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Christopher Lee

Christopher Frank Carandini Lee achieved his international following through playing monsters and villains. In his 30s, he was Dracula, the Mummy and Frankenstein’s creature; in his 80s, Count Dooku in Star Wars and the evil wizard Saruman in The Lord of the Rings. He was made CBE in 2001 and knighted in 2009

Aliases
  • Sir Christopher Lee
  • Cristopher Lee
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Filmography

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

2002
as Count Dooku

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2001
as Saruman

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003
as Saruman (extended edition)

Alice in Wonderland

2010
as The Jabberwocky (voice)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

2005
as Dr. Wonka

Hugo

2011
as Monsieur Labisse

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002
as Saruman

Corpse Bride

2005
as Pastor Galswells (voice)

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

2005
as Count Dooku

Dark Shadows

2012
as Clarney

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012
as Saruman

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2014
as Saruman

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

1990
as Doctor Catheter

The Man with the Golden Gun

1974
as Francisco Scaramanga

The Golden Compass

2007
as First High Councilor

Sleepy Hollow

1999
as Burgomaster

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

2008
as Count Dooku (voice)

Season of the Witch

2011
as Cardinal D'Ambroise

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

1994
as Commandant Aleksandr Nikolaevich Rakov

Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil

1988
as Luis Morel

The Mummy

1959
as Kharis, the Mummy

Innocents in Paris

1953
as Lieutenant Whitlock

Storm Over the Nile

1955
as Karaga Pasha

100 Years of Horror: The Count and Company

1996
as Himself / Host / Narrator

Cuadecuc, Vampir

1972
as Himself / Count Dracula

The Battle of the River Plate

1956
as Manolo

The Skull

1965
as Sir Matthew Phillips

Cameras in Middle-Earth

2004
as Christopher Lee

Fanex Files: Hammer Films

2008
as Christopher Lee

How to Be Sherlock Holmes The Many Faces of a Master Detective

2014
as Self - Actor

Fortune Is a Woman

1957
as Charles Highbury

Extraordinary Tales

2015
as Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')

Ghost Stories for Christmas

2000
as M. R. James

Fall of the Eagles

1989
as Walter Strauss

Everything or Nothing

2012
as Himself

Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'

2000
as Christopher Lee

Amazon Trek: In Search of Vanishing Secrets

2007
as Narrator

Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills

2006
as Himself

Alias John Preston

1955
as John Preston

Welcome to the Discworld

1996
as Death

Terry Pratchett's Soul Music

1997
as Death

The Passage

1979
as Gypsy

Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures

2018
as Count Dooku

Death Train

1993
as General Konstanin Benin

100 Years of Horror: Scream Queens

1996
as Himself / Host / Narrator

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu

1967
as Dr. Fu Manchu

I, Monster

1971
as Dr. Charles Marlowe

To the Devil a Daughter

1976
as Father Michael

Journey of Honor

1991
as King Philip

The Occult: Mysteries Of The Supernatural

1977
as Narrator

In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross

1995
as Himself

The Whip and the Body

1963
as Kurt Menliff

Return from Witch Mountain

1978
as Victor Gannon

Fifty Shades of Erotica

2015

Death Line

1972
as Stratton-Villiers, MI5

Christopher Lee - Gentleman des Grauens

2010
as Self

The Care of Time

1990
as Karlis Zander

Hollywood Chinese

2007
as Himself

Killer Force

1976
as Major Chilton

Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics

2013
as Narrator

She

1965
as Billali

Editorial: Completing the Trilogy

2004
as Christopher Lee

The Bengal Lancers!

1984
as Sir James Hunter

Horror Castle

1963
as Erich

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby

2005
as The Lord Provost

Caravans

1978
as Sardar Khan

Island of the Burning Damned

1967
as Godfrey Hanson

Hercules in the Haunted World

1961
as King Lico (Licos)

One Night with You

1948
as Pirelli's Assistant

Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen

1961
as Ling Chu

Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

1994
as Christopher Lee

An Eye for an Eye

1981
as Morgan Canfield

The Rosebud Beach Hotel

1984
as Mr. Clifford King

Theatre Macabre

1971

The Wicker Man

1973
as Lord Summerisle

Starship Invasions

1977
as Captain Rameses

Triage

2009
as Joaquín Morales

The House That Dripped Blood

1971
as John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")

