Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (May 27, 1922 - June 7, 2015) is a British character actor, singer and writer. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Lee is famous for portraying criminals and becoming famous for his role as Count Dracula in the sequence of Hammer Horror movies. Other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Saruman in The Trilogy film Theil of the Rings (2001-2003) and < i> The Hobbit trilogy film (2012-2014), and Count Dooku in the second and third films of Star Wars prequel to prequel (2002 & 2005).
Lee was knighted for service for drama and charity in 2009, received BAFTA Fellowship in 2011, and received the BFI Fellowship in 2013. Lee considers his best performance as the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biography film Jinnah i > (1998), and his best film became British cult film The Wicker Man (1973). He often appears opposite Peter Cushing in many horror movies, and at the end of his career has a role in six Tim Burton movies.
Always recorded as an actor for his deep and powerful voice, Lee is also known for his singing abilities, recorded opera and musical pieces between 1986 and 1998, and the symphonic metal album Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross Charlemagne: The Omens of Death was released on 27 May 2013, Lee's 91st birthday. He was honored with the "Spirit of Metal" award at the Golden Hammer Gold Award 2010 ceremony. Lee died of complications of respiratory problems and heart failure on the morning of June 7, 2015, at the age of 93.
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Lee was born in Belgravia, London, son of Lt. Col. Geoffrey Trollope Lee (1879-1941) of the Royal Royal Corps, and his wife, Countess Estelle Marie ( nÃÆ' Â © e Carandini di Sarzano; 1889-1981). Lee's father fought in the Boer War and the First World War, and his mother was an Edwardian beauty painted by Sir John Lavery, Oswald Birley, and Olive Snell, and carved by Clare Sheridan; his lineage can be traced to Charlemagne. Lee's great-grandfather Lee is an Italian political refugee, whose wife, Lee's great-grandmother, is a British-born opera singer Marie Carandini (Burgess). He has a sister, Xandra Carandini Lee (1917-2002).
Lee's parents separated when he was four years old and divorced two years later. During this time, his mother took him and his sister to Wengen in Switzerland. After enrolling at the Miss Fisher Academy in Territet, he played his first role, as Rumpelstiltskin. They then returned to London, where Lee attended Wagner's private school at Queen's Gate, and his mother married Harcourt George St-Croix Rose, a banker and uncle of Ian Fleming. Fleming, the author of the James Bond novel, thus became Lee's cousin. The family moved to Fulham, living next to actor Eric Maturin. One night, he was introduced to Prince Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, the assassin of Grigori Rasputin, whom Lee would play years later.
When Lee was nine years old, he was sent to Summer Fields School, a preparatory school in Oxford where his students often attended Eton. She continues to act in school dramas, though "her win is worth going to Patrick Macnee". Lee filed a scholarship to Eton, where the interview was in the presence of the ghostly writer M. R. James. Sixty years later, Lee plays James's role for the BBC. Poor mathematical skills meant that he was placed eleventh, and thus missed out into a King's Scholar by one place. His stepfather was not prepared to pay the higher fees that an Oppidan Scholar intended, so he was not present. Instead, Lee attended Wellington College, where he won a scholarship in classics, studied Ancient Greek and Latin. Aside from the "little part" in the school play, he did not act while in Wellington. He is a rogue and eligible performer and competent cricketer but does not play well in other sports: hockey, football, rugby, and boxing. He does not like marches and weapons training and will always "play dead" as soon as possible during a mock battle. Lee was often beaten at school, including once in Wellington for being "beaten too often", although he accepted it as a "logical and therefore acceptable" punishment for breaking the rules consciously. At the age of 17, and with a year left in Wellington, the summer of 1939 was his last. His stepfather had gone bankrupt, for  £ 25,000.
Her mother parted ways with Rose, and Lee had to get a job, her sister already working as a secretary for the Church of England Retirement Board. With most of the employers or getting ready to go summer vacation, there is no direct chance for Lee, so he was sent to the French Riviera, where his brother was on holiday with friends. On the way there he paused in Paris, where he lived with reporter Webb Miller, a friend of Rose, and witnessed Eugen Weidmann's execution by the guillotine - the last public execution conducted in France. Arriving in Menton, he lived with the Russian Mazirov family, who lived among the exiled noble families. It was arranged that he should stay in Menton after his sister returned home, but with Europe on the brink of war, he returned to London. He works as an office clerk for the United States Lines, takes care of letters and runs assignments.
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Military service during the Second World War
When the Second World War broke out, Lee volunteered to fight for the Finnish army during the Winter War of 1939. He and other British volunteers were kept out of actual combat, but they took out winter equipment and were placed on a safe distance from the front. After two weeks, they went home. Lee returned to work in the United States Lines and found his work more satisfying, feeling that he was contributing. In early 1940, he joined Beecham, initially as an office clerk, then as a switchboard operator. When Beecham moved from London, he joined the Home Guard. In winter, his father fell ill with bilateral pneumonia and died on 12 March 1941. Recognizing that he had no inclination to follow his father into the Army, Lee decided to join while he still had some service options, and volunteered for the Royal Air Force.
