![]() ![]() ![]() Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was born May 27, 1922. He appeared in over 200 movies during his long career and performed in nearly 300 TV shows and movies between 19, plus of course, several stage and radio performances. He was a recording artist and was a gifted singer, recording both opera and heavy metal music. Vesuvius mere days before it erupted in 1943. In The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), he played the Creature. He was knighted for his services to drama and to charity. He served king and country honorably in World War II. ![]() He was the wizard Saruman in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and was the only member of the cast of any of the films who had actually met J.R.R. In the Star Wars franchise Sir Christopher played Count Dooku in the second and third movies, Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005). He played the role of Count Dracula no fewer than ten times. If Sir Christopher, one of the greats of Geek and Film Culture had been a fictional character instead of a real human being, any decent editor would have demanded the writer tone him down, as it wouldn’t be believable to the average reader that one man could do so much. Christopher Lee as Count Dracula in Dracula (1958) ![]()
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