Christopher Lee

Also known as Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, Flight Lieutenant Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee

English actor and singer (1922–2015)

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Christopher Lee was an English actor and singer who had a long career in film and music from the 1920s until his death in 2015. He is remembered as a prominent figure in entertainment during the 20th century.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1941
Died: 2021
Works: 61

Top works

Tall, dark and gruesome
Lord of Misrule
Lurking shadows
Archives of evil
The Great villains

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: United States
Active from: 1920-05-26
Active to: 2002-01-21

adult standardsbig bandbluescast recordingseasy listeningjazz

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 59,918
Total plays: 507,620

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 94,967x
Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.
· 2003 · cited 65,144x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,740x
Coefficient Alpha and the Internal Structure of Tests
· 1951 · cited 29,441x
Particle mesh Ewald: An <i>N</i>⋅log(<i>N</i>) method for Ewald sums in large systems
· 1993 · cited 29,247x

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Quotes

“Fun seems to be a three-letter word these days, although with directors like Tim Burton and George Lucas, it's fun, fun, fun while working yourself to death. But if you compare those Hammer movies to what has been made in the last 20 years - Brian de Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Wes Craven, Tim Burton and Peter Jackson have all said the same thing to me: 'We were brought up on your movies.' And it certainly shows in theirs.”
“He looked like a miniature Edward G. Robinson, and had the vigour of six, with the promiscuity of six for that matter, as if he wanted to make the most of every second of a life that would not be very long.”
“That is real horror and blood. When the Second World War finished I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I’d seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. So seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.ChristopherLeeWeb.com/index.php
Image: Christopher Lee 2009.jpg
Height: 194
Number of children: 1

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Commons category: Christopher Lee
date of birth: 1922-05-27
date of death: 2015-06-07
birth name: Christopher Frank Carandini Lee
start of work period: 1948-00-00
end of work period: 2015-00-00
name in native language: Christopher Lee
social media followers: 5010

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Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor and singer. In a career spanning over 60 years, he became known as an actor with tremendous screen presence and a deep and commanding voice who often portrayed villains in horror and franchise films. Lee was knighted for services to drama and charity in June 2009 by Charles Prince of Wales, and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011 and received the BFI Fellowship in 2013.

Lee gained fame for portraying Count Dracula in seven Hammer Horror films. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in two Star Wars films (2002–2005) and Saruman in both The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014). Lee frequently appeared opposite his friend Peter Cushing in horror films and had roles in five Tim Burton films late in his career, including Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Dark Shadows (2012). He had other notable roles in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958), A Tale of Two Cities (1958), Castle of the Living Dead (1964), The Wicker Man, (1973), The Return of Captain Invincible (1983), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Jinnah (1998), Glorious 39 (2009) and Hugo (2011).