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Brandon Lee Brandon Wiki Biography

Brandon Bruce Lee was born on the 1st February 1965, in Oakland, California USA, of Chinese American descent, and was an actor, following in the footsteps of his father, the actor Bruce Lee. Brandon was active in the entertainment industry from 1985 to 1993, when he passed away.

How rich was the actor? According to the estimations made by authoritative sources, the net worth of Brandon Lee was as much as $10 million, converted to the present day. Martial arts as well as acting were the main sources of Lee wealth.

As soon as he started walking, Bruce Lee, the father of the boy began training him in martial arts, in the style of Jeet Kune Do. Unfortunately, Brandon lost his father at the age of eight. Soon after the death of his father, he moved to Los Angeles from Hong Kong, with his mother and his sister Shannon. Since the young Brandon was interested in theatre, his mother enrolled him at the High School of Drama. Unlike his father, Brandon wanted to be known for his theatrical skills, not only for martial arts, so a few years later he enrolled at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, joining a theatre company.

Brandon Lee began his professional acting career at the age of 20 in the CBS television movie “Kung Fu: The Movie” (1986). After this, he starred in several films including “Legacy of Rage” (1986), “Laser Mission” (1989), “Showdown in Little Tokyo” (1991), “Rapid Fire” (1992) and others. His net worth was well established.

Brandon Lee died after being accidentally shot during the filming of “The Crow”, directed by Alex Proyas. The fatal scene occurred during a flashback of character Eric Draven, when he came into the apartment and discovered that his bride was being beaten and raped by bandits. It is a common procedure involving the usage of real weapons; however, these are usually equipped with blanks, which contain cartridges having twice more powder than normal ammunition to cause an explosive noise. In an earlier scene, the weapon that was used had to be loaded with live ammunition for the shooting scene to be more real, however, one of the bullets stuck in the barrel of the gun and was not noticed, even after cleaning the gun and the new loading with blanks. Lee entered the set holding a fake grocery bag containing an explosive bag with artificial blood. The actor Michael Massee fired the gun, and it took some time for the studio staff to realize what had really happened. The actor was rushed to the New Hanover Regional Medical Centre in Wilmington, North Carolina, and was taken to emergency surgery, but eventually died on the operating table because of internal bleeding, after 10 hours of failed attempts to save him – he was just 28 years old. There were rumours flying that Bruce Lee had taught the secret blows of Wing Chun, and masters of this martial art killed Brandon Lee so only they could knew these scams. Brandon Lee is buried in Lake View Cemetery, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Finally, in the personal life of the actor, he was partnered with Eliza Hutton from 1990 until his death.

IMDB Wikipedia “Kung Fu: The Next Generation” (1987) “Ohara” (1988) “Kung Fu: The Movie” (1986) $5 million 1.93 1965 1978-04-29 1993 (aged 28) Wilmington 91.63 Actor Alex Proyas Brandon Lee Brandon Brandon Lee Net Worth Bruce Lee California Camarillo Eliza Hutton Eliza Hutton (1990–1993; his death) Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Actor Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Actor (1994) February 1 Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Performer (1985) Linda Lee Cadwell March 31 Martial Artist Michael Massee MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance (1995) North Carolina Oakland Shannon Lee Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) U.S. United States Wing Chun

Brandon Lee Brandon Quick Info

Full Name Christopher Lee
Net Worth $5 Million
Date Of Birth February 1, 1965, Oakland, California, United States
Died March 31, 1993 (aged 28) Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S.
Height 1.83 m
Profession Actor, martial artist
Education High School of Drama, Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Spouse Eliza Hutton (1990–1993)
Children Christina Erika Lee
Parents Bruce Lee, Linda Lee Cadwell
Siblings Shannon Lee
Twitter https://twitter.com/brandonblee
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/brandonlee
IMDB www.imdb.com/name/nm0000488
Allmusic www.allmusic.com/artist/brandon-lee-mn0000952874
Awards Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Actor (1994)
Nominations MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance (1995), Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Performer (1985)
Movies “Showdown in Little Tokyo” (1991), “Legacy of Rage” (1986), “Laser Mission” (1989), “Showdown in Little Tokyo” (1991), “Rapid Fire” (1992),“The Crow” (1994)
TV Shows “Kung Fu: The Movie” (1986), “Kung Fu: The Next Generation” (1987), “Ohara” (1988)

Brandon Lee Brandon Trademarks

  1. His beard which he grew in his later years
  2. Towering height and slender frame
  3. Roles in Hammer Horror films
  4. Frequently played imposing, menacing villains
  5. Deeply melodic basso voice

Brandon Lee Brandon Quotes

  • Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.
  • People sometimes come up to me, and they say, “I’ve seen all your films, Mr. Lee,” and I say, “Oh no, you haven’t.”.
  • Whenever I take a role, I try to find an element in the character which appeals to me and then go to work. Occasionally, you have doubts about how the finished film will look after it’s been edited, but that’s a chance you always take. I play every part for what it’s worth – for its merits, no matter how big or small. What’s that old cliché? “There are no small roles, only small actors.” It’s true.
  • I try to describe acting as a combination of the three D’s and the three I’s. Discipline, dedication, devotion. Imagination, instinct, intelligence. Even if all my films haven’t pleased everybody, I’d like people to realize that I’ve always given each film my all. I would like to think that I’ve shown integrity and dedication in every one of my roles. I always do my best and, you know, I really do love what I do.
  • Most people find my villains memorable because I try to make them as unconventional as possible. They are not overt monsters. It’s easy to play a “heavy” straight down the middle, 100%, but it’s boring. I don’t think I’ve ever played a villain who didn’t have some unusual, humanizing trait. When I look back at my men with the black hats, they’ve always had something else going for them, whether it be a sardonic sense of humor or a feeling of desolation. I always try to throw as many curves the audience’s way as possible. That’s probably why people enjoy my villainy.
  • [from a 1983 magazine interview] Quite frankly, I’m grateful to Dracula. If people today remember me in the role and still enjoy it, I’m flattered. If, through some strange twist of fate, I was able to take a character some 25 years ago and create an impact where by I suddenly became known throughout the world, how can I complain?
  • If you’re playing a heroic character, it’s very hard not to make him a total bore. But, with a villainous character, there are many, many levels in which you can present him. He can be amusing. He can be lonely. He can be mad, childish, naive, futuristic. You can’t play heroes like that. It’s impossible. You just can’t imbue them with all those characteristics. But, when you toy with the dark side of the soul, imagination comes into the forefront. You can enjoy it more and, hence, communicate that joy to the audience.
  • Such is the power of the screen that people are sometimes apt to confuse the public image with the private individual. When I meet people socially, I’m occasionally greeted with reactions along the lines of “You mean you read books? You enjoy music? You play golf?” It’s very strange. People expect me to behave off-screen as I do on. Of course, they don’t expect to find me slaughtering people in all directions, but, for instance, their reaction is “I don’t believe it! You’re an actor! You’re not supposed to sing!” And most people expect me to behave in a certain way socially. Children are the shrewdest of my fans. No child has ever drawn back from me in real life. They sense that my roles are fairy tales, morality plays.
  • It doesn’t bother me to be remembered as Dracula. Why should it? What does bother me is when people say, “Ah yes, there goes Dracula,” or “There goes the horror king.” It simply isn’t true. I’m quite annoyed when people don’t acknowledge that I’ve done anything else.
  • One day, I hope somebody will sum up my career thus: “He was different”. That would satisfy me.
  • Of course, you can be… disappointed at times. I’ve done movies which are remarkably horrid. I’ve been wildly miscast in others. I’ve given some truly lackluster performances in still others. But, it’s all part of your training.
  • To be a legend, you’ve either got to be dead or excessively old.
  • 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. Seeing horror depicted on film doesn’t affect me much.
  • “Good” people… being persistently noble can become rather uninteresting. There is a dark side in all of us. And for us “bad” people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.
  • I hate being idle. As dear Boris [Boris Karloff] used to say, when I die I want to die with my boots on.
  • [from an interview in 2011] Please don’t describe me as a “horror legend”. I moved on from that.
  • [on Johnny Depp’s hints at retiring from acting] Johnny is a star – and that’s not a term I ever use lightly. There are not a lot of them around today. It makes me sad that such a genuinely talented person is considering giving it all up.
  • I think that – apart from the fields of science and medicine – we live in an age of decline. Look at the world. There is decline in morals, ideals, manners, respect, truthfulness: just about everything, in fact.
  • I prefer to watch the old movies. The film stars of today, in my opinion, don’t compare with their predecessors. The best are very good, but the last giant of cinema, I think, was Bette Davis. One actor I admire, who could become a giant, is Johnny Depp. He has elements that other actors don’t possess.
  • I would rather have been an opera singer than anything else.
  • You can never be a proper actor without good instincts.
  • A real actor has to have an awful lot of imagination, and I do have a great deal.
  • I will play no more monsters. Dracula is different; he is such an exciting person.
  • (2003) I vote Conservative, and I think Michael Howard is the ideal person to lead the party. When the last election was won by Labour, I said to my wife, “The man we need is Michael Howard”, and I’ve said it ever since. He is an honourable man and his power lies in the fact that he is a splendid debater. Ann Widdecombe’s comment (that Howard had “something of the night” about him) is meaningless, as far as I’m concerned.
  • Anthony Hopkins used to say, “I don’t play villains, I play people,” and it’s a quote I use all the time. There’s not much attractive about Hannibal Lecter though, although he’s obviously charming and there’s a side to him that’s like Scaramanga (a Bond villain played by Lee), although far, far worse. He was quite stomach-churning.
  • (on Vincent Price and Peter Cushing) They were both grand masters of their art but more importantly as human beings… wonderful people, wonderful actors and I miss them very very much.
  • [on Peter Cushing] He really was the most gentle and generous of men. I have often said he died because he was too good for this world.
  • [on how he was cast as the monster in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)] I was asked to play the creature chiefly because of my size and height which had effectively kept me out of many pictures I might have appeared in during the preceding ten years. Most British stars flatly refused to have me anywhere near them in a film, because I was easily the tallest man around.
  • I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.
  • Acting is like a snowstorm or perhaps a large empty vacuum. I’m not deluded by the fact that I’m getting all these offers for work, I’m very happy about it, but I know also that there is the other side and who knows, next year, they may not offer me anything. You never know.
  • I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, “An open door”.
  • (on the technology used to film Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)) The advances have been phenomenal. There is a monitor on the camera there that is static, a monitor on the crane, and all these monitors scattered all over the place. What he’s seeing is what you will see when you see the movie.
  • I’ve always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I’ve always said I’m very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well-known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.
  • In my opinion – and I think I know as much if not more about Bond than anyone, particularly about the characters on whom [Ian Fleming] told me Bond was based – Pierce Brosnan was by far the best and closest to the character.
  • [Criticizing Hollywood’s obsession with youth] The problem today, and I think it’s a very dangerous one for the people concerned, is that there are quite large numbers of very young men and women from 18 to 30, and they are playing very large parts in huge films and they simply, through no fault of their own, don’t have the background and the experience and the knowledge to pull if off. And it’s dangerous for them because if they are in one failure after another, sooner or later people are going to say, “Well, he may have a pretty face but he’s not bringing the public in.” So many of these good-looking – sometimes even pretty – boys and girls are getting these good roles and it’s not fair on them. At some point, it’s going to catch up.
  • [on the Rhapsody DVD documentary special edition of “The Dark Secret”] One should try anything he can in his career, except folkdance and incest.
  • When you’re involved in a war it’s the old saying “If your name’s written on the bullet, there’s nothing you can do about it.” So you just banished it from your mind. Of course, I was scared on some occasions and anyone who says they aren’t scared during an operation probably isn’t telling the truth. I know about six people who had no fear. Literally none. Whether that was due to a lack of imagination or because they’d conquered it, I don’t know. In fact, one was Iain Duncan Smith’s father, who was one of my closest friends. But during a war, people are taught to kill and they have the blessings of the authorities to do so, so if it’s your life or somebody else’s, you want to be quite sure it’s not yours.
  • I’ve seen many men die right in front of me – so many in fact that I’ve become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise, we would never have won.
  • Some of the films I’ve been in I regret making. I got conned into making these pictures in almost every case by people who lied to me. Some years ago, I got a call from my producers saying that they were sending me a script and that five very distinguished American actors were also going to be in the film. Actors like José Ferrer, Dean Jagger and John Carradine. So I thought, “Well, that’s alright by me.” But it turned out it was a complete lie. Appropriately, the film was called End of the World (1977).
  • [on doing Military Intelligence in World War II] When people say to me, you know, were you in this? Were you in that? Did you work in this? Did you work in that? I always used to say “Can you keep a secret?”. And they would say “Yes, yes” and I would say “So can I”.
