FACTS ABOUT CHRISTOPHER LEE

SIR CHRISTOPHER'S CAREER BEGAN IN THE 1940'S.

HOWEVER, IT WAS THE 1958 FILM DRACULA THAT

MADE HIM A STAR

IN LEE'S FIRST FILM FOR HAMMER, HE PLAYED THE ROLE OF

FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER. THIS WAS ALSO THE FIRST FILM

LEE AND PETER CUSHING WERE CREDITED TOGETHER

HOWEVER, PROBABLY ONE OF HIS MOST ICONIC HAMMER

PERFORMANCES WAS THAT OF THE TRANSYLVANIAN VAMPIRE

DRACULA. A NOTABLE PERFORMANCE GIVEN THAT

HE HAD NO LINES.

WHILE THEY FREQUENTLY PLAYED OFF EACH OTHER AS

MORTAL ENEMIES ONSCREEN—LEE'S COUNT DRACULA

TO CUSHING'S PROFESSOR VAN HELSING—THEY WERE

CLOSE FRIENDS IN REAL LIFE.

IN SPITE OF HIS FAME AS DRACULA, SIR CHRISTOPHER HAD

NO DESIRE IN CONTINUING THE ROLE AND BLAMED

"EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL" AS THE REASON FOR STAYING

SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE MADE HIS DEBUT IN TERENCE

YOUNG'S GOTHIC ROMANCE CORRIDOR OF MIRRORS (1947)

IN WHICH HE PLAYS A MAN NAMED CHARLES WITH A SINGLE

LINE "A SATIRICAL SHAFT MEANT TO QUALIFY THE

LEAD'S BRAVURA"

WHO CELEBRATES THEIR 92ND BIRTHDAY BY RELEASING

A HEAVY METAL VERSION OF FRANK SINATRA'S CLASSIC

"MY WAY"? ONLY ONE OF THE MOST AWESOME FREE

THINKERS OUT THERE, SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE, THAT'S WHO

"I THINK ACTING IS A MIXTURE OF INSTINCT, IMAGINATION

AND INVENTIVENESS. ALL YOU CAN LEARN AS AN ACTOR IS

BASIC TECHNIQUE" – SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE

WE WILL MISS ONE OF OUR FAVOURITE BOND VILLAINS,

FRANCISCO SCARAMANGA IN THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN