Christopher Lee
Biography
Christopher Lee (May 5, 1922 – June 7, 2015) was an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films. Other notable roles include Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man (1973), Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in Star Wars episodes II and III (2002, 2005) and Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003). Lee considers his most important role to have been his portrayal of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998). He is well known for his deep, commanding voice. Lee has performed roles in 266 films since 1948 making him the Guinness book world record holder for most film acting roles ever. He was knighted in 2009 and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011.
Filmography
Dracula in the Movies
1992 · 10.0
The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features
2012 · 10.0
The Errol Flynn Theatre
1956 · 9.0
Fear in the Dark
1991 · 9.0
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
2007 · 9.0
To the Devil... The Death of Hammer
2002 · 9.0
The French Revolution
1989 · 8.7
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · 8.4
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002 · 8.4
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · 8.1
The Many Faces of Christopher Lee
1996 · 8.1
Mark Saber
1954 · 8.0
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955 · 8.0
Final Column
1955 · 8.0
New Magic
1983 · 8.0
Top Secret
1952 · 8.0
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
2012 · 8.0
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · 7.9
The Fall of the House Of Usher
2012 · 7.9
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
2001 · 7.8
The Avengers
1961 · 7.8
100 Greatest Scary Moments
2003 · 7.7
The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Original Poem
2008 · 7.7
The Traitor
1957 · 7.6
Corpse Bride
2005 · 7.6
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005 · 7.5
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956 · 7.5
The French Revolution
1989 · 7.5
The Far Pavilions
1984 · 7.4
Hamlet
1948 · 7.4
Cross-Roads
1955 · 7.4
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · 7.4
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · 7.3
The Wicker Man
1973 · 7.3
The Last Unicorn
1982 · 7.3
Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
2000 · 7.3
The Odyssey
1997 · 7.3
Sleepy Hollow
1999 · 7.2
Shaka Zulu
1986 · 7.2
Whicker's World
1959 · 7.2
Dracula
1958 · 7.2
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014 · 7.2
Scott of the Antarctic
1948 · 7.2
The Story of Star Wars
2004 · 7.2
One Night with You
1948 · 7.2
Hugo
2011 · 7.2
Space: 1999
1975 · 7.1
Taste of Fear
1961 · 7.1
Quo Vadis
1951 · 7.1
Ivanhoe
1997 · 7.1
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005 · 7.0
How the West Was Won
1977 · 7.0
Soul Music
1997 · 7.0
The Crimson Pirate
1952 · 7.0
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015 · 7.0
Moby Dick—Rehearsed
1955 · 7.0
Trottie True
1949 · 7.0
Enzo Ferrari 1898 - 1988
2012 · 7.0
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951 · 7.0
Gormenghast
2000 · 6.9
Moses
1996 · 6.9
Goliath Awaits
1981 · 6.9
Jinnah
1998 · 6.9
The Dark Avenger
1955 · 6.9
A Century of Science Fiction
1996 · 6.9
The Colour of Magic
2008 · 6.8
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973 · 6.8
The Adventures of William Tell
1958 · 6.8
Around the World in 80 Days
1989 · 6.8
The Curse of Frankenstein
1957 · 6.8
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970 · 6.8
The Movie Orgy
1968 · 6.8
Prelude to Fame
1950 · 6.8
A Tale of Two Cities
1958 · 6.8
Fortune Is a Woman
1957 · 6.8
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
2013 · 6.8
Beyond Mombasa
1956 · 6.8
Soul Music
1997 · 6.8
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1959 · 6.8
Charlie's Angels
1976 · 6.7
Blue Heelers
1993 · 6.7