Moby Dick Rehearsed

1955
as A Stage Manager / Flask

House of the Long Shadows

1983
as Corrigan

Peter Cushing: In His Own Words

2019
as Christopher Lee

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

1968
as Dracula

Valley of the Eagles

1951
as Det. Holt

Face of Unity

2014
as Himself

1941

1979
as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt

The Return of Captain Invincible

1983
as Mr. Midnight

From Book to Script

2002
as Self - Saruman

Kingdom Hearts Timeline

2018
as Ansem the Wise

In Search of Dracula

1975
as Himself / Vlad Tepes / Count Dracula

Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch

1985
as Stefan Crosscoe

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend

2000
as Christopher Lee

The Miser

1990
as Cardinale Spinosi

Hannie Caulder

1971
as Bailey

Terreur et glamour: Montée et déclin du studio Hammer

2017
as Christopher Lee

Scream and Scream Again

1970
as Fremont

The Many Faces of Christopher Lee

1996

The Girl from Nagasaki

2013
as Old Officer Pinkerton

Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler

1987
as Self - Narrator

Ten Little Indians 1965

1965
as Mr. U. N. Owen (voice)

That Lady

1955
as Captain

The Hands of Orlac

1960
as Nero the magician

Angels in Notting Hill

2015
as The Boss / Mr. President

The Truth About Women

1957
as Francois Thiers

Glorious 39

2009
as Older Walter Page

Circus of Fear

1966
as Gregor

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

1959
as Dr. Pierre Gerard

In the Beginning

2000
as Rameses I

Dracula: Prince of Darkness

1966
as Count Dracula

Evil Stalks This House

1981
as Host

Tales of Mystery & Imagination

1995
as Narratore

Horror Express

1972
as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton

Corridors of Blood

1958
as Resurrection Joe

The Pirates of Blood River

1962
as Captain LaRoche

Desperate Moves

1981
as Dr. Carl Boxer

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

1970
as Mycroft Holmes

Jocks

1986
as President White

The Crimson Pirate

1952
as Joseph (attache)

A Tale of Two Cities

1958
as Marquis St. Evremonde

Jaguar Lives!

1979
as Adam Caine

The Devil Rides Out

1968
as Duc de Richleau

Drácula Barcelona

2017
as Self (archive footage)

100 Years of Horror: The Frankenstein Family

1996
as Himself / Host / Narrator

Five Golden Dragons

1967
as Dragon #4

Corridor of Mirrors

1948
as Charles

Umbracle

1972
as The Man

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

1984
as King Vladimir V

Quest for the Ring

2001
as Himself

Les Rivières pourpres 2 - Les Anges de l'Apocalypse

2004
as Emerich

End of the World

1977
as Father Pergado / Zindar

A Century of Science Fiction

1996
as Narrator

Drácula en la Hammer

2003
as Christopher Lee

Treasure Island

1990
as Blind Pew

Alexander the Great

1956
as Nectenabus (voice)

Funny Man

1994
as Callum Chance

Arabian Adventure

1979
as Caliph Alquazar

Bitter Victory

1957
as Sgt. Barney

Mask of Murder

1985
as Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich

Ivanhoe (1997)

1997
as Lucas de Beaumanoir

Meatcleaver Massacre

1977
as On-Screen Narrator

Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man

2001
as Christopher Lee

Curse of the Crimson Altar

1968
as J.D. Morley

The Magic Christian

1969
as Ship's Vampire

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

1992
as Sherlock Holmes

Police Dog

1955
as Johnny, a constable

Curse III: Blood Sacrifice

1991
as Doctor Pearson

The Wicker Tree

2011
as Old Man

The Trail of Dracula

2017
as Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee - A Legacy Of Horror & Terror

2012
as Christopher Lee

Honeymoon Academy

1990
as Lazos

Enzo Ferrari 1898 - 1988

2012
as Narrator

The Curse of Frankenstein

1957
as The Creature

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

1951
as Spanish Captain

Serial

1980
as Luckman/Skull

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'

as Christopher Lee

The Gorgon

1964
as Prof. Karl Meister

Uncle Was A Vampire

1959
as Baron Roderico da Frankurten

Dracula A.D. 1972

1972
as Count Dracula

Nothing but the Night

1973
as Col. Charles Bingham

Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters

1997
as Death

Beat Girl

1960
as Kenny King

Les baleines de l'Atlantide

2003
as Narrator

Sorellina e il principe del sogno

1996
as Azaret

Fear in the Dark

1991
as Narrator

The Top and the Ball

1953
as Narrator / Father

Mio min Mio

1987
as Kato

The Castle of the Living Dead

1964
as Count Drago

Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel

1967
as Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai

Dark Places

1973
as Dr. Ian Mandeville

The Heavy

2010
as Mr. Mason

Private's Progress

1956
as Major Schultz

Katarsis

1963
as Mephistoles

The Resident

2011
as August

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll

1960
as Paul Allen

A Passage to Middle-earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'

