Return from Witch Mountain". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on 4 September 2015 . Retrieved 15 August 2015. Known as an actor with a deep, strong voice, Lee also sang, recorded opera and musical pieces between 1986 and 1998, and the symphonic metal album Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross in 2010, after having worked with several metal bands since 2005. The heavy metal follow-up Charlemagne: The Omens of Death was released in 2013 on Lee's 91st birthday. He was honoured with the "Spirit of Hammer" award at the 2010 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards ceremony. In brief: Christopher Lee 'most bankable' star". The Guardian. 4 January 2006. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 11 June 2023. Ikola, Vilma (11 August 2020). "Sotakuvien seasta paljastui yllättävä löytö: Keskellä talvisodan koettelemaa Helsinkiä seisoo mies, joka saattaa olla näyttelijäsuuruus Christopher Lee"[A surprising discovery was revealed among the war photos: In the middle of Helsinki, which was hit by the Winter War, stands a man who may be the actor Christopher Lee]. Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish) . Retrieved 15 August 2021. Number 13 - Staying in Room 12 of the Golden Lion in the Danish town of Viborg, historian Mr Anderson is perturbed by the mystery of the room next door. Who, or what, is the inhabitant of number 13?

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I made a policy of accepting one-off TV roles, but declining episodic TV and sitcoms. Seemingly you must decide whether you are a movie or a TV actor, and never the twain shall meet except on special occasions.” He would have been a great lead in today’s new streaming era over network only television. He could have learned a thing or two from near contemporaries such as David Niven and Roger Moore, whose autobiographies are perfectly pitched. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire and Other Stories (unabridged short stories) Smith, Steve; etal. (2003). Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest (TV Documentary). Prometheus Entertainment. a b c Welsh, Paul (16 February 2006). "A prolific star of the Elstree screen". Borehamwood & Elstree Times . Retrieved 20 December 2012.In his later years, Lee continued acting but also turned his hand to creating and releasing his own heavy metal album - at the tender age of eighty eight. First of all, I had a very, very hard time finding this book. It seems very unusual to me that a story of an actor of his calibre isn't available to buy and wasn't recently republished. Especially after his death. It took me over 3 years to find a copy of "Tall, Dark and Gruesome". It was worth the wait. The storytelling is slow and very aristocratic, filled with small details that reminded me how long ago he was born and how many decades of adventures he lived through. When we perceive a person as a celebrity (an amazing actor in this case), we tend to forget about all the other aspects of their life and this book is a wonderful way to explore the entirety of character. Maltin, Leonard, ed. (1995). Leonard Maltin's 1996 Movie & Video Guide. Signet. p. 1360. ISBN 978-0-451-18505-1. Favourite quote (so far): As she grew, my daughter (Christina Lee) greeted each fresh contract with, “How do you die this time, Daddy?” Lee mentioned that during the war he was attached to special forces, but declined to give details. [66] [67] Lee's stepfather served as a captain in the Intelligence Corps, but it is unlikely he had any influence over Lee's military career. Lee saw his stepfather for the last time on a bus in London in 1940, after he was divorced from Lee's mother, and Lee did not speak to him. [68] Career [ edit ] 1947–1957: Career beginnings [ edit ]

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a b c d "Christopher Lee: a giant among actors". The Times. 20 November 2009 . Retrieved 20 December 2012. A witty, charming book full of accounts that are almost too incredible to believe. Lee glosses over instances terrifying and disturbing with the same debonair way he describes make up malfunctions and poor scripts. He is delightfully honest, while at the same time leaving much out of the book, and is quite humble about himself, his abilities and his career. Lee was known for his imposing height: [166] he was 6ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall. [67] On BBC Radio's Test Match Special "View from the Boundary" interview with Brian Johnston on 20 June 1987, Lee described himself as 6ft 4 in tall. [167] Lee and his wife Birgit were listed among the fifty best-dressed over 50s by The Guardian in March 2013. [168] Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was born in West London on May 27, 1922. His father, Geoffrey, had fought in the Boer War and the First World War with the 60th King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Lee’s grandparents were actually responsible for bringing Australia it’s first opera company. Lee himself would lend his incredible voice to opera pieces as well throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s, in between acting in films.With a career spanning nearly seven decades, Lee was well known for portraying Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films, beginning with Dracula (1958). His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond action film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002–2005), and Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014). One of Lee’s more underrated performances can be found in the equally underrated film Triage. Aside from adopting a Spanish accent for the role, and despite only appearing in the second half of the film, Lee also had to learn more dialogue than he’s ever had to learn for a role before, and this was when he was already 86 years old. Small wonder that Lee later remarked that he would no longer take on leading roles in films after that. In addition to making films in the United Kingdom, Lee made films in mainland Europe: he appeared in two German films, Count Dracula (1970), where he again played the vampire count, and The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967). Other films in Europe he made include Castle of the Living Dead (1964) and Horror Express (1972). Lee was a producer of the horror film Nothing But the Night (1972), in which he starred. It was the first and last film he produced, as he did not enjoy the process. [89] Prior to his acting career, Lee served in the Royal Air Force as an intelligence officer, attached to the No. 260 Squadron RAF as a liaison officer for the Special Operations Executive. Following his World War II service he retired from the RAF in 1946 with the rank of flight lieutenant. I think it is important that I precursor this review with a disclaimer. Christopher Lee was a hero of mine - inspiration, role model...the whole shebang. So please be prepared for a completely nonobjective view on this, his autobiography.

