Sir Christopher Lee died aged 93

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and author. With a career spanning nearly seventy years, Lee initially portrayed villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014), and Count Dooku in the final two films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002 and 2005). Lee was knighted for services to drama and charity in 2009, received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011 and received the BFI Fellowship in 2013. Lee considered his best performance to be that of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998), and his best film to be the British horror film The Wicker Man (1973). Always noted as an actor for his deep strong voice, Lee was also known for his singing ability, recording various opera and musical pieces between 1986 and 1998 and the symphonic metal album Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross in 2010 after having worked with several metal bands since 2005. The heavy metal follow-up titled Charlemagne: The Omens of Death was released on 27 May 2013. He was honoured with the “Spirit of Metal” award in the 2010 Metal Hammer Golden God awards ceremony.

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Christopher lee as Saruman

He was a metal Singer

Anothe pic as Saruman

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Returns to London after the war but cannot face returning to his old office job at Beechams, so he decides to become an actor

After an “apprenticeship” of ten years, mostly playing supporting and background characters, Lee appears in Hammer’s The Curse of Frankenstein alongside Peter Cushing. The pair will go on to become good friends and appear in more than 20 films together

He continues his working relationship with Hammer with the release of The Mummy

Lee in arguably his most famous role. Appears in Dracula Has Rissen from the Grave

Stars in British horror film The Wicker Man

Appears as Francisco Scaramanga in James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun

Plays the role of Saruman in the first film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring. Goes on to reprise the role in the second and third instalments in 2002 and 2003

Reprises the role of Saruman to appear in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Goes on to appear in the second and third instalment of the trilogy

Appears in the second film in the Star Wars prequel trilogy as Count Dooku. He goes on to play the same character in the trilogy’s final 2005 instalment

Knighted for services to drama and charity

Stars in Jinnah as Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of modern Pakistan. He later declares this role as his best performance

Lee moves to America, keen to branch out into other roles and concerned at being typecast in horror films. His first American film is the disaster movie Airport ’77

Dracula is movie poster

Farewell Christopher Lee

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