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Christopher Lee
Known for: ActingChristopher 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.
Filmography 181
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
+7
as Saruman the White 
Corpse Bride
+5
as Pastor Galswells (voice) 
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
+2
as Count Dooku 
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
+6
as Saruman 
Sleepy Hollow
+1
as Burgomaster 
Alice in Wonderland
+3
as Jabberwocky (voice) 
The Golden Compass
+2
as First High Councilor 
Dark Shadows
+1
as Clarney 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
+5
as Dr. Wonka 
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
+1
as Count Dooku 
The Three Musketeers
as Rochefort 
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
+7
as Saruman (voice) 
The Odyssey
as Tiresias 
The Wicker Man
+3
as Lord Summerisle 
The Four Musketeers
as Rochefort 
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
+5
as Doctor Catheter 
The Colour of Magic
+3
as Death 
The Man with the Golden Gun
+6
as Francisco Scaramanga 
Season of the Witch
+2
as Cardinal D'Ambroise 
Ivanhoe
as Lucas de Beaumanoir 
Hugo
+5
as Monsieur Labisse 
The Last Unicorn
+2
as King Haggard (voice) 
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
as Count Dooku (voice) 
The Resident
as August 
Around the World in 80 Days
as Stuart 
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
+2
as Commandant Rakov 
Innocent Blood
+3
as Count Dracula (archive footage) 
Dracula
+3
as Count Dracula 
Theatre Macabre
as Self – Host 
Hannie Caulder
+1
as Bailey 
Gormenghast
as Flay 
The Devil Rides Out
as Duc de Richleau 
Scott of the Antarctic
as Bernard Day 
1941
+2
as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt 
Scars of Dracula
as Dracula 
The Curse of Frankenstein
+4
as The Creature 
Treasure Island
+1
as Blind Pew 
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
+4
as Mycroft Holmes 
Burke & Hare
as Old Joseph 
Alexander the Great
+4
as Nectenabus (voice) 
Pope John Paul II
as Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński 
Moses
as Pharaoh 
Dracula A.D. 1972
+1
as Count Dracula 
Airport '77
+2
as Martin Wallace 
An Eye for an Eye
+2
as Morgan Canfield 
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
+6
as Count Dracula 
Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy
as Sir Richard Turkel 
The Crimson Pirate
as Joseph - Military Attaché 
Night Train to Lisbon
as Father Bartholomeu 
The Far Pavilions
as Rao-Sahib 
The Battle of the River Plate
as Manolo 
Taste the Blood of Dracula
+1
as Dracula 
Taste of Fear
as Doctor Pierre Gerrard 
100 Years of Horror
as Self - Host 
Arabian Adventure
as Caliph Alquazar 
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
+2
as Stefan Crosscoe 
Return from Witch Mountain
+3
as Victor Gannon 
The Hound of the Baskervilles
+1
as Sir Henry Baskerville 
To the Devil a Daughter
+1
as Father Michael 
The House That Dripped Blood
+2
as John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet") 
The Gorgon
as Prof. Karl Meister 
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
+1
as Dracula 
The City of the Dead
+9
as Prof. Alan Driscoll 
Boogie Woogie
+6
as Mr. Alfred Rhinegold 
Horror Express
+2
as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton 
The Salamander
as Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence 
The Passage
as Gypsy 
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
+2
as Franklyn Marsh 
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
+1
as Spanish Captain 
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
as Count Dracula 
Count Dracula
+6
as Dracula 
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
as Paul Allen 
I, Monster
as Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake 
The French Revolution
as Sanson 
Ill Met by Moonlight
as German officer at The Dentist's office 
Bear Island
as Lechinski 
The Whip and the Body
+6
as Kurt Menliff 
The Mummy
+2
as Kharis, the Mummy 
The Skull
+1
as Sir Matthew Phillips 
Mio in the Land of Faraway
as Kato 
The Stupids
+2
as Evil Sender 
The Face of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu 
The Cockleshell Heroes
as Submarine Commander Alan Grieves 
The Bloody Judge
+2
as Lord George Jeffreys 
