Christopher Lee
Age: 93 | From: Belgravia, Westminster, England
Person Details
Birthday: 1922-05-27 22:16:48
Death: 2015-06-07 22:16:48
Aliases: Кристофер Ли , Christopher Frank Carandini Lee , Σερ Κρίστοφερ Φρανκ Καραντίνι Λι , Κρίστοφερ Φρανκ Καραντίνι Λι , Κρίστοφερ Λι
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Belgravia, Westminster, England
Homepage: http://christopherleeweb.com
Movie Involvements: 241
TV Involvements: 32
Most Famous Work
Biography
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ (born May 27, 1922, died 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, strong 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.
Most Famous Work
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(2001) Saruman
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
(2014) Saruman
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(2002) Saruman
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(2003) Saruman (Extended Edition)
Corpse Bride
(2005) Pastor Galswells (voice)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
(2012) Saruman
Alice in Wonderland
(2010) The Jabberwocky (voice)
Charlie's Angels
(1976) Dale WoodmanActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | (archive footage) | |
| 2022 | Count Dracula (Archive Footage) | |
| 2020 | Himself | |
| 2017 | Himself | |
| Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage) | ||
| 2015 | The Boss / Mr. President (voice) | |
| N/A | ||
| 2014 | Saruman | |
| Self | ||
| 2013 | Self | |
| Old Officer Pinkerton | ||
| Narrator | ||
| DiZ (voice) | ||
| Father Bartholomeu | ||
| Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher') | ||
| 2012 | Self | |
| Saruman | ||
| The Narrator | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Movie Dracula (archive footage) | ||
| N/A | ||
| Clarney | ||
| Dracula (archive footage) | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Self | ||
| 2011 | Monsieur Labisse | |
| Old Man | ||
| August | ||
| Cardinal D'Ambroise | ||
| 2010 | Himself | |
| Old Joseph | ||
| (archive footage) | ||
| Mr. Mason | ||
| The Jabberwocky (voice) | ||
| 2009 | Older Walter Page | |
| Joaquín Morales | ||
| Mr. Alfred Rhinegold | ||
| 2008 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Count Dooku (voice) | ||
| Death | ||
| Self | ||
| 2007 | First High Councilor | |
| Narrator | ||
| Self | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Self | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2006 | Himself | |
| 2005 | Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński | |
| The Lord Provost | ||
| Pastor Galswells (voice) | ||
| Dr. Wonka | ||
| Count Dooku | ||
| 2004 | Count Dooku (archive footage) | |
| Emerich | ||
| Self | ||
| 2003 | Christopher Lee | |
| Narrator | ||
| Himself | ||
| 2002 | Saruman | |
| Self / Scaramanga | ||
| Self / Count Dooku | ||
| Francisco Scaramanga (archive footage) (uncredited) | ||
| Self | ||
| Francisco Scaramanga (archive footage) | ||
| N/A | ||
| Count Dooku | ||
| Self | ||
| 2001 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| Saruman | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Himself | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 2000 | Narrator | |
| Rameses I | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| Flay | ||
| Self | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1999 | Count Ottokar Graf Czernin | |
| Burgomaster | ||
| 1998 | Self | |
| Mohammed Ali Jinnah | ||
| Sir Richard Turkel | ||
| Self - Host | ||
| 1997 | Death (voice) | |
| Death | ||
| Tiresias | ||
| Death (voice) | ||
| Lucas de Beaumanoir | ||
| 1996 | Death | |
| Self - Host | ||
| Self | ||
| Evil Sender | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Azaret | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1995 | Self | |
| Pharao Ramses | ||
| Self | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1994 | V. E. 'Raptor' Longfellow | |
| Count Dracula | ||
| N/A | ||
| Narrator / Himself | ||
| Callum Chance | ||
| Commandant Rakov | ||
| Uncle Rudolf | ||
| 1993 | Scott James | |
| General Konstanin Benin | ||
| 1992 | Cedric | |
| Mr. Bernard | ||
| Count Ottokar Graf Czerin | ||
| Sherlock Holmes | ||
| Monsieur Renard (voice) | ||
| 1991 | Sherlock Holmes | |
| Narrator | ||
| Dr. Pearson | ||
| King Philip | ||
| 1990 | Karlis Zander | |
| Doctor Catheter | ||
| Cardinale Spinosi | ||
| Self | ||
| Blind Pew | ||
| 1989 | Lazos | |
| Willard Hope | ||
| Walter Strauss | ||
| Sanson | ||
| Stuart | ||
| Rochefort | ||
| 1988 | Luis Morel | |
| N/A | ||
| 1987 | self | |
| Franklyn Marsh - (archive footage) | ||
| Peter Storm | ||
| Kato | ||
| Himself | ||
| 1986 | King James of Aragon | |
| Fog | ||
| President White | ||
| Lord Bathurst | ||
| 1985 | Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich | |
