Christopher Lee
Acting
Born May 27, 1922 · Westminster, London, England, UK
Died June 7, 2015
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
Filmography
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
2024 · Self / Various (Archive)
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024 · Saruman (voice)
Extraordinary Tales
2015 · Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Saruman the White
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014 · Corrigan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Night Train to Lisbon
2013 · Father Bartholomeu
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
2013 · Narrator
Dark Shadows
2012 · Clarney
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · Saruman the White
Everything or Nothing
2012 · Self
Season of the Witch
2011 · Cardinal D'Ambroise
Hugo
2011 · Monsieur Labisse
The Resident
2011 · August
The Wicker Tree
2011 · Old Man
Alice in Wonderland
2010 · Jabberwocky (voice)
The Heavy
2010 · Mr. Mason
Boogie Woogie
2010 · Mr. Alfred Rhinegold
Burke & Hare
2010 · Old Joseph
Triage
2009 · Joaquín Morales
Glorious 39
2009 · Older Walter Page
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008 · Count Dooku (voice)
The Golden Compass
2007 · First High Councilor
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005 · Dr. Wonka
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005 · Count Dooku
Corpse Bride
2005 · Pastor Galswells (voice)
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
2005 · The Lord Provost
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
2004 · Emerich
The Story of Star Wars
2004 · Count Dooku (archive footage)
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
2003 · Self
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002 · Saruman
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002 · Count Dooku
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
2002 · Self / Count Dooku
The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
2002 · Self
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Saruman
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
2001 · Self
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Self
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001 · Self
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
2000 · Self
Sleepy Hollow
1999 · Burgomaster
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999 · Count Ottokar Graf Czernin
Jinnah
1998 · Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy
1998 · Sir Richard Turkel
Soul Music
1997 · Death (voice)
The Stupids
1996 · Evil Sender
Welcome to the Discworld
1996 · Death
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
1994 · Narrator (voice) / Self
The Rainbow Thief
1994 · Uncle Rudolf
Funny Man
1994 · Callum Chance
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
1994 · Commandant Rakov
Death Train
1993 · General Konstanin Benin
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
1992 · Sherlock Holmes
Innocent Blood
1992 · Count Dracula (archive footage)
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
1991 · Dr. Pearson
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
1991 · Sherlock Holmes
Journey of Honor
1991 · King Philip
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990 · Doctor Catheter
Treasure Island
1990 · Blind Pew
The Miser
1990 · Cardinale Spinosi
The French Revolution
1989 · Sanson
The Return of the Musketeers
1989 · Rochefort
For Better or for Worse
1989 · Lazos
Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil
1988 · Luis Morel
Mio in the Land of Faraway
1987 · Kato
Casanova
1987 · Branicki
Jocks
1986 · President White
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
1985 · Stefan Crosscoe
Mask of Murder
1985 · Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich
The Rosebud Beach Hotel
1984 · King
House of the Long Shadows
1983 · Corrigan
The Return of Captain Invincible
1983 · Mr. Midnight
The Last Unicorn
1982 · King Haggard (voice)
An Eye for an Eye
1981 · Morgan Canfield
The Salamander
1981 · Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence
Serial
1980 · Luckman Skull
Once Upon a Spy
1980 · Marcus Valorium
1941
1979 · Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
Bear Island
1979 · Lechinski
The Passage
1979 · Gypsy
Arabian Adventure
1979 · Caliph Alquazar
Jaguar Lives!
