Christopher Lee
Actor·1922–2015·Westminster, London, England, UK
102 horror credits
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.
Actor102 films
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self - (archive footage)
Extraordinary Tales
Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')
The Trail of Dracula
Self (Archival Footage)
The Fall of the House Of Usher
The Narrator
Dark Shadows
Clarney
The Wicker Tree
Old Man
The Resident
August
Burke & Hare
Old Joseph
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Self (archive footage)
Beloved Count
Self
Corpse Bride
Pastor Galswells (voice)
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
Emerich
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Saruman
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
Self
The Many Faces of Dracula
Narrator
Sleepy Hollow
Burgomaster
Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy
Sir Richard Turkel
A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghosts of M.R. James
Self
Funny Man
Callum Chance
Innocent Blood
Count Dracula (archive footage)
Dracula in the Movies
Fear in the Dark
Narrator
Halloween Monster Bash
Professor Alexander Saxton (archive footage)
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
Dr. Pearson
Ghosts: A Journey Into the Paranormal
Self - Narrator
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Doctor Catheter
Murder Story
Willard Hope
Creepy Classics
Franklyn Marsh - (archive footage)
Mask of Murder
Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
Stefan Crosscoe
The Best of All Time Horror Classics
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
King Vladimir V
House of the Long Shadows
Corrigan
Evil Stalks This House
Host
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
End of the World
Father Pergado / Zindar
Meatcleaver Massacre
On-Screen Narrator
Dracula and Son
Le prince des Ténèbres
Albino
Bill
To the Devil a Daughter
Father Michael
The Keeper
The Keeper
In Search of Dracula
Self – Host / Vlad Tepes / Count Dracula
The Wicker Man
Lord Summerisle
Dark Places
Dr. Ian Mandeville
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Count Dracula
Nothing But the Night
Col. Charles Bingham
The Creeping Flesh
James Hildern
Death Line
Stratton-Villiers, MI5
Horror Express
Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton
Dracula A.D. 1972
Count Dracula
Vampir Cuadecuc
Self
I, Monster
Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake
The House That Dripped Blood
John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")
Scars of Dracula
Dracula
Taste the Blood of Dracula
Dracula
Count Dracula
Dracula
Eugenie
Dolmance
The Bloody Judge
Lord George Jeffreys
Scream and Scream Again
Fremont
The Oblong Box
Dr. J. Neuhartt
Curse of the Crimson Altar
J.D. Morley
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
Dracula
The Blood of Fu Manchu
Dr. Fu Man Chu
The Devil Rides Out
Duc de Richleau
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai
Theatre of Death
Philippe Darvas
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
Dr. Fu Manchu
Night of the Big Heat
Godfrey Hanson
The Brides of Fu Manchu
Fu Manchu
Circus of Fear
Gregor
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Grigori Rasputin
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
Count Dracula
The Skull
Sir Matthew Phillips
The Face of Fu Manchu
Dr. Fu Man Chu
Ten Little Indians
Mr. U.N. Owen (voice)
She
Billali
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Franklyn Marsh
The Gorgon
Prof. Karl Meister
The Castle of the Living Dead
Count Drago
The Devil-Ship Pirates
Captain Robeles
Crypt of the Vampire
Count Ludwig Karnstein
Horror!!!
Self
The Whip and the Body
Kurt Menliff
Horror Castle
Erich
Corridors of Blood
Resurrection Joe
Challenge the Devil
Mephistoles
The Pirates of Blood River
Captain LaRoche
Hercules in the Haunted World
King Lico (Licos)
Taste of Fear
Doctor Pierre Gerrard
The Terror of the Tongs
Chung King
The Hands of Orlac
Nero the magician
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
Paul Allen
The City of the Dead
Prof. Alan Driscoll
Uncle Was a Vampire
Baron Roderico da Frankurten
The Mummy
Kharis, the Mummy
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Dr. Pierre Gerrard
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Henry Baskerville
Dracula
Count Dracula
The Curse of Frankenstein
The Creature
Alias John Preston
John Preston
Cross-Roads
Harry Cooper
The Mirror and Markheim
Visitant
Producer1 film
Nothing But the Night
Producer
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