Christopher Lee
Known for Acting · 374 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 (57)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
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
Film '72
1971
as Self
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as King Vladimir V
Aeschbacher
2001
as Self
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
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
Stars in the Ring
1959
as Self
Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel
2004
as Self
Seitenblicke
1987
as self
Ivanhoe
1958
as Sir Otto from the Rhine
Shaka Zulu
1986
as Lord Bathurst
The Colour of Magic
2008
as Death
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Arnaud
The World of Hammer
1994
as Self (archive footage)
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956
as Jeanpierre
Auf los geht's los
1977
as Self
Wedden, dat..?
1986
as Self
The Adventures of William Tell
1958
as Prince Erik
Mark Saber
1954
as Larry Spence
Theatre Macabre
1971
as Self - Host
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955
as Louis (uncredited)
Semperopernball
2006
as Self
Around the World in 80 Days
1989
as Stuart
Goliath Awaits
1981
as John McKenzie
Gormenghast
2000
as Flay
In the Beginning
2000
as Rameses I
The French Revolution
1989
as Sanson (« Les Années terribles »)
100 Years of Horror
1996
as Self - Host
Sailor of Fortune
1957
as Yusif Carnot
The Far Pavilions
1984
as Rao-Sahib
Ivanhoe
1997
as Lucas de Beaumanoir
Treffpunkte
1970
as Self
Moses
1996
as Pharaoh
Wyrd Sisters
1997
as Death (voice)
Pope John Paul II
2005
as Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński
Soul Music
1997
as Death (voice)
The Errol Flynn Theatre
1956
as The Visitant / Compte de Merret / Maurice Gabet / General Hamelin
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
1995
as Narrator
The Pirate
1977
as Samir Al Fay
Science Fiction Film Awards
as Himself
Alisea and the Dream Prince
1996
as Azaret
La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català
2019
as Self (archive footage)
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: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
as Saruman the White
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
as Saruman the White
Alice in Wonderland
2010
as Jabberwocky (voice)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005
as Dr. Wonka
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005
as Count Dooku
Corpse Bride
2005
as Pastor Galswells (voice)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
as Count Dooku
Dark Shadows
2012
as Clarney
Sleepy Hollow
1999
as Burgomaster
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024
as Saruman (voice)
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
as (archive footage)
Hugo
2011
as Monsieur Labisse
The Golden Compass
2007
as First High Councilor
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974
as Francisco Scaramanga
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
as Doctor Catheter
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008
as Count Dooku (voice)
Season of the Witch
2011
as Cardinal D'Ambroise
1941
1979
as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
The Wicker Man
1973
as Lord Summerisle
Airport '77
1977
as Martin Wallace
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
2004
as Emerich
Quo Vadis
1951
as Chariot Driver (uncredited)
Boogie Woogie
2010
as Mr. Alfred Rhinegold
She
1965
as Billali
The Three Musketeers
1973
as Rochefort
Treasure Island
1990
as Blind Pew
Dracula
1958
as Count Dracula
Innocent Blood
1992
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
The Last Unicorn
1982
as King Haggard (voice)
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
1994
as Commandant Rakov
The Resident
2011
as August
Eugenie
1970
as Dolmance
Burke & Hare
2010
as Old Joseph
Julius Caesar
1970
as Artemidorus
The Crimson Pirate
1952
as Joseph (attache)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
1968
as Dracula
Triage
2009
as Joaquín Morales
Hannie Caulder
1971
as Bailey
Taste the Blood of Dracula
1970
as Dracula
Hamlet
1948
as Palace Guard (uncredited)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1959
as Sir Henry Baskerville
The French Revolution
1989
as Sanson
Alexander the Great
1956
as Nectenabus (voice)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
as Corrigan (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Mummy
1959
as Kharis, the Mummy
Glorious 39
2009
as Older Walter Page
Night of the Big Heat
1967
as Godfrey Hanson
Night Train to Lisbon
2013
as Father Bartholomeu
Bear Island
1979
as Lechinski
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
1966
as Count Dracula
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951
as Spanish Captain
Return from Witch Mountain
1978
as Victor Gannon
The Four Musketeers
1974
as Rochefort
The Curse of Frankenstein
1957
as The Creature
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
2013
as Narrator
The Stupids
1996
as Evil Sender
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965
as Franklyn Marsh
The Battle of the River Plate
1956
as Manolo
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955
as Submarine Commander Alan Grieves
To the Devil a Daughter
1976
as Father Michael
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
2003
as Self
The Return of the Musketeers
1989
as Rochefort
The Brides of Fu Manchu
1966
as Fu Manchu
An Eye for an Eye
1981
as Morgan Canfield
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
1973
as Count Dracula
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970
as Mycroft Holmes
Caravans
1978
as Sardar Khan
Horror Express
1972
as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton
Mio in the Land of Faraway
1987
as Kato
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004
as Self
Dracula A.D. 1972
1972
as Count Dracula
The Movie Orgy
1968
as Fu Manchu/Dracula (archive footage)
Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy
1998
as Sir Richard Turkel
Scars of Dracula
1970
as Dracula
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
1991
as Sherlock Holmes
Moulin Rouge
1952
as Georges Seurat (uncredited)
The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
2002
as Self
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
as Self
Beat Girl
1960
as Kenny King
Serial
1980
as Luckman Skull
Arabian Adventure
1979
as Caliph Alquazar
Jinnah
1998
as Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The Passage
1979
as Gypsy
Count Dracula
1970
as Dracula
Taste of Fear
1961
as Doctor Pierre Gerrard
For Better or for Worse
1989
as Lazos
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
1985
as Stefan Crosscoe
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
as Count Ottokar Graf Czernin
Journey of Honor
1991
as King Philip
Death Line
1972
as Stratton-Villiers, MI5
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
1967
as Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai
Death Train
1993
as General Konstanin Benin
Everything or Nothing
2012
as Self
Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968
as J.D. Morley
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
2000
as Self
Hercules in the Haunted World
1961
as King Lico (Licos)
That Lady
1955
as Capitán
Circle of Iron
1978
as Zetan
The Gorgon
1964
as Prof. Karl Meister
Mickey's 50
1978
as Self
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
as Self (archive footage)
Scott of the Antarctic
1948
as Bernard Day
The Horror Show
1979
as (archive footage)
Innocents in Paris
1953
as Lieutenant Whitlock
Creepy Classics
1987
as Franklyn Marsh - (archive footage)
The Magic Christian
1969
as Ship's Vampire
Private's Progress
1956
as Major Schultz
Jocks
1986
as President White
The Face of Fu Manchu
1965
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
The Salamander
1981
as Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence
Poor Devil
1973
as Lucifer
The Blood of Fu Manchu
1968
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
2001
as Self
The House That Dripped Blood
1971
as John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")
Jaguar Lives!
1979
as Adam Caine
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
1960
as Paul Allen
Safari 3000
1982
as Count Borgia
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 374 credits spanning from 1939 to 2024, Christopher Lee has appeared in 317 films and 57 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: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) — as Saruman the White
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) — as Saruman the White
- Alice in Wonderland (2010) — as Jabberwocky (voice)
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