Birthday
1922/05/27
Day of death
2015/06/07 (93 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Westminster, London, England, UK
Also know as
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, Σερ Κρίστοφερ Φρανκ Καραντίνι Λι, Κρίστοφερ Φρανκ Καραντίνι Λι, کریستوفر لی
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 h...Read more
(2005) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
as Dr. Wonka
(2002) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
as Saruman
(2001) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
as Saruman
(1990) Gremlins 2: The New Batch
as Doctor Catheter
(1982) The Last Unicorn
as King Haggard (voice)
(1974) The Man with the Golden Gun
as Francisco Scaramanga
(1960) The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
as Paul Allen
(1977) End of the World
as Father Pergado / Zindar
(1957) The Curse of Frankenstein
as The Creature
(2007) The Golden Compass
as First High Councilor
(2002) Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
as Count Dooku
(2005) Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
as Count Dooku
(1968) The Blood of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
(1965) The Face of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
(1969) The Castle of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
(1962) Secret of the Red Orchid
as Capt. Allerman
(1999) Sleepy Hollow
as Burgomaster
(2005) Corpse Bride
as Pastor Galswells (voice)
(1968) The Movie Orgy
as Fu Manchu/Dracula (archive footage)
(1973) The Three Musketeers
as Rochefort
(1989) The French Revolution
as Sanson
(1958) A Tale of Two Cities
as Marquis St. Evremonde
(1993) Death Train
as General Konstanin Benin
(1970) Count Dracula
as Dracula
(1958) Corridors of Blood
as Resurrection Joe
(1955) Alias John Preston
as John Preston
(1966) The Brides of Fu Manchu
as Fu Manchu
(1970) The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
as Mycroft Holmes
(1979) 1941
as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
(2011) Season of the Witch
as Cardinal D'Ambroise
(1952) The Crimson Pirate
as Joseph (attache)
(1976) Dracula and Son
as Le prince des Ténèbres
(1959) The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Sir Henry Baskerville
(1971) Hannie Caulder
as Bailey
(1977) Airport '77
as Martin Wallace
(1978) Circle of Iron
as Zetan
(1958) Dracula
as Count Dracula
(2010) Alice in Wonderland
as Jabberwocky (voice)
(2008) Star Wars: The Clone Wars
as Count Dooku (voice)
(1972) Dracula A.D. 1972
as Count Dracula
(1992) Beauty and the Beast
as Monsieur Renard (voice)
(1974) The Four Musketeers
as Rochefort
(1972) Horror Express
as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton
(2009) Triage
as Joaquín Morales
(1967) The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
as Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai
(1990) Treasure Island
as Blind Pew
(1948) Corridor of Mirrors
as Charles
(1965) Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
as Franklyn Marsh
(1963) The Whip and the Body
as Kurt Menliff
(1970) Scars of Dracula
as Dracula
(1979) The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
(1961) Hercules in the Haunted World
as King Lico (Licos)
(1968) Curse of the Crimson Altar
as J.D. Morley
(1976) To the Devil a Daughter
as Father Michael
(1994) Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
as Narrator (voice) / Self
(1964) The Castle of the Living Dead
as Count Drago
(1964) The Gorgon
as Prof. Karl Meister
(1966) Rasputin: The Mad Monk
as Grigori Rasputin
(2010) The Heavy
as Mr. Mason
(1973) The Satanic Rites of Dracula
as Count Dracula
(1994) The Rainbow Thief
as Uncle Rudolf
(1961) The Terror of the Tongs
as Chung King
(1959) The Man Who Could Cheat Death
as Dr. Pierre Gerrard
(1980) Serial
as Luckman Skull
(1964) The Devil-Ship Pirates
as Captain Robeles
(1988) Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil
as Luis Morel
(1973) Nothing But the Night
as Col. Charles Bingham
(2009) Glorious 39
as Older Walter Page
(1989) Night of the Eagles
as Walter Strauss
(1978) Caravans
as Sardar Khan
(1998) Jinnah
as Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(1970) Taste the Blood of Dracula
as Dracula
(1968) Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
as Dracula
(1985) Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
as Stefan Crosscoe
(1987) Mio in the Land of Faraway
as Kato
(1989) The Return of the Musketeers
as Rochefort
(2006) Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills
as Self
(1973) The Creeping Flesh
as James Hildern
(1977) Starship Invasions
as Captain Rameses
(1981) An Eye for an Eye
as Morgan Canfield
(1970) Scream and Scream Again
as Fremont
(1970) Julius Caesar
as Artemidorus
(1970) The Bloody Judge
as Lord George Jeffreys
(1966) Circus of Fear
as Gregor
