Sauromon, Lord of Isengard. Count Dooku in the Star Wars movies. Count Dracula and about 250 other films. Heavy metal singer up to a few years ago. Quite good I learned. Knighted about 6 years back by the Queen.
RIP Sir Lee.
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Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and author. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Lee initially portrayed villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014), and Count Dooku in the final two films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002 and 2005) and Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008).
Lee was knighted for services to drama and charity in 2009, received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011 and received the BFI Fellowship in 2013.[1] Lee considered his best performance to be that of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998), and his best film to be the British horror film The Wicker Man (1973).[2]
Always noted as an actor for his deep strong voice, Lee was also known for his singing ability, recording various opera and musical pieces between 1986 and 1998 and the symphonic metal album Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross in 2010 after having worked with several metal bands since 2005. The heavy metal follow-up titled Charlemagne: The Omens of Death was released on 27 May 2013.[3][4] He was honoured with the "Spirit of Metal" award in the 2010 Metal Hammer Golden God awards ceremony.
Born Christopher Frank Carandini Lee
27 May 1922
Belgravia, London, England
Died 7 June 2015 (aged 93)
Chelsea, London, England
Occupation Actor, singer, author
Years active 1946–2015
Spouse(s) Birgit Krøncke (m. 1961; his death 2015)
Children 1
Military career
Allegiance Finland
United Kingdom
Service/branch Finnish Army (1939)
British Home Guard (1940)
Royal Air Force (1941–46)
Years of service 1939–1946
Rank Flight Lieutenant
Battles/wars
Winter War
World War II
North African Campaign
Allied invasion of Italy
Battle of Monte Cassino
Website
christopherleeweb.com