The Three Musketeers
1973 · 6.7
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
1966 · 6.7
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
1968 · 6.7
The Mummy
1959 · 6.7
The Devil's Agent
1962 · 6.7
Police Dog
1955 · 6.7
Treasure Island
1990 · 6.7
Alice in Wonderland
2010 · 6.6
Hercules in the Haunted World
1961 · 6.6
Moulin Rouge
1952 · 6.6
Ghost Stories for Christmas
2000 · 6.6
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948 · 6.6
That Lady
1955 · 6.6
Private's Progress
1956 · 6.6
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002 · 6.6
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992 · 6.6
The Devil Rides Out
1968 · 6.5
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990 · 6.5
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024 · 6.5
Night Train to Lisbon
2013 · 6.5
The Four Musketeers
1974 · 6.5
Pope John Paul II
2005 · 6.5
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965 · 6.5
The Awakening
1954 · 6.5
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
2008 · 6.5
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
2008 · 6.5
Extraordinary Tales
2015 · 6.5
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974 · 6.5
The City of the Dead
1960 · 6.5
The Battle of the River Plate
1956 · 6.4
Ivanhoe
1958 · 6.4
Wyrd Sisters
1997 · 6.4
The House That Dripped Blood
1971 · 6.4
House of the Long Shadows
1983 · 6.4
The Gorgon
1964 · 6.4
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
1967 · 6.4
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
1967 · 6.4
Welcome to the Discworld
1996 · 6.4
Bitter Victory
1957 · 6.4
The Treasure of San Teresa
1959 · 6.4
They Were Not Divided
1950 · 6.4
Creepy Classics
1987 · 6.4
The Whip and the Body
1963 · 6.4
Horror Express
1972 · 6.3
Manuela
1957 · 6.3
Alisea and the Dream Prince
1996 · 6.3
Ten Little Indians
1965 · 6.3
Storm Over the Nile
1955 · 6.3
A Song for Tomorrow
1948 · 6.3
The Miser
1990 · 6.3
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008 · 6.2
Innocent Blood
1992 · 6.2
Hannie Caulder
1971 · 6.2
The Return of the Musketeers
1989 · 6.2
The Face of Fu Manchu
1965 · 6.2
Nothing But the Night
1973 · 6.2
The Return of Captain Invincible
1983 · 6.2
Ill Met by Moonlight
1957 · 6.2
Corridors of Blood
1958 · 6.2
The Truth About Women
1957 · 6.2
Valley of the Eagles
1951 · 6.2
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
1984 · 6.2
A Feast at Midnight
1994 · 6.2
Contraband Spain
1955 · 6.2
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
1960 · 6.1
Dark Shadows
2012 · 6.1
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
2004 · 6.1
Taste the Blood of Dracula
1970 · 6.1
In the Beginning
2000 · 6.1
Alexander the Great
1956 · 6.1
Bear Island
1979 · 6.1
The Pirates of Blood River
1962 · 6.1
Theatre of Death
1967 · 6.1
The Castle of the Living Dead
1964 · 6.1
Penny and the Pownall Case
1948 · 6.1
Diagnosis: Murder
1974 · 6.1
Paul Temple Returns
1952 · 6.1
Burke & Hare
2010 · 6.1
The Golden Compass
2007 · 6.1
Triage
2009 · 6.0
Mio in the Land of Faraway
1987 · 6.0
Arabian Adventure
1979 · 6.0
The Passage
1979 · 6.0
The Skull
1965 · 6.0
Glorious 39
2009 · 6.0
Corridor of Mirrors
1948 · 6.0
The Disputation
1986 · 6.0
The Devil's Island: Journey Into Jungle Alcatraz
2001 · 6.0
Dracula A.D. 1972
1972 · 5.9
Umbracle
1972 · 5.9
Count Dracula
1970 · 5.9
Scars of Dracula
1970 · 5.9
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966 · 5.9
The Brides of Fu Manchu
1966 · 5.9
The Creeping Flesh
1973 · 5.9
Julius Caesar
1970 · 5.9
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955 · 5.9
Poor Devil
1973 · 5.9
Beat Girl
1960 · 5.9
Port Afrique
1956 · 5.9
Return from Witch Mountain
1978 · 5.9
Death Line
1972 · 5.8
Caravans
1978 · 5.8
Alias John Preston
1955 · 5.8
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
1959 · 5.8
The Oblong Box
1969 · 5.8
The Devil-Ship Pirates
1964 · 5.8
The Devil's Daffodil
1961 · 5.8
