Actor Christopher Lee Has Died at 93

Christopher Lee (or Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee) has played his last on-screen villain. The actor and singer died Sunday at the age of 93, reports The Guardian, after a career in which he played very few positive role models, but an astounding number of antagonists in fantasy, Sci-Fi, and horror films; as a young man, Lee played a career-launching Dracula, as well as a James Bond villain, the perfectly unsettling Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man, and dozens of other characters (not all of them evil). Into his 80s, still in demand for the creepiness he was so good at projecting, Lee portrayed the fallen-from-grace wizard Saruman in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings adaptations, and the evil Count Dooku in George Lucas's Star Wars follow-ons. He was also perhaps the only Knight Bachelor to have released an album of symphonic metal. Even at the time of his death, Lee was involved in film projects, so his legacy will always be immense but incomplete.

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Making metal albums in his 90's

[pecosdave]

That's one of the coolest old men ever! Not to mention he played Dracula in more languages that most people know how to find a bathroom in.

He died on Sunday

[DrXym]

They just waited 3 days to be absolutely certain before announcing it.

Who's gonna play Saruman now

[krkhan]

In the upcoming 18-movie adaptation of The Silmarillion?

Re:He was much more than that

[SvnLyrBrto]

Heh... if your resume includes drunken sword fights you're either doing life really, really right or really, really wrong.