2001
as Himself

Beyond Mombasa

1956
as Gil Rossi

Goliath Awaits

1981
as John McKenzie

Bear Island

1979
as Lechinski

Night Train to Lisbon

2013
as Father Bartholomeu

La révolution française

1989
as Sanson

Eve

1968
as Colonel Stuart

Llámale Jess

2000
as Christopher Lee

The Bloody Judge

1970
as Lord George Jeffreys

The Dark Avenger

1955
as French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited)

Burke & Hare

2010
as Old Joseph

Nutcracker Fantasy

1979
as Uncle Drosselmeyer / Street Singer / The Puppeteer / The Watchmaker

From Book to Script: Forging the Final Chapter

2004
as Christopher Lee

Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace

1962
as Sherlock Holmes

The Far Pavilions

1984
as Kákádží Ráo

The Salamander

1981
as Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence

Dracula and Son

1976
as Le prince des Ténèbres

Captain America II: Death Too Soon

1979
as Miguel

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service

1999
as Count Ottokar Graf Czernin

Circle of Iron

1978
as Zetan

Playgirl after Dark

1960
as Novak

New Magic

1983
as Mr. Kellar

Gormenghast

2000
as Flay

Walker Payne

2006
as Stu

The Traitor

1957
as Doctor Neumann

Scars of Dracula

1970
as Dracula

Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn

2007
as Narrator

Crypt of the Vampire

1964
as Count Ludwig Karnstein

The Cockleshell Heroes

1955
as Submarine Commander Alan Grieves

The Blood of Fu Manchu

1968
as Dr. Fu Man Chu

The Terror of the Tongs

1961
as Chung King

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes

1985

100 Years of Horror: Baron Frankenstein

1996
as Himself

The Face of Fu Manchu

1965
as Dr. Fu Man Chu

Count Dracula

1970
as Dracula

One More Time

1970
as Dracula

The Creeping Flesh

1973
as James Hildern

Paul Temple Returns

1952
as Sir Felix Raybourne

Once Upon a Spy

1980
as Marcus Valorium

They Were Not Divided

1950
as Chris Lewis

Destination Milan

as Svenson

Don't Scream: It's Only a Movie!

1985
as Narrator

Tale of the Mummy

1998
as Sir Richard Turkel

Ill Met by Moonlight

1957
as German officer at dentists

The Disputation

1986
as King James of Aragon

Weta Workshop

2002
as Christopher Lee

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

1965
as Franklyn Marsh (segment "Disembodied Hand")

The Devil's Agent

1962
as Baron Ferdi von Staub

Julius Caesar

1970
as Artemidorus

A Feast At Midnight

1994
as V. E. 'Raptor' Longfellow

The Return of the Musketeers

1989
as Rochefort

Moulin Rouge

1952
as Georges Seurat

The Fellowship of the Cast

2002
as Self - Saruman

The Brides of Fu Manchu

1966
as Fu Manchu

Sherlock Holmes und die Primadonna

1991
as Sherlock Holmes

Penny and the Pownall Case

1948
as Jonathan Blair

The Oblong Box

1969
as Dr. J. Neuhartt

Safari 3000

1982
as Count Borgia

Port Afrique

1956
as Franz Vermes

The Satanic Rites of Dracula

1973
as Count Dracula

A Song for Tomorrow

1948
as Auguste

Boogie Woogie

2009
as Alfred Rhinegold

The Stupids

1996
as Evil Sender

The Rainbow Thief

1990
as Uncle Rudolf

Taste of Fear

1961
as Doctor Pierre Gerrard

The Three Musketeers

1973
as Rochefort

Le boucher, la star et l'orpheline

1975
as Satanus

Jinnah

1998
as Mohammed Ali Jinnah

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1959
as Sir Henry

Prelude to Fame

1950
as Newsman

Babes in Bagdad

1952
as Slave Dealer

Airport '77

1977
as Martin Wallace

The Puzzle of the Red Orchid

1962
as Capt. Allerman

A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghost of M.R. James

1995
as Christopher Lee

Dracula and the Undead

1994
as Count Dracula (archive footage)