The Secret of the Red Orchid
1962 · 5.8
Babes in Bagdad
1952 · 5.8
1941
1979 · 5.8
The Magic Christian
1969 · 5.8
One Step Beyond
1959 · 5.7
Dracula and Son
1976 · 5.7
The Resident
2011 · 5.7
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
2005 · 5.7
Horror Castle
1963 · 5.7
The Terror of the Tongs
1961 · 5.7
Evil Stalks This House
1981 · 5.7
Massarati and the Brain
1982 · 5.7
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
1973 · 5.6
Airport '77
1977 · 5.6
Serial
1980 · 5.6
She
1965 · 5.6
Circle of Iron
1978 · 5.6
Uncle Was a Vampire
1959 · 5.6
The Girl from Nagasaki
2013 · 5.6
Season of the Witch
2011 · 5.5
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
1995 · 5.5
I, Monster
1971 · 5.5
To the Devil a Daughter
1976 · 5.5
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
1962 · 5.5
Angels in Notting Hill
2015 · 5.5
Circus of Fear
1966 · 5.5
Killer Force
1976 · 5.4
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
1991 · 5.4
Dark Places
1973 · 5.4
Safari 3000
1982 · 5.4
An Eye for an Eye
1981 · 5.3
Night of the Big Heat
1967 · 5.3
Scream and Scream Again
1970 · 5.3
The Salamander
1981 · 5.3
The Rainbow Thief
1994 · 5.3
Once Upon a Spy
1980 · 5.2
Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968 · 5.2
Five Golden Dragons
1967 · 5.2
For Better or for Worse
1989 · 5.2
Battle of the V-1
1958 · 5.2
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999 · 5.2
Innocents in Paris
1953 · 5.2
Cyber Eden
1992 · 5.2
Boogie Woogie
2010 · 5.1
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
1992 · 5.1
Journey of Honor
1991 · 5.1
The Pirate
1977 · 5.0
One More Time
1970 · 5.0
Death Train
1993 · 5.0
100 Years of Horror
1998 · 5.0
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
1975 · 5.0
Murder Story
1989 · 5.0
The Top and the Ball
1953 · 5.0
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
1985 · 5.0
The Girl
1987 · 4.9
The Bloody Judge
1970 · 4.9
Eugenie... The Story of Her Journey into Perversion
1970 · 4.9
Crypt of the Vampire
1964 · 4.9
The Heavy
2010 · 4.9
Funny Man
1994 · 4.9
The Stupids
1996 · 4.8
Too Hot to Handle
1960 · 4.8
Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy
1998 · 4.7
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
1994 · 4.6
The Rosebud Beach Hotel
1984 · 4.5
Desperate Moves
1980 · 4.5
The Blood of Fu Manchu
1968 · 4.4
The Hands of Orlac
1960 · 4.4
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
1991 · 4.4
Meatcleaver Massacre
1977 · 4.3
Jaguar Lives!
1979 · 4.2
The Face of Eve
1968 · 4.2
Jocks
1986 · 4.2
Casanova
1987 · 4.1
The Keeper
1976 · 4.1
Albino
1976 · 4.0
End of the World
1977 · 3.9
Night of the Eagles
1989 · 3.9
The Wicker Tree
2011 · 3.9
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
1979 · 3.8
Beauty and the Beast
1992 · 3.6
The Castle of Fu Manchu
1969 · 3.6
Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil
1988 · 3.6
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000 · 3.5
Challenge the Devil
1963 · 3.4
The Horror Show
1979 · 3.4
Mask of Murder
1985 · 3.4
Starship Invasions
1977 · 3.3
Halloween Monster Bash
1991 · 3.0
Olympus Force: The Key
1988 · 2.5
The Gillian Hills Trilogy
2013 · 2.0
The Bengal Lancers!
1984 · 1.0
Un métier de seigneur
1986 · 0.0
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Different Faces, Different Flavors
2005 · 0.0
Playboy's Playmate Party
1977 · 0.0
The Best of All Time Horror Classics
1985 · 0.0
Dracula vs. Vampir
2012 · 0.0
The Wicker Man at 50
2023 · 0.0
The Occult: Mysteries Of The Supernatural
1977 · 0.0
The Mirror and Markheim
1954 · 0.0
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
1983 · 0.0
Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending
2023 · 0.0
Drácula en la Hammer
2003 · 0.0
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
1996 · 0.0
Constel·lació Portabella
2024 · 0.0
Amazon Trek: In Search of Vanishing Secrets
2007 · 0.0
Faces of Death
2023 · 0.0