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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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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003
as Saruman (extended edition)

Alice in Wonderland

2010
as The Jabberwocky (voice)

Corpse Bride

2005
as Pastor Galswells (voice)

Hugo

2011
as Monsieur Labisse

Dark Shadows

2012
as Clarney

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

Season of the Witch

2011
as Cardinal D'Ambroise

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

1994
as Commandant Aleksandr Nikolaevich Rakov

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 Skull

1965
as Sir Matthew Phillips

Cameras in Middle-Earth

2004
as Christopher Lee

Fanex Files: Hammer Films

2008
as Christopher Lee

Fortune Is a Woman

1957
as Charles Highbury

Extraordinary Tales

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

Fall of the Eagles

1989
as Walter Strauss

Alias John Preston

1955
as John Preston

The Passage

1979
as Gypsy

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 Whip and the Body

1963
as Kurt Menliff

Return from Witch Mountain

1978
as Victor Gannon

Death Line

1972
as Stratton-Villiers, MI5

The Care of Time

1990
as Karlis Zander

Hollywood Chinese

2007
as Himself

Killer Force

1976
as Major Chilton

She

1965
as Billali

The Bengal Lancers!

1984
as Sir James Hunter

Horror Castle

1963
as Erich

Caravans

1978
as Sardar Khan

Hercules in the Haunted World

1961
as King Lico (Licos)

One Night with You

1948
as Pirelli's Assistant

An Eye for an Eye

1981
as Morgan Canfield

The Rosebud Beach Hotel

1984
as Mr. Clifford King

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

Valley of the Eagles

1951
as Det. Holt

Face of Unity

2014
as Himself

1941

1979
as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt

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

The Miser

1990
as Cardinale Spinosi

Hannie Caulder

1971
as Bailey

The Girl from Nagasaki

2013
as Old Officer Pinkerton

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

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

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

Umbracle

1972
as The Man

End of the World

1977
as Father Pergado / Zindar

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

The Magic Christian

1969
as Ship's Vampire

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

Serial

1980
as Luckman/Skull

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

Beat Girl

1960
as Kenny King

Fear in the Dark

1991
as Narrator

The Top and the Ball

1953
as Narrator / Father

Mio min Mio

1987
as Kato

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

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

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

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

Circle of Iron

1978
as Zetan

New Magic

1983
as Mr. Kellar

Gormenghast

2000
as Flay

The Traitor

1957
as Doctor Neumann

Scars of Dracula

1970
as Dracula

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 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

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

Moulin Rouge

1952
as Georges Seurat

The Fellowship of the Cast

2002
as Self - Saruman

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

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

Jinnah

1998
as Mohammed Ali Jinnah

Prelude to Fame

1950
as Newsman

Babes in Bagdad

1952
as Slave Dealer

Airport '77

1977
as Martin Wallace

Dracula and the Undead

1994
as Count Dracula (archive footage)

The Four Musketeers

1974
as Rochefort

Theatre of Death

1967
as Philippe Darvas

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

The Castle of Fu Manchu

1969
as Dr. Fu Man Chu

Shaka Zulu

1986
as Lord Bathurst

Albino

1976
as Bill

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

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

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 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