Christopher Lee

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Westminster, London, England, UK, 1922-05-27

Died: 2015-06-07

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Corridor of Mirrors	Charles	57
2	1948	One Night with You	Pirelli's Assistant	65
3	1948	A Song for Tomorrow	Auguste	60
4	1948	Penny and the Pownall Case	Jonathan Blair	57
5	1948	Scott of the Antarctic	Bernard Day	72
6	1948	Hamlet	Palace Guard (uncredited)	74
7	1949	Trottie True	Hon. Bongo Icklesham	70
8	1950	They Were Not Divided	Chris Lewis	59
9	1950	Prelude to Fame	Newsman	62
10	1951	Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.	Spanish Captain	69
11	1952	Top Secret	Russian Agent (uncredited)	60
12	1952	Paul Temple Returns	Sir Felix Raybourne	56
13	1952	Babes in Bagdad	Slave Dealer	50
14	1952	Moulin Rouge	Georges Seurat (uncredited)	67
15	1954	The Awakening	Factory proprietor (uncredited)	60
16	1955	Cross-Roads	Harry Cooper	70
17	1955	That Lady	Capitán	60
18	1955	Storm Over the Nile	Karaga Pasha	61
19	1956	Private's Progress	Major Schultz	64
20	1956	Alexander the Great	Nectenabus (voice)	59
21	1956	Port Afrique	Franz Vermes	53
22	1956	Beyond Mombasa	Gil Rossi	71
23	1956	The Battle of the River Plate	Manolo	62
24	1957	Manuela	Voice (voice)	57
25	1957	The Truth About Women	Francois Thiers	58
26	1959	The Treasure of San Teresa	Jaeger	62
27	1960	Too Hot to Handle	Novak	45
28	1961	The Devil's Daffodil	Ling Chu	56
29	1962	The Devil's Agent	Baron Ferdi von Staub	62
30	1963	Challenge the Devil	Mephistoles	31
31	1964	Crypt of the Vampire	Count Ludwig Karnstein	49
32	1972	Umbracle	The Man	58
33	1972	Death Line	Stratton-Villiers, MI5	58
34	1974	Diagnosis: Murder	Dr. Stephen Hayward	68
35	1975	The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan	Satanus / Van Krig	0
36	1976	The Keeper	The Keeper	47
37	1976	Death in the Sun	Bill	47
38	1977	Meatcleaver Massacre	On-Screen Narrator	42
39	1978	The Pirate	Samir Al Fay	55
40	1979	Captain America II: Death Too Soon	Miguel	38
41	1980	Desperate Moves	Dr. Carl Boxer	0
42	1981	The Salamander	Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence	57
43	1982	Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!	Self (archive footage)	60
44	1982	The Rank Charm School	Self	0
45	1986	The Disputation	King James of Aragon	0
46	1989	Murder Story	Willard Hope	55
47	1989	Honeymoon Academy	Lazos	51
48	1990	The Care of Time	Karlis Zander	90
49	1991	Journey of Honor	King Philip	49
50	1991	Fear in the Dark	Narrator	100
51	1992	Double Vision	Mr. Bernard	48
52	1994	Police Academy: Mission to Moscow	Commandant Rakov	46
53	1995	In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross	Self	30
54	1995	A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghosts of M.R. James	Self	80
55	1996	The Many Faces of Christopher Lee		86
56	1996	The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry	Self	10
57	1996	In Search of Dracula	Self	0
58	1996	Welcome to the Discworld	Death	60
59	1998	100 Years of Horror	Presenter	50
60	1998	Ex-S: The Wicker Man	Self	0
61	2002	Bond Girls Are Forever	Francisco Scaramanga (archive footage) (uncredited)	58
62	2002	Best Ever Bond	Self / Scaramanga	50
63	2003	Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories	Self	85
64	2003	Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King	Self	72
65	2004	A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'	Self	60
66	2007	Ein Leben wie im Flug	Self	0
67	2007	Hollywood Chinese	Self	0
68	2007	Rhapsody of Fire: Visions from the Enchanted Lands	Self	65
69	2010	Christopher Lee: Gentleman of Horror	Self	100
70	2012	Enzo Ferrari 1898 - 1988	Narrator	0
71	2012	Dracula vs. Vampir		0
72	2012	The Fall of the House Of Usher	The Narrator	79
73	2013	Extraordinary Tales	Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')	64
74	2013	Night Train to Lisbon	Father Bartholomeu	65
75	2013	Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics	Narrator	69
