Self-described with typical good humor as “tall, dark and gruesome,” Christopher Lee was a remarkably... (Learn more)
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Christopher Lee’s Milestones
| 1941 - 1946 | Served as a flight lieutenant in Britain's Royal Air Force before transferring to Intelligence Service |
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| 1947 | Signed seven-year contract with Rank Organization |
| 1948 | Appeared as a Palace Guard in Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet"; first film with actor Peter Cushing |
| 1948 | Film debut as Charles in "Corridor of Mirrors" |
| 1948 | First of 12 films with director Terence Fisher, "A Song For Tomorrow" |
| 1951 | Acted in Raoul Walsh's "Captain Horatio Hornblower" |
| 1953 | Worked with director John Huston on "Moulin Rouge"; also starring Peter Cushing |
| 1957 | Breakthrough role as the Creature in Fisher's "The Curse of Frankenstein"; also starred Peter Cushing |
| 1958 | First of 10 films as Count Dracula, "The Horror of Dracula"; directed by Fisher and co-starred Cushing as Von Helsing |
| 1958 | Portrayed the sadistic Marquis St Evremonde in "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| 1959 | First foray into Sherlock Holmes genre, playing Sir Henry Baskerville in Fisher's "The Hound of the Baskervilles" |
| 1959 | Took on title role of "The Mummy"; Fisher directed and Cushing co-starred |
| 1962 | Acted the part of Sherlock Holmes in Fisher's "Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace" |
| 1965 | Played Fu Manchu (first of five portrayals) in "The Face of Fu Manchu" |
| 1965 | Second time around as Dracula in Fisher's "Dracula - Prince of Darkness" |
| 1966 | Brilliantly over-the-top as Rasputin in "Rasputin - the Mad Monk" |
| 1968 | Last film with Fisher, "The Devil Rides Out" |
| 1969 | Teamed with Vincent Price for "The Oblong Box" |
| 1970 | Joined Price and Peter Cushing for "Scream and Scream Again" |
| 1970 | Portrayed Sherlock Holmes' brother Mycroft in Billy Wilder's "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes"; the only actor to have played both brothers |
| 1972 | First time since "Horror of Dracula" that his Dracula squared off against Cushing's Von Helsing |
| 1972 | Formed Charlemagne Production with Anthony Nelson Keys |
| 1973 | Reteamed with Cushing for third and final pairing as Dracula-Von Helsing in "Satanic Rites of Dracula" (released in United States as "Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride") |
| 1973 | Starred in the classic cult film "The Wicker Man" |
| 1974 | Excellent as assassin Scaramanga in the James Bond film "The Man With the Golden Gun" |
| 1974 | Played Comte de Rochefort in Richard Lester's "The Three Musketeers" |
| 1975 | Reprised Rochefort role for Lester's "The Four Musketeers" |
| 1977 | Appeared in "Airport '77" as famous oceanographer Martin Wallace |
| 1978 | Portrayed the mad scientist Victor in Disney's "The Return from Witch Mountain" |
| 1979 | Acted in Steven Spielberg's "1941" |
| 1979 | Did a final turn as Rochefort in Lester's "The Return of the Musketeers" |
| 1979 | Provided voices for the animated feature "Nutcracker Fantasy" |
| 1980 | Delivered a comic turn as a gay biker in the feature film "Serial" |
| 1981 | Cast as Chuck Norris' nemesis in "An Eye for an Eye" |
| 1982 | Last film with Cushing, "The House of Long Shadows" |
| 1982 | Portrayed Prince Philip in the ABC movie "Charles and Diana: A Royal Love Story" |
| 1984 | Acted the part of Kaka-ji Rao in the HBO miniseries "The Far Pavilions" |
| 1986 | Played Lord Bathurst in the syndicated miniseries "Shaka Zulu" |
| 1989 | Cast as Andrew Stuart in the NBC miniseries "Around the World in 80 Days" |
| 1990 | Underwent a two-hour makeup transformation for his portrayal of Blind Pew in Fraser Heston's adaptation of "Treasure Island" |
| 1992 | Director John Landis integrated footage from "Horror of Dracula" into his "Innocent Blood"; gave both Lee and Cushing credits in the film |
| 1992 | Reprised role of Sherlock Holmes for two syndicated miniseries' "Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls" and "Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady" |
| 1993 | Cast as the disaffected Soviet military leader General Konstatin Benin in the USA Network movie "Alistair MacLean's Death Train" |
| 1996 | Played Pharaoh to Ben Kingsley's Moses in the TNT miniseries "Moses" |
| 1996 | Portrayed the Evil Sender in John Landis' "The Stupids" |
| 1997 | Appeared as Tiresias in the NBC miniseries "The Odyssey" |
| 1998 | Portrayed the title role in "Jinnah," a biopic of the founder of Pakistan |
| 1999 | Played a burgermeister in Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" |
| 2001 | Cast as Saruman in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" |
| 2002 | Portrayed the villainous Count Dooku in "Star Wars: Episode II - The Attack of the Clones" |
| 2003 | Again portrayed Saruman in the third and final "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" |
| 2005 | Played Willy Wonka's (Johnny Depp) father in Tim Burton's adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic tale "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" |
| 2005 | Reprised role of Count Dooku in "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" |
| 2008 | Voiced Count Dooku in the animated feature "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" |
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