  • (on his friendship with Peter Cushing) I don’t want to sound gloomy, but, at some point of your lives, every one of you will notice that you have in your life one person, one friend whom you love and care for very much. That person is so close to you that you are able to share some things only with him. For example, you can call that friend, and from the very first maniacal laugh or some other joke you will know who is at the other end of that line. We used to do that with him so often. And then when that person is gone, there will be nothing like that in your life ever again.
  • In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.
  • There are many vampires in the world today – you only have to think of the film business.
  • Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn’t like the word “horror”. They, like I, went for the French description: “the theatre of the fantastique”.
  • I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him into the contemporary day and age, that it really no longer had any meaning.

Brandon Lee Brandon Important Facts

  • £40,000
  • $80,000
  • $1,360
  • The villain Tormack from the animated series Galtar and the Golden Lance (1985) was apparently based on him, right down to his voice actor, Brock Peters of To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) fame, utilizing a British accent in order to sound like Lee.
  • He was considered for Tom Baker’s role in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973).
  • He turned down Leslie Nielsen’s role in Airplane! (1980) as he had trouble understanding the script.
  • He was considered for the guest role of De Flores in the Doctor Who (1963) serial “Silver Nemesis”. He was also considered for the Master and Borusa (before the character was dropped) in Doctor Who (1996).
  • He was regarded The Devil Rides Out (1968) as the best film he ever made for Hammer.
  • He was seriously considered to play Mr. Dark in Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983).
  • He was originally going to play The Inquisitor in The Lost Continent (1968).
  • He was considered for the role of Dr. Hans Fallanda in Lifeforce (1985).
  • He turned down the role of The Man in Black in The Vampire Lovers (1970).
  • Of the nine Dracula films that Hammer made, he doesn’t appear in two of them. Dracula is absent from The Brides of Dracula (1960) as Hammer worried that his salary would increase. He refused to appear in The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) after reading the script.
  • He was so ashamed of Howling II: … Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985) that when he met Joe Dante on Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), he apologised for being in such a bad sequel to his film.
  • He turned down the role of The Specialist in Tommy (1975), as he was in Thailand filming The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
  • He was seriously considered to star as the title role in The Phantom of the Opera (1962).
  • He was considered to play Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
  • He was considered to play The High Priest of Kali in The Stranglers of Bombay (1959).
  • As a 17 year old, he was a spectator in the crowd attending the last public guillotining in France – that of Eugen Weidmann in 1939. At 6’5″ tall, he’d have had a good view. (Because of the behavior of the spectators at the execution, all subsequent executions in France were done behind closed doors).
  • Coincidently, the veteran horror actor appeared in the only two Best Picture winners to feature ghosts, Hamlet (1948) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
  • His roles were cut from the films My Brother’s Keeper (1948) and Saraband (1948).
  • Both he and his niece Harriet Walter appeared in “Star Wars” films: Lee played Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) and Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) and Walter played Dr. Kalonia in Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015).
  • He played three characters from the Sherlock Holmes stories: Sherlock himself, his brother Mycroft, and Sir Henry Baskerville. He subsequently worked with several actors who appeared in more recent Holmes stories. In Dark Shadows (2012), he appeared with Jonny Lee Miller, who played Sherlock on Elementary (2012). He also worked with Miller’s grandfather, Bernard Lee, in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). In Hugo (2011), he worked with Ben Kingsley and Jude Law, who have both played Doctor Watson. In The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), he appeared – though never at the same time – with Stephen Fry, who played Mycroft in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011); Ian McKellen, who plays Sherlock in Mr. Holmes (2015); and Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, who play Holmes and Watson on Sherlock (2010). Also appearing in Lee’s five Fu Manchu movies was Howard Marion-Crawford, who was television’s first Dr. Watson on Sherlock Holmes (1954). Lee also provided the introduction for that series’ 2005 DVD release.
  • He died only one day after his Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951), Julius Caesar (1970) and Treasure Island (1990) co-star Richard Johnson.
  • His date of death, June 7, is also the birthday of Liam Neeson, who played his apprentice Qui-Gon Jinn in the Star Wars films.
  • With his death on June 7, 2015, Patrick Macnee became the last surviving cast member of Hamlet (1948). Macnee himself died only 18 days later.
