Sir Christopher Lee: Screen Legend Passes Away

Screen legend Sir Christopher Lee has passed away at the age of 93 – a shock to all who assumed him immortal.

Screen legend and extraordinary human Sir Christopher Lee passes away at the age of 93.

A man of many talents (he served heroically in World War II, recorded heavy metal vocals, wrote books, and right, acted now and again!), Sir Christopher Lee gifted genre fans with amazing performances in classic franchises such as Hammer Horror films, James Bond, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and Star Wars.

Born in 1922, Christopher Frank Carandini Lee made his first splash on-screen in 1957 when he played the monster in Terence Fisher’s The Curse Of Frankenstein. This role lead to 1958’s Dracula, where he began his long career of playing characters you could never quite forget. Lee played the murderous blood sucker eight more times as well as the Mummy, Fu Manchu, and Rasputin during his Hammer career.

This first chapter of his career led Lee into the 70’s, when he began to appear in mainstream blockbuster franchises, such as playing Francisco Scaramanga in the Bond film, The Man With The Golden Gun. He would go on to appear as Count Dooku in 2002’s Star Wars – Episode II: Attack Of The Clones and Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith, and in Peter Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies as Saruman The White.

No one could beat his baddies.

Lee was made a CBE in 2001 and a Knight Bachelor in 2009. He is survived by daughter Christina and wife Gitte, whom he was married to for over 50 years.

RIP, Sir. And thank you for your contributions to the world, both real and fictional.