Christopher Lee
Known for Acting · 373 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 (56)
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
The Avengers
1961
as Professor Stone / Colonel Mannering
Charlie's Angels
1976
as Dale Woodman
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Karl Jorla
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
Blue Heelers
1993
as Scott James
Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
One Step Beyond
1959
as Wilhelm Reitlinger
Space: 1999
1975
as Captain Zandor
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as King Vladimir V
Film '72
1971
as Self
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
as Self
Aeschbacher
2001
as Self
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
as Count Ottokar Graf Czerin
Brisant
1994
as Self
How the West Was Won
1977
as The Grand Duke
The Odyssey
1997
as Tiresias
Stern TV
1990
as Self
Ivanhoe
1958
as Sir Otto from the Rhine
Stars in the Ring
1959
as Self
Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel
2004
as Self
The Colour of Magic
2008
as Death
Seitenblicke
1987
as self
The World of Hammer
1994
as Self (archive footage)
Shaka Zulu
1986
as Lord Bathurst
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Arnaud
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956
as Jeanpierre
Mark Saber
1954
as Larry Spence
Auf los geht's los
1977
as Self
The Adventures of William Tell
1958
as Prince Erik
Wedden, dat..?
1986
as Self
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955
as Louis (uncredited)
Theatre Macabre
1971
as Self - Host
Semperopernball
2006
as Self
Around the World in 80 Days
1989
as Stuart
Goliath Awaits
1981
as John McKenzie
The French Revolution
1989
as Sanson (« Les Années terribles »)
Gormenghast
2000
as Flay
The Far Pavilions
1984
as Rao-Sahib
In the Beginning
2000
as Rameses I
Ivanhoe
1997
as Lucas de Beaumanoir
Treffpunkte
1970
as Self
Sailor of Fortune
1957
as Yusif Carnot
Wyrd Sisters
1997
as Death (voice)
Moses
1996
as Pharaoh
100 Years of Horror
1996
as Self - Host
The Errol Flynn Theatre
1956
as Maurice Gabet / Compte de Merret / The Visitant / General Hamelin
Pope John Paul II
2005
as Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
1995
as Narrator
The Pirate
1977
as Samir Al Fay
Soul Music
1997
as Death (voice)
La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Science Fiction Film Awards
as Himself
Alisea and the Dream Prince
1996
as Azaret
Ghost Stories for Christmas
2000
as Narrator
Movies (317)
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: An Unexpected Journey
2012
as Saruman the White
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
as Saruman the White
Alice in Wonderland
2010
as Jabberwocky (voice)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005
as Dr. Wonka
Corpse Bride
2005
as Pastor Galswells (voice)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005
as Count Dooku
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
as Count Dooku
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024
as Saruman (voice)
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
as (archive footage)
Sleepy Hollow
1999
as Burgomaster
Dark Shadows
2012
as Clarney
Hugo
2011
as Monsieur Labisse
The Golden Compass
2007
as First High Councilor
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974
as Francisco Scaramanga
Season of the Witch
2011
as Cardinal D'Ambroise
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008
as Count Dooku (voice)
The Wicker Man
1973
as Lord Summerisle
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
as Doctor Catheter
1941
1979
as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
Quo Vadis
1951
as Chariot Driver (uncredited)
Dracula
1958
as Count Dracula
Airport '77
1977
as Martin Wallace
The Three Musketeers
1973
as Rochefort
The Last Unicorn
1982
as King Haggard (voice)
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
1994
as Commandant Rakov
Eugenie
1970
as Dolmance
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
2004
as Emerich
The Resident
2011
as August
Innocent Blood
1992
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
To the Devil a Daughter
1976
as Father Michael
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
1968
as Dracula
Treasure Island
1990
as Blind Pew
The Four Musketeers
1974
as Rochefort
Julius Caesar
1970
as Artemidorus
The Crimson Pirate
1952
as Joseph (attache)
The French Revolution
1989
as Sanson
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1959
as Sir Henry Baskerville
Night Train to Lisbon
2013
as Father Bartholomeu
The Curse of Frankenstein