76	2013	The Girl from Nagasaki	Old Officer Pinkerton	68
77	2014	Face of Unity	Self	0
78	2015	Angels in Notting Hill	The Boss / Mr. President (voice)	100
79	2022	Dracula Unearthed	Count Dracula (archive footage)	70
80	2024	The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee	Self / Various (Archive)	77
81		The Wicker Man At 50	Lord Summerisle	0
82		Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending	Lord Summerisle	0
83	1948	Saraband for Dead Lovers	Herzog Anthony von Wolfenbüttel	59
84	1951	Valley of the Eagles	Det. Holt	60
85	1951	Quo Vadis	Chariot Driver (uncredited)	71
86	1952	The Crimson Pirate	Joseph (attache)	69
87	1953	The Top and the Ball	Father	50
88	1953	Innocents in Paris	Lieutenant Whitlock	51
89	1954	The Mirror and Markheim	Visitant	0
90	1955	Contraband Spain	Narrador (voz)	57
91	1955	The Dark Avenger	French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited)	60
92	1955	Police Dog	Johnny, a constable	60
93	1955	The Cockleshell Heroes	Submarine Commander Alan Grieves	59
94	1955	Alias John Preston	John Preston	54
95	1957	Ill Met by Moonlight	German officer at The Dentist's office	61
96	1957	The Traitor	Doctor Neumann	70
97	1957	Fortune Is a Woman	Charles Highbury	67
98	1957	The Curse of Frankenstein	The Creature	68
99	1957	Bitter Victory	Sgt. Barney	62
100	1958	Battle of the V-1	Brunner	40
101	1958	A Tale of Two Cities	Marquis St. Evremonde	66
102	1958	Dracula	Count Dracula	73
103	1958	Corridors of Blood	Resurrection Joe	61
104	1959	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sir Henry Baskerville	67
105	1959	The Man Who Could Cheat Death	Dr. Pierre Gerrard	57
106	1959	The Mummy	Kharis, the Mummy	67
107	1959	Uncle Was a Vampire	Baron Roderico da Frankurten	56
108	1960	Beat Girl	Kenny King	58
109	1960	The City of the Dead	Prof. Alan Driscoll	65
110	1960	The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll	Paul Allen	61
111	1960	The Hands of Orlac	Nero the magician	43
112	1961	The Terror of the Tongs	Chung King	58
113	1961	Taste of Fear	Doctor Pierre Gerrard	70
114	1961	Hercules in the Haunted World	King Lico (Licos)	67
115	1962	Secret of the Red Orchid	Capt. Allerman	56
116	1962	The Pirates of Blood River	Captain LaRoche	62
117	1962	Lolita	Kharis, the Mummy (archive footage) (uncredited)	73
118	1962	Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace	Sherlock Holmes	54
119	1963	Horror Castle	Erich	58
120	1963	The Whip and the Body	Kurt Menliff	65
121	1964	Horror!!!	Self	10
122	1964	The Devil-Ship Pirates	Captain Robeles	58
123	1964	The Castle of the Living Dead	Count Drago	61
124	1964	The Gorgon	Prof. Karl Meister	63
125	1965	Dr. Terror's House of Horrors	Franklyn Marsh	64
126	1965	She	Billali	56
127	1965	Ten Little Indians	Mr. U.N. Owen (voice)	63
128	1965	The Face of Fu Manchu	Dr. Fu Man Chu	62
129	1965	The Skull	Sir Matthew Phillips	60
130	1966	Dracula: Prince of Darkness	Count Dracula	68
131	1966	Rasputin: The Mad Monk	Grigori Rasputin	59
132	1966	Circus of Fear	Gregor	52
133	1966	The Brides of Fu Manchu	Fu Manchu	57
134	1967	Night of the Big Heat	Godfrey Hanson	54
135	1967	The Vengeance of Fu Manchu	Dr. Fu Manchu	62
136	1967	Theatre of Death	Philippe Darvas	61
137	1967	Five Golden Dragons	Dragon #4	54
138	1967	The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism	Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai	65
139	1968	The Movie Orgy	Fu Manchu/Dracula (archive footage)	62
140	1968	Eve	Colonel Stuart	40
141	1968	The Devil Rides Out	Duc de Richleau	65
142	1968	The Blood of Fu Manchu	Dr. Fu Man Chu	44
143	1968	Dracula Has Risen from the Grave	Dracula	67
144	1968	Curse of the Crimson Altar	J.D. Morley	54
145	1969	Quelle horreur mon saigneur Dracula	Self	0
146	1969	The Castle of Fu Manchu	Dr. Fu Man Chu	36
147	1969	The Oblong Box	Dr. J. Neuhartt	58
148	1969	The Magic Christian	Ship's Vampire	58
149	1970	Scream and Scream Again	Fremont	54