  • As he played a Bond villain, he has worked with the most fellow Bond villain actors in films: Robert Shaw, Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas, Charles Gray, Curd Jürgens, Michael Lonsdale, Julian Glover, Sean Bean, Christopher Walken, etc.
  • According to the Multimedia Encyclopedia “Cinemania 95”, he died on March 31, 1993. But he was alive in that time.
  • He appeared in six films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Hamlet (1948), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and Hugo (2011). Of those, Hamlet (1948) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) are winners in the category.
  • He has two roles in common with his Tales of the Haunted (1981) co-star Jack Palance: (1) Lee played Count Dracula in ten films from Horror of Dracula (1958) to Dracula and Son (1976) while Palance played him in Dracula (1974) and (2) Palance played Dr. Edward Hyde / Mr. Henry Jekyll in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968) while Lee played renamed versions of the character(s), Dr. Charles Marlowe and Mr. Edward Blake, in I, Monster (1971).
  • He played Frankenstein’s Monster in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) while his niece Harriet Walter played Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley, in Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster (2003).
  • He has two roles in common with his Corpse Bride (2005) co-star Richard E. Grant: (1) Lee played Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991) and Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992) while Grant played him in The Other Side (1992) and (2) Lee played Holmes’ brother Mycroft Holmes in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) while Grant played him in Sherlock (2002).
  • He made ten films with Michael Gough: Saraband (1948), Night Ambush (1957), Horror of Dracula (1958), Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965), The Skull (1965), The Crimson Cult (1968), Julius Caesar (1970), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005) and Alice in Wonderland (2010).
  • He was offered the role of Justinian in The Viking Queen (1967), which he turned down. Don Murray was eventually cast.
  • He was killed by Francis Matthews in both Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) and Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966).
  • His voice in the Italian versions of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) was dubbed by Omero Antonutti.
  • He made cameo appearances in the final instalments of two prequel trilogies: Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014).
  • He made six films with Desmond Llewelyn: Hamlet (1948), They Were Not Divided (1950), Corridors of Blood (1958), The Pirates of Blood River (1962) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
  • He has two roles in common with Tom Baker: (1) Lee played Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991) and Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992) while Baker played him in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982) and (2) Lee played Grigory Rasputin in Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966) while Baker played him in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971).
  • He made six films with Michael Goodliffe: Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951), Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956), She Played with Fire (1957), The Gorgon (1964), The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) and To the Devil a Daughter (1976).
  • He made four films with Charlton Heston: Julius Caesar (1970), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge (1974) and Treasure Island (1990).
  • Before he was persuaded to return as Count Dracula in Scars of Dracula (1970), John Forbes-Robertson was considered for the role. Forbes-Robertson later played the character in The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974), making him the only actor other than Lee to play Dracula in the Hammer “Dracula” film series.
  • He has two roles in common with Frank Langella, Richard Roxburgh and Anthony D.P. Mann: (1) Lee played Count Dracula in ten films from Horror of Dracula (1958) to Dracula and Son (1976), Langella played him in Dracula (1979), Roxburgh played him in Van Helsing (2004) and Mann played him in Canucula! (Dracula in Canada) (2008) and Terror of Dracula (2012) and (2) Lee played Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991) and Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992), Langella played him in Standing Room Only: Sherlock Holmes (1981), Roxburgh played him in The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) and Mann played him in Sherlock Holmes and the Shadow Watchers (2011).
  • He has appeared in three films with Lee Pace: The Resident (2011), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014).
  • He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Hamlet (1948) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). He is the only actor to appear in two films which were released more than 50 years apart and both won Best Picture.
  • He has three roles in common with Lon Chaney Jr.: (1) Chaney played Frankenstein’s Monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) while Lee played him in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), (2) Chaney played Kharis the Mummy in The Mummy’s Tomb (1942), The Mummy’s Ghost (1944) and The Mummy’s Curse (1944) while Lee played him in The Mummy (1959) and (3) Chaney played Count Dracula in Son of Dracula (1943) while Lee played him in ten films from Horror of Dracula (1958) to Dracula and Son (1976).
  • He has two roles in common with Bela Lugosi: (1) Lugosi played Count Dracula in Dracula (1931) and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) while Lee played him in ten films from Horror of Dracula (1958) to Dracula and Son (1976) and (2) Lugosi played Frankenstein’s Monster in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) while Lee played him in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957).
