Christopher Lee
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1922-05-27
Day of Death
2015-06-07 (93 years old)
Place of Birth
Westminster, London, England, UK
Christopher 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
Acting
Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending
as Lord Summerisle
The Wicker Man At 50
as Lord Summerisle
(2024)
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
as Saruman (voice)
(2024)
Children of the Wicker Man
as Self (archive footage)
(2024)
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
as Self (archive footage)
(2024)
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
as Self / Various (Archive)
(2023)
Faces of Death
as (archive footage)
(2020)
Peter Cushing: In His Own Words
as Himself
(2017)
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
(2017)
Drácula Barcelona
as Himself
(2015)
Fifty Shades of Erotica
as (archive footage)
(2015)
Angels in Notting Hill
as The Boss / Mr. President (voice)
(2014)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Saruman the White
(2014)
Face of Unity
as Self
(2014)
(2013)
Extraordinary Tales
as Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')
(2013)
Night Train to Lisbon
as Father Bartholomeu
(2013)
The Trail of Dracula
as Self
(2013)
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
as Narrator
(2013)
The Girl from Nagasaki
as Old Officer Pinkerton
(2012)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Saruman the White
(2012)
Dark Shadows
as Clarney
(2012)
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
as Dracula (archive footage)
(2012)
Enzo Ferrari 1898 - 1988
as Narrator
(2012)
The Fall of the House Of Usher
as The Narrator
(2012)
(2012)
Everything or Nothing
as Self
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
(2011)
Season of the Witch
as Cardinal D'Ambroise
(2011)
Hugo
as Monsieur Labisse
(2011)
The Resident
as August
(2011)
The Wicker Tree
as Old Man
(2010)
Alice in Wonderland
as Jabberwocky (voice)
(2010)
Burke & Hare
as Old Joseph
(2010)
(2010)
The Heavy
as Mr. Mason
(2009)
Glorious 39
as Older Walter Page
(2009)
Boogie Woogie
as Mr. Alfred Rhinegold
(2009)
Triage
as Joaquín Morales
(2008)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
as Count Dooku (voice)
(2008)
The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Original Poem
as Narrator (voice)
(2008)
Fanex Files: Hammer Films
as Self
(2007)
The Golden Compass
as First High Councilor
(2007)
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
as Narrator (voice)
(2007)
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
as Self (archive footage)
(2007)
Hollywood Chinese
as Self
(2007)
Bloody Jess
as Self
(2007)
Beloved Count
as Self
(2007)
Ein Leben wie im Flug
as Self
(2007)
(2007)
Amazon Trek: In Search of Vanishing Secrets
as Narrator
(2006)
(2005)
Corpse Bride
as Pastor Galswells (voice)
(2005)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
as Dr. Wonka
(2005)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
as Count Dooku
(2005)
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
as The Lord Provost
(2004)
(2004)
(2004)
The Story of Star Wars
as Count Dooku (archive footage)
(2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Saruman (extended edition)
(2003)
(2003)
(2003)
(2003)
Drácula en la Hammer
as Christopher Lee
(2003)
Whales of Atlantis: In Search of Moby Dick
as Narrator
(2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
as Saruman
(2002)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
as Count Dooku
(2002)
(2002)
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
as Self / Count Dooku
(2002)
Best Ever Bond
as Self / Scaramanga
(2002)
(2002)
Perversion Stories
as Self
(2001)
(2001)
(2001)
(2001)