150	1970	The Bloody Judge	Lord George Jeffreys	49
151	1970	Eugenie	Dolmance	46
152	1970	Count Dracula	Dracula	58
153	1970	One More Time	Dracula	43
154	1970	Taste the Blood of Dracula	Dracula	61
155	1970	Julius Caesar	Artemidorus	57
156	1970	The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes	Mycroft Holmes	68
157	1970	Scars of Dracula	Dracula	61
158	1971	The House That Dripped Blood	John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")	63
159	1971	I, Monster	Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake	55
160	1971	Hannie Caulder	Bailey	62
161	1972	Vampir Cuadecuc	Self	60
162	1972	Dracula A.D. 1972	Count Dracula	60
163	1972	Horror Express	Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton	63
164	1973	The Creeping Flesh	James Hildern	58
165	1973	Poor Devil	Lucifer	60
166	1973	Nothing But the Night	Col. Charles Bingham	61
167	1973	The Satanic Rites of Dracula	Count Dracula	56
168	1973	Dark Places	Dr. Ian Mandeville	56
169	1973	The Wicker Man	Lord Summerisle	73
170	1973	The Three Musketeers	Rochefort	68
171	1974	The Four Musketeers	Rochefort	64
172	1974	The Man with the Golden Gun	Francisco Scaramanga	64
173	1975	In Search of Dracula	Self – Host / Vlad Tepes / Count Dracula	76
174	1976	Killer Force	Major Chilton	55
175	1976	To the Devil a Daughter	Father Michael	55
176	1976	Dracula and Son	Le prince des Ténèbres	61
177	1977	Airport '77	Martin Wallace	56
178	1977	End of the World	Father Pergado / Zindar	37
179	1977	The Occult: Mysteries Of The Supernatural	Narrator	0
180	1977	Starship Invasions	Captain Rameses	31
181	1978	Return from Witch Mountain	Victor Gannon	59
182	1978	Circle of Iron	Zetan	57
183	1978	Caravans	Sardar Khan	56
184	1979	The Horror Show	(archive footage)	60
185	1979	The Passage	Gypsy	62
186	1979	Arabian Adventure	Caliph Alquazar	59
187	1979	Jaguar Lives!	Adam Caine	40
188	1979	Bear Island	Lechinski	59
189	1979	1941	Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt	58
190	1980	Serial	Luckman Skull	58
191	1980	Once Upon a Spy	Marcus Valorium	52
192	1981	Evil Stalks This House	Host	60
193	1981	An Eye for an Eye	Morgan Canfield	52
194	1982	Safari 3000	Count Borgia	51
195	1982	Massarati and the Brain	Victor Leopold	60
196	1982	Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story	Prince Philip	50
197	1982	The Last Unicorn	King Haggard (voice)	71
198	1983	New Magic	Mr. Kellar	60
199	1983	Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler	Narrator	0
200	1983	The Return of Captain Invincible	Mr. Midnight	58
201	1983	House of the Long Shadows	Corrigan	63
202	1984	The Bengal Lancers!	Sir James Hunter	0
203	1984	The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers	King Vladimir V	67
204	1984	The Rosebud Beach Hotel	King	46
205	1985	The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes	Himself - Presenter	70
206	1985	The Best of All Time Horror Classics		0
207	1985	Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch	Stefan Crosscoe	50
208	1985	Mask of Murder	Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich	31
209	1986	Jocks	President White	49
210	1986	Un métier de seigneur	Fog	0
211	1987	Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood	Self	64
212	1987	Mio in the Land of Faraway	Kato	60
213	1987	The Girl	Peter Storm	45
214	1987	Creepy Classics	Franklyn Marsh - (archive footage)	63
215	1988	Olympus Force: The Key		40
216	1988	Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil	Luis Morel	35
217	1989	The Return of the Musketeers	Rochefort	62
218	1989	The French Revolution: Years of Rage	Sanson	75
219	1989	The French Revolution: Years of Hope	Sanson	73
220	1989	Night of the Eagles	Walter Strauss	38
221	1990	Treasure Island	Blind Pew	65
222	1990	The Miser	Cardinale Spinosi	63
223	1990	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Doctor Catheter	65
224	1991	Curse III: Blood Sacrifice	Dr. Pearson	43