  • He starred in two Hammer adaptations of novels by Dennis Wheatley: The Devil Rides Out (1968) and To the Devil a Daughter (1976).
  • He worked with Klaus Kinski in The Devil’s Daffodil (1961), Secret of the Red Orchid (1962), Psycho-Circus (1966), Five Golden Dragons (1967) and Count Dracula (1970) and his daughter Nastassja Kinski in To the Devil a Daughter (1976).
  • He played Count Dracula in ten films: Horror of Dracula (1958), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968), Count Dracula (1970), One More Time (1970), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), Scars of Dracula (1970), Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972), The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) and Dracula and Son (1976).
  • He made four films with Patrick Troughton: Hamlet (1948), The Gorgon (1964), Scars of Dracula (1970), and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974). Coincidentally, Peter Cushing appeared in all of them except Scars of Dracula (1970).
  • He made four films with Helena Bonham Carter: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Dark Shadows (2012).
  • He made four films with Marton Csokas: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and Alice in Wonderland (2010).
  • He made six films with Johnny Depp: Sleepy Hollow (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Hugo (2011) and Dark Shadows (2012).
  • He appeared in a total of 24 films with his close friend Peter Cushing: Hamlet (1948), Moulin Rouge (1952), Alexander the Great (1956), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Horror of Dracula (1958), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), The Mummy (1959), The Devil’s Agent (1962), The Gorgon (1964), Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965), She (1965), The Skull (1965), Island of the Burning Damned (1967), Scream and Scream Again (1970), One More Time (1970), The House That Dripped Blood (1971), I, Monster (1971), Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972), Horror Express (1972), Nothing But the Night (1973), The Creeping Flesh (1973), The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973), Arabian Adventure (1979) and House of the Long Shadows (1983).
  • He has two roles in common with Marc Warren: (1) Lee played Count Dracula in ten films from Horror of Dracula (1958) to Dracula and Son (1976) while Warren played him in Dracula (2006) and (2) Lee played the Comte de Rochfort in The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge (1974) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989) while Warren played him in The Musketeers (2014).
  • He has four roles in common with his Corridors of Blood (1958) and The Crimson Cult (1968) co-star Boris Karloff: (1) Karloff played Frankenstein’s Monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Son of Frankenstein (1939) while Lee played him in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), (2) Karloff played the Mummy in The Mummy (1932) while Lee played him in The Mummy (1959), (3) Karloff played Dr. Fu Manchu in The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) while Lee played him in The Face of Fu Manchu (1965), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967), The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968) and Sax Rohmer’s The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969) and (4) Karloff played Grigori Rasputin in Suspense: The Black Prophet (1953) while Lee played him in Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966).
  • In both The Pirates of Blood River (1962) and The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964), he played the captain of a pirate crew which included Michael Ripper and Michael Peake.
  • He appeared in three films with Suzan Farmer: The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) and Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966).
  • He was the last surviving cast member of Scott of the Antarctic (1948).
  • He starred in two adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) and I, Monster (1971).
  • He made five films with Miles Malleson: One Night with You (1948), Saraband (1948), Private’s Progress (1956), Horror of Dracula (1958) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959).
  • He made seven films with Francis De Wolff: The Gay Lady (1949), Moulin Rouge (1952), Corridors of Blood (1958), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959), The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) and The Three Musketeers (1973).
  • He made seven films with Oliver Reed: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), Wild for Kicks (1960), The Pirates of Blood River (1962), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge (1974), The Return of the Musketeers (1989) and Treasure Island (1990).
  • He appeared in 12 films directed by Terence Fisher: A Song for Tomorrow (1948), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Horror of Dracula (1958), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), The Mummy (1959), The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959), The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), The Gorgon (1964), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), Island of the Burning Damned (1967) and The Devil Rides Out (1968).
  • He made nine films with Michael Ripper: The Mummy (1959), The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959), The Pirates of Blood River (1962), The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964), Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966), Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), Scars of Dracula (1970) and The Creeping Flesh (1973).
  • His character seduced Barbara Shelley in both Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) and Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966).
  • He had no lines in Hamlet (1948), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) or Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966).
  • He worked with Bernard Lee in Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956), Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) and his grandson Jonny Lee Miller in Dark Shadows (2012).
  • In his autobiography, he relates his first meeting with Peter Cushing during production of The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), in which he played the monster. Lee stormed into a dressing room where Cushing was sitting and angrily shouted “I haven’t got any lines!”. Cushing replied, “You’re lucky; I’ve read the script.”.
