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 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)
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
as Self (archive footage)
(2024)
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
as Self / Various (Archive)
(2024)
Children of the Wicker Man
as Self (archive footage)
(2023)
Faces of Death
as (archive footage)
(2022)
Dracula Unearthed
as Count Dracula (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)
Night Train to Lisbon
as Father Bartholomeu
(2013)
Extraordinary Tales
as Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')
(2013)
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
as Narrator
(2013)
The Trail of Dracula
as Self
(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)
Everything or Nothing
as Self
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
Enzo Ferrari 1898 - 1988
as Narrator
(2012)
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
as Dracula (archive footage)
(2012)
The Fall of the House Of Usher
as The Narrator
(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)
The Heavy
as Mr. Mason
(2010)
Halloween: The Inside Story
as (archive footage)
(2010)
(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)
Hollywood Chinese
as Self
(2007)
Ein Leben wie im Flug
as Self
(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)
Beloved Count
as Self
(2007)
(2007)
Bloody Jess
as Self
(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)
The Story of Star Wars
as Count Dooku (archive footage)
(2004)
(2003)
(2003)
Whales of Atlantis: In Search of Moby Dick
as Narrator
(2003)
(2003)
(2003)
Drácula en la Hammer
as Christopher Lee
(2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
as Saruman
(2002)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
as Count Dooku
(2002)
Bond Girls Are Forever
as Francisco Scaramanga (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2002)
(2002)
Best Ever Bond
as Self / Scaramanga
(2002)
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
as Self / Count Dooku
(2002)
(2002)
Perversion Stories
as Self
(2001)
(2001)
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
as Self
(2001)
(2001)
(2001)
Quest for the Ring
as Self
(2001)
(2001)
(2001)
The Wicker Man Enigma
as Himself
(2000)
(2000)
Ian Fleming: 007's Creator
as Self
(2000)
The Many Faces of Dracula
as Narrator
(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)
Jinnah
as Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(1998)
The Mummy
as Self - Host
(1998)
100 Years of Horror
as Presenter
(1998)
(1998)
Ex-S: The Wicker Man
as Self
(1997)
Soul Music
as Death (voice)
(1996)
The Stupids
as Evil Sender
(1996)
A Century of Science Fiction
as Narrator (voice)
(1996)
Vem Var Dracula
as Self
(1996)
(1996)
Welcome to the Discworld
as Death
(1996)
(1996)
(1995)
(1995)
(1994)
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
as Commandant Rakov
(1994)
Funny Man
as Callum Chance
(1994)
The Rainbow Thief
as Uncle Rudolf
(1994)
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
as Narrator (voice) / Self
(1994)
A Feast at Midnight
as V. E. 'Raptor' Longfellow
(1993)
Death Train
as General Konstanin Benin
(1992)
Innocent Blood
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
(1992)
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
as Sherlock Holmes
(1992)
Cyber Eden
as Cedric
(1992)
Double Vision
as Mr. Bernard
(1992)
Beauty and the Beast
as Monsieur Renard (voice)
(1991)
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
as Dr. Pearson
(1991)
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
as Sherlock Holmes
(1991)
Journey of Honor
as King Philip
(1991)
Fear in the Dark
as Narrator
(1990)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
as Doctor Catheter
(1990)
Treasure Island
as Blind Pew
(1990)
The Miser
as Cardinale Spinosi
(1990)
The Care of Time
as Karlis Zander
(1989)
The French Revolution
as Sanson
(1989)
The Return of the Musketeers
as Rochefort
(1989)
Honeymoon Academy
as Lazos
(1989)
Night of the Eagles
as Walter Strauss
(1989)
Murder Story
as Willard Hope
(1988)
Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil
as Luis Morel
(1988)
(1987)
The Girl
as Peter Storm
(1987)
Mio in the Land of Faraway
as Kato
(1987)
Creepy Classics
as Franklyn Marsh - (archive footage)
(1987)
(1986)
Jocks
as President White
(1986)
Un métier de seigneur
as Fog
(1986)
The Disputation
as King James of Aragon
(1985)
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
as Stefan Crosscoe
(1985)
Mask of Murder
as Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich
(1985)
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
as Himself - Presenter
(1985)
(1984)
The Rosebud Beach Hotel
as King
(1984)
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
as King Vladimir V
(1984)
The Bengal Lancers!