225	1991	Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady	Sherlock Holmes	51
226	1992	Beauty and the Beast	Monsieur Renard (voice)	50
227	1992	Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls	Sherlock Holmes	52
228	1992	Cyber Eden	Cedric	56
229	1993	Death Train	General Konstanin Benin	50
230	1994	The Rainbow Thief	Uncle Rudolf	53
231	1994	Funny Man	Callum Chance	49
232	1994	Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror	Narrator (voice) / Self	74
233	1994	The World of Hammer: Peter Cushing		70
234	1994	The World of Hammer: Dracula and the Undead	Count Dracula	87
235	1994	The World of Hammer: Mummies, Werewolves, and the Living Dead	(archieve footage)	70
236	1994	A Feast at Midnight	V. E. 'Raptor' Longfellow	61
237	1995	Moses	Pharao Ramses	69
238	1996	A Century of Science Fiction	Narrator (voice)	69
239	1996	In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes		0
240	1996	The Stupids	Evil Sender	47
241	1997	Soul Music	Death (voice)	71
242	1998	The Mummy	Self - Host	0
243	1998	Tale of the Mummy	Sir Richard Turkel	44
244	1998	Jinnah	Muhammad Ali Jinnah	71
245	1998	Dare To Dream: The Making of Jinnah	Self	0
246	1999	Sleepy Hollow	Burgomaster	72
247	2000	Ian Fleming: 007's Creator	Self	69
248	2000	The Many Faces of Dracula	Narrator	50
249	2000	Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'		72
250	2000	Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend	Self	70
251	2001	The Devil's Island: Journey Into Jungle Alcatraz	Narrator	60
252	2001	The Wicker Man Enigma	Himself	67
253	2001	R2-D2: Beneath the Dome	Self	65
254	2001	Quest for the Ring	Self	56
255	2001	A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'	Self	68
256	2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Saruman	84
257	2001	Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring	Self	61
258	2001	Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man		70
259	2002	The Making of The Fellowship of the Ring	Self	89
260	2002	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service	Count Ottokar Graf Czernin	48
261	2002	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones	Count Dooku	66
262	2002	To the Devil... The Death of Hammer		0
263	2002	Perversion Stories	Self	0
264	2002	From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'	Self / Count Dooku	66
265	2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Saruman	84
266	2003	Whales of Atlantis: In Search of Moby Dick	Narrator	0
267	2003	Drácula en la Hammer	Christopher Lee	0
268	2004	Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse	Emerich	61
269	2004	The Story of Star Wars	Count Dooku (archive footage)	70
270	2005	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith	Count Dooku	74
271	2005	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Dr. Wonka	70
272	2005	Corpse Bride	Pastor Galswells (voice)	76
273	2005	The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby	The Lord Provost	57
274	2005	Pope John Paul II	Card. Stefan Wyszyński	0
275	2006	Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills	Self	82
276	2007	Bloody Jess	Self	0
277	2007	Beloved Count	Self	0
278	2007	Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman	Self (archive footage)	90
279	2007	Amazon Trek: In Search of Vanishing Secrets	Narrator	0
280	2007	Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn	Narrator (voice)	90
281	2007	The Golden Compass	First High Councilor	61
282	2008	Fanex Files: Hammer Films	Self	70
283	2008	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	Count Dooku (voice)	61
284	2008	The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Original Poem	Narrator (voice)	68
285	2009	Boogie Woogie	Mr. Alfred Rhinegold	50
286	2009	Triage	Joaquín Morales	60
287	2009	Glorious 39	Older Walter Page	60
288	2010	Alice in Wonderland	The Jabberwocky (voice)	66
289	2010	The Heavy	Mr. Mason	49
290	2010	Halloween: The Inside Story	(archive footage)	74
