Christopher Lee
Acting
1922-05-27 · 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
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024 · Movie
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
2024 · Movie
Constel·lació Portabella
2024 · Movie
Children of the Wicker Man
2024 · Movie
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
2024 · Movie
The Wicker Man at 50
2023 · Movie
Faces of Death
2023 · Movie
The Sound of 007: Live from the Royal Albert Hall
2022 · Movie
Peter Cushing: In His Own Words
2020 · Movie
La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català
2019 · Series
Drácula Barcelona
2017 · Movie
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017 · Movie
Angels in Notting Hill
2015 · Movie
Extraordinary Tales
2015 · Movie
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015 · Movie
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Movie
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014 · Movie
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
2014 · Movie
Face of Unity
2014 · Movie
The Trail of Dracula
2013 · Movie
The Girl from Nagasaki
2013 · Movie
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
2013 · Movie
The Gillian Hills Trilogy
2013 · Movie
Night Train to Lisbon
2013 · Movie
Christopher Lee: A Legacy of Horror and Terror
2012 · Movie
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · Movie
The Fall of the House Of Usher
2012 · Movie
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
2012 · Movie
Dracula vs. Vampir
2012 · Movie
Everything or Nothing
2012 · Movie
The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features
2012 · Movie
Dark Shadows
2012 · Movie
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
2012 · Movie
Enzo Ferrari 1898 - 1988
2012 · Movie
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
2012 · Movie
Hugo
2011 · Movie
The Wicker Tree
2011 · Movie
The Resident
2011 · Movie
Season of the Witch
2011 · Movie
Christopher Lee: Gentleman of Horror
2010 · Movie
Burke & Hare
2010 · Movie
Boogie Woogie
2010 · Movie
The Heavy
2010 · Movie
Alice in Wonderland
2010 · Movie
Glorious 39
2009 · Movie
Triage
2009 · Movie
The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Original Poem
2008 · Movie
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008 · Movie
The Colour of Magic
2008 · Series
Fanex Files: Hammer Films
2008 · Movie
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
2008 · Movie
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
2008 · Movie
The Golden Compass
2007 · Movie
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
2007 · Movie
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007 · Series
Amazon Trek: In Search of Vanishing Secrets
2007 · Movie
Rhapsody of Fire: Visions from the Enchanted Lands
2007 · Movie
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
2007 · Movie
Hollywood Chinese
2007 · Movie
Ein Leben wie im Flug
2007 · Movie
Beloved Count
2007 · Movie
Bloody Jess
2007 · Movie
The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
2006 · Movie
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
2006 · Movie
Semperopernball
2006 · Series
Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills
2006 · Movie
Pope John Paul II
2005 · Series
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
2005 · Movie
Corpse Bride
2005 · Movie
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005 · Movie
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005 · Movie
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004 · Movie
The Story of Star Wars
2004 · Movie
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
2004 · Movie
Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel
2004 · Series
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
2003 · Movie
J.R.R. Tolkien: Origins of Middle-Earth
2003 · Movie
Drácula en la Hammer
2003 · Movie
Whales of Atlantis: In Search of Moby Dick
2003 · Movie
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002 · Movie
Best Ever Bond
2002 · Movie
The Fellowship of the Ring: From Book to Script
2002 · Movie
The Fellowship of the Ring: Cameras in Middle-earth
2002 · Movie
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
2002 · Movie
From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II
2002 · Movie
The Fellowship of the Ring: Designing and Building Middle-earth + Weta Workshop + Costume Design
2002 · Movie
Perversion Stories
2002 · Movie
To the Devil... The Death of Hammer
2002 · Movie
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002 · Movie
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
2001 · Movie
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Movie
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Movie
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
2001 · Movie
Quest for the Ring
2001 · Movie
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001 · Movie
The Wicker Man Enigma
2001 · Movie
The Devil's Island: Journey Into Jungle Alcatraz
2001 · Movie
Aeschbacher
2001 · Series
Ghost Stories for Christmas
2000 · Series
In the Beginning
2000 · Series
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
2000 · Movie
Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