(2001)
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
as Self
(2001)
The Wicker Man Enigma
as Himself
(2001)
(2001)
Quest for the Ring
as Self
(2000)
The Many Faces of Dracula
as Narrator
(2000)
(2000)
Ian Fleming: 007's Creator
as Self
(2000)
(1999)
Sleepy Hollow
as Burgomaster
(1999)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
as Count Ottokar Graf Czernin
(1998)
Tale of the Mummy
as Sir Richard Turkel
(1998)
Ex-S: The Wicker Man
as Self
(1998)
Jinnah
as Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(1998)
(1998)
The Mummy
as Self - Host
(1998)
100 Years of Horror
as Presenter
(1997)
Soul Music
as Death (voice)
(1996)
(1996)
The Stupids
as Evil Sender
(1996)
(1996)
A Century of Science Fiction
as Narrator (voice)
(1996)
Vem Var Dracula
as Self
(1996)
Moïse
as Pharaoh
(1996)
Welcome to the Discworld
as Death
(1996)
(1995)
(1995)
Moses
as Ramses
(1995)
(1994)
The Rainbow Thief
as Uncle Rudolf
(1994)
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
as Narrator (voice) / Self
(1994)
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
as Commandant Rakov
(1994)
A Feast at Midnight
as V. E. 'Raptor' Longfellow
(1994)
Funny Man
as Callum Chance
(1993)
Death Train
as General Konstanin Benin
(1992)
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
as Sherlock Holmes
(1992)
Double Vision
as Mr. Bernard
(1992)
Cyber Eden
as Cedric
(1992)
Innocent Blood
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
(1992)
Beauty and the Beast
as Monsieur Renard (voice)
(1991)
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
as Sherlock Holmes
(1991)
Fear in the Dark
as Narrator
(1991)
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
as Dr. Pearson
(1991)
Journey of Honor
as King Philip
(1990)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
as Doctor Catheter
(1990)
The Care of Time
as Karlis Zander
(1990)
The Miser
as Cardinale Spinosi
(1990)
Treasure Island
as Blind Pew
(1989)
Honeymoon Academy
as Lazos
(1989)
Murder Story
as Willard Hope
(1989)
Night of the Eagles
as Walter Strauss
(1989)
The French Revolution
as Sanson
(1989)
The Return of the Musketeers
as Rochefort
(1988)
Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil
as Luis Morel
(1988)
(1987)
(1987)
Creepy Classics
as Franklyn Marsh - (archive footage)
(1987)
Mio in the Land of Faraway
as Kato
(1987)
The Girl
as Peter Storm
(1986)
Un métier de seigneur
as Fog
(1986)
Jocks
as President White
(1986)
The Disputation
as King James of Aragon
(1985)
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
as Himself - Presenter
(1985)
Mask of Murder
as Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich
(1985)
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
as Stefan Crosscoe
(1985)
(1984)
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
as King Vladimir V
(1984)
The Bengal Lancers!
as Sir James Hunter
(1984)
The Rosebud Beach Hotel
as King
(1983)
The Return of Captain Invincible
as Mr. Midnight
(1983)
House of the Long Shadows
as Corrigan
(1983)
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
as Narrator
(1983)
New Magic
as Mr. Kellar
(1982)
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
as Prince Philip
(1982)
The Last Unicorn
as King Haggard (voice)
(1982)
Safari 3000
as Count Borgia
(1982)
The Rank Charm School
as Self
(1982)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
as Self (archive footage)
(1982)
Massarati and the Brain
as Victor Leopold
(1981)
The Salamander
as Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence
(1981)
Evil Stalks This House
as Host
(1981)
An Eye for an Eye
as Morgan Canfield
(1980)
Serial
as Luckman Skull
(1980)
Once Upon a Spy
as Marcus Valorium
(1980)
Desperate Moves
as Dr. Carl Boxer
(1979)
Jaguar Lives!
