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Artist | Avda |
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Credit | Own work |
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Desc | Christopher Lee at the Berlin International Film Festival 2013 |
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British actor and singer
Christopher Lee is ...
Dead
Born | 27 May 1922 |
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Died | 7 June 2015 |
Age | 93 years, 1 months |
About Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English character actor, singer, and author. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Lee was well known for portraying villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014), and Count Dooku in the second and third films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002 & 2005). Lee was knighted for services to drama and charity in 2009, received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011, and received the BFI Fellowship in 2013. Lee considered his best performance to be that of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998), and his best film to be the British horror film The Wicker Man (1973). He frequently appeared opposite Peter Cushing in Hammer Horror films, and late in his career had roles in six Tim Burton films. Always noted as an actor for his deep, strong voice, Lee was also known for his singing ability, recording various opera and musical pieces between 1986 and 1998, and the symphonic metal album Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross in 2010, after having worked with several metal bands since 2005. The heavy metal follow-up Charlemagne: The Omens of Death was released on 27 May 2013, Lee's 91st birthday. He was honoured with the "Spirit of Metal" award at the 2010 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards ceremony. Lee died from complications of respiratory problems and heart failure on the morning of 7 June 2015, at the age of 93.
About Death
Lee died at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on 7 June 2015 at 8:30 am after being admitted for respiratory problems and heart failure, shortly after celebrating his 93rd birthday. His wife delayed the public announcement until 11 June, in order to break the news to their family.
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Alice in Wonderland
2010 film by Tim Burton, produced by Walt Disney

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 film directed by Peter Jackson

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
2005 science fiction film

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 film directed by Peter Jackson

The Golden Compass
2007 fantasy film by Chris Weitz

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005 film by Tim Burton

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 film directed by Peter Jackson

Sleepy Hollow
1999 film by Tim Burton

Hugo
2011 historical drama film

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
2002 science fiction film

Dark Shadows
2012 film by Tim Burton

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002 film directed by Peter Jackson

The Man with the Golden Gun
1974 film by Guy Hamilton

The Wicker Man
1973 film by Robin Hardy

Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990 horror comedy film

Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008 film by Dave Filoni

1941
1979 period comedy film

Season of the Witch
2011 film by Brett Ratner, Dominic Sena

Mio in the Land of Faraway
1987 fantasy-adventure film

Dracula
1958 British horror film by Terence Fisher

The Battle of the River Plate
1956 film by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965 film by George Stevens, David Lean

Burke & Hare
2010 British black comedy film

Moulin Rouge
1952 British drama film by John Huston

The Wicker Tree
2011 film by Robin Hardy

The Blood Demon
German horror movie

Dracula A.D. 1972
1972 film by Alan Gibson

The Curse of Frankenstein
1957 film by Terence Fisher

The Cockleshell Heroes
1955 film by José Ferrer

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951 film by Raoul Walsh

Beat Girl
1960 film by Edmond T. Gréville

Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf
1985 horror film directed by Philippe Mora, as a sequel to the 1981 film The Howling

Horror Express
1972 Spanish/British horror film

Scott of the Antarctic
1948 film by Charles Frend

The Hound of the Baskervilles
1959 film by Terence Fisher

Airport '77
1977 disaster film

The Magic Christian
1969 film by Joseph McGrath

Taste the Blood of Dracula
1970 film by Peter Sasdy

The Return of the Musketeers
1989 film by Richard Lester

Count Dracula
1970 film by Jesús Franco

Dracula: Prince of Darkness
1966 British horror film

The Three Musketeers
1973 film by Richard Lester

Night Train to Lisbon
2013 film by Bille August

The Satanic Rites of Dracula
1973 film by Alan Gibson

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970 film by Billy Wilder

The Mummy
1959 film by Terence Fisher

The Four Musketeers
1974 film by Richard Lester

The Crimson Pirate
1952 film by Robert Siodmak

Jinnah
1998 film by Jamil Dehlavi

The Whip and the Body
1963 film by Mario Bava

Scars of Dracula
1970 film by Roy Ward Baker

Return from Witch Mountain
1978 film by John Hough

Glorious 39
2009 British war film directed by Stephen Poliakoff

Julius Caesar
1970 film by Stuart Burge

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
1968 film by Freddie Francis

Nutcracker Fantasy

La Révolution française
1989 film directed by Robert Enrico and Richard T. Heffron

The Dark Avenger
1955 film by Henry Levin

Ten Little Indians
1965 film by George Pollock

The Stupids
1996 film by John Landis

The Devil Rides Out
1968 British horror film

The Oblong Box
1969 film by Gordon Hessler

Starship Invasions
1977 film by Edward Hunt

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965 film by Freddie Francis

Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
1962 film by Terence Fisher

Tale of the Mummy
1998 British-American horror film

She
1965 film by Robert Day

Hannie Caulder
1971 film by Burt Kennedy

Bitter Victory
1957 film by Nicholas Ray

The House That Dripped Blood
1970 film by Peter Duffell

Trottie True
1949 film by Brian Desmond Hurst

Boogie Woogie
2009 film

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
1994 film by Alan Metter

Scream and Scream Again
1969 film by Gordon Hessler

The City of the Dead
1960 film by John Llewellyn Moxey

Innocents in Paris
1953 film by Gordon Parry

Castle of the Living Dead
1964 film by Lorenzo Sabbatini, Luciano Ricci

Ill Met by Moonlight
1957 film by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

The Resident
2011 film by Antti Jokinen

The Face of Fu Manchu
1965 film by Don Sharp

Hercules in the Haunted World
1961 film by Mario Bava

Storm Over the Nile
1955 film by Zoltan Korda, Terence Young

Circle of Iron
1978 film by Richard Moore

Rasputin, the Mad Monk
1966 film by Don Sharp

A Tale of Two Cities
1958 film by Ralph Thomas

House of the Long Shadows
1983 film by Pete Walker

The Creeping Flesh
1973 film by Freddie Francis

Triage
2009 film by Danis Tanović

Night of the Big Heat
1967 film by Terence Fisher

Treasure Island
1990 tvfilm directed by Fraser Clarke Heston

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
1960 horror film

Dracula and Son
1976 film by Édouard Molinaro

To the Devil a Daughter
1976 film by Peter Sykes

The Return of Captain Invincible
1983 film by Philippe Mora

Five Golden Dragons
1967 film by Jeremy Summers
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