as Sir James Hunter
(1983)
House of the Long Shadows
as Corrigan
(1983)
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
as Narrator
(1983)
The Return of Captain Invincible
as Mr. Midnight
(1983)
New Magic
as Mr. Kellar
(1982)
The Last Unicorn
as King Haggard (voice)
(1982)
Safari 3000
as Count Borgia
(1982)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
as Self (archive footage)
(1982)
Massarati and the Brain
as Victor Leopold
(1982)
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
as Prince Philip
(1982)
The Rank Charm School
as Self
(1981)
An Eye for an Eye
as Morgan Canfield
(1981)
The Salamander
as Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence
(1981)
Evil Stalks This House
as Host
(1980)
Serial
as Luckman Skull
(1980)
Once Upon a Spy
as Marcus Valorium
(1980)
Desperate Moves
as Dr. Carl Boxer
(1979)
1941
as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
(1979)
Bear Island
as Lechinski
(1979)
Arabian Adventure
as Caliph Alquazar
(1979)
The Passage
as Gypsy
(1979)
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
as Miguel
(1979)
Jaguar Lives!
as Adam Caine
(1979)
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
(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
(1978)
Mickey's 50
as Self
(1977)
Airport '77
as Martin Wallace
(1977)
End of the World
as Father Pergado / Zindar
(1977)
Starship Invasions
as Captain Rameses
(1977)
Meatcleaver Massacre
as On-Screen Narrator
(1977)
The Occult: Mysteries Of The Supernatural
as Narrator
(1976)
To the Devil a Daughter
as Father Michael
(1976)
Killer Force
as Major Chilton
(1976)
Dracula and Son
as Le prince des Ténèbres
(1976)
Death in the Sun
as Bill
(1976)
The Keeper
as The Keeper
(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)
The Four Musketeers
as Rochefort
(1974)
Diagnosis: Murder
as Dr. Stephen Hayward
(1973)
The Wicker Man
as Lord Summerisle
(1973)
The Three Musketeers
as Rochefort
(1973)
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
as Count Dracula
(1973)
Dark Places
as Dr. Ian Mandeville
(1973)
The Creeping Flesh
as James Hildern
(1973)
Nothing But the Night
as Col. Charles Bingham
(1973)
Poor Devil
as Lucifer
(1972)
Dracula A.D. 1972
as Count Dracula
(1972)
Horror Express
as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton
(1972)
Death Line
as Stratton-Villiers, MI5
(1972)
Vampir Cuadecuc
as Self
(1972)
Umbracle
as The Man
(1971)
Hannie Caulder
as Bailey
(1971)
The House That Dripped Blood
as John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")
(1971)
I, Monster
as Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake
(1970)
Scars of Dracula
as Dracula
(1970)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
as Mycroft Holmes
(1970)
Eugenie
as Dolmance
(1970)
Taste the Blood of Dracula
as Dracula
(1970)
Julius Caesar
as Artemidorus
(1970)
The Bloody Judge
as Lord George Jeffreys
(1970)
Count Dracula
as Dracula
(1970)
Scream and Scream Again
as Fremont
(1970)
One More Time
as Dracula
(1969)
The Magic Christian
as Ship's Vampire
(1969)
The Castle of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
(1969)
The Oblong Box
as Dr. J. Neuhartt
(1969)
(1968)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
as Dracula
(1968)
Curse of the Crimson Altar
as J.D. Morley
(1968)
The Blood of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
(1968)
The Devil Rides Out
as Duc de Richleau
(1968)
Eve
as Colonel Stuart
(1968)
The Movie Orgy
as Fu Manchu/Dracula (archive footage)
(1967)
Night of the Big Heat
as Godfrey Hanson
(1967)