Lee reported to RAF Uxbridge for training and then posted to the Early Training Wing in Paignton. After he passed the test in Liverpool, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan means he traveled in Reina del Pacifico to South Africa, then to his post on Hillside, in Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia. Training with de Havilland Tiger Moths, Lee was undergoing a second training session from behind before his first solo flight, when he suffered headaches and blurred vision. The medical officer hesitantly diagnosed his optic nerve failure, and he was told he would not be allowed to fly again. Lee was devastated, and the death of a trainee from Summer Fields just made him sadder. His plea did not work, and he had nothing to do. He was transferred to various stations before being sent to the capital of Southern Rhodesia, Salisbury, in December 1941. He then visited Dam Mazowe, Marandellas, Wankie Game Reserve, and the Great Zimbabwe ruins. Thinking he had to "do something constructive for me to save", he applied to join the RAF Intelligence. Her boss praised her initiative, and she was seconded to the Rhodesian Police Station and placed as a prison warden in Salisbury Prison. He was later promoted to plane leader and moved to Durban in South Africa, before traveling to Suez at Nieuw Amsterdam.
After "killing time" at RAF Kasfareet near Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal Zone, he continued his intelligence work in the city of IsmaÃÆ'¯lia. He then attached to No. 205 RAF Group before being commissioned as a pilot officer by the end of January 1943, and joined No. 1. 260 RAF Squadron as an intelligence officer. As the North African Campaign progresses, the squadron "jumps" between the Egyptian airstrips, from RAF El Daba to Maaten Bagush and to Mersa Matruh. They provide air support to ground troops and bomb strategic targets. Lee, "in general, is expected to know everything". Allied progress continued into Libya, through Tobruk and Benghazi to Marble Arch and then through El Agheila, Khoms and Tripoli, with an average squadron of five missions a day. As progress progresses to Tunisia, with the Axis digging in Mareth Line, Lee is almost killed when the squadron airfield is bombed. After penetrating Mareth Line, the squadron made their last base in Kairouan. After the Poros surrendered in North Africa in May 1943, the squadron moved to Zuwarah in Libya in preparation for the Allied invasion of Sicily. They then moved to Malta, and, after being captured by the Eighth British Army, the small town of Pachino in Sicily, before making a permanent base at Agnone Bagni. At the end of July 1943, Lee received his second promotion this year, this time for the flying officer. After the Sicilian campaign ended, Lee dropped malaria for the sixth time in less than a year, and was flown to a hospital in Carthage for treatment. When he returned, the squadron was agitated, frustrated by the lack of news about the Eastern Front and the Soviet Union in general, and without letters from home or alcohol. Riots spread and threatened to turn into rebellion. Lee, now an expert in Russia, spoke to them to continue their work, which impresses his commanding officer.
After the Allied invasion of Italy, the squadron was based in Foggia and Termoli during the winter of 1943. Lee was then seconded to the Army during an officer exchange scheme. He spent most of this time with the Gurkha from the 8th Indian Infantry Division during the Battle of Monte Cassino. While spending some time off work in Naples, Lee climbs Mount Vesuvius, which erupted three days later. During the last attack on Monte Cassino, the squadron was based in San Angelo, and Lee was nearly killed when one of the planes crashed on take-off, and he tripped over one of the live bombs. After the battle, the squadron moved to an airfield outside Rome, and Lee visited the city, where he met his mother's cousin, NicolÃÆ'² Carandini, who had fought in the Italian resistance movement. In November 1944, Lee was promoted to a flight lieutenant and left the squadron at Iesi to take up the post at the Air Force Base. Lee takes part in future planning and relationships, in preparation for a potential attack on the rumored Alpine Citadel. After the war ended, Lee was invited to go hunting near Vienna and then bet on PÃÆ'¶rtschach am Wörthersee. During the last few months of his ministry, Lee, who speaks French and German fluently, among other languages, is endorsed by the Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects. Here, he was assigned to help track down Nazi war criminals. About his time with the organization, Lee said: "We were given a document about what they had done and said to find it, interrogated them as much as we could and handed them over to the right authorities... We looked at this concentration camp some had been cleansed.. "He retired from the RAF in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant flight.
Lee's stepfather served as captain of the Intelligence Corps, but it was unlikely he had any influence over Lee's military career. Lee saw him for the last time on a bus in London in 1940, then divorced from Lee's mother, even though Lee did not talk to her. Lee mentioned that during the war he attached to the Executive of Special Operations and the Long Range Desert Group, the predecessor of the SAS, but always refused to go into details.
I am tied to SAS from time to time but we are banned - ex, now, or future - to discuss specific operations. Let's just say I'm in the Special Forces and stop there. People can read for what they like.
Careers
1947-1957: Beginning career
Returning to London in 1946, Lee was offered back his old job at Beecham, with a significant increase, but he rejected it as "I can not think myself back to the frame of mind of the office." The Armed Forces sent veterans with an education in Classics to teach at university, but Lee felt his Latin was too rusty and unconcerned with the curfew. At lunch with his cousin NicolÃÆ'² Carandini, now the Italian Ambassador to England, Lee details his war wounds when Carandini says, "Why do not you become an actor, Christopher?" Lee liked the idea, and after defusing his mother's protests by pointing to the successful Carandini players in Australia (who included his great-great grandmother Marie Carandini, who was a successful opera singer), she met NicolÃÆ'² friend Filippo Del Giudice, a lawyer - film-turned producer. The Head of Two City's Film, part of the Rank Organization, Giudice, "looks me up and down... [and] concludes that I am just what the industry is looking for". He was sent to see Josef Somlo for a contract, which immediately announced that he was "too tall to be an actor". Somlo sent him to see Rank's David Henley and Olive Dodds, who signed it on a seven-year contract.
A student at Rank's Enchantment School, Lee and many others have trouble finding work. He eventually made his film dà ©  © but in the romance of the Gothic Terence Young Corridor of Mirrors (1947). She plays Charles; the director made it to its heights by placing it on a nightclub table with Lois Maxwell, Mavis Villiers, Hugh Latimer and John Penrose. Lee has one line, "a satirical shaft intended to qualify bravura lead".