  • He considers Billy Wilder to be the greatest director he worked for.
  • He was married to his wife Gitte just before production on The Devil’s Daffodil (1961) began. They had no time for a full honeymoon as they only had a weekend before filming began on Mondy. They spent it in Brighton and resolved to have a serial honeymoon spread out over the next year between picture commitments. Unfortunately, it rained most of the weekend.
  • Did not start acting until he was 25 years old.
  • Lee got along well with Eddie Powell, his longtime stunt double at Hammer Film Productions. Powell married Hammer wardrobe mistress Rosemary Burrows, who jokingly referred to Lee as “Nasty” and sometimes “Green Mould”.
  • After preparatory school, he passed the entrance exam for Eton but his parents could not afford the fees. He went to Wellington, but had to be taken out when their financial situation worsened. He took a job as an office boy in a shipping company in the City at £1 a week.
  • His godfather was Prince Alexander of Battenberg, a grandson of Queen Victoria, who later adopted the title of Lord Carisbrooke.
  • He got started in films when his cousin Count Nicolò Carandini, Italy’s first post war ambassador to Britain introduced him to Filipo Del Guidice of Two Cities Film.
  • His mother was a contessa of the Italian Carandini family related through marriage across the centuries to the Borgias.
  • Around 1988, Lee agreed to play a vampire once more in an unproduced Dutch/Belgian comedy that was to be called “Blooper”. The script, written by ‘Frank van Laecke’, was commissioned because of the physical resemblance between Lee and Dutch opera singer Marco Bakker, as noted by Bakker’s wife, actress Willeke van Ammelrooy. Lee, a great lover of opera, got along well with both of them. The story concerned an opera singer called Billy Blooper (Bakker) who learns his father (Lee) is a vampire who’s teeth had gone rotten after eating too many sweets. Now whenever he bites anyone, instead of turning into a vampire, they became half-human, half-chicken.
  • Has also done a few small roles that only require his voice, such as the priest in Corpse Bride (2005), and the Jabberwocky in Alice in Wonderland (2010).
  • Early in his career, Lee dubbed foreign films into English and other languages including Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953). Sometimes he dubbed all the voices including women’s parts. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., recalled that Lee could do any kind of accent: “foreign, domestic, North, South, Middle, young, old, everything. He’s a great character actor”.
  • Wore an eyepatch to play the role of Rochefort in The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge (1974) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989), one of few films, if not the only film, to be based on “Twenty Years After”. His interpretation of the character was so popular that many subsequent adaptations of the story; such as Disney’s The Three Musketeers (1993) and The Three Musketeers (2011), have continued to portray Rochefort as wearing an eyepatch, despite the fact that Alexandre Dumas père never described the character as wearing one.
  • Read the Lord of the Rings trilogy once a year for decades, long before the film series ever got started.
  • He was awarded Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by French culture minister Frederic Mitterrand in 2011.
  • Lee’s friend, Jean Paul Getty, lent him and wife Gitte his Sutton Place home for their honeymoon in 1961.
  • Was very good friends with Josip Broz Tito, a partisan leader and a president of a former country of Yugoslavia.
  • Has said that his favorite director is Tim Burton, whom he frequently collaborated with on several of Burton’s films.
  • Had dubbed King Haggard in the German version of The Last Unicorn (1982) for no fee, out of love for the film.
  • He learned how to speak German by listening to Richard Wagner records.
  • Once declared himself an unconditional fan of Gene Hackman.
  • Was offered the role of King Balor in Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), but had to turn it down due to other commitments.
  • At age 77, he confirmed that he had lost an inch of height and was now 6’4″.
  • He was awarded Commander of the Venerable Order of Saint John in 1997.
  • He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to drama and charity. The ceremony took place at Buckingham Palace on October 30, 2009, and was carried out by HRH ‘Prince Charles’, The Prince of Wales.
  • In various interviews over the years has referred to all three actors to play James Bond that he has worked with – Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig – as the best and most close to Ian Fleming’s intentions. However, he has also criticized Fleming’s weak characters when discussing his own Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) and described the screen adaptation as considerably better written.
  • In 2008, he received a lifetime achievement award at Pula Film Festival (Croatia).
