Christopher Lee
Acting1922Westminster, London, England, UK
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.
Known For
Acting History
2024
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
as Saruman (voice)
2020
Peter Cushing: In His Own Words
as Himself
2017
Drácula Barcelona
as Himself
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
2015
Fifty Shades of Erotica
as (archive footage)
2014
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Saruman the White
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as Corrigan (archive footage) (uncredited)
2013
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
as Narrator
Night Train to Lisbon
as Father Bartholomeu
2012
Dark Shadows
as Clarney
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Saruman the White
The Fall of the House Of Usher
as The Narrator
Enzo Ferrari 1898 - 1988
as Narrator
2011
Hugo
as Monsieur Labisse
The Resident
as August
The Wicker Tree
as Old Man
Season Of The Witch
as Cardinal D'Ambroise
2010
Boogie Woogie
as Mr. Alfred Rhinegold
Burke & Hare
as Old Joseph
The Heavy
as Mr. Mason
Alice in Wonderland
as Jabberwocky (voice)
2009
2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
as Count Dooku (voice)
The Colour of Magic
TVas Death• 2 eps
2007
The Golden Compass
as First High Councilor
Hollywood Chinese
as Self
Amazon Trek: In Search of Vanishing Secrets
as Narrator
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
as Narrator (voice)
2006
2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
as Dr. Wonka
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
as The Lord Provost
Corpse Bride
as Pastor Galswells (voice)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
as Count Dooku
Pope John Paul II
TVas Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński• 2 eps
2004
The Story of Star Wars
as Count Dooku (archive footage)
Aeschbacher
TVas Self• 1 eps
2003
Drácula en la Hammer
as Christopher Lee
2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
as Saruman
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
as Count Dooku
Best Ever Bond
as Self / Scaramanga
2000
Ian Fleming: 007's Creator
as Self
Gormenghast
TVas Flay
Ghost Stories for Christmas
TVas Narrator
In the Beginning
TVas Rameses I
1999
Sleepy Hollow
as Burgomaster
1998
1997
Soul Music
as Death (voice)
The Odyssey
TVas Tiresias• 2 eps
Ivanhoe
TVas Lucas de Beaumanoir
Wyrd Sisters
TVas Death (voice)
1996
1995
Moses
as Ramses
Blue Heelers
TVas Scott James• 5 eps
1994
A Feast at Midnight
as V. E. 'Raptor' Longfellow
The Rainbow Thief
as Uncle Rudolf
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
as Narrator (voice) / Self
Funny Man
as Callum Chance
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
as Commandant Rakov
Stern TV
TVas Self• 1 eps
Brisant
TVas Self
The World of Hammer
TVas Self (archive footage)
1993
Death Train
as General Konstanin Benin
1992
Cyber Eden
as Cedric
Innocent Blood
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
as Sherlock Holmes
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
TVas Count Ottokar Graf Czerin• 1 eps
1991
Shogun Warrior
as King Philip
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
as Dr. Pearson
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
as Sherlock Holmes
1990
1989
The French Revolution
as Sanson
The Return of the Musketeers
as Rochefort
Honeymoon Academy
as Lazos
Around the World in 80 Days
TVas Stuart
The French Revolution
TVas Sanson (« Les Années terribles »)• 2 eps
1988
Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil
as Luis Morel
1987
Mio in the Land of Faraway
as Kato
Creepy Classics
as Franklyn Marsh - (archive footage)
The Girl
as Peter Storm
Wetten, dass..?
TVas Self• 1 eps
Seitenblicke
TVas self
1986
The Disputation
as King James of Aragon
Jocks
as President White
Shaka Zulu
TVas Lord Bathurst• 10 eps
Champs-Elysées
TVas Self• 2 eps
Wedden, dat..?
TVas Self
1985
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
as Stefan Crosscoe
Mask of Murder
as Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich
1984
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
as King Vladimir V
Faerie Tale Theatre
TVas King Vladimir V• 1 eps
1983
House of the Long Shadows
as Corrigan
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
as Narrator
The Return of Captain Invincible
as Mr. Midnight
1982
1981
The Salamander
as Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence
An Eye for an Eye
as Morgan Canfield
1980
Serial
as Luckman Skull
Desperate Moves
as Dr. Carl Boxer
Once Upon a Spy
as Marcus Valorium
Charlie's Angels
TVas Dale Woodman• 2 eps
1979
Bear Island
as Lechinski
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
Jaguar Lives!
