Christopher Lee
Known for Acting · 383 credits
- Born
- 1922-05-27
- Died
- 2015-06-07
- Place of birth
- Westminster, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Christopher Frank Carandini Lee · Sir Christopher Frank Carandini 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
TV Shows (58)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
The Avengers
1961
as Professor Stone / Colonel Mannering
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Karl Jorla
Blue Heelers
1993
as Scott James
Charlie's Angels
1976
as Dale Woodman
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
The Odyssey
1997
as Tiresias
Film '72
1971
as Self
Space: 1999
1975
as Captain Zandor
Brisant
1994
as Self
Aeschbacher
2001
as Self
Stern TV
1990
as Self
One Step Beyond
1959
as Wilhelm Reitlinger
The World of Hammer
1994
as Self (archive footage)
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
as Self
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as King Vladimir V
How the West Was Won
1977
as The Grand Duke
Stars in the Ring
1959
as Self
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
as Count Ottokar Graf Czerin
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Arnaud
Mark Saber
1954
as Larry Spence
Seitenblicke
1987
as self
The Colour of Magic
2008
as Death
Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel
2004
as Self
Auf los geht's los
1977
as Self
The Adventures of William Tell
1958
as Prince Erik
Shaka Zulu
1986
as Lord Bathurst
Sailor of Fortune
1957
as Yusif Carnot
Ivanhoe
1958
as Sir Otto from the Rhine
Theatre Macabre
1971
as Self – Host
Around the World in 80 Days
1989
as Stuart
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955
as Louis (uncredited)
La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956
as Jeanpierre
Wedden, dat..?
1986
as Self
Semperopernball
2006
as Self
The French Revolution
1989
as Sanson (« Les Années terribles »)
Goliath Awaits
1981
as John McKenzie
Treffpunkte
1970
as Self
The Far Pavilions
1984
as Rao-Sahib
Gormenghast
2000
as Flay
Wyrd Sisters
1997
as Death (voice)
In the Beginning
2000
as Rameses I
The Errol Flynn Theatre
1956
as The Visitant / Compte de Merret / Maurice Gabet / General Hamelin
Ivanhoe
1997
as Lucas de Beaumanoir
Whicker's World
1959
The Pirate
1977
as Samir Al Fay
Pope John Paul II
2005
as Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński
Soul Music
1997
as Death (voice)
100 Years of Horror
1996
as Self - Host
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
1995
as Narrator
Moses
1996
as Pharaoh
Alisea and the Dream Prince
1996
as Azaret
Science Fiction Film Awards
as Himself
Ghost Stories for Christmas
2000
as Narrator
Movies (325)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
as Saruman
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002
as Saruman
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
as Saruman the White
Corpse Bride
2005
as Pastor Galswells (voice)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
as Saruman the White
Alice in Wonderland
2010
as Jabberwocky (voice)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005
as Dr. Wonka
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005
as Count Dooku
Sleepy Hollow
1999
as Burgomaster
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
as Count Dooku
Dark Shadows
2012
as Clarney
The Golden Compass
2007
as First High Councilor
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
as Doctor Catheter
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
as (archive footage)
The Wicker Man
1973
as Lord Summerisle
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974
as Francisco Scaramanga
Hugo
2011
as Monsieur Labisse
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024
as Saruman (voice)
Season of the Witch
2011
as Cardinal D'Ambroise
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008
as Count Dooku (voice)
Final Column
1955
The Three Musketeers
1973
as Rochefort
Treasure Island
1990
as Blind Pew
Quo Vadis
1951
as Chariot Driver (uncredited)
The Last Unicorn
1982
as King Haggard (voice)
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
2005
as The Lord Provost
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
1994
as Commandant Rakov
Dracula
1958
as Count Dracula
1941
1979
as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
Vampir Cuadecuc
1972
as Self
The Resident
2011
as August
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
2004
as Emerich
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
as Self
Eugenie
1970
as Dolmance
Night Train to Lisbon
2013
as Father Bartholomeu
Manuela
1957
as Voice (voice)
The Mummy
1998
as Self - Host