(1965) The Skull
as Sir Matthew Phillips
(2009) Boogie Woogie
as Mr. Alfred Rhinegold
(1978) Return from Witch Mountain
as Victor Gannon
(1962) Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
as Sherlock Holmes
(1960) Beat Girl
as Kenny King
(2004) Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
as Emerich
(1948) Penny and the Pownall Case
as Jonathan Blair
(2012) Dark Shadows
as Clarney
(2011) Hugo
as Monsieur Labisse
(2000) Ian Fleming: 007's Creator
as Self
(1996) The Stupids
as Evil Sender
(1973) The Wicker Man
as Lord Summerisle
(1979) Bear Island
as Lechinski
(1961) Taste of Fear
as Doctor Pierre Gerrard
(1955) The Cockleshell Heroes
as Submarine Commander Alan Grieves
(1983) House of the Long Shadows
as Corrigan
(1966) Dracula: Prince of Darkness
as Count Dracula
(1971) The House That Dripped Blood
as John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")
(1965) She
as Billali
(1998) Tale of the Mummy
as Sir Richard Turkel
(1968) The Devil Rides Out
as Duc de Richleau
(2012) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Saruman the White
(1997) Soul Music
as Death (voice)
(1967) The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Manchu
(1986) Jocks
as President White
(1951) Quo Vadis
as Chariot Driver (uncredited)
(1957) Bitter Victory
as Sgt. Barney
(2011) The Resident
as August
(1959) The Mummy
as Kharis, the Mummy
(1979) The Passage
as Gypsy
(2010) Burke & Hare
as Old Joseph
(1960) The Hands of Orlac
as Nero the magician
(1969) Quelle horreur mon saigneur Dracula
as Self
(1971) I, Monster
as Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake
(1979) Arabian Adventure
as Caliph Alquazar
(1983) The Return of Captain Invincible
as Mr. Midnight
(1976) Killer Force
as Major Chilton
(1969) The Oblong Box
as Dr. J. Neuhartt
(2005) The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
as The Lord Provost
(1963) Horror Castle
as Erich
(1967) Night of the Big Heat
as Godfrey Hanson
(1987) Creepy Classics
as Franklyn Marsh - (archive footage)
(1994) A Feast at Midnight
as V. E. 'Raptor' Longfellow
(1982) Safari 3000
as Count Borgia
(1955) The Dark Avenger
as French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited)
(1967) Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #4
(1979) Jaguar Lives!
as Adam Caine
(1991) Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
as Dr. Pearson
(1962) The Pirates of Blood River
as Captain LaRoche
(1992) Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
as Sherlock Holmes
(2023) Faces of Death
as (archive footage)
(1970) Eugenie
as Dolmance
(2011) The Wicker Tree
as Old Man
(1994) Funny Man
as Callum Chance
(1985) Mask of Murder
as Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich
(1980) Once Upon a Spy
as Marcus Valorium
(1973) Dark Places
as Dr. Ian Mandeville
(1991) Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
as Sherlock Holmes
(2014) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Saruman the White
(1968) Eve
as Colonel Stuart
(1967) Theatre of Death
as Philippe Darvas
(1992) Cyber Eden
as Cedric
(1972) Vampir Cuadecuc
as Self
(1987) The Girl
as Peter Storm
(1981) Evil Stalks This House
as Host
(1984) The Rosebud Beach Hotel
as King
(1951) Valley of the Eagles
as Det. Holt
(1957) Fortune Is a Woman
as Charles Highbury
(2012) Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
as Dracula (archive footage)
(1953) Innocents in Paris
as Lieutenant Whitlock
(2000) The Many Faces of Dracula
as Narrator
(2002) To the Devil... The Death of Hammer
as ---
(2012) Everything or Nothing
as Self
(2012) Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
as Self
(1959) Uncle Was a Vampire
as Baron Roderico da Frankurten
(1977) Meatcleaver Massacre
as On-Screen Narrator
(2013) Night Train to Lisbon
as Father Bartholomeu
(1972) Umbracle
as The Man
(1955) That Lady
as Capitán
(1952) Babes in Bagdad
as Slave Dealer
(2012) The Fall of the House Of Usher
as The Narrator
(1976) Death in the Sun
as Bill
(1952) Top Secret
as Russian Agent (uncredited)
(1982) Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
as Self (archive footage)
(1952) Paul Temple Returns
as Sir Felix Raybourne
(1959) The Treasure of San Teresa
as Jaeger
(1996) The Many Faces of Christopher Lee
as ---
(1979) Captain America II: Death Too Soon
as Miguel
(2003) Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories
as Self
(1950) Prelude to Fame
as Newsman
(1964) Crypt of the Vampire
as Count Ludwig Karnstein
(2024) The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
as Self / Various (Archive)
(1974) Diagnosis: Murder
as Dr. Stephen Hayward
(2007) Ein Leben wie im Flug
as Self
(1963) Challenge the Devil
as Mephistoles
(1982) The Rank Charm School
as Self
(1948) A Song for Tomorrow
as Auguste
(2007) Rhapsody of Fire: Visions from the Enchanted Lands
as Self
