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Sir Christopher Lee, the British actor whose film appearances ranged from the blood-soaked horrors of Hammer Films to the James Bond, "Lord of the Rings" and "Star Wars" franchises, died June 8, 2015, at the age of 93.
Left: Lee as Count Dracula in "Dracula A.D. 1972."
Portrait
Left: An undated publicity photo of actor Christopher Lee.
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was born on May 27, 1922, in London, the son of a British army officer and an Edwardian beauty of Italian descent, Contessa Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano. After his parents separated, Christopher's mother remarried an uncle of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
After serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II, the 6-foot-5 Lee appeared in minor roles in British films, including Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet," before joining Hammer's stable of actors who brought fresh blood to the horror genre beginning in the late 1950s.
"The Curse of Frankenstein"
In 1957 Lee starred as the monster in Hammer's "The
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Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films and cult saga. Although most notable for personifying bloodsucking vampire, Dracula, on screen, he portrayed other varied characters on screen, most of which were villains, whether it be Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), or Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), or as the title monster in the Hammer Horror film, The Mummy (1959).
Lee was born in 1922 in London, England, where he and his older sister Xandra were raised by their parents, Contessa Estelle Marie (Carandini di Sarzano) and Geoffrey Trollope Lee, a professional soldier, until their divorce in 1926. Later, while Lee was still a child, his mother married (and later divorced) Harcourt George St.-Croix (nicknamed Ingle), who was a banker. Lee's maternal great-grandfather was an Italian political refugee, while Lee's great-grandm