as Adam Caine
(1979)
1941
as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
(1979)
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
as Miguel
(1979)
The Passage
as Gypsy
(1979)
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
(1979)
Bear Island
as Lechinski
(1979)
Arabian Adventure
as Caliph Alquazar
(1978)
Mickey's 50
as Self
(1978)
Circle of Iron
as Zetan
(1978)
Return from Witch Mountain
as Victor Gannon
(1978)
Caravans
as Sardar Khan
(1978)
The Pirate
as Samir Al Fay
(1977)
Airport '77
as Martin Wallace
(1977)
Meatcleaver Massacre
as On-Screen Narrator
(1977)
End of the World
as Father Pergado / Zindar
(1977)
Starship Invasions
as Captain Rameses
(1977)
The Occult: Mysteries Of The Supernatural
as Narrator
(1976)
The Keeper
as The Keeper
(1976)
Dracula and Son
as Le prince des Ténèbres
(1976)
Killer Force
as Major Chilton
(1976)
To the Devil a Daughter
as Father Michael
(1976)
Death in the Sun
as Bill
(1975)
In Search of Dracula
as Self – Host / Vlad Tepes / Count Dracula
(1975)
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
as Satanus / Van Krig
(1974)
The Man with the Golden Gun
as Francisco Scaramanga
(1974)
Diagnosis: Murder
as Dr. Stephen Hayward
(1974)
The Four Musketeers
as Rochefort
(1973)
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
as Count Dracula
(1973)
The Three Musketeers
as Rochefort
(1973)
The Wicker Man
as Lord Summerisle
(1973)
Dark Places
as Dr. Ian Mandeville
(1973)
The Creeping Flesh
as James Hildern
(1973)
Poor Devil
as Lucifer
(1973)
Nothing But the Night
as Col. Charles Bingham
(1972)
Dracula A.D. 1972
as Count Dracula
(1972)
Umbracle
as The Man
(1972)
Horror Express
as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton
(1972)
Death Line
as Stratton-Villiers, MI5
(1972)
Vampir Cuadecuc
as Self
(1971)
The House That Dripped Blood
as John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")
(1971)
Hannie Caulder
as Bailey
(1971)
I, Monster
as Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake
(1970)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
as Mycroft Holmes
(1970)
Taste the Blood of Dracula
as Dracula
(1970)
Eugenie
as Dolmance
(1970)
Scream and Scream Again
as Fremont
(1970)
Count Dracula
as Dracula
(1970)
One More Time
as Dracula
(1970)
Julius Caesar
as Artemidorus
(1970)
The Bloody Judge
as Lord George Jeffreys
(1970)
Scars of Dracula
as Dracula
(1969)
The Oblong Box
as Dr. J. Neuhartt
(1969)
The Magic Christian
as Ship's Vampire
(1969)
The Castle of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
(1969)
(1968)
The Blood of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
(1968)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
as Dracula
(1968)
Curse of the Crimson Altar
as J.D. Morley
(1968)
The Devil Rides Out
as Duc de Richleau
(1968)
The Movie Orgy
as Fu Manchu/Dracula (archive footage)
(1968)
Eve
as Colonel Stuart
(1967)
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Manchu
(1967)
Theatre of Death
as Philippe Darvas
(1967)
Night of the Big Heat
as Godfrey Hanson
(1967)
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
as Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai
(1967)
Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #4
(1966)
Circus of Fear
as Gregor
(1966)
The Brides of Fu Manchu
as Fu Manchu
(1966)
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
as Grigori Rasputin
(1966)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
as Count Dracula
(1965)
The Skull
as Sir Matthew Phillips
(1965)
Ten Little Indians
as Mr. U.N. Owen (voice)
(1965)
She
as Billali
(1965)
The Face of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
(1965)
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
as Franklyn Marsh
(1964)
The Gorgon
as Prof. Karl Meister
(1964)
The Devil-Ship Pirates
as Captain Robeles
(1964)
Crypt of the Vampire
as Count Ludwig Karnstein
(1964)
The Castle of the Living Dead
as Count Drago
(1964)
Horror!!!