(2013) The Girl from Nagasaki
as Old Officer Pinkerton
(2013) Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
as Narrator
(1976) The Keeper
as The Keeper
(1991) Journey of Honor
as King Philip
(1960) Too Hot to Handle
as Novak
(1995) In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
as Self
(1961) The Devil's Daffodil
as Ling Chu
(1991) Fear in the Dark
as Narrator
(1994) Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
as Commandant Rakov
(1981) The Salamander
as Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence
(1956) Port Afrique
as Franz Vermes
(1996) Welcome to the Discworld
as Death
(1990) The Care of Time
as Karlis Zander
(2022) Dracula Unearthed
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
(1962) The Devil's Agent
as Baron Ferdi von Staub
(1989) Murder Story
as Willard Hope
(2012) Dracula vs. Vampir
as ---
(1951) Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
as Spanish Captain
(1996) Vem Var Dracula
as Self
(1989) Honeymoon Academy
as Lazos
(1998) Ex-S: The Wicker Man
as Self
(1980) Desperate Moves
as Dr. Carl Boxer
(1956) Private's Progress
as Major Schultz
(1952) Moulin Rouge
as Georges Seurat (uncredited)
(2013) Extraordinary Tales
as Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')
(1954) The Awakening
as Factory proprietor (uncredited)
(2015) Angels in Notting Hill
as The Boss / Mr. President (voice)
(2002) Bond Girls Are Forever
as Francisco Scaramanga (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1992) Double Vision
as Mr. Bernard
(1955) Cross-Roads
as Harry Cooper
(2002) Best Ever Bond
as Self / Scaramanga
(1972) Death Line
as Stratton-Villiers, MI5
(1996) The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry
as Self
(1948) Hamlet
as Palace Guard (uncredited)
(1998) 100 Years of Horror
as Presenter
(1995) A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghosts of M.R. James
as Self
(1975) The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
as Satanus / Van Krig
(2010) Christopher Lee: Gentleman of Horror
as Self
(2014) Face of Unity
as Self
(1978) The Pirate
as Samir Al Fay
(1956) Beyond Mombasa
as Gil Rossi
The Wicker Man At 50
as Lord Summerisle
Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending
as Lord Summerisle
(1986) The Disputation
as King James of Aragon
(2012) Enzo Ferrari 1898 - 1988
as Narrator
(2004) A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
as Self
(2003) Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
as Self
(2007) Hollywood Chinese
as Self
(1956) Alexander the Great
as Nectenabus (voice)
(1950) They Were Not Divided
as Chris Lewis
(1949) Trottie True
as Hon. Bongo Icklesham
(1957) Manuela
as Voice (voice)
(1969) The Magic Christian
as Ship's Vampire
(1955) Storm Over the Nile
as Karaga Pasha
(1956) The Battle of the River Plate
as Manolo
(1957) The Traitor
as Doctor Neumann
(1957) Ill Met by Moonlight
as German officer at The Dentist's office
(1957) The Truth About Women
as Francois Thiers
(1965) Ten Little Indians
as Mr. U.N. Owen (voice)
(1973) Poor Devil
as Lucifer
(1948) One Night with You
as Pirelli's Assistant
(1948) Scott of the Antarctic
as Bernard Day
(1970) One More Time
as Dracula
(1990) The Miser
as Cardinale Spinosi
(1958) Battle of the V-1
as Brunner
(1998) Dare To Dream: The Making of Jinnah
as Self
(2004) The Story of Star Wars
as Count Dooku (archive footage)
(2001) Quest for the Ring
as Self
(2001) A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'
as Self
(1977) The Occult: Mysteries Of The Supernatural
as Narrator
(2007) Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
as Narrator (voice)
(2017) Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
(2017) Drácula Barcelona
as Himself
(2013) The Trail of Dracula
as Self
(1982) Massarati and the Brain
as Victor Leopold
(1984) The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
as King Vladimir V
(1955) Police Dog
as Johnny, a constable
(2002) From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'
as Self / Count Dooku
(1985) The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
as Himself - Presenter
(1999) The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
as Count Ottokar Graf Czernin
(2015) Fifty Shades of Erotica
as ---
(1988) Olympus Force: The Key
as ---
(2001) Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
as ---
(1996) A Century of Science Fiction
as Narrator (voice)
(2008) The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Original Poem
as Narrator (voice)
(2001) Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
as Self
(1983) New Magic
as Mr. Kellar
(1975) In Search of Dracula
as Self – Host / Vlad Tepes / Count Dracula
(1987) Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as Self
(2000) Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
as Self
(1984) The Bengal Lancers!