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
as Miguel 
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
as Self (archive footage) 
The Return of the Musketeers
as Rochefort 
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
as Grigori Rasputin 
Too Hot to Handle
as Novak 
Death Line
+1
as Stratton-Villiers, MI5 
Curse of the Crimson Altar
+4
as J.D. Morley 
Scream and Scream Again
+3
as Fremont 
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
as Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai 
Eugenie
as Dolmance 
Death Train
as General Konstanin Benin 
Serial
as Luckman Skull 
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
as Sherlock Holmes 
Storm Over the Nile
as Karaga Pasha 
The Brides of Fu Manchu
as Fu Manchu 
Julius Caesar
+1
as Artemidorus 
The Creeping Flesh
as James Hildern 
Glorious 39
as Older Walter Page 
House of the Long Shadows
+2
as Corrigan 
The Oblong Box
+1
as Dr. J. Neuhartt 
Ten Little Indians
as Mr. U.N. Owen (voice) 
Hercules in the Haunted World
as King Lico (Licos) 
The Blood of Fu Manchu
+1
as Dr. Fu Man Chu 
Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #4 
The Wicker Tree
as Old Man 
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
+2
as Dr. Pierre Gerrard 
A Tale of Two Cities
as Marquis St. Evremonde 
Dracula and Son
+2
as Le prince des Ténèbres 
The Magic Christian
as Ship's Vampire 
Vampir Cuadecuc
as Self 
Caravans
as Sardar Khan 
Circle of Iron
as Zetan 
The Pirates of Blood River
as Captain LaRoche 
Everything or Nothing
as Self 
Nothing But the Night
+1
as Col. Charles Bingham 
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
+2
as Narrator 
The Traitor
as Doctor Neumann 
Circus of Fear
as Gregor 
Night of the Big Heat
as Godfrey Hanson 
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
as Narrator (voice) / Self 
She
as Billali 
Triage
as Joaquín Morales 
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Manchu 
Corridors of Blood
+2
as Resurrection Joe 
Jinnah
as Muhammad Ali Jinnah 
Killer Force
as Major Chilton 
The Hands of Orlac
as Nero the magician 
Crypt of the Vampire
+1
as Count Ludwig Karnstein 
Horror Castle
as Erich 
The Return of Captain Invincible
+3
as Mr. Midnight 
Hollywood Chinese
as Self 
The Castle of the Living Dead
as Count Drago 
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
as Death (synchro) 
The Castle of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu 
Battle of the V-1
as Brunner 
For Better or for Worse
as Lazos 
Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil
as Luis Morel 
The Heavy
as Mr. Mason 
Corridor of Mirrors
as Charles 
Theatre of Death
as Philippe Darvas 
The Rainbow Thief
as Uncle Rudolf 
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
+1
as Sherlock Holmes 
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
as Sherlock Holmes 
Double Vision
as Mr. Bernard 
Murder Story
+5
as Willard Hope 
Dracula in the Movies
as (archive footage) 
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
as Himself - Presenter 
Extraordinary Tales
as Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher') 
The Sound of 007: Live from the Royal Albert Hall
as Self (archive footage) 
Private's Progress
as Major Schultz 
End of the World
+3
as Father Pergado / Zindar 
The Secret of the Red Orchid
+1
as Capt. Allerman 
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
as Self / Various (Archive) 
Night of the Eagles
as Walter Strauss 
Beat Girl
+3
as Kenny King 
Dark Places
+1
as Dr. Ian Mandeville 
The Many Faces of Dracula
as Narrator 
Albino
as Bill 
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
as The Lord Provost 
Bitter Victory
as Sgt. Barney 
Challenge the Devil
as Mephistoles 
A Feast at Midnight
as V. E. 'Raptor' Longfellow 
Penny and the Pownall Case
as Jonathan Blair 
The Trail of Dracula
+1
as Self (Archival Footage) 
Meatcleaver Massacre
+8
as On-Screen Narrator 
Jaguar Lives!
as Adam Caine 
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
as Dr. Pearson 
Alias John Preston
as John Preston 
Mask of Murder
as Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich 
Uncle Was a Vampire
+2
as Baron Roderico da Frankurten 
Umbracle
as The Man 
Peter Cushing: In His Own Words
as Himself 
Angels in Notting Hill
as The Boss / Mr. President (voice) 
Beyond Mombasa
as Gil Rossi