as Adam Caine
Arabian Adventure
as Caliph Alquazar
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
as Miguel
The Passage
as Gypsy
1941
as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
1978
Return from Witch Mountain
as Victor Gannon
Circle of Iron
as Zetan
Caravans
as Sardar Khan
The Pirate
as Samir Al Fay
How the West Was Won
TVas The Grand Duke• 1 eps
1977
Starship Invasions
as Captain Rameses
End of the World
as Father Pergado / Zindar
Airport '77
as Martin Wallace
Auf los geht's los
TVas Self
1976
The Keeper
as The Keeper
Killer Force
as Major Chilton
Dracula and Son
as Le prince des Ténèbres
To the Devil a Daughter
as Father Michael
1975
In Search of Dracula
as Self – Host / Vlad Tepes / Count Dracula
Space: 1999
TVas Captain Zandor• 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
TVas Self - Host
1974
The Man with the Golden Gun
as Francisco Scaramanga
The Four Musketeers
as Rochefort
1973
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
as Count Dracula
The Creeping Flesh
as James Hildern
Nothing But the Night
as Col. Charles Bingham
Dark Places
as Dr. Ian Mandeville
The Three Musketeers
as Rochefort
Poor Devil
as Lucifer
The Wicker Man
as Lord Summerisle
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
TVas Arnaud
Nothing But the Night
Producer
1972
Horror Express
as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton
Dracula A.D. 1972
as Count Dracula
Death Line
as Stratton-Villiers, MI5
Vampir Cuadecuc
as Self
1971
The House That Dripped Blood
as John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")
Hannie Caulder
as Bailey
I, Monster
as Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake
Theatre Macabre
TVas Self - Host• 24 eps
1970
Scars of Dracula
as Dracula
The Bloody Judge
as Lord George Jeffreys
Taste the Blood of Dracula
as Dracula
One More Time
as Dracula
Julius Caesar
as Artemidorus
Eugenie
as Dolmance
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
as Mycroft Holmes
Count Dracula
as Dracula
Scream and Scream Again
as Fremont
1969
The Castle of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
The Oblong Box
as Dr. J. Neuhartt
The Magic Christian
as Ship's Vampire
The Avengers
TVas Colonel Mannering / Professor Stone• 1 eps
1968
The Devil Rides Out
as Duc de Richleau
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
as Dracula
The Blood of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
Eve
as Colonel Stuart
Curse of the Crimson Altar
as J.D. Morley
1967
Night of the Big Heat
as Godfrey Hanson
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Manchu
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
as Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai
Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #4
Theatre of Death
as Philippe Darvas
1966
The Brides of Fu Manchu
as Fu Manchu
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
as Count Dracula
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
as Grigori Rasputin
Circus of Fear
as Gregor
1965
The Face of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
Dr Terror's House of Horrors
as Franklyn Marsh
She
as Billali
The Skull
as Sir Matthew Phillips
Ten Little Indians
as Mr. U.N. Owen (voice)
1964
The Gorgon
as Prof. Karl Meister
Crypt of the Vampire
as Count Ludwig Karnstein
The Castle of the Living Dead
as Count Drago
The Devil-Ship Pirates
as Captain Robeles
Horror!!!
as Self
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TVas Karl Jorla• 1 eps
1963
The Whip and the Body
as Kurt Menliff
The Doctor Of Seven Dials
as Resurrection Joe
The Virgin of Nuremberg
as Erich
1962
Secret of the Red Orchid
as Capt. Allerman
Lolita
as Kharis, the Mummy (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Pirates of Blood River
as Captain LaRoche
1961
The Devil's Daffodil
as Ling Chu
The Terror of the Tongs
as Chung King
Taste of Fear
as Doctor Pierre Gerrard
Hercules in the Haunted World
as King Lico (Licos)
One Step Beyond
TVas Wilhelm Reitlinger• 1 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
TVas Self
1960
The City of the Dead
as Prof. Alan Driscoll
The Hands of Orlac
as Nero the magician
Beat Girl
as Kenny King
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
as Paul Allen
1959
Uncle Was a Vampire
as Baron Roderico da Frankurten
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
as Dr. Pierre Gerrard
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Sir Henry Baskerville
The Mummy
as Kharis, the Mummy
Stars in the Ring
TVas Self
1958
A Tale of Two Cities
as Marquis St. Evremonde
Dracula
as Count Dracula
Battle of the V-1
as Brunner
Sailor of Fortune
TVas Yusif Carnot• 22 eps
Ivanhoe
TVas Sir Otto from the Rhine
The Adventures of William Tell
TVas Prince Erik
1957
The Truth About Women
as Francois Thiers
The Curse of Frankenstein
as The Creature
Fortune Is a Woman
as Charles Highbury
The Traitor
as Doctor Neumann
Bitter Victory
as Sgt. Barney
Ill Met by Moonlight
as German officer at The Dentist's office
1956
Port Afrique
as Franz Vermes
Private's Progress
as Major Schultz
Beyond Mombasa
as Gil Rossi
The Battle of the River Plate
as Manolo
Alexander the Great
as Nectenabus (voice)
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
TVas Jeanpierre
1955
Contraband Spain
as Narrador (voz)
Storm Over the Nile
as Karaga Pasha
The Cockleshell Heroes
as Submarine Commander Alan Grieves
The Dark Avenger
as French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited)
Mark Saber
TVas Larry Spence• 1 eps
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
TVas Louis (uncredited)• 1 eps
1954
The Mirror and Markheim
as Visitant
1953
Innocents in Paris
as Lieutenant Whitlock
1952
Paul Temple Returns
as Sir Felix Raybourne
The Crimson Pirate
as Joseph (attache)
Moulin Rouge
as Georges Seurat (uncredited)
1951
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
as Spanish Captain
Quo Vadis
as Chariot Driver (uncredited)
1950
They Were Not Divided
as Chris Lewis
1949
Trottie True
as Hon. Bongo Icklesham
1948
Hamlet
as Palace Guard (uncredited)
Scott of the Antarctic
as Bernard Day
A Song for Tomorrow
as Auguste
One Night with You
as Pirelli's Assistant
Penny and the Pownall Case
as Jonathan Blair
Saraband for Dead Lovers
as Herzog Anthony von Wolfenbüttel
Corridor of Mirrors
as Charles