as Sir James Hunter
(2003) Drácula en la Hammer
as Christopher Lee
(2020) Peter Cushing: In His Own Words
as Himself
(1960) The City of the Dead
as Prof. Alan Driscoll
(2012) Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
as Self
(1953) The Top and the Ball
as Father
(2001) The Wicker Man Enigma
as Himself
(1982) Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
as Prince Philip
(2000) Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
as ---
(2001) R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
as Self
(2012) Christopher Lee: A Legacy of Horror and Terror
as Self
(1998) The Mummy
as Self - Host
(2012) The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features
as ---
(1955) Contraband Spain
as Narrador (voz)
(2010) Halloween: The Inside Story
as (archive footage)
(2007) Bloody Jess
as Self
(2002) Perversion Stories
as Self
(1996) In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
as ---
(2007) Beloved Count
as Self
(2008) Fanex Files: Hammer Films
as Self
(1983) Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
as Narrator
(2002) The Making of The Fellowship of the Ring
as Self
(1986) Un métier de seigneur
as Fog
(2007) Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
as Self (archive footage)
(1954) The Mirror and Markheim
as Visitant
(1964) Horror!!!
as Self
(2003) Whales of Atlantis: In Search of Moby Dick
as Narrator
(2007) Amazon Trek: In Search of Vanishing Secrets
as Narrator
(2001) The Devil's Island: Journey Into Jungle Alcatraz
as Narrator
(2024) Children of the Wicker Man
as Self (archive footage)
(2024) The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
as Saruman (voice)
(2024) Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
as Self (archive footage)
(1985) The Best of All Time Horror Classics
as ---
(1948) Saraband for Dead Lovers
as Herzog Anthony von Wolfenbüttel
(1962) Lolita
as Kharis, the Mummy (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2003) The Making of The Two Towers
as ---
(2014) How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
as Self
(1978) Mickey's 50
as Self
(1995) Moses
as Pharaoh
(1993) Blue Heelers
as Scott James
(1992) The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Count Ottokar Graf Czerin
(1976) Charlie's Angels
as Dale Woodman
(2008) The Colour of Magic
as Death
(1958) Ivanhoe
as Sir Otto from the Rhine
(1986) Shaka Zulu
as Lord Bathurst
(2000) Gormenghast
as Flay
(1959) One Step Beyond
as Wilhelm Reitlinger
(1971) Theatre Macabre
as Self - Host
(2007) The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self
(1996) Alisea and the Dream Prince
as Azaret
(1973) Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
as Arnaud
(1955) The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
as Louis (uncredited)
(1997) Wyrd Sisters
as Death
(1958) The Adventures of William Tell
as Prince Erik
(1956) Colonel March of Scotland Yard
as Jeanpierre
(1989) Around the World in 80 Days
as Stuart
(1994) The World of Hammer
as ---
(1997) Soul Music
as Death (voice)
(1975) Space: 1999
as Captain Zandor
(1959) Stars in the Ring
as Self
(1981) Wetten, dass..?
as Self
(1975) Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
(1961) The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
(1981) Goliath Awaits
as John McKenzie
(2000) Ghost Stories for Christmas
as Narrator
(1997) The Odyssey
as Tiresias
(2005) Pope John Paul II
as Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński
(1982) Faerie Tale Theatre
as King Vladimir V
(1984) The Far Pavilions
as Rao-Sahib
(2000) In the Beginning
as Rameses I
(1997) Ivanhoe
as Lucas de Beaumanoir
(1995) Tales of Mystery and Imagination
as Narrator
(2004) Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel
as Self
(1977) Auf los geht's los
as Self
(1956) The Errol Flynn Theatre
as Maurice Gabet
(1956) The Errol Flynn Theatre
as Compte de Merret
(1956) The Errol Flynn Theatre
as The Visitant
(1956) The Errol Flynn Theatre
as General Hamelin
(1982) Champs-Elysées
as Self
(2002) Top Gear
as Francisco Scaramanga (archive footage)
(2001) Aeschbacher
as Self
(1996) Moses
as Pharaoh
(1990) Stern TV
as Self
(1970) Treffpunkte
as Self
(1986) Wedden, dat..?
as Self
(1961) The Avengers
as Professor Stone
(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Karl Jorla
(1961) The Avengers
as Colonel Mannering
(1987) Seitenblicke
as self
(1996) 100 Years of Horror
as Self - Host
(1994) Brisant
as Self
(2006) Semperopernball
as Self
(1977) How the West Was Won
as The Grand Duke
(1957) Sailor of Fortune
as Yusif Carnot
Science Fiction Film Awards
as Himself