  • He was cast as a ballad soloist called The Gentleman Ghost in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”, but his role was cut when the ballad numbers were omitted. However, he never filmed the scenes and was present for the recording session.
  • Has worked with three James Bonds: Roger Moore in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Pierce Brosnan in Around the World in 80 Days (1989), and Daniel Craig in The Golden Compass (2007).
  • Is possibly the only actor in cinematic history to have achieved a unique trifecta. He has played a Star Wars villain (Count Dooku), a James Bond villain (Francisco Scaramanga), and a classic horror movie monster (Dracula, the Mummy and Frankenstein’s Monster).
  • Has played a staggering amount of Victorian characters. He played Count Dracula ten times, Dr. Fu Manchu five times, Sherlock Holmes three times, Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock’s brother) once and Sir Henry Baskerville (a friend of Holmes) once. He also appeared in The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) and I, Monster (1971), adaptations of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, among others.
  • Has worked with three different Gollums. The first Gollum, Brother Theodore, provided a voice in The Last Unicorn (1982). The second, Peter Woodthorpe, appeared with him in The Odyssey (1997). The last, Andy Serkis, appeared with him in the Lord of the Rings films.
  • Released the music album “Christopher Lee: Revelation” in the United Kingdom in October 2006. It includes songs like “The Toreador March”, “O Sole Mio”, “Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'” and “My Way”.
  • As a veritable J.R.R. Tolkien expert and the only member of the cast who had met Tolkien himself, he often visited the Production department on the sets of the various Lord of the Rings movies to give advice and tips on the various attributes of the films.
  • His films have made more money than any other actor’s in history. As of May 2006, five of his films (the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the two Star Wars films in which he played Count Dooku) had total grosses in excess of $4.4 billion. Even without considering Lee’s other appearances dating back to 1948, his totals considerably surpass the figures of #3 billion and #3.8 billion claimed by Harrison Ford and Samuel L. Jackson, respectively.
  • Although he and Peter Cushing were often mortal enemies on-screen, off-screen they were inseparable friends.
  • He was one of the few people to volunteer to fight on the Finnish side in the Russo-Finnish winter war in 1939-1940, though he and his fellow British volunteers were in Finland only for about two weeks and were kept well away from direct combat.
  • He was the tallest of the many actors who have played Count Dracula.
  • Shot all his scenes for Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) in one day.
  • Has appeared in three different films in which he had either known or met the (late) author of the original work: Gormenghast (2000) (Mervyn Peake), The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) (Ian Fleming, his cousin).
  • In Horror of Dracula (1958), Lee in the title role had to drop a woman into a grave, but when he carried her, she was unexpectedly heavy and in trying to drop her into the grave, Lee also fell in with her.
  • In his role as the title character, The Mummy (1959), in which he co-starred with Peter Cushing, Lee got severely injured in the course of the filming. All that smashing through real glass windows and doors had dislocated his shoulder and pulled his neck muscles, especially when he had to carry an actress with arms fully extended across a swamp, walking as much as 87 yards, which damaged his shoulders considerably.
  • According to his friend Norman Lloyd, he has a somewhat eccentric hobby: he is fascinated by public executioners and knows the names of every official executioner England has had since the middle of the 15th century.
  • Wanted to attend the Heavy Metal Festival Earthshaker Fest in 2005 to support his favorite bands, the Italian band Rhapsody and the American band Manowar, but had to cancel at the last moment because of an important filming appointment. He recorded a message to the fans in advance, which was shown right before Rhapsody appeared on-stage.
  • Like his Lord of the Rings director, Peter Jackson, he has appeared in films with three generations of Astins.
  • When he arrived in the recording studio to do the voice-over for King Haggard in the original animated version of The Last Unicorn (1982), he came armed with his own copy of the book with certain excerpts marked pertaining to parts of the book that he felt should not have been omitted.
  • According to his official website: He speaks French, German, Italian and Spanish and can “get along” in Greek, Russian and Swedish.
  • His daughter, Christina Erika Lee, was born with her legs severely deformed. They were bent at such a severe angle that they were almost backwards. She spent her first two years in splints. She eventually learned how to walk after the age of three and no longer needed splints.
  • He studied at Summerfield Preparatory School and attended Wellington College.
  • In 1972, he founded Charlemagne Productions Ltd.
  • During World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force and in British Intelligence.
  • Has one child, Christina Erika Lee (b. November 23, 1963) with his