| Stefan Crosscoe | ||
| Himself - Presenter | ||
| 1984 | Mr. Clifford King | |
| King Vladimir V | ||
| Sir James Hunter | ||
| Rao-Sahib | ||
| 1983 | Corrigan | |
| Mr. Midnight | ||
| Mr. Kellar | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1982 | King Haggard (voice) | |
| Self | ||
| Prince Philip | ||
| King Vladimir V | ||
| Victor Leopold | ||
| Count Borgia | ||
| Self | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1981 | John McKenzie | |
| Morgan Canfield | ||
| Host | ||
| Self | ||
| Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence | ||
| 1980 | Marcus Valorium | |
| Luckman Skull | ||
| Dr. Carl Boxer | ||
| 1979 | Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt | |
| Lechinski | ||
| Miguel | ||
| Adam Caine | ||
| Caliph Alquazar | ||
| Gypsy | ||
| (archive footage) | ||
| 1978 | Samir Al Fay | |
| Sardar Khan | ||
| Zetan | ||
| Victor Gannon | ||
| 1977 | Captain Rameses | |
| Narrator | ||
| Father Pergado / Zindar | ||
| Martin Wallace | ||
| On-Screen Narrator | ||
| Self | ||
| 1976 | Dale Woodman | |
| Le prince des Ténèbres | ||
| Bill | ||
| Father Michael | ||
| Major Chilton | ||
| The Keeper | ||
| 1975 | Self - Host / Henry Higgins / Mr. Death / Doctor | |
| Captain Zandor | ||
| Himself / Vlad Tepes / Count Dracula | ||
| 1974 | Francisco Scaramanga | |
| Rochefort | ||
| Dr. Stephen Hayward | ||
| 1973 | Rochefort | |
| Lord Summerisle | ||
| Count Dracula | ||
| Arnaud | ||
| Dr. Ian Mandeville | ||
| Col. Charles Bingham | ||
| Lucifer | ||
| James Hildern | ||
| 1972 | Stratton-Villiers, MI5 | |
| Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton | ||
| Count Dracula | ||
| Self | ||
| The Man | ||
| 1971 | Bailey | |
| Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake | ||
| Self - Host | ||
| Host | ||
| John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet") | ||
| 1970 | Dracula | |
| Mycroft Holmes | ||
| Artemidorus | ||
| Self | ||
| Dracula | ||
| Dracula | ||
| Dracula | ||
| Dolmance | ||
| Lord George Jeffreys | ||
| Fremont | ||
| 1969 | Ship's Vampire | |
| Dr. J. Neuhartt | ||
| Dr. Fu Man Chu | ||
| Self | ||
| 1968 | J.D. Morley | |
| Dracula | ||
| Dr. Fu Man Chu | ||
| Duc de Richleau | ||
| Colonel Stuart | ||
| Fu Manchu/Dracula (archive footage) | ||
| 1967 | Philippe Darvas | |
| Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai | ||
| Dragon #4 | ||
| Dr. Fu Manchu | ||
| Godfrey Hanson | ||
| 1966 | Fu Manchu | |
| Gregor | ||
| Grigori Rasputin | ||
| Count Dracula | ||
| 1965 | Sir Matthew Phillips | |
| Dr. Fu Man Chu | ||
| Mr. U.N. Owen (voice) | ||
| Billali | ||
| Franklyn Marsh | ||
| 1964 | Prof. Karl Meister | |
| Count Drago | ||
| Captain Robeles | ||
| Count Ludwig Karnstein | ||
| Self | ||
| 1963 | Kurt Menliff | |
| Erich | ||
| Mephistoles | ||
| 1962 | Sherlock Holmes | |
| Karl Jorla | ||
| Baron Ferdi von Staub | ||
| Captain LaRoche | ||
| Capt. Allerman | ||
| 1961 | Self | |
| King Lico (Licos) | ||
| Ling Chu | ||
| Doctor Pierre Gerrard | ||
| Chung King | ||
| Professor Stone | ||
| Colonel Mannering | ||
| 1960 | Nero the magician | |
| Novak | ||
| Paul Allen | ||
| Prof. Alan Driscoll | ||
| Kenny King | ||
| 1959 | Baron Roderico da Frankurten | |
| Kharis, the Mummy | ||
| Jaeger | ||
| Dr. Pierre Gerrard | ||
| Sir Henry Baskerville | ||
| Self | ||
| Wilhelm Reitlinger | ||
| 1958 | Resurrection Joe | |
| Prince Erik | ||
| Count Dracula | ||
| Marquis St. Evremonde | ||
| Sir Otto from the Rhine | ||
| Brunner | ||
| 1957 | Francois Thiers | |
| Sgt. Barney | ||
| Voice (voice) | ||
| The Creature | ||
| Charles Highbury | ||
| Doctor Neumann | ||
| German officer at The Dentist's office | ||
| 1956 | Manolo | |
| Gil Rossi | ||
| Franz Vermes | ||
| Nectenabus (voice) | ||
| Jeanpierre | ||
| Major Schultz | ||
| 1955 | Karaga Pasha | |
| John Preston | ||
| Submarine Commander Alan Grieves | ||
| Louis (uncredited) | ||
| Captain | ||
| Johnny, a constable | ||
| French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited) | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Harry Cooper | ||
| 1954 | Factory proprietor (uncredited) | |
| Visitant | ||
| 1953 | Lieutenant Whitlock | |
| Father | ||
| 1952 | Georges Seurat (uncredited) | |
| Slave Dealer | ||
| Sir Felix Raybourne | ||
| Russian Agent (uncredited) | ||
| Joseph (attache) | ||
| 1951 | Chariot Driver (uncredited) | |
| Det. Holt | ||
| Spanish Captain | ||
| 1950 | Newsman | |
| Chris Lewis | ||
| 1949 | Hon. Bongo Icklesham | |
| 1948 | Palace Guard (uncredited) | |
| Bernard Day | ||
| Jonathan Blair | ||
| Auguste | ||
| Pirelli's Assistant | ||
| Charles | ||
| The / Drop | ||
| Self / Various (Archive) | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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