as Self
(1963)
The Whip and the Body
as Kurt Menliff
(1963)
Horror Castle
as Erich
(1963)
Challenge the Devil
as Mephistoles
(1962)
Lolita
as Kharis, the Mummy (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1962)
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
as Sherlock Holmes
(1962)
The Pirates of Blood River
as Captain LaRoche
(1962)
The Devil's Agent
as Baron Ferdi von Staub
(1962)
Secret of the Red Orchid
as Capt. Allerman
(1961)
The Devil's Daffodil
as Ling Chu
(1961)
Hercules in the Haunted World
as King Lico (Licos)
(1961)
Taste of Fear
as Doctor Pierre Gerrard
(1961)
The Terror of the Tongs
as Chung King
(1960)
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
as Paul Allen
(1960)
The City of the Dead
as Prof. Alan Driscoll
(1960)
The Hands of Orlac
as Nero the magician
(1960)
Beat Girl
as Kenny King
(1960)
Too Hot to Handle
as Novak
(1959)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Sir Henry Baskerville
(1959)
The Treasure of San Teresa
as Jaeger
(1959)
The Mummy
as Kharis, the Mummy
(1959)
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
as Dr. Pierre Gerrard
(1959)
Uncle Was a Vampire
as Baron Roderico da Frankurten
(1958)
A Tale of Two Cities
as Marquis St. Evremonde
(1958)
Dracula
as Count Dracula
(1958)
Corridors of Blood
as Resurrection Joe
(1958)
Battle of the V-1
as Brunner
(1957)
Ill Met by Moonlight
as German officer at The Dentist's office
(1957)
The Truth About Women
as Francois Thiers
(1957)
Manuela
as Voice (voice)
(1957)
The Traitor
as Doctor Neumann
(1957)
Bitter Victory
as Sgt. Barney
(1957)
The Curse of Frankenstein
as The Creature
(1957)
Fortune Is a Woman
as Charles Highbury
(1956)
The Battle of the River Plate
as Manolo
(1956)
Port Afrique
as Franz Vermes
(1956)
Beyond Mombasa
as Gil Rossi
(1956)
Alexander the Great
as Nectenabus (voice)
(1956)
Private's Progress
as Major Schultz
(1955)
The Dark Avenger
as French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited)
(1955)
Contraband Spain
as Narrador (voz)
(1955)
Cross-Roads
as Harry Cooper
(1955)
The Cockleshell Heroes
as Submarine Commander Alan Grieves
(1955)
That Lady
as Capitán
(1955)
Police Dog
as Johnny, a constable
(1955)
Storm Over the Nile
as Karaga Pasha
(1955)
Alias John Preston
as John Preston
(1955)
Moby Dick Rehearsed
as A Stage Manager /Flask
(1954)
The Mirror and Markheim
as Visitant
(1954)
The Awakening
as Factory proprietor (uncredited)
(1953)
Innocents in Paris
as Lieutenant Whitlock
(1953)
The Top and the Ball
as Father
(1952)
Moulin Rouge
as Georges Seurat (uncredited)
(1952)
Paul Temple Returns
as Sir Felix Raybourne
(1952)
The Crimson Pirate
as Joseph (attache)
(1952)
Top Secret
as Russian Agent (uncredited)
(1952)
Babes in Bagdad
as Slave Dealer
(1951)
Quo Vadis
as Chariot Driver (uncredited)
(1951)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
as Spanish Captain
(1951)
Valley of the Eagles
as Det. Holt
(1950)
Prelude to Fame
as Newsman
(1950)
They Were Not Divided
as Chris Lewis
(1949)
Trottie True
as Hon. Bongo Icklesham
(1948)
Corridor of Mirrors
as Charles
(1948)
Hamlet
as Palace Guard (uncredited)
(1948)
Scott of the Antarctic
as Bernard Day
(1948)
Penny and the Pownall Case
as Jonathan Blair
(1948)
Saraband for Dead Lovers
as Herzog Anthony von Wolfenbüttel
(1948)
A Song for Tomorrow
as Auguste
(1948)
One Night with You
as Pirelli's Assistant
Crew
(1973)
Nothing But the Night
Producer