His "internship" lasts ten years, as he mostly plays as a supporter and background character.
I am around a long time - almost ten years. Initially, I was told I was too tall to be an actor. That's a very stupid statement to make. It's like saying you're too short to play the piano. I thought, "Right, I will show you..." At first I did not know anything about the technique working in front of the camera, but for 10 years, I did one very important thing today - I watch, I listen and i learn. So when the time comes I'm ready... Surprisingly, to play a character who says nothing [The Creature in The Curse of Frankenstein].
Also in this early period, he made an unqualified appearance in the film version of Laurence Olivier of Hamlet (1948), as the bearer of the spear (fellow star and his close friend Peter Cushing playing Osric). A few years later, he appeared on Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) as captain of Spain. He was cast when the director asked if he could speak Spanish and fence, which he could do. Lee appeared unfashionable in the epic of Qui Vadis (also 1951), who was shot in Rome, playing train driver and injured when he was thrown from there at one point during filming.
He recalled that his breakthrough came in 1952, when Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. began filming at the British National Studios. He said in 2006, "I played in various roles in 16 of them and even appeared with Buster Keaton and it proved an excellent training ground." That same year, she appeared in the Oscar nomination of John Huston Moulin Rouge . Over the next decade, he made almost 30 films, including Cockleshell Heroes , playing most of the stock action characters.
1957-1976: Working with Hammer
Lee's first film for Hammer was The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), where he played Frankenstein's monster, with Peter Cushing as Baron Victor Frankenstein. It was the first film starring Lee and Cushing, who eventually appeared together in over twenty films and became close friends. When he arrived at the casting session for the movie, "they asked me if I wanted that part, I said yes and that was it". Moments later, Lee starred alongside Boris Karloff in the movie Corridors of Blood (1958). Lee had previously performed with Karloff in 1955 in the episode "At Night, All Cats are Gray" from the British Colonel March of Scotland Yard television series.
Lee's own appearance as a Frankenstein monster caused his first appearance as a Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula in the movie Dracula (1958, known as Horror of Dracula in the United States). A critically acclaimed film that saw Lee refine vampire-vampire images in popular culture, Dracula has been ranked among the best British films. Empire movie magazine put Lee's portrait as Dracula, the 7th Horror Film Character of All Time. Lee received a similar role in the Italian-French horror picture called Uncle Vampires (1959).
Lee returned to Dracula's role in Hammer Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1965). Lee's role has no lines, he simply puts his way through the film. The story varies for reasons for this: Lee states he refuses to speak the poor dialogue given to him, but screenwriter Jimmy Sangster claims that the script does not contain lines for characters. The film sets the standard for most of the sequel to Dracula in the sense that half the time the movie runs is spent to tell the story of Dracula's resurrection and his short character appearance. Lee went on record to state that he was almost "blackmailed" by Hammer to star in the next films; unable or unwilling to pay him, he will remind him of how many people will be expelled from his job, if he does not take part.
The process goes like this: The phone will ring and my agent will say, "Jimmy Carreras [President of Hammer Film] has spoken on the phone, they have Dracula again for you." And I will say, "Forget it! I do not want to do anything else." I'll get a call from Jimmy Carreras, in a state of hysteria. "What is this ?!" "Jim, I do not want to do it, and I do not have to." "No, you have to!" And I said, "Why?" He replied, "Because I've sold it to an American distributor with you playing a role, Think of everyone you know so well, that you'll lose your job!" Emotional hardening. That's the only reason I did it.
His roles in Dracula's Dramatic Movies (1968), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969), and Scars of Dracula (1970 ) all gave very little Count to do. Lee said in an interview in 2005, "all they do is write a story and try and match the character somewhere, which is very clear when you see the movie.They gave me nothing to do! I begged Hammer to let me use some lines written by Bram Stoker.Sometimes, I sneak in. "Although Lee may not like what Hammer does with that character, a worldwide audience is embracing the films, all of which are commercially successful.
Lee starred in two more Dracula movies for Hammer in the early 1970s, both trying to bring the character into the modern era. It was not commercially successful: Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) and The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973). The latter film is titled while Dracula Is Dead... and Well and Living in London, my stage parody and musical performances of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. , but Lee is not amused. Speaking at a press conference in 1973 to announce the film, Lee said, "I'm doing it under protest... I think it's stupid, I can think of twenty adjectives - silly, useless, unreasonable.This is not comedy, but it's got a comic title I do not understand. " The Satanic Rites Of Dracula is the last Dracula film played by Christopher Lee of Dracula's role, as he feels he has played too many roles and Dracula's film is deteriorating in quality. Hammer went on to make yet another Dracula movie without him: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974), with John Forbes-Robertson playing Count and David de Keyser stripping him.
Overall, Lee plays Dracula ten times: seven films for Hammer Productions, once for Count Dracula Jesse Franco (1970), excluded from Jerry Lewis's One More Time (1970) and ÃÆ' â € ° douard Molinaro Dracula and Son (1976 ).