The Four Musketeers

1974
as Rochefort

Ian Fleming: 007's Creator

2000
as Self

Theatre of Death

1967
as Philippe Darvas

From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'

2002
as Himself/Count Dooku

Eugenie

1970
as Dolmance

Fright Night

1985
as Dracula (archive footage)

The Girl

1987
as Peter Storm

Rasputin: The Mad Monk

1966
as Grigori Rasputin

Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic

2008
as Death

The Castle of Fu Manchu

1969
as Dr. Fu Man Chu

Shaka Zulu

1986
as Lord Bathurst

100 Years Under the Sea: Shipwrecks of the Caribbean

2007
as Narrator

The Fall Of The House Of Usher

2012
as The Narrator

Taste the Blood of Dracula

1970
as Dracula

Paul McCartney: The McCartney Years

2007
as Christopher Lee

Albino

1976
as Bill

Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery

2015
as Saruman

The Devil-Ship Pirates

1964
as Captain Robeles

Poor Devil

1973
as Lucifer

Diagnosis: Murder

1976
as Dr. Stephen Hayward

Top Secret

1952
as Russian agent

Olympus Force: The Key

1988
as Filly

J.R.R. Tolkien: Origins of Middle-Earth

2003
as Self - Saruman

Around the World in 80 Days

1989
as Stuart

Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady

1992
as Sherlock Holmes

Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story

1982
as Prince Philip

Scott of the Antarctic

1948
as Bernard Day

The Time War

as Narrator (Voice) (unknown episodes)

The Odyssey (1997)

1997
as Tiresias

The City of the Dead

1960
as Prof. Alan Driscoll

The Last Unicorn

1982
as King Haggard (voice)

Dracula

1958
as Count Dracula

100 Years of Horror

1996
as Host

Host

Series Theatre Macabre 1971

Producer

Movie American Wedding 2003
Movie Burning Palms 2010
Movie Nothing but the Night 1973

Guest Star

Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
The Castle of Fu Manchu 		1992
Episode Ghost Stories for Christmas
A Warning to the Curious 		2000
Episode The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
Adventures in the Secret Service 		1999
Episode The Avengers
Never, Never Say Die 		1967
Episode The Schlocky Horror Picture Show
Count Dracula & His Vampire Bride [aka Satanic Rites Of Dracula] (1973) 		2008
Episode Tales of Mystery & Imagination
Biographical portrait of Edgar Allan Poe 		1995
Episode Auf Los geht's los
22.10.1983 		1983
Episode This is Your Life (UK)
Christopher Lee 		1974
Episode Charlie's Angels
Angel in Hiding (1) 		1980
Episode Colonel March of Scotland Yard
At Night All Cats Are Grey 		1956
Episode Tuesday Documentary
Barry Norman: The Rank Charm School 		1982
Episode Charlie's Angels
Angel in Hiding (2) 		1980
Episode One Step Beyond
The Sorcerer 		1961
Episode Wetten, dass..?
Wetten, dass..? aus Kiel 		1987
Episode Blue Heelers
Lies and Whispers 		1999
Episode Tele-Illustrierte
Sendung vom 18. August 1984 		1984
Episode The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Sign of Satan 		1964
Episode Space: 1999
Earthbound 		1975
Episode LEGO Star Wars
The Quest for R2-D2 		2009
Episode Blue Heelers
Miss Mount Thomas 		1996
Episode Ivanhoe
The German Knight 		1958
Episode Tales of the Vikings
Pedigree 		1959
Episode Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The Clone Wars 		2008
Episode Blue Heelers
Gold (1) 		1997
Episode Ghost Stories for Christmas
The Stalls of Barchester 		2000
Episode Ghost Stories for Christmas
The Ash Tree 		2000
Episode Saturday Night Live
Christopher Lee/Meat Loaf 		1978
Episode Tales of Mystery & Imagination
The Masque of the Red Death, Part 1 		1995
Episode Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
The Leather Funnel 		1974
Episode Ghost Stories for Christmas
Number 13 		2000
Episode Tales of Mystery & Imagination
The Masque of the Red Death, Part 2 		1995