291	2010	Burke & Hare	Old Joseph	61
292	2011	Season of the Witch	Cardinal D'Ambroise	55
293	2011	The Resident	August	58
294	2011	The Wicker Tree	Old Man	40
295	2011	Hugo	Monsieur Labisse	72
296	2012	Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'	Self	60
297	2012	Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness	Dracula (archive footage)	80
298	2012	Dark Shadows	Clarney	61
299	2012	The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features		100
300	2012	Everything or Nothing	Self	71
301	2012	Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars	Self	62
302	2012	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Saruman the White	74
303	2012	Christopher Lee: A Legacy of Horror and Terror	Self	75
304	2013	The Trail of Dracula	Self	100
305	2014	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	Saruman the White	73
306	2015	Fifty Shades of Erotica		70
307	2017	Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions	Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)	60
308	2017	Drácula Barcelona	Himself	58
309	2020	Peter Cushing: In His Own Words	Himself	75
310	2023	Faces of Death	(archive footage)	0
311	2024	Children of the Wicker Man	Self (archive footage)	0
312	2024	Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters	Self (archive footage)	0
313	2024	The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim	Saruman (voice)	66

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel	Louis (uncredited)	76
2	1956	Colonel March of Scotland Yard	Jeanpierre	73
3	1956	The Errol Flynn Theatre	The Visitant	0
4	1956	The Errol Flynn Theatre	Compte de Merret	0
5	1956	The Errol Flynn Theatre	Maurice Gabet	0
6	1956	The Errol Flynn Theatre	General Hamelin	0
7	1957	Sailor of Fortune	Yusif Carnot	0
8	1958	Ivanhoe	Sir Otto from the Rhine	63
9	1958	The Adventures of William Tell	Prince Erik	63
10	1959	One Step Beyond	Wilhelm Reitlinger	56
11	1959	Stars in der Manege	Self	53
12	1961	The Avengers	Professor Stone	77
13	1961	The Avengers	Colonel Mannering	77
14	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	51
15	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Karl Jorla	78
16	1970	Treffpunkte	Self	0
17	1971	Theatre Macabre	Self - Host	30
18	1973	Orson Welles' Great Mysteries	Arnaud	67
19	1975	Space: 1999	Captain Zandor	71
20	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
21	1976	Charlie's Angels	Dale Woodman	66
22	1977	Auf los geht's los	Self	0
23	1977	How the West Was Won	The Grand Duke	69
24	1981	Wetten, dass..?	Self	55
25	1981	Goliath Awaits	John McKenzie	68
26	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	62
27	1982	Faerie Tale Theatre	King Vladimir V	82
28	1984	The Far Pavilions	Rao-Sahib	77
29	1986	Wedden, dat..?	Self	0
30	1986	Shaka Zulu	Lord Bathurst	71
31	1987	Seitenblicke	self	0
32	1989	Around the World in 80 Days	Stuart	66
33	1990	Stern TV	Self	65
34	1992	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Count Ottokar Graf Czerin	65
35	1993	Blue Heelers	Scott James	66
36	1994	Brisant	Self	55
37	1994	The World of Hammer		65
38	1995	Tales of Mystery and Imagination	Narrator	50
39	1996	Alisea and the Dream Prince	Azaret	67
40	1996	Moses	Pharaoh	0
41	1996	100 Years of Horror	Self - Host	63
42	1997	Ivanhoe	Lucas de Beaumanoir	69
43	1997	Wyrd Sisters	Death	60
44	1997	The Odyssey	Tiresias	72
45	1997	Soul Music	Death (voice)	65
46	2000	Gormenghast	Flay	70
47	2000	In the Beginning	Rameses I	60
48	2000	Ghost Stories for Christmas	Narrator	48
49	2001	Aeschbacher	Self	0
50	2002	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones	Count Ottokar Czernin	70
51	2002	Top Gear	Francisco Scaramanga (archive footage)	75
52	2004	Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel	Self	40
53	2005	Pope John Paul II	Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński	60
54	2006	Semperopernball	Self	0
55	2007	The Alan Titchmarsh Show	Self	37
56	2008	The Colour of Magic	Death	67