Other Lee jobs for Hammer include The Mummy (1959). Lee plays Rasputin in Rasputin, Mad Monk (1966) and Sir Henry Baskerville (to Sherlock Holmes Cushing) in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959). Lee then played Holmes himself in the 1962s Sherlock Holmes and Deadly Necklace, and returned to the Holmes film with British-made Billy Wilder The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), at which he plays Sherlock's more intelligent brother, Mycroft. Lee considered this film to be the reason he quit being typecast: "I've never been a typecast since.Of course, I've played a lot of fame, but like Anthony Hopkins says," I do not play criminals, I play people. "Lee played a leading role in the German film Puzzle of the Red Orchid (1962), speaking German, which he had learned during his education in Switzerland. She auditioned for the part in The Longest Day movie (1962), but was rejected because she did not "look like a military man". Some wrong movie books gave him an appreciation for the role in the movie, something he had to correct for the rest of his life.
Lee's friend, Dennis Wheatley, a famous writer, was responsible for bringing magical knowledge to him. The company made two films from the novel Wheatley, both starring Lee. The first, The Devil Rides Out (1967), is generally regarded as one of the top achievements of Hammer. According to Lee, Wheatley is very happy with it, that he offers movie rights actors for his remaining black magic novel, for free. However, the second film, To the Devil a Daughter (1976), is filled with production difficulties and is not recognized by the author. Though financially successful, it was Hammer's last horror film, and marked the end of Lee's long relationship with the studio that had a huge impact on his career.
Various roles: The Wicker Man and James Bond
Like Cushing, Lee also appeared in horror films for other companies over a 20-year period from 1957 to 1977. Other films featuring Lee included the Fu Manchu series films made between 1965 and 1969, where he acted as a villain on make-up heavy oriental; Me, Monster (1971), where he plays Jekyll and Hyde; The Creeping Flesh (1972); and his personal favorite, The Wicker Man (1973), where he played Lord Summerisle. Lee wants to break away from his image as Dracula and take on a more attractive acting role. She met with screenwriter Anthony Shaffer, and they agreed to work together. Film director Robin Hardy and British Lion leader Peter Snell were involved in the project. Shaffer had a series of conversations with Hardy, and both decided it would be fun to create a horror movie centered on the "old religion," in stark contrast to the popular Hammer movie of the day. Shaffer reads the novel David Pinner Ritual, where a devout Christian police officer is summoned to investigate what appears to be the ritual murder of a young girl in a rural village, and decides that it will function well as a source material for the project the. Shaffer and Lee pay Pinner Ã, £ 15,000 for the rights to the novel, and Schaffer begins work on the scenario. However, he immediately decided that direct adaptation would not work properly, and began to compose new stories, using only the novel baseline. Lee is eager to get the movie made, he gives his services for free, because the budget is very small. He will then refer to the film as the best he has ever made.
Lee emerged as the screen narrator at Jess Franco Eugenie (1970) as a help to producer Harry Alan Towers, unaware that it was softcore pornography, because the sex scenes were shot separately.
I do not know what it is when I approve of that role. I was told it was about the Marquis de Sade. I flew to Spain for my daily work playing part of a narrator. I have to wear a red dinner jacket. There are many people behind me. They all wore their clothes. It seems nothing strange or weird. A friend said, "Did you know you were in a movie on Old Compton Street?" In those days where the mackintosh brigade watched their films. "Very funny," I said. So I crawled along there very disguised in sunglasses and scarves, and found a cinema and there was my name. I was very angry! There's a big row. When I left Spain that day everyone behind me had undressed them!
In addition to filming in the UK, Lee made a film on the European mainland: he appeared in two German films, Count Dracula (1970), where he again played the number of vampires, and The Sadism Torture Room (1967). Other European films he created included the Castle of the Living Dead (1964) and Horror Express (1972). Lee is the producer of the horror film Nothing But the Night (also 1972), where he also starred. It was the first and last movie he ever produced, because he did not enjoy the process.
Lee appeared as Comte de Rochefort at Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers (1973). He was injured in his left knee during filming, an injury he felt many years later. He also appeared in the sequel to The Four Musketeers (1974), which was actually shot at the same time. Though "killed" in the latter film, he changed his role in The Return of the Musketeers (1989), with the character given the token dialog explaining that his wound in the climactic climactic battle of the previous film was not fatal.
After the mid-1970s, Lee avoided the role of horror almost entirely. Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond spy novel and Lee's step-cousin, has offered him the role of titular antagonist in the first Bond Eon-produced film. Nothing (1962). Lee enthusiastically accepted, but by the time Fleming informed the producers, they had chosen Joseph Wiseman for the role. Lee eventually had to play the James Bond villain in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), where he played the deadly killer of Francisco Scaramanga. Lee said of his performance, "In Fleming's novel he's just a West Indian criminal, but in that movie he's charming, elegant, funny, lethal... I play it like the dark side of Bond."
Because of her filming schedule in Bangkok, film director Ken Russell could not sign Lee to play as a Specialist at Tommy (1975). The role was eventually given to Jack Nicholson. In the documentary of the AMC on Halloween (1978), John Carpenter states that he offers the role of Samuel Loomis to Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, before Donald Pleasence takes on the role. Years later Lee met Carpenter, and told him that the greatest regret in his career did not take the role of Dr. Loomis.
Lee appeared on the cover of Wings Band on the Run (1973), along with others including Michael Parkinson, singer Kenny Lynch, movie actor James Coburn, world boxing champion John Conteh, and Clement broadcaster Freud.
1977: Moving to Hollywood
In 1977, Lee left the UK for the United States, who worried about being typecast in a horror movie, as happened to his close friends, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. He said in an interview in 2011:
Peter and Vincent made some awesome serious movies but only known for being horrified. That's why I went to America. I can not see anything going on here except the continuation of what has happened before. Some friends, Dick Widmark and Billy Wilder, told me that I had to leave London otherwise I would always be a typecast.
