Person

Christopher Lee

Acting · 1922-05-27 · † 2015-06-07 · Westminster, London, England, UK

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.

Filmography (201)

Year	Film	As
2026	Peter Cushing: A Life in Film	Self
2024	The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim	Saruman (voice)
2021	Dracula Nazi Hunter: How I Learned to Love Christopher Lee and Drink Atomic Bombs	Self
2019	Peter Cushing: In His Own Words	Self
2017	Drácula Barcelona	Self
2017	The Trail of Dracula	Self
2016	Angels in Notting Hill	Mr. President
2016	The Other Dracula - The Vampire Films of John Carradine	Narrator
2016	Angels in Notting Hill	The Boss
2014	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	Saruman the White
2014	Face of Unity	Actor
2013	Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics	Narrator
2013	Night Train to Lisbon	Father Bartholomeu
2013	Extraordinary Tales	Narrator (segment: The Fall of the House of Usher)
2012	Dark Shadows	Clarney
2012	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Saruman the White
2011	The Resident	August
2011	Season of the Witch	Cardinal D'Ambroise
2011	Hugo	Monsieur Labisse
2010	Alice in Wonderland	Jabberwocky (voice)
2010	Burke & Hare	Old Joseph
2009	Glorious 39	Walter
2009	The Heavy	Mr. Mason
2009	Boogie Woogie	Mr. Alfred Rhinegold
2008	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	Count Dooku (voice)
2008	Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic	Death
2007	The Golden Compass	First High Councilor
2007	Beloved Count	Self
2007	Hollywood Chinese	Self
2005	Corpse Bride	Pastor Galswells (voice)
2005	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith	Count Dooku
2005	The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby	The Lord Provost
2005	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Dr. Wonka
2004	Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse	Emerich
2004	Greasepaint and Gore: The Hammer Monsters of Phil Leakey	Self
2004	Greasepaint and Gore, Part 2: The Hammer Monsters of Roy Ashton	Self
2004	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Special Extended Edition Scenes	Saruman
2003	Whales of Atlantis: In Search of Moby Dick	Narrator
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Saruman
2002	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones	Count Dooku
2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Saruman
2000	Call Him Jess	Self
2000	In the Beginning	Rameses I
1999	Sleepy Hollow	Burgomaster
1998	Tale of the Mummy	Sir Richard Turkel
1998	Dare to Dream	Self
1998	Jinnah	Mohammed Ali Jinnah
1996	Welcome to the Discworld	Death
1996	Sorellina e il principe del sogno	Azaret
1994	Funny Man	Callum Chance
1994	Police Academy: Mission to Moscow	Commandant Rakov
1992	Cyber Eden	Cedric
1992	Innocent Blood	Count Dracula (archive footage)
1991	Journey of Honor	King Philip III
1991	Ghosts: A Journey Into the Paranormal	Narrator
1990	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Doctor Catheter
1990	The Rainbow Thief	Uncle Rudolf
1990	Treasure Island	Blind Pew
1989	Murder Story	Willard Hope
1989	Night of the Eagles	Walter Strauss
1989	For Better or for Worse	Lazos
1989	The Return of the Musketeers	Rochefort
1988	Olympus Force: The Key	Filly
1988	Mask of Murder	Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich
1988	Dark Mission: Evil Flowers	Luis Morel
1987	Mio in the Land of Faraway	Kato
1987	The Girl	Peter Storm
1985	Howling II: ... Your Sister Is a Werewolf	Stefan
1985	Don't Scream: It's Only a Movie!	Narrator
1984	The Bengal Lancers!	Sir James Hunter
1984	The Rosebud Beach Hotel	King
1983	The Return of Captain Invincible	Mr. Midnight
1983	House of the Long Shadows	Corrigan
1982	The Last Unicorn	King Haggard (voice)
1982	Safari 3000	Count Borgia
1981	The Salamander	Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence
1981	An Eye for an Eye	Morgan Canfield
1980	Steigler and Steigler	Dr. Carl Boxer
1980	Serial	Stewart Luckman
1980	Serial	Skull
1979	Bear Island	Thaddeus Lechinski
1979	Jaguar Lives!	Adam Caine
1979	Nutcracker Fantasy	Uncle Drosselmeyer
1979	1941	Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
1979	Nutcracker Fantasy	Street Singer
1979	The Passage	The Gypsy
1979	Arabian Adventure	Alquazar
1979	Nutcracker Fantasy	The Puppeteer
1978	Return from Witch Mountain	Victor
1978	Caravans	Sardar Khan
1978	Circle of Iron	Zetan
1978	The Pirate	Samir Al Fay
1977	Starship Invasions	Capt. Rameses
