RIP Christopher Lee, probably the most prolific vampire, demon, wizard, warlock, spy, WW II soldier, intelligence officer, dramatic character and Shakespearean in movie history. If you search for all of Lee's roles on IMDB.com, it almost breaks the database....about 282 movie roles, back to the 1940's, after actual service in WW II. Most of his movies were British. Early on he did conventional dramatic roles, but in the mid-50's to mid 70's, he became a regular in the great Hammer Films horror series, the best scary flicks of that era. Decades later, after stitching together numerous monsters, biting lots of jugular veins, choking numerous innocent victims and turning on numerous strange sci-fi machines that made noise and sparks, Lee came to much wider fame as the evil-turning Wizard Saruman in the great Lord of the Rings trilogy. His tall, gaunt, somber and scary mannerisms were hard to top. In his personal life, Lee didn't have much interest in the occult topics of many of his movies and often warned fans to not think that any of this was true, nor to spend much time taking it seriously. Still active into his 90's, he will be missed.
Here Lee co-stars with Peter Cushing, the guy who often hunted down a Christopher Lee ghoul.