1979 · Adam Caine
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
1979 · Miguel
Circle of Iron
1978 · Zetan
Caravans
1978 · Sardar Khan
Return from Witch Mountain
1978 · Victor Gannon
End of the World
1977 · Father Pergado / Zindar
Airport '77
1977 · Martin Wallace
Starship Invasions
1977 · Captain Rameses
Meatcleaver Massacre
1977 · On-Screen Narrator
Dracula and Son
1976 · Le prince des Ténèbres
To the Devil a Daughter
1976 · Father Michael
Killer Force
1976 · Major Chilton
Albino
1976 · Bill
The Keeper
1976 · The Keeper
In Search of Dracula
1975 · Self – Host / Vlad Tepes / Count Dracula
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974 · Francisco Scaramanga
The Four Musketeers
1974 · Rochefort
The Three Musketeers
1973 · Rochefort
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
1973 · Count Dracula
Nothing But the Night
1973 · Col. Charles Bingham
The Creeping Flesh
1973 · James Hildern
The Wicker Man
1973 · Lord Summerisle
Dark Places
1973 · Dr. Ian Mandeville
Dracula A.D. 1972
1972 · Count Dracula
Horror Express
1972 · Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton
Vampir Cuadecuc
1972 · Self
Umbracle
1972 · The Man
Death Line
1972 · Stratton-Villiers, MI5
Hannie Caulder
1971 · Bailey
The House That Dripped Blood
1971 · John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")
I, Monster
1971 · Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake
Count Dracula
1970 · Dracula
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970 · Mycroft Holmes
Scars of Dracula
1970 · Dracula
Taste the Blood of Dracula
1970 · Dracula
The Bloody Judge
1970 · Lord George Jeffreys
Julius Caesar
1970 · Artemidorus
Scream and Scream Again
1970 · Fremont
Eugenie
1970 · Dolmance
One More Time
1970 · Dracula
The Castle of Fu Manchu
1969 · Dr. Fu Man Chu
The Oblong Box
1969 · Dr. J. Neuhartt
The Magic Christian
1969 · Ship's Vampire
The Blood of Fu Manchu
1968 · Dr. Fu Man Chu
The Movie Orgy
1968 · Fu Manchu/Dracula (archive footage)
Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968 · J.D. Morley
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
1968 · Dracula
The Devil Rides Out
1968 · Duc de Richleau
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
1967 · Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
1967 · Dr. Fu Manchu
Night of the Big Heat
1967 · Godfrey Hanson
Five Golden Dragons
1967 · Dragon #4
Theatre of Death
1967 · Philippe Darvas
The Brides of Fu Manchu
1966 · Fu Manchu
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966 · Grigori Rasputin
Circus of Fear
1966 · Gregor
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
1966 · Count Dracula
The Face of Fu Manchu
1965 · Dr. Fu Man Chu
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965 · Franklyn Marsh
The Skull
1965 · Sir Matthew Phillips
She
1965 · Billali
Ten Little Indians
1965 · Mr. U.N. Owen (voice)
The Castle of the Living Dead
1964 · Count Drago
The Gorgon
1964 · Prof. Karl Meister
The Devil-Ship Pirates
1964 · Captain Robeles
Crypt of the Vampire
1964 · Count Ludwig Karnstein
The Whip and the Body
1963 · Kurt Menliff
Horror Castle
1963 · Erich
Challenge the Devil
1963 · Mephistoles
The Secret of the Red Orchid
1962 · Capt. Allerman
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
1962 · Sherlock Holmes
The Pirates of Blood River
1962 · Captain LaRoche
Hercules in the Haunted World
1961 · King Lico (Licos)
The Terror of the Tongs
1961 · Chung King
Taste of Fear
1961 · Doctor Pierre Gerrard
The Devil's Daffodil
1961 · Ling Chu
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
1960 · Paul Allen
Beat Girl
1960 · Kenny King
Too Hot to Handle
1960 · Novak
The City of the Dead
1960 · Prof. Alan Driscoll
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1959 · Sir Henry Baskerville
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
1959 · Dr. Pierre Gerrard
The Mummy
1959 · Kharis, the Mummy
Uncle Was a Vampire
1959 · Baron Roderico da Frankurten
A Tale of Two Cities
1958 · Marquis St. Evremonde
Corridors of Blood
1958 · Resurrection Joe
Dracula
1958 · Count Dracula
The Curse of Frankenstein
1957 · The Creature
Bitter Victory
1957 · Sgt. Barney
Fortune Is a Woman
1957 · Charles Highbury
Ill Met by Moonlight
1957 · German officer at The Dentist's office
Private's Progress
1956 · Major Schultz
Alexander the Great
1956 · Nectenabus (voice)
The Battle of the River Plate
1956 · Manolo
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955 · Submarine Commander Alan Grieves
The Dark Avenger
1955 · French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited)
Storm Over the Nile
1955 · Karaga Pasha
Innocents in Paris
1953 · Lieutenant Whitlock
The Crimson Pirate
1952 · Joseph (attache)
Moulin Rouge
1952 · Georges Seurat (uncredited)
Quo Vadis
1951 · Chariot Driver (uncredited)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951 · Spanish Captain
Corridor of Mirrors
1948 · Charles
Hamlet
1948 · Palace Guard (uncredited)
Scott of the Antarctic
1948 · Bernard Day
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948 · Herzog Anthony von Wolfenbüttel