2000 · Movie
Gormenghast
2000 · Series
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000 · Movie
Ian Fleming: 007's Creator
2000 · Movie
Sleepy Hollow
1999 · Movie
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999 · Movie
Ex-S: The Wicker Man
1998 · Movie
Jinnah
1998 · Movie
Dare To Dream: The Making of Jinnah
1998 · Movie
Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy
1998 · Movie
The Mummy
1998 · Movie
100 Years of Horror
1998 · Movie
Soul Music
1997 · Series
The Odyssey
1997 · Series
Wyrd Sisters
1997 · Series
Soul Music
1997 · Movie
Ivanhoe
1997 · Series
Welcome to the Discworld
1996 · Movie
100 Years of Horror
1996 · Series
The Stupids
1996 · Movie
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
1996 · Movie
Moses
1996 · Series
The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry
1996 · Movie
Alisea and the Dream Prince
1996 · Series
A Century of Science Fiction
1996 · Movie
The Many Faces of Christopher Lee
1996 · Movie
A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghosts of M.R. James
1995 · Movie
In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
1995 · Movie
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
1995 · Series
A Feast at Midnight
1994 · Movie
The World of Hammer
1994 · Series
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
1994 · Movie
Funny Man
1994 · Movie
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
1994 · Movie
The Rainbow Thief
1994 · Movie
Brisant
1994 · Series
Blue Heelers
1993 · Series
Death Train
1993 · Movie
Cyber Eden
1992 · Movie
Double Vision
1992 · Movie
Innocent Blood
1992 · Movie
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992 · Series
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
1992 · Movie
Beauty and the Beast
1992 · Movie
Dracula in the Movies
1992 · Movie
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
1991 · Movie
Fear in the Dark
1991 · Movie
Halloween Monster Bash
1991 · Movie
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
1991 · Movie
Journey of Honor
1991 · Movie
Ghosts: A Journey Into the Paranormal
1991 · Movie
The Care of Time
1990 · Movie
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990 · Movie
Treasure Island
1990 · Movie
The Miser
1990 · Movie
Stern TV
1990 · Series
For Better or for Worse
1989 · Movie
The French Revolution
1989 · Series
Murder Story
1989 · Movie
Night of the Eagles
1989 · Movie
The French Revolution
1989 · Movie
Around the World in 80 Days
1989 · Series
The Return of the Musketeers
1989 · Movie
Nase vorn
1988 · Series
Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil
1988 · Movie
Olympus Force: The Key
1988 · Movie
Seitenblicke
1987 · Series
Creepy Classics
1987 · Movie
Mio in the Land of Faraway
1987 · Movie
The Girl
1987 · Movie
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987 · Movie
Casanova
1987 · Movie
The Disputation
1986 · Movie
Un métier de seigneur
1986 · Movie
Jocks
1986 · Movie
Shaka Zulu
1986 · Series
Wedden, dat..?
1986 · Series
Mask of Murder
1985 · Movie
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
1985 · Movie
The Best of All Time Horror Classics
1985 · Movie
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
1985 · Movie
The Rosebud Beach Hotel
1984 · Movie
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
1984 · Movie
The Bengal Lancers!
1984 · Movie
The Far Pavilions
1984 · Series
House of the Long Shadows
1983 · Movie
The Return of Captain Invincible
1983 · Movie
New Magic
1983 · Movie
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
1983 · Movie
The Last Unicorn
1982 · Movie
The Rank Charm School
1982 · Movie
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
1982 · Movie
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · Series
Massarati and the Brain
1982 · Movie
Safari 3000
1982 · Movie
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Series
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982 · Movie
Goliath Awaits
1981 · Series
An Eye for an Eye
1981 · Movie
Evil Stalks This House
1981 · Movie
The Salamander
1981 · Movie
Wetten, dass..?
1981 · Series
Once Upon a Spy
1980 · Movie
Serial
1980 · Movie
Desperate Moves
1980 · Movie
1941
1979 · Movie
Bear Island
1979 · Movie
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
1979 · Movie
Jaguar Lives!
1979 · Movie
Arabian Adventure
1979 · Movie
The Passage
1979 · Movie
The Horror Show
1979 · Movie
Mickey's 50
1978 · Movie
Caravans
1978 · Movie
Circle of Iron
1978 · Movie
Return from Witch Mountain
1978 · Movie
The Pirate
1977 · Series
Starship Invasions
1977 · Movie
The Occult: Mysteries Of The Supernatural
1977 · Movie
Playboy's Playmate Party
1977 · Movie
End of the World
1977 · Movie
Airport '77
1977 · Movie
Meatcleaver Massacre
1977 · Movie
How the West Was Won
1977 · Series
Auf los geht's los
1977 · Series
Charlie's Angels
1976 · Series
Dracula and Son
1976 · Movie
Albino
1976 · Movie
To the Devil a Daughter
1976 · Movie
Killer Force
1976 · Movie
The Keeper
1976 · Movie
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
Space: 1999
1975 · Series
In Search of Dracula
1975 · Movie
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
1975 · Movie
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974 · Movie