Everything or Nothing
2012
as Self
Airport '77
1977
as Martin Wallace
Hannie Caulder
1971
as Bailey
The French Revolution
1989
as Sanson
The Four Musketeers
1974
as Rochefort
The Movie Orgy
1968
as Fu Manchu/Dracula (archive footage)
The Pirate
1978
as Samir Al Fay
Innocent Blood
1992
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
The Curse of Frankenstein
1957
as The Creature
The Crimson Pirate
1952
as Joseph (attache)
Poor Devil
1973
as Lucifer
The Girl
1987
as Peter Storm
The City of the Dead
1960
as Prof. Alan Driscoll
She
1965
as Billali
Beloved Count
2007
as Self
Death Line
1972
as Stratton-Villiers, MI5
Mio in the Land of Faraway
1987
as Kato
Taste of Fear
1961
as Doctor Pierre Gerrard
The Story of Star Wars
2004
as Count Dooku (archive footage)
Beauty and the Beast
1992
as Monsieur Renard (voice)
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
as Corrigan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Horror Express
1972
as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton
Scars of Dracula
1970
as Dracula
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948
as Herzog Anthony von Wolfenbüttel
Once Upon a Spy
1980
as Marcus Valorium
Hamlet
1948
as Palace Guard (uncredited)
Arabian Adventure
1979
as Caliph Alquazar
Burke & Hare
2010
as Old Joseph
Casanova
1987
as Branicki
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951
as Spanish Captain
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955
as Submarine Commander Alan Grieves
Taste the Blood of Dracula
1970
as Dracula
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
1966
as Count Dracula
The Battle of the River Plate
1956
as Manolo
To the Devil a Daughter
1976
as Father Michael
Alexander the Great
1956
as Nectenabus (voice)
Extraordinary Tales
2015
as Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')
An Eye for an Eye
1981
as Morgan Canfield
Five Golden Dragons
1967
as Dragon #4
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
2001
as Self
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
1979
as Miguel
Albino
1976
as Bill
Amazon Trek: In Search of Vanishing Secrets
2007
as Narrator
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970
as Mycroft Holmes
Bloody Jess
2007
as Self
The Mummy
1959
as Kharis, the Mummy
The Magic Christian
1969
as Ship's Vampire
The Awakening
1954
as Factory proprietor (uncredited)
Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy
1998
as Sir Richard Turkel
The Stupids
1996
as Evil Sender
Count Dracula
1970
as Dracula
Ill Met by Moonlight
1957
as German officer at The Dentist's office
The Dark Avenger
1955
as French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited)
Too Hot to Handle
1960
as Novak
Dracula A.D. 1972
1972
as Count Dracula
Serial
1980
as Luckman Skull
Julius Caesar
1970
as Artemidorus
Horror Castle
1963
as Erich
Dracula in the Movies
1992
as (archive footage)
Boogie Woogie
2010
as Mr. Alfred Rhinegold
The Return of the Musketeers
1989
as Rochefort
Return from Witch Mountain
1978
as Victor Gannon
Night of the Big Heat
1967
as Godfrey Hanson
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1959
as Sir Henry Baskerville
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966
as Grigori Rasputin
Ten Little Indians
1965
as Mr. U.N. Owen (voice)
Glorious 39
2009
as Older Walter Page
Triage
2009
as Joaquín Morales
Umbracle
1972
as The Man
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
1968
as Dracula
The Gorgon
1964
as Prof. Karl Meister
Caravans
1978
as Sardar Khan
The Bengal Lancers!
1984
as Sir James Hunter
The Devil Rides Out
1968
as Duc de Richleau
Prelude to Fame
1950
as Newsman
House of the Long Shadows
1983
as Corrigan
Fanex Files: Hammer Films
2008
as Self
The Girl from Nagasaki
2013
as Old Officer Pinkerton
I, Monster
1971
as Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake
Scott of the Antarctic
1948
as Bernard Day
Hollywood Chinese
2007
as Self
The Salamander
1981
as Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence
About Christopher Lee
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 J… With 383 credits spanning from 1939 to 2024, Christopher Lee has appeared in 325 films and 58 TV shows.
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Most Popular Christopher Lee Movies
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) — as Saruman
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) — as Saruman
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) — as Saruman the White
- Corpse Bride (2005) — as Pastor Galswells (voice)
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) — as Saruman the White
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