His first American film was a disaster movie Airport '77 (1977). In 1978, Lee surprised many people with his willingness to go along with jokes, by appearing as a guest host on NBC Saturday Night Live. As a result of his performance on SNL , Steven Spielberg, who was in the audience, put it in 1941 (1979). Meanwhile, Lee starred alongside Bette Davis in the Disney movie Back from Witch Mountain (1978). He rejected Dr. Barry Rumack (finally played by Leslie Nielsen) in spoof disaster Airplane! (1980), a decision which he later called "big mistake".
Lee appeared in The Return of Captain Invincible (1982), a comedy-musical film. Lee plays a fascist who plans to get rid of America (and after that, the world) of all who are not whites. Lee sang two songs in the movie ("Name Your Poison" and "Mister Midnight"), written by Richard O'Brien (who had written The Rocky Horror Picture Show seven years earlier) and Richard Hartley. Later, he appeared with Reb Brown and Sybil Danning in Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985). Lee made his last appearance as Sherlock Holmes in the Incident at Victoria Falls (1991) and Sherlock Holmes and Leading Lady (1992).
In addition to more than a dozen feature films together for Hammer Films, Amicus Productions, and other companies, Lee and Peter Cushing appeared in
In 1998, Lee starred in the role of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan, in the film Jinnah . In 2002, when speaking of his favorite role in the film at a press conference at the Fantastic Brussels International Film Festival, he stated that his role in Jinnah was by far his best performance.
Lee is considered for the role of comic book villain/hero Magneto in the screen adaptation of the popular X-Men comic book series, but he lost the role to Sir Ian McKellen, his co-star in Lord of the Rings i> and The Hobbit .
2000s: Lord of the Rings and Star Wars
She has many television roles, including Flay's role in the BBC television miniseries, based on the novel Mervyn Peake,
Lee plays Saruman in the movie trilogy of The Lord of the Rings . In his comments, he states that he has a decade-long dream to play Gandalf, but he is now too old, and his physical limitations prevent him from being considered. Saruman's role, by contrast, does not require riding and less fighting. Lee once met J. R. R. Tolkien once (making him the only person involved in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy) has done so and is accustomed to reading novels at least once a year. In addition, he appeared for the album The Lord of the Rings: Songs and Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien in 2003. Lee's appearance in the last film in the trilogy, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, was cut from the theatrical release, but the scene was restored to additional editions.
Lord of the Rings marks the beginning of a major career revival that continues in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), where he plays the evil Count Dooku. He performs most of the sword's own game, though a double is required for long shots with stronger footwork.
Lee is one of Tim Burton's favorite actors, and became regular in many Burton movies, working for the director five times, starting in 1999, where he has a small role as Burgomaster in the movie Sleepy Hollow. In 2005, Lee plays Willy Wonka's tough dentist father, Dr. Wilbur Wonka, in Burton's redesign of the story of Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , and voiced the character of Father Galswells at Corpse Bride. , directed by Burton and Mike Johnson.
In 2007, Lee collaborated with Burton on Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, playing the spirit of victim Sweeney Todd, called Gentleman Ghost, along with Anthony Head, with both singing "The Ballad of Sweeney" Todd ", reprises and Epilognya.These songs were recorded, but ultimately cut because Burton felt that the songs were too theatrical for the film Lee's appearance was completely cut from the film, but the Head still had an unenlighted cameo line. In 2008, he was offered the role of King Balor in Guillermo del Toro Hellboy II: The Golden Army , but had to reject it because of previous commitments.
At the end of November 2009, Lee narrated the Science Fiction Festival in Trieste, Italy. Also in 2009, Lee starred in the British period drama by Stephen Poliakoff Glorious 39 with Julie Christie, Bill Nighy, Romola Garai and David Tennant, film director nominated by Academy Award Danis Tanovi? Triage with Colin Farrell and Paz Vega, and Duncan Ward's Boogie Woogie comedy with Amanda Seyfried, Gillian Anderson, Stellan SkarsgÃÆ' Â¥ rd and Joanna Lumley.
2010s: Later role
In 2010, Lee marked his fourth collaboration with Tim Burton by voicing Jabberwock in Lewton Carroll's classic Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland adaptation with Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway. While he has only two lines, Burton says that he feels Lee is a suitable match for iconic character, as Lee himself becomes "an iconic man".
Lee won the "Spirit of Metal" award in Metal Hammer Golden Gods 2010. The award was presented by Tony Iommi. In 2010, Lee received the Steiger Award (Germany) and, in February 2011, Lee was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship.
In 2011, she appeared in Hammer's movie for the first time in thirty-five years, the last being the 1976's To the Devil a Daughter . The film is titled The Resident , and he gives a "very creepy" appearance with Hilary Swank and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. While filming a scene for a movie in New Mexico in early 2009, Lee injured his back when he tripped over the power cord on the set. He had to undergo surgery, and as a result, he could not play the role of Sir Lachlan Morrison in The Wicker Tree, a sequel to The Wicker Man. Incredibly disappointed, director Robin Hardy rearranged the role, but Lee was determined to appear in the film, so Hardy wrote a special little scene for him. Lee appears as an unnamed "Parent" who acts as Lachlan's mentor in a flashback. Hardy stated that the Wicker Man fans would recognize this character as Lord Summerisle, but Lee contradicts this, stating that they are two unrelated characters. Also in 2011, Lee appeared in the critically acclaimed Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese.
