Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBEwas an English actor, singer, and author. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Lee initially portrayed 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, Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogyand The Hobbit film trilogy, and Count Dooku in the final two films of...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth27 May 1922
CityLondon, England
If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.
There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.
In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.
I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.
I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.
When I first read “Lord of the Rings”, I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time, the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI.
Johnny Depp, as far as I'm concerned, is number one. Of his generation, there's no one who can touch him. Some performers, today, it's like looking at holes in the air.
I've been for 10 years trying to make something out of my life as an actor. I've learned a lot but I haven't done much that's worthwhile. So maybe if I make people wonder what I really do look like and make myself unrecognizable, they will be interested and intrigued, which eventually, of course, happened.
We threw a lot of rock yesterday, and we're throwing more rock this afternoon.
It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.
There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business.
A whole new career opened up for me when I was in 'Lord Of The Rings' and 'Star Wars.'
The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.
I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations.