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Christopher Lee

1922 - 2015 (age 93) • Acting

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

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

84%

Saruman

2001

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

66%

Count Dooku

2002

Hugo

72%

Monsieur Labisse

2011

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

65%

Doctor Catheter

1990

The Man with the Golden Gun

65%

Francisco Scaramanga

1974

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

62%

Count Dooku (voice)

2008

The Wicker Man

73%

Lord Summerisle

1973

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

46%

Commandant Rakov

1994

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror

82%

Self (archive footage)

2025

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

65%

Saruman (voice)

2024

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

82%

Self (archive footage)

2024

Constel·lació Portabella

(archive footage)

2024

Children of the Wicker Man

Self (archive footage)

2024

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee

75%

Self / Various (Archive)

2024

The Wicker Man at 50

Lord Summerisle

2023

Faces of Death

(archive footage)

2023

Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending

Lord Summerisle

2023

The Sound of 007: Live from the Royal Albert Hall

58%

Self (archive footage)

2022

Peter Cushing: In His Own Words

75%

Himself

2020

La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català

Self (archive footage)

2019

Drácula Barcelona

58%

Himself

2017

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

60%

Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)

2017

Angels in Notting Hill

55%

The Boss / Mr. President (voice)

2015

Extraordinary Tales

65%

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

2015

Fifty Shades of Erotica

70%

(archive footage)

2015

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

73%

Saruman the White

2014

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

72%

Corrigan (archive footage) (uncredited)

2014

How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective

Self

2014

Face of Unity

Self

2014

The Trail of Dracula

100%

Self (Archival Footage)

2013

The Girl from Nagasaki

56%

Old Officer Pinkerton

2013

Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics

68%

Narrator

2013

The Gillian Hills Trilogy

20%
2013

Night Train to Lisbon

65%

Father Bartholomeu

2013

Christopher Lee: A Legacy of Horror and Terror

75%

Self

2012

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

74%

Saruman the White

2012

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