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Actor Christopher Lee Has Died at 93

Posted by timothy on from the good-guy-bad-guy dept.

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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  1. What a long and storied career by NotDrWho · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not many actors get to span good chunks of two centuries, with great roles in each.

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  2. Re:Loved him in Three Musketeers by segedunum · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yer, he's the definitive Rochefort. To be honest, I would ban anyone making any musketeers films or series ever again because there simply isn't any point.

  3. Not Many People Manage to Live an Epic Life by LaurenCates · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This man did, however. If there ever were a real someone you could nominate as "The Most Interesting Man in the World", he would probably be the guy.

    RIP, Sir Lee, and thank you.

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  4. Re:He was much more than that by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Considering what a bad ass he was during world war 2, I'll let him decide what is a proper job for a man.

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  5. Re:He was much more than that by rubycodez · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He was part of the SOE, behind enemy lines. Their exact activities are classified to this day. Because they were hunting down certain Nazis and killing them. So you must have very manly accomplishments yourself to make that pale in comparison, do tell

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...