of The Two Towers
20038.8
Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories
20038.5
Whales of Atlantis: In Search of Moby Dick
20030.0
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
20028.4
Best Ever Bond
20025.0
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
20026.5
Bond Girls Are Forever
20025.9
Perversion Stories
20020.0
To the Devil... The Death of Hammer
20020.0
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
20026.6
The Making of The Fellowship of the Ring
20028.8
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
20017.0
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
20016.5
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
20018.4
A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'
20018.0
Quest for the Ring
20015.6
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
20016.5
The Wicker Man Enigma
20016.0
The Devil's Island: Journey Into Jungle Alcatraz
20016.0
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
20007.0
Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
20007.2
Ian Fleming: 007's Creator
20006.9
The Many Faces of Dracula
20003.5
Sleepy Hollow
19997.2
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
19994.8
Ex-S: The Wicker Man
19980.0
Jinnah
19986.8
Dare To Dream: The Making of Jinnah
19980.0
Tale of the Mummy
19984.7
100 Years of Horror
19985.0
The Mummy
19980.0
Soul Music
19977.1
Welcome to the Discworld
19966.0
Vem Var Dracula
19960.0
The Stupids
19964.7
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
19960.0
The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry
19964.5
The Many Faces of Christopher Lee
19968.3
A Century of Science Fiction
19966.9
A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghosts of M.R. James
19958.0
In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
19953.0
A Feast at Midnight
19946.0
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
19947.2
Funny Man
19944.7
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
19944.6
Death Train
19935.0
Cyber Eden
19924.7
Double Vision
19924.8
Innocent Blood
19926.2
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
19925.2
Beauty and the Beast
19924.2
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
19915.1
Fear in the Dark
199110.0
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
19914.1
Journey of Honor
19914.9
The Care of Time
19904.0
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
19906.5
The Miser
19906.3
Treasure Island
19906.6
The Rainbow Thief
19905.4
Honeymoon Academy
19895.1
Murder Story
19894.9
Night of the Eagles
19893.2
The French Revolution
19897.5
The Return of the Musketeers
19896.2
Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil
19883.3
Olympus Force: The Key
19882.5
Creepy Classics
19876.3
The Girl
19874.6
Mio in the Land of Faraway
19876.0
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
19876.4
The Disputation
19861.0
Un métier de seigneur
19860.0
Jocks
19864.4
Mask of Murder
19852.9
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
19854.9
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
19857.0
The Best of All Time Horror Classics
19850.0
The Rosebud Beach Hotel
19844.6
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
19846.5
The Bengal Lancers!
19841.0
House of the Long Shadows
19836.3
The Return of Captain Invincible
19836.2
New Magic
19836.0
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
19830.0
The Last Unicorn
19827.2
The Rank Charm School
19820.0
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
19823.3
Massarati and the Brain
19823.5
Safari 3000
19825.1
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
19826.0
An Eye for an Eye
19815.2
Evil Stalks This House
19813.5
The Salamander
19815.5
Once Upon a Spy
19804.8
Serial
19805.5
Desperate Moves
19801.0
1941
19795.8
Bear Island
19795.9
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
19793.8
Jaguar Lives!