On January 11, 2011, Lee announced on his website that he would repeat Saruman's role for the prequel movie The Hobbit . Lee initially said that he wanted to show Saruman corruption by Sauron, but he would not feel comfortable flying to New Zealand at his age. Production was adjusted to accommodate Lee's travel concerns, thus allowing him to participate in films from London. Lee said he worked on his role for the film for four days, describing Saruman as a good and noble magician, before his downfall into darkness, as depicted in the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings film ().
In 2012, Lee marked his fifth and final collaboration with Tim Burton, appearing in a Burton film adaptation of the Dark Shadows gothic soap opera, in the small role of a New England fisherman captain.
In an interview in August 2013, Lee said that he was "sad" to hear his friend Johnny Depp consider retiring from acting, noting that he himself had no intention of retiring.
There's frustration - people lying to you, people who do not know what they're doing, movies that do not turn out the way you want - so, yes, I understand [why Depp will consider retiring]. I always ask myself "well, what else can I do?". Making movies has never been a job for me, it is my life. I have some interests outside acting - I sing and I have written a book, for example - but acting is what keeps me going, that's what I do, it gives life purpose... I'm realistic about the amount of work I can reach my age , but I take what I can, even voice-over and narration.
Lee narrated the long-term documentary Necessary Crime: Super Villain of DC Comics , released on October 25, 2013. In 2014, he appeared in an episode of the BBC Timeshift documentary series called How to Become a Sherlock Holmes: Many Faces of the Master's Detective . Lee and others who have played Sherlock Holmes discuss characters and interpretations about him. She also appears on exclusive web, reading excerpts from short story The Last Problem . He also narrated an advertising campaign for Age UK, reading poetry by Roger McGough.
A month before his death, Lee was signed to star in the ensemble cast in the Danish film The 11th . His last appearance was an independent Angels of Notting Hill directed by Michael Pakleppa. The comedy about an angel trapped in London who falls in love with a human being. Lee plays The Boss/Mr. President and film premiere at Regent Street Cinema, London on Saturday October 29, 2016 Lee recorded his last words for the movie at Redwood Studios in Soho, London on May 17, 2015 just 3 weeks before his death on June 7, 2015.
Voice work
Lee speaks fluent English, Italian, French, Spanish, and German, and is quite proficient in Swedish, Russian and Greek. He is Thor's original voice in the German dubs of the Danish animated film 1986 Valhalla , and King Haggard both in English and German from the 1982 animated adaptation of The Last Unicorn.
Lee gave off-camera voice "U.Ã, N. Owen", a mysterious carrier carrying different characters together at Agatha Christie Ten Little Indians (1965). The film is produced by Harry Alan Towers, who has worked repeatedly in the 1960s. Though she is not credited in the film, her voice is not wrong. He also provided all the voices for the English call of Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953).
She contributed with her voice as Death in the animated version of Terry Pratchett Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters, and took part in the live action adaptation of Sky1 The Color of Magic , took over the role of the late Ian Richardson.
Lee voted for the role of Ansem the Wise/DiZ in Kingdom Hearts II video game, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, and Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix , but veteran voice actor Corey Burton (who will also take over for Lee in Star Wars: The Clone Wars ) took over for Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories < i> Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep , and Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days released as part of Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix . He is Lucan D'Lere's voice in the trailer for EverQuest II .
Lee took on his role as Saruman in the video game The Lord of the Rings: Battle for the Middle East along with other actors from the films. He also narrated and sang for Danish music group The Tolkien Ensemble, taking on the role of Treebeard, King ThÃÆ' Â © oden and others in reading or singing poems or songs respectively. In 2007, he voiced the transcript of The Children of HÃÆ'ºrin by J.R.R. Tolkien for the audiobook version of the novel.
In 2005, Lee voted Pastor Galswells at The Corpse Bride, directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson. He served as the narrator on The Nightmare Before Christmas poem, written by Tim Burton as well. Lee imitated his role as Count Dooku in the 2008 "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" animated film, but Corey Burton took his place for the characters in the TV series. From 2008 to 2010, Lee was the host and narrator of "Mystery Theater" which aired on radio around the world. Lee introduced the mystery of American classical radio, sci-fi and detective programs in a series produced, written and directed by Carl Amari. In 2010, he collaborated again with Tim Burton, this time by voicing Jabberwocky in Burton's adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic book Alice in Wonderland.
About thirty years after playing Francisco Scaramanga at The Man with the Golden Gun, Lee gave Scaramanga's voice in GoldenEye: Rogue Agent video game. In 2013, Lee voiced The Earl of Earl's Court on BBC Radio 4 play Never Implications by Neil Gaiman. Lee recorded a special dialogue, in addition to serving as a Narrator, for the video game Lego The Hobbit released in April 2014.
Music career
With the bass sound of his operation, Lee sang the soundtrack of The Wicker Man, featuring Paul Giovanni's composition, "The Tinker of Rye". She sings the closing song of the 1994 horror movie Funny Man . His most prominent musical work in the film, however, appeared in the comedic superhero/rock music The Return of Captain Invincible (1983), in which Lee performed a song and a dance number called "Your Poison Name", written by Richard O'Brien. In 1977 he appeared on the album concepts of Peter Knight and Bob Johnson (from Steeleye Span) The King of Elfland's Daughter . In the 1980s, during the height of the Italo disco, he provided vocals for Kathy Joe Daylor's song "Little Witch".
