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