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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
Hobbitten: Femhæreslaget
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as Saruman the White 
Corpse Bride
+3
as Pastor Galswells (voice) 
Ringenes herre - Eventyret om ringen
+7
as Saruman 
Sleepy Hollow
+3
as Burgomaster 
Ringenes herre - De to tårne
+7
as Saruman 
Alice i Eventyrland
+4
as Jabberwocky (voice) 
Det gyldne kompas
+4
as First High Councilor 
Charlie og Chokoladefabrikken
+3
as Dr. Wonka 
Dark Shadows
+4
as Clarney 
De tre musketerer
as Rochefort 
Star Wars Episode III: Sith-fyrsternes hævn
+5
as Count Dooku 
Star Wars: Episode II - Klonernes angreb
+5
as Count Dooku 
Ringenes Herre: Krigen om Rohan
+4
as Saruman (voice) 
The Odyssey
as Tiresias 
Offerfesten
+1
as Lord Summerisle 
De fire musketerers hævn
as Rochefort 
Gremlins 2: Det nye kuld
+3
as Doctor Catheter 
The Color of Magic
as Death 
Agent 007 - Manden Med Den Gyldne Pistol
+3
as Francisco Scaramanga 
Season of the Witch
+5
as Cardinal D'Ambroise 
Ivanhoe
as Lucas de Beaumanoir 
Hugo
+2
as Monsieur Labisse 
The Last Unicorn
as King Haggard (voice) 
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
+1
as Count Dooku (voice) 
The Resident
as August 
Gormenghast
as Flay 
Jorden rundt i 80 dage
as Stuart 
Politiskolen i Moskva
+3
as Commandant Rakov 
Blod på tanden
as Count Dracula (archive footage) 
Dracula
as Count Dracula 
Theatre Macabre
as Self – Host 
Hannie Caulder
as Bailey 
The Devil Rides Out
as Duc de Richleau 
Med Scott til sydpolen
+1
as Bernard Day 
1941: Undskyld, hvor ligger Hollywood?
as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt 
Scars of Dracula
as Dracula 
Frankensteins forbandelse
as The Creature 
Skatteøen
as Blind Pew 
Sherlock Holmes' privatliv
+1
as Mycroft Holmes 
De blodrøde floder 2: Apokalypsens engle
as Emerich 
Burke & Hare
as Old Joseph 
Alexander den Store
as Nectenabus (voice) 
Pope John Paul II
as Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński 
Moses
as Pharaoh 
Dracula 1972
+1
as Count Dracula 
Airport '77
as Martin Wallace 
An Eye for an Eye
as Morgan Canfield 
Satan er løs...
+2
as Count Dracula 
Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy
as Sir Richard Turkel 
Den knaldrøde pirat
as Joseph - Military Attaché 
Night Train to Lisbon
+2
as Father Bartholomeu 
The Far Pavilions
as Rao-Sahib 
Havets tiger
as Manolo 
Dracula får blod på tanden
as Dracula 
Taste of Fear
as Doctor Pierre Gerrard 
100 Years of Horror
as Self - Host 
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
as Stefan Crosscoe 
Børnene fra det ydre rum vender tilbage
as Victor Gannon 
Sherlock Holmes: Baskervilles hund
as Sir Henry Baskerville 
To the Devil a Daughter
as Father Michael 
The House That Dripped Blood
as John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet") 
The Gorgon
as Prof. Karl Meister 
Blodsugeren Dracula
as Dracula 
The City of the Dead
as Prof. Alan Driscoll 
Boogie Woogie
as Mr. Alfred Rhinegold 
Horror Express
as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton 
The Salamander
as Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence 
Dr. Terror
as Franklyn Marsh 
Kaptajn Hornblower
as Spanish Captain 
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
as Count Dracula 
Count Dracula
as Dracula 
Dr. Jekylls to ansigter
as Paul Allen 
Jeg, et uhyre
as Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake 
The French Revolution
as Sanson 
Nat over Kreta
as German officer at The Dentist's office 
Bjørneøen
as Lechinski 
Pisken og kroppen
+1
as Kurt Menliff 
Ananka mysteriet
as Kharis, the Mummy 
Det levende kranie
as Sir Matthew Phillips 
Mio, min Mio
as Kato 
Arabian Adventure
as Caliph Alquazar 
The Stupids
as Evil Sender 
Dr. Fu Manchu's hemmelighed
as Dr. Fu Man Chu 
The Cockleshell Heroes
as Submarine Commander Alan Grieves 
The Bloody Judge
as Lord George Jeffreys 
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
as Miguel 
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
as Self (archive footage) 
Farlig passage
as Gypsy 
De tre musketerer vender tilbage
as Rochefort 
Too Hot to Handle
as Novak 
Death Line
as Stratton-Villiers, MI5 
Triage
as Joaquín Morales 
Curse of the Crimson Altar
as J.D. Morley 
Syre sletter alle spor
as Fremont 
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
as Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai 
Eugenie
as Dolmance 
Dødens tog
as General Konstanin Benin 
Serial
as Luckman Skull 
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
as Sherlock Holmes 
Storm Over the Nile
as Karaga Pasha 
Dr. Fu Manchu og Slavepigerne
as Fu Manchu 
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
as Grigori Rasputin 
Julius Cæsar
as Artemidorus 
Rædsels-klinikken
as James Hildern 
Glorious 39
as Older Walter Page 
Huset med de lange skygger
as Corrigan 
Fortiden hævner
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
as Dr. Fu Man Chu 
Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #4 
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
as Dr. Pierre Gerrard 
To byer
as Marquis St. Evremonde 
Dracula and Son
as Le prince des Ténèbres 
The Magic Christian
as Ship's Vampire 
Vampir Cuadecuc
as Self 
Caravans
as Sardar Khan 
Karate på liv og død
as Zetan 
Piraterne fra Blodfloden
as Captain LaRoche 
Everything or Nothing
as Self 
Nothing But the Night
as Col. Charles Bingham 
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
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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 
Dr. Fu Manchus hævn
as Dr. Fu Manchu 
Corridors of Blood
as Resurrection Joe 
Killer Force
as Major Chilton 
The Hands of Orlac
as Nero the magician 
Crypt of the Vampire
as Count Ludwig Karnstein 
En Hitler-læges torturkammer
as Erich 
The Return of Captain Invincible
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 
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 og dødens halssmykke
as Sherlock Holmes 
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
as Sherlock Holmes 
Double Vision
as Mr. Bernard 
Murder Story
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
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as Father Pergado / Zindar 
The Secret of the Red Orchid
as Capt. Allerman 
Jinnah
as Muhammad Ali Jinnah 
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
as Self / Various (Archive) 
Night of the Eagles
as Walter Strauss 
Beat Girl
as Kenny King 
Dark Places
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 
Battle of the V-1
as Brunner 
Penny and the Pownall Case
as Jonathan Blair 
The Wicker Tree
as Old Man 
The Trail of Dracula
as Self (Archival Footage) 
Meatcleaver Massacre
as On-Screen Narrator 
Jaguar Lives!
as Adam Caine 
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
as Dr. Pearson 
Mask of Murder
as Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich 
Uncle Was a Vampire
as Baron Roderico da Frankurten 
Umbracle
as The Man 
Peter Cushing: In His Own Words
as Himself 
Alias John Preston
as John Preston 
Angels in Notting Hill
as The Boss / Mr. President (voice) 
Beyond Mombasa
as Gil Rossi