Lee's first contact with heavy metal music came with a singing duet with Fabio Lione, vocalist of the metal symphonic metal band Rhapsody of Fire on the single "The Magic of the Wizard's Dream" from their album Symphony of Enchanted Lands II - The Dark Secret (he only backing vocals in the album version). Later he appeared as a narrator and backing vocalist on four bands album Symphony of Enchanted Lands II - The Dark Secret , Triumph or Agony , The Frozen Tears of Angels , and From Chaos to Immortality , as well as on EP The Cold Embrace of Fear - A Dark Romantic Symphony , depicts the Wizarding King. He also worked with Manowar while they were recording a new version of their first album, Battle Hymns . Original sound performed by Orson Welles (who had long died on recording). The new album, Battle Hymns MMXI , was released on November 26, 2010.
In 2006, he bridged two different musical genres by performing heavy metal variations from Toreador Song from Carmen's opera with band Inner Terrestrials. The song was featured on her album Revelation in 2007. That same year, she produced a music video for her cover version of the song "My Way".
His first full-length metal album was Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross , which was critically acclaimed and awarded with the "Spirit of Metal" award from the Golden Gods Metal Hammer 2010 ceremony, where he described himself as "a young man right early in his career ". The album was released on March 15, 2010. In June 2012, he released a music video for the song "The Bloody Verdict of Verden".
On his 90th birthday (May 27, 2012), he announced the release of his new single "Let Legend Mark Me as the King" from his upcoming album Charlemagne: The Omens of Death, signifying his move to "full on "heavy metal, which makes it the oldest player in the history of the genre. The music is arranged by Richie Faulkner of the Judas Priest band, and features World Guitar Idol Champion, Hedras Ramos.
In December 2012, he released an EP from the cover of heavy metal Christmas songs titled A Heavy Metal Christmas . She released her second in December 2013, titled A Heavy Metal Christmas Too . With the song "Jingle Hell", Lee entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart at # 22, making it the oldest living player ever to enter the music charts, at 91 years and 6 months. The previous record was held (among live artists) by Tony Bennett, who was 85 years old when he recorded "Body and Soul" with Amy Winehouse in March 2011 (Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" was mapped when Armstrong was 86 years in 1987, but Armstrong had recorded the song 20 years earlier, and was dead by the time the song was a hit). After media attention, the song went up to # 18.
Lee released its third cover EP in May 2014, to celebrate its 92nd anniversary, called Metal Knight, next to the cover of My Way, containing The Toreador March, inspired by opera < i> Carmen , and the songs "The Impossible Dream" and "I Don Quixote" from the musical Don Quixote Man of La Mancha . Lee was inspired to record the last songs because, "as far as I'm concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character I know". Her fourth EP and the third annual Christmas release came in December 2014, when she released "Darkest Carols, Faithful Sing", a hilarious song "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". He explained: "It's light, joyful and fun... At my age, the most important thing for me is to stay active by doing the things I really enjoy, I do not know how long I'll be there, so every day is a celebration, and I want to share it with my fans. "
On a self-titled debut album by Hollywood Vampires, a supergroup consisting of Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper, and Joe Perry, Lee is featured as a narrator on the song "The Last Vampire". Recorded shortly before his death, this marks Lee's last appearance on a music recording.
Personal life
The Carandinis, Lee's maternal ancestor, was given the right to bear the emblem of the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Notes Cinemareview: "Cardinal Consalvi is the Papal Secretary of State at the time of Napoleon, and is buried at the Pantheon in Rome, next to the painter Raphael.His paintings, by Lawrence, hung at Windsor Castle."
Lee is a step cousin of Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond spy novel, and distant relative of Robert E. Lee and astronomer John Lee.
Lee was engaged for some time in the late 1950s to Henriette von Rosen, whom he met at a nightclub in Stockholm. His father, Count Fritz von Rosen, proved to be demanding, delayed their marriage for a year, asking friends living in London to interview Lee, hire private investigators to investigate him, and asked Lee to give him a reference, obtained by Lee from Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.., John Boulting, and Joe Jackson. Lee finds his big family gathering to be like something from the surrealist film of Luis Buà ± uel, and thinks they "kill me with cream". Finally, Lee must have permission from the King of Sweden to marry. Lee had met him several years before the shooting of Tales of Hans Anderson, where he received his blessing. However, shortly before the wedding, Lee ended the engagement. He worries that his financial insecurity in his chosen profession means that he "deserves better" than "plunges into a messy world of actors". He understands, and they cancel the marriage.
Lee was introduced to Danish painter and former model Birgit "Gitte" KrÃÆ'¸ncke by a Danish friend in 1960. They were involved soon after, and married on March 17, 1961. They had a daughter, Christina Erika Carandini Lee (born 1963). , Lee is also the uncle of British actress, Dame Harriet Walter. Both Lee and his daughter Christina give oral vocals on the Rhapsody of Fire album From Chaos to Eternity.
Lee is also known for his impressive height: 6e tall, ft 5 in (1.96m). Lee and his wife Birgit are listed among the fifty best dressed in the 50s by the Guardian in March 2013.
Lee is a supporter of the British Conservative Party. He described Michael Howard as "the ideal person to lead the party" in 2003, and also supported William Hague and David Cameron.
Contrary to popular belief, Lee does not have an extensive library of occult books. While giving a speech at University College Dublin on November 8, 2011, he said: "Somebody wrote I have 20,000 books I have to stay in the tub! I might have four or five [books of the occult]." He further reminds the students of bad occult practices, warning them that he has met "those who claim to be demons who claim to be involved with black magic"; But he himself must never have been involved: "I warn all of you: never, never, never, you will not only lose your mind, you will lose your soul."