The Four Musketeers
1974 · Movie
Diagnosis: Murder
1974 · Movie
The Three Musketeers
1973 · Movie
The Wicker Man
1973 · Movie
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973 · Series
Dark Places
1973 · Movie
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
1973 · Movie
Nothing But the Night
1973 · Movie
Poor Devil
1973 · Movie
The Creeping Flesh
1973 · Movie
Death Line
1972 · Movie
Horror Express
1972 · Movie
Dracula A.D. 1972
1972 · Movie
Vampir Cuadecuc
1972 · Movie
Umbracle
1972 · Movie
Film '72
1971 · Series
Hannie Caulder
1971 · Movie
I, Monster
1971 · Movie
Theatre Macabre
1971 · Series
The House That Dripped Blood
1971 · Movie
Scars of Dracula
1970 · Movie
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970 · Movie
Julius Caesar
1970 · Movie
One More Time
1970 · Movie
Treffpunkte
1970 · Series
Taste the Blood of Dracula
1970 · Movie
Count Dracula
1970 · Movie
Eugenie
1970 · Movie
The Bloody Judge
1970 · Movie
Scream and Scream Again
1970 · Movie
The Magic Christian
1969 · Movie
The Oblong Box
1969 · Movie
The Castle of Fu Manchu
1969 · Movie
Quelle horreur mon saigneur Dracula
1969 · Movie
Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968 · Movie
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
1968 · Movie
The Blood of Fu Manchu
1968 · Movie
The Devil Rides Out
1968 · Movie
The Face of Eve
1968 · Movie
The Movie Orgy
1968 · Movie
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
1967 · Movie
Five Golden Dragons
1967 · Movie
Theatre of Death
1967 · Movie
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
1967 · Movie
Night of the Big Heat
1967 · Movie
The Brides of Fu Manchu
1966 · Movie
Circus of Fear
1966 · Movie
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966 · Movie
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
1966 · Movie
The Skull
1965 · Movie
The Face of Fu Manchu
1965 · Movie
Ten Little Indians
1965 · Movie
She
1965 · Movie
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965 · Movie
The Gorgon
1964 · Movie
The Castle of the Living Dead
1964 · Movie
The Devil-Ship Pirates
1964 · Movie
Crypt of the Vampire
1964 · Movie
Horror!!!
1964 · Movie
The Whip and the Body
1963 · Movie
Horror Castle
1963 · Movie
Challenge the Devil
1963 · Movie
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
1962 · Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Series
The Devil's Agent
1962 · Movie
The Pirates of Blood River
1962 · Movie
The Secret of the Red Orchid
1962 · Movie
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Series
Hercules in the Haunted World
1961 · Movie
The Devil's Daffodil
1961 · Movie
Taste of Fear
1961 · Movie
The Terror of the Tongs
1961 · Movie
The Avengers
1961 · Series
The Hands of Orlac
1960 · Movie
Too Hot to Handle
1960 · Movie
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
1960 · Movie
The City of the Dead
1960 · Movie
Beat Girl
1960 · Movie
Uncle Was a Vampire
1959 · Movie
The Mummy
1959 · Movie
The Treasure of San Teresa
1959 · Movie
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
1959 · Movie
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1959 · Movie
Stars in der Manege
1959 · Series
Whicker's World
1959 · Series
One Step Beyond
1959 · Series
Corridors of Blood
1958 · Movie
The Adventures of William Tell
1958 · Series
Dracula
1958 · Movie
A Tale of Two Cities
1958 · Movie
Ivanhoe
1958 · Series
Battle of the V-1
1958 · Movie
The Truth About Women
1957 · Movie
Bitter Victory
1957 · Movie
Manuela
1957 · Movie
The Curse of Frankenstein
1957 · Movie
Fortune Is a Woman
1957 · Movie
The Traitor
1957 · Movie
Ill Met by Moonlight
1957 · Movie
The Battle of the River Plate
1956 · Movie
Beyond Mombasa
1956 · Movie
The Errol Flynn Theatre
1956 · Series
Port Afrique
1956 · Movie
Alexander the Great
1956 · Movie
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956 · Series
Private's Progress
1956 · Movie
Storm Over the Nile
1955 · Movie
Alias John Preston
1955 · Movie
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955 · Movie
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955 · Series
Moby Dick—Rehearsed
1955 · Movie
Police Dog
1955 · Movie
The Dark Avenger
1955 · Movie
Contraband Spain
1955 · Movie
That Lady
1955 · Movie
Cross-Roads
1955 · Movie
Final Column
1955 · Movie
Mark Saber
1954 · Series
The Awakening
1954 · Movie
The Mirror and Markheim
1954 · Movie
Innocents in Paris
1953 · Movie
The Top and the Ball
1953 · Movie
Babes in Bagdad
1952 · Movie
Paul Temple Returns
1952 · Movie
Top Secret
1952 · Movie
Moulin Rouge
1952 · Movie
The Crimson Pirate
1952 · Movie
Quo Vadis
1951 · Movie
Valley of the Eagles
1951 · Movie
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951 · Movie
Prelude to Fame
1950 · Movie
They Were Not Divided
1950 · Movie
Trottie True
1949 · Movie
Hamlet
1948 · Movie
Scott of the Antarctic
1948 · Movie
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948 · Movie
Penny and the Pownall Case
1948 · Movie
A Song for Tomorrow
1948 · Movie
One Night with You
1948 · Movie
Corridor of Mirrors
1948 · Movie
Eugen Weidmann Execution Film
1939 · Movie
Science Fiction Film Awards
Series
Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending
Movie