1977	End of the World	Father Pergado
1977	End of the World	Zindar
1977	Airport '77	Martin Wallace
1976	The Night of the Askari	Bill
1976	Dracula and Son	Dracula
1976	Killer Force	Maj. Chilton
1976	Meatcleaver Massacre	On-Screen Narrator
1976	To the Devil a Daughter	Father Michael Raynor
1976	The Keeper	The Keeper
1975	The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan	Satanus
1975	The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan	Van Krig
1974	In Search of Dracula	Prince Vlad Tepes Dracula
1974	In Search of Dracula	Count Dracula
1974	The Man with the Golden Gun	Francisco Scaramanga
1974	In Search of Dracula	Self
1974	Dark Places	Dr. Ian Mandeville
1974	Diagnosis: Murder	Dr. Stephen Hayward
1974	The Four Musketeers	Rochefort
1973	The Wicker Man	Lord Summerisle
1973	Nothing But the Night	Colonel Charles Bingham
1973	The Three Musketeers	Rochefort
1973	The Satanic Rites of Dracula	Count Dracula
1973	The Creeping Flesh	James Hildern
1972	Dracula A.D. 1972	Count Dracula
1972	Umbracle	The Man
1972	Horror Express	Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton
1971	Cuadecuc, vampir	Self -
1971	The House That Dripped Blood	Reid (segment: Sweets to the Sweet)
1971	Hannie Caulder	Bailey
1971	I, Monster	Dr. Charles Marlowe
1971	I, Monster	Edward Blake
1971	Cuadecuc, vampir	Count Dracula
1970	The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes	Mycroft Holmes
1970	Night of the Blood Monster	Judge Jeffries
1970	Eugenie	Dolmance
1970	Julius Caesar	Artemidorus
1970	Taste the Blood of Dracula	Dracula
1970	Count Dracula	Count Dracula
1970	Scream and Scream Again	Fremont
1970	Scars of Dracula	Dracula
1969	The Castle of Fu Manchu	Fu Manchu
1969	The Magic Christian	Ship's Vampire
1969	The Oblong Box	Dr. J. Neuhartt
1968	Dracula Has Risen from the Grave	Dracula
1968	The Crimson Cult	Morley
1968	The Blood of Fu Manchu	Fu Manchu
1968	The Devil Rides Out	Duc de Richleau
1968	Eve	Colonel Stuart
1967	The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism	Graf von Andomai
1967	The Vengeance of Fu Manchu	Fu Manchu
1967	Five Golden Dragons	Dragon #4
1967	Night of the Big Heat	Godfrey Hanson
1967	The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism	Count Frederic Regula
1966	Rasputin: The Mad Monk	Grigori Rasputin
1966	Dracula: Prince of Darkness	Count Dracula
1966	Theatre of Death	Philippe Darvas
1966	The Brides of Fu Manchu	Fu Manchu
1966	Psycho-Circus	Gregor
1965	She	Billali
1965	The Face of Fu Manchu	Fu Manchu
1965	The Skull	Sir Matthew Phillips
1965	Dr. Terror's House of Horrors	Franklyn Marsh
1964	The Gorgon	Prof. Karl Meister
1964	The Devil-Ship Pirates	Captain Robeles
1964	The Castle of the Living Dead	Count Drago
1964	Crypt of the Vampire	Count Ludwig Karnstein
1963	The Whip and the Body	Kurt Menliff
1963	Horror Castle	Erich
1963	Challenge the Devil	Mephistoles
1962	The Pirates of Blood River	Capt. LaRoche
1962	Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace	Sherlock Holmes
1962	The Devil's Agent	Baron Ferdi von Staub
1962	Secret of the Red Orchid	Capt. Allerman
1961	The Terror of the Tongs	Chung King
1961	Scream of Fear	Dr. Pierre Gerrard
1961	Hercules in the Haunted World	Lico
1960	Horror Hotel	Prof. Alan Driscoll
1960	Wild for Kicks	Kenny King
1960	The Hands of Orlac	Nero the Magician
1960	The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll	Paul Allen
1960	Too Hot to Handle	Novak
1959	The Man Who Could Cheat Death	Dr. Pierre Gerrard
1959	Hot Money Girl	Jaeger
1959	The Mummy	Kharis
1959	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sir Henry Baskerville
1959	The Mummy	The Mummy
1958	Dracula	Count Dracula
1958	Missiles from Hell	Brunner
1958	Corridors of Blood	Resurrection Joe
1957	The Accursed	Doctor Neumann
1957	Bitter Victory	Sergeant Barney
1957	The Curse of Frankenstein	The Creature
1956	Beyond Mombasa	Gil Rossi
1956	Port Afrique	Franz Vermes
1956	Alexander the Great	Nectenabus (voice)
1955	That Lady	Captain
1955	Police Dog	Johnny, a constable
1955	Final Column	Larry Spence
1955	Man in Demand	Martell
1955	Alias John Preston	John Preston
1955	The Cockleshell Heroes	Lieutenant-Commander Greaves
1954	Destination Milan	Svenson
1952	Bombay Waterfront	Sir Felix Raybourne
1952	The Crimson Pirate	Joseph - Military Attaché
1951	Quo Vadis	Chariot Driver (uncredited)
1951	Valley of the Eagles	Det. Holt
1948	Scott of the Antarctic	Bernard Day
1948	Penny and the Pownall Case	Jonathan Blair