Death
Lee died at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on June 7, 2015 at 8:30 am after being treated for respiratory and heart failure shortly after celebrating his 93rd birthday. His wife postponed the public announcement until June 11, to deliver the news to their families.
After Lee's death, fans, friends, actors, directors, and others involved in the film industry openly gave their personal appreciation. British Prime Minister David Cameron called Lee "titan of the golden age of cinema". She is also honored by the Academy at the 88th Academy Awards on February 28, 2016 in the annual In Memoryam section.
Awards and inheritance
Lee was the subject of the BBC This Is Your Life in 1974, where he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews. In 1997, he was appointed Commander of the Order of Venerable of Saint John. On June 16, 2001, as part of the Queen's Anniversary award that year, Lee was appointed Commander of the British Order "for service to Drama". He was made a Knight Scholar "For service to Drama and Charity" on June 13 as part of the Queen's Anniversary Honor in 2009. He was awarded the prince title by Prince Charles, but due to his age he was released from the usual requirement to kneel, and thus receive knight while standing. The French government made him Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011.
Lee was named the "best-selling star in the world" in 2005 in a USA Today newspaper poll, after three films he appeared with gross revenues of US $ 640 million. On February 13, 2011, Lee was awarded the BAFTA Academy Fellowship by Tim Burton.
In 2011, accompanied by his wife Birgit, and on the 164th birthday of Bram Stoker, Lee was honored by University College Dublin, and described his honorary membership life at UCD Law Society as "in some special cases as an Oscar." He was awarded the Bram Stoker Gold Medal by Trinity College Philosophical Society, where Stoker was President, and copy of the Ghost Story Collected by MR James by Trinity College English College.
Ancestor
Movieography
Audiobooks
- 2007: J. R. R. Tolkien: Children of HÃÆ'ºrin , HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0007263455 Discussion
- Christopher Lee Sings Devils, Rogues & amp; Other Criminals (1998)
- Revelation (2006)
- Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross (2010)
- Charlemagne: The Omens of Death (2013)
- "Leave Legend Mark Me as the King" (2012)
- "The Ultimate Sacrifice" (2012)
- "Darkest Carols, Faithful Sing" (2014)
- Wicker Man soundtrack (1973)
- Hammer Presents "Dracula" With Christopher Lee (EMI NTS 186 UK/Capitol ST-11340 USA, 1974)
- The Soldier's Tale by Stravinsky, with Scottish Chamber Orchestra performed by Lionel Friend (Nimbus, 1986)
- Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev, with the English String Orchestra held by Yehudi Menuhin (Nimbus, 1989)
- Annie Get Your Gun (1995)
- The Rocky Horror Show (1995)
- King and I (1998)
- Lerner and Loewe's musicality (2002)
- Lord of the Rings: Songs and Poems by J. R. R. Tolkien (2003)
- Edgar Allan Poe Projekt - Visionen (2006), recited poem "The Raven" and sang the song "Elenore"
- Battle Hymns MMXI (2010), Manowar album
- Without fear (2013)
- Hollywood Vampires (2015)
- Symphony of Enchanted Lands II - The Dark Secret (2004), as the narrator
- Triumph or Agony (2006), as narrator and Lothen
- The Frozen Tears of Angels (2010), as narrator and Lothen
- The Cold Embrace of Fear - A Dark Romantic Symphony (2010), as the Wizarding King
- From Chaos to Immortality (2011), as the Wizarding King
- Russ Jones (ed.), Christopher Lee Treasury of Terror , illustrated by Mort Drucker & amp; the other, the Pyramid Book, 1966
- Christopher Lee New Chamber of Horrors , London: Souvenir Press, 1974
- Christopher Lee Archives of Terror , Warner's Book, Volume I, 1975; Volume 2, 1976
- High, Dark and Spooky (autobiography), W.H. Allen, 1977 and 1997
- Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes,
, Titan Books, 1997 and 2007 - Preface by Christopher Lee - Jonathan Rigby, Christopher Lee: Official Screen History , Reynolds & amp; Hearn, 2001 and 2003
- Chris Smith, Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Wars , HarperCollins, 2003 - Preface by Christopher Lee
- Lee, Christopher (2003) [1977]. Lord of Misrule: The Autobiography of Christopher Lee . London: Orion Publishing Group. ISBN 0-7528-5770-3.
- Nicolas Stanzick, Dans les griffes de la Hammer , Paris: Le Bord de l'eau edition, 2010.
- Laurent Aknin, Sir Christopher Lee , Paris: Nouveau Monde ÃÆ' â € ° tions, 2011.
- Monster in the Movie: 100 Years of Sinematic Dreams , by John Landis, DK Publishing, 2011 - Interview with Christopher Lee
- Le Seigneur du dà © sordre (autobiography, French version Lord of Misrule ), Christopher Lee, Camion Blanc (Coll. "Camion Noir"), 2013.
- Christopher Lee at IMDb
- Christopher Lee in the TCM Movie Database
- Christopher Lee at Screenonline UK Film Institute
- Christopher Lee at AllMovie
- Walker, Team (May 31, 2006). "Never Be Terrible In A Terrible Movie". Viewers . Archived from the original on October 16, 2015 . Retrieved December 17 2015 .
- Lindrea, Victoria (October 11, 2004). "Christopher Lee on the making of legend". BBC News . Retrieved December 17 2015 . Ã,
- Unlimited Profile Guardian
- BBC profile
- Christopher Lee's Appearance at This Is Your Life
- Christopher Lee in the Search of the Mausoleum
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Singles
Guest appearances
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References
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