Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ (born 27 May 1922) is 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, strong 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.

Movie		Character	Year
	The Dark Avenger	French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited)	1955
	Bitter Victory	Sgt. Barney	1958
	Horror of Dracula	Count Dracula	1958
	The Mummy	Kharis, the Mummy	1959
	The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll	Paul Allen	1961
	Scream of Fear	Doctor Pierre Gerrard	1961
	Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace	Sherlock Holmes	1962
	The Pirates of Blood River	Captain LaRoche	1962
	Dr. Terror's House of Horrors	Franklyn Marsh (segment "Disembodied Hand")	1965
	Dracula: Prince of Darkness	Count Dracula	1966
	The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism	Count Frederic Regula	1967
	Dracula Has Risen from the Grave	Dracula	1968
	Taste the Blood of Dracula	Dracula	1970
	Scars of Dracula	Dracula	1970
	The House That Dripped Blood	John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")	1971
	Horror Express	Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton	1972
	Dracula A.D. 1972	Count Dracula	1972
	Nothing But the Night	Col. Charles Bingham	1973
	The Satanic Rites of Dracula	Count Dracula	1973
	The Wicker Man	Lord Summerisle	1973
	The Man with the Golden Gun	Francisco Scaramanga	1974
	The Four Musketeers	Rochefort	1974
	Jaguar Lives!	Adam Caine	1979
	Bear Island	Lechinski	1979
	1941	Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt	1979
	The Last Unicorn	King Haggard (voice)	1982
	The Rosebud Beach Hotel	Mr. Clifford King	1984
	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Doctor Catheter	1990
	Curse III: Blood Sacrifice	Doctor Pearson	1991
	Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Horror Heritage	Narrator / Himself	1994
	A Feast At Midnight	V. E. 'Raptor' Longfellow	1995
	Moses	Pharao Ramses	1995
	The Many Faces of Christopher Lee		1996
	100 Years of Horror: Scream Queens	Himself / Host / Narrator	1996
	The Odyssey	Tiresias	1997
	Tale of the Mummy	Sir Richard Turkel	1999
	Sleepy Hollow	Burgomaster	1999
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Saruman	2001
	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones	Count Dooku	2002
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Saruman	2002
	Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse	Emerich	2004
	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith	Count Dooku	2005
	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Dr. Wonka	2005
	Corpse Bride	Pastor Galswells (voice)	2005
	The Golden Compass	First High Councilor	2007
	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	Count Dooku (voice)	2008
	Triage		2009
	The Colour of Magic	Death (voice)	2009
	Alice in Wonderland	The Jabberwocky (voice)	2010
	Season of the Witch	Cardinal D'Ambroise	2011
	The Resident	August	2011
	Hugo	Monsieur Labisse	2011
	Dark Shadows	Clarney	2012
	Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007	himself	2012
	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Saruman	2012
	Night Train to Lisbon	Father Bartolomeu	2013
	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Saruman	2013