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With the amount of work Lee has done with Hammer Films, we can conclude that cooperating with them has paid off well. Income from Television

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Paul, Louis (6 September 2007). Tales from the Cult Film Trenches: Interviews with 36 Actors from Horror, Science Fiction and Exploitation Cinema. McFarland & Company. pp.146–. ISBN 978-0-7864-8402-7. In 2012, Lee marked his fifth and final collaboration with Tim Burton, by appearing in Burton's film adaptation of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, in the small role of a New England fishing captain. [127] [128] Stevens, Tom (12 June 2015). "Christopher Lee: readers' tributes and memories". The Guardian . Retrieved 22 March 2016. I will admit that the reading was a little slow at the beginning because Christopher Lee's actual voice comes through loud and strong in the book. If you're familiar with the man, it's VERY easy to picture him telling the story, as the word choices, rhythm of the sentences, and turns of phrase are very distinctive. For this reason, when I first started I couldn't help but hear Lee "reading" in my head. However, he was not an excitable type, and I always felt that he chose his words carefully and said them with much deliberation, which meant that in the early chapters my reading was necessarily slow and stately. I realized this was going to slow me down, though, so I eventually settled into a better tempo for my reading. Smith, Michael (10 August 2013). "Johnny Depp Retirement Saddens Christopher Lee". Guardian Liberty Voice. Archived from the original on 11 August 2013 . Retrieved 25 August 2013.

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a b c Lindrea, Victoria (11 October 2004). "Christopher Lee on the making of legends". BBC News . Retrieved 27 July 2021. Older audiences probably know him from his many roles as the villains in countless films from the 1940s through the 1970s. His imposing 6'5" height and arresting expression meant that casting directors put him in dozens of these spots. He was maybe best known for playing Dracula numerous times in Hammer horror films. Younger audiences are more likely to recognize him from his iconic turns as Saruman in the Lord of the Rings movies, or as Count Dooku/Darth Tyrannus in Star Wars. Lee was a great actor who appeared in films such as The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and James Bond. He also appeared in a number of other films in addition to these franchises. The following are some of his films, along with their box office gross: Movies For me, the interest in his films begins just after halfway with chapter 37, ‘A Taste of Blood’. This was when Hammer were going to remake Frankenstein in colour and he gets the part of the Creature. From that he gets the part of Dracula but that was not without its pitfalls, ‘Count Dracula might escape, but not the actors that play him’. I loved these chapters. He gets married to Gitte and they have a daughter. He has been in so many films and must have so many more stories to tell if he was still with us. He rounds up his favourite films and TV work. The edition I read was published in 1998. He died in 2015. Lee was offered the role of the titular villain in the very first James Bond film Dr. No by Ian Fleming. Lee was gung-ho to appear in the film, but by the time Fleming passed on his recommendation to the film’s producers, they’d already cast the role. Lee had to wait 12 years before he could appear in a James Bond film, finally playing the role of Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun.I read this book in many short spurts over several months. It was a greater effort than I typically am willing to invest, but having vowed to finish a book once started, I did. In late November 2009, Lee narrated the Science Fiction Festival in Trieste, Italy. [112] Also in 2009, Lee starred in Stephen Poliakoff's British period drama Glorious 39, Academy Award-nominated director Danis Tanović's war film Triage, and Duncan Ward's comedy Boogie Woogie. [113] 2010s: Later roles [ edit ] Lee at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012 From the Archives: Christopher Lee dies at 93; screen star of 'Dracula' and 'Lord of the Rings' ". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 15 August 2020.