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
as Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai
(1967)
Theatre of Death
as Philippe Darvas
(1967)
Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #4
(1967)
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Manchu
(1966)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
as Count Dracula
(1966)
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
as Grigori Rasputin
(1966)
The Brides of Fu Manchu
as Fu Manchu
(1966)
Circus of Fear
as Gregor
(1965)
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
as Franklyn Marsh
(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)
The Skull
as Sir Matthew Phillips
(1964)
The Gorgon
as Prof. Karl Meister
(1964)
Crypt of the Vampire
as Count Ludwig Karnstein
(1964)
The Devil-Ship Pirates
as Captain Robeles
(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)
Secret of the Red Orchid
as Capt. Allerman
(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
(1961)
Hercules in the Haunted World
as King Lico (Licos)
(1961)
Taste of Fear
as Doctor Pierre Gerrard
(1961)
The Devil's Daffodil
as Ling Chu
(1961)
The Terror of the Tongs
as Chung King
(1960)
The City of the Dead
as Prof. Alan Driscoll
(1960)
Beat Girl
as Kenny King
(1960)
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
as Paul Allen
(1960)
Too Hot to Handle
as Novak
(1960)
The Hands of Orlac
as Nero the magician
(1959)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Sir Henry Baskerville
(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
(1959)
The Treasure of San Teresa
as Jaeger
(1958)
Dracula
as Count Dracula
(1958)
Corridors of Blood
as Resurrection Joe
(1958)
A Tale of Two Cities
as Marquis St. Evremonde
(1958)
Battle of the V-1
as Brunner
(1957)
The Curse of Frankenstein
as The Creature
(1957)
Bitter Victory
as Sgt. Barney
(1957)
The Traitor
as Doctor Neumann
(1957)
Ill Met by Moonlight
as German officer at The Dentist's office
(1957)
Fortune Is a Woman
as Charles Highbury
(1957)
Manuela
as Voice (voice)
(1957)
The Truth About Women
as Francois Thiers
(1956)
Alexander the Great
as Nectenabus (voice)
(1956)
The Battle of the River Plate
as Manolo
(1956)
Private's Progress
as Major Schultz
(1956)
Port Afrique
as Franz Vermes
(1956)
Beyond Mombasa
as Gil Rossi
(1955)
The Cockleshell Heroes
as Submarine Commander Alan Grieves
(1955)
The Dark Avenger
as French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited)
(1955)
Storm Over the Nile
as Karaga Pasha
(1955)
Alias John Preston
as John Preston
(1955)
Contraband Spain
as Narrador (voz)
(1955)
That Lady
as Capitán
(1955)
Police Dog
as Johnny, a constable
(1955)
Moby Dick Rehearsed
as A Stage Manager /Flask
(1955)
Cross-Roads
as Harry Cooper
(1954)
The Awakening
as Factory proprietor (uncredited)
(1954)
The Mirror and Markheim
as Visitant
(1953)
Innocents in Paris
as Lieutenant Whitlock
(1953)
The Top and the Ball
as Father
(1952)
Moulin Rouge
as Georges Seurat (uncredited)
(1952)
The Crimson Pirate
as Joseph (attache)
(1952)
Babes in Bagdad
as Slave Dealer
(1952)
Top Secret
as Russian Agent (uncredited)
(1952)
Paul Temple Returns
as Sir Felix Raybourne
(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)
Hamlet
as Palace Guard (uncredited)
(1948)
Scott of the Antarctic
as Bernard Day
(1948)
Saraband for Dead Lovers
as Herzog Anthony von Wolfenbüttel
(1948)
Corridor of Mirrors
as Charles
(1948)
A Song for Tomorrow
as Auguste
(1948)
One Night with You
as Pirelli's Assistant
(1948)
Penny and the Pownall Case
as Jonathan Blair
Crew
(1973)
Nothing But the Night
Producer