1957
as The Creature
Burke & Hare
2010
as Old Joseph
The Mummy
1959
as Kharis, the Mummy
The Brides of Fu Manchu
1966
as Fu Manchu
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951
as Spanish Captain
Glorious 39
2009
as Older Walter Page
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
as Corrigan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Taste the Blood of Dracula
1970
as Dracula
Scars of Dracula
1970
as Dracula
Hannie Caulder
1971
as Bailey
Return from Witch Mountain
1978
as Victor Gannon
Boogie Woogie
2010
as Mr. Alfred Rhinegold
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
1966
as Count Dracula
The Return of the Musketeers
1989
as Rochefort
She
1965
as Billali
Horror Express
1972
as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton
An Eye for an Eye
1981
as Morgan Canfield
Alexander the Great
1956
as Nectenabus (voice)
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
1985
as Stefan Crosscoe
The Face of Fu Manchu
1965
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
The Battle of the River Plate
1956
as Manolo
Death Train
1993
as General Konstanin Benin
The Movie Orgy
1968
as Fu Manchu/Dracula (archive footage)
Hamlet
1948
as Palace Guard (uncredited)
Bear Island
1979
as Lechinski
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
as Count Ottokar Graf Czernin
Beat Girl
1960
as Kenny King
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
2003
as Self
Count Dracula
1970
as Dracula
Mio in the Land of Faraway
1987
as Kato
The Stupids
1996
as Evil Sender
Hercules in the Haunted World
1961
as King Lico (Licos)
The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
2002
as Self
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970
as Mycroft Holmes
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004
as Self
Arabian Adventure
1979
as Caliph Alquazar
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
2013
as Narrator
Dracula A.D. 1972
1972
as Count Dracula
Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy
1998
as Sir Richard Turkel
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955
as Submarine Commander Alan Grieves
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
2003
Triage
2009
as Joaquín Morales
For Better or for Worse
1989
as Lazos
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965
as Franklyn Marsh
The House That Dripped Blood
1971
as John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")
The Passage
1979
as Gypsy
Taste of Fear
1961
as Doctor Pierre Gerrard
Night of the Big Heat
1967
as Godfrey Hanson
The Whip and the Body
1963
as Kurt Menliff
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
as Self
The Gorgon
1964
as Prof. Karl Meister
Quest for the Ring
2001
as Self
Caravans
1978
as Sardar Khan
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
1973
as Count Dracula
Death Line
1972
as Stratton-Villiers, MI5
Private's Progress
1956
as Major Schultz
Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968
as J.D. Morley
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
2007
as Narrator (voice)
The Hands of Orlac
1960
as Nero the magician
Moulin Rouge
1952
as Georges Seurat (uncredited)
Circle of Iron
1978
as Zetan
Poor Devil
1973
as Lucifer
Mickey's 50
1978
as Self
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
1960
as Paul Allen
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948
as Herzog Anthony von Wolfenbüttel
End of the World
1977
as Father Pergado / Zindar
The Heavy
2010
as Mr. Mason
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
as Self
The Devil Rides Out
1968
as Duc de Richleau
The Pirate
1978
as Samir Al Fay
The City of the Dead
1960
as Prof. Alan Driscoll
I, Monster
1971
as Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake
Jinnah
1998
as Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
2001
as Self
The Blood of Fu Manchu
1968
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
Everything or Nothing
2012
as Self
The Skull
1965
as Sir Matthew Phillips
The Rainbow Thief
1994
as Uncle Rudolf
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
2012
as Self
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
1979
as Miguel
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 373 credits spanning from 1939 to 2024, Christopher Lee has appeared in 317 films and 56 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: An Unexpected Journey (2012) — as Saruman the White
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) — as Saruman the White
- Alice in Wonderland (2010) — as Jabberwocky (voice)
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