19794.0
Arabian Adventure
19795.8
The Passage
19796.2
The Horror Show
19793.8
The Pirate
19784.2
Mickey's 50
19780.0
Caravans
19785.3
Circle of Iron
19785.7
Return from Witch Mountain
19785.9
Starship Invasions
19773.0
The Occult: Mysteries Of The Supernatural
19770.0
End of the World
19773.6
Airport '77
19775.6
Meatcleaver Massacre
19774.1
Dracula and Son
19766.2
Death in the Sun
19764.1
To the Devil a Daughter
19765.5
Killer Force
19765.2
The Keeper
19764.3
In Search of Dracula
19757.2
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
19751.0
The Man with the Golden Gun
19746.5
The Four Musketeers
19746.4
Diagnosis: Murder
19746.8
The Three Musketeers
19736.8
The Wicker Man
19737.3
Dark Places
19735.5
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
19735.6
Nothing But the Night
19736.1
Poor Devil
19735.4
The Creeping Flesh
19735.9
Death Line
19725.8
Horror Express
19726.3
Dracula A.D. 1972
19725.9
Vampir Cuadecuc
19726.0
Umbracle
19725.7
Hannie Caulder
19716.2
I, Monster
19715.4
The House That Dripped Blood
19716.3
Scars of Dracula
19706.0
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
19706.8
Julius Caesar
19705.7
Taste the Blood of Dracula
19706.0
One More Time
19704.4
Count Dracula
19705.8
Eugenie
19704.8
The Bloody Judge
19704.9
Scream and Scream Again
19705.3
The Magic Christian
19695.7
The Oblong Box
19695.7
The Castle of Fu Manchu
19693.6
Quelle horreur mon saigneur Dracula
19690.0
Curse of the Crimson Altar
19685.3
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
19686.7
The Blood of Fu Manchu
19684.3
The Devil Rides Out
19686.5
Eve
19683.3
The Movie Orgy
19686.5
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
19676.4
Five Golden Dragons
19675.3
Theatre of Death
19676.1
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
19676.2
Night of the Big Heat
19675.3
The Brides of Fu Manchu
19665.7
Circus of Fear
19665.2
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
19665.9
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
19666.7
The Skull
19656.0
The Face of Fu Manchu
19656.0
Ten Little Indians
19656.2
She
19655.6
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
19656.4
The Gorgon
19646.3
The Castle of the Living Dead
19646.1
The Devil-Ship Pirates
19645.6
Crypt of the Vampire
19645.0
Horror!!!
19641.0
The Whip and the Body
19636.5
Horror Castle
19635.7
Challenge the Devil
19632.9
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
19625.5
The Devil's Agent
19626.4
Lolita
19627.3
The Pirates of Blood River
19626.2
Secret of the Red Orchid
19625.6
Hercules in the Haunted World
19616.7
The Devil's Daffodil
19615.6
Taste of Fear
19617.0
The Terror of the Tongs
19615.8
The Hands of Orlac
19604.3
Too Hot to Handle
19604.6
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
19606.1
The City of the Dead
19606.4
Beat Girl
19606.0
Uncle Was a Vampire
19595.2
The Mummy
19596.7
The Treasure of San Teresa
19596.2
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
19595.8
The Hound of the Baskervilles
19596.8
Corridors of Blood
19586.1
Dracula
19587.3
A Tale of Two Cities
19586.7
Battle of the V-1
19584.5
The Truth About Women
19575.9
Bitter Victory
19576.2
Manuela
19575.7
The Curse of Frankenstein
19576.8
Fortune Is a Woman
19576.8
The Traitor
19577.0
Ill Met by Moonlight
19576.1
The Battle of the River Plate
19566.2
Beyond Mombasa
19567.1
Port Afrique
19565.3
Alexander the Great
19565.9
Private's Progress
19566.6
Storm Over the Nile
19556.1
Alias John Preston
19555.3
The Cockleshell Heroes
19556.0
Moby Dick Rehearsed
19550.0
Police Dog
19556.0
The Dark Avenger
19556.0
Contraband Spain
19555.7
That Lady
19556.0
Cross-Roads
19557.0
The Awakening
19546.5
The Mirror and Markheim
19540.0
Innocents in Paris
19535.1
The Top and the Ball
19535.0
Moulin Rouge
19526.7
Babes in Bagdad
19525.0
Paul Temple Returns
19525.7
Top Secret
19526.0
The Crimson Pirate
19527.0
Quo Vadis
19517.1
Valley of the Eagles
19516.0
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
19516.9
Prelude to Fame
19506.2
Hamlet
19487.4
Penny and the Pownall Case
19485.7
The Wicker Man At 50
NaN0.0
Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending
NaN0.0
They Were Not Divided
19506.0
Trottie True
19497.0
Scott of the Antarctic
19487.1
Saraband for Dead Lovers
19486.6
A Song for Tomorrow
19486.0
One Night with You
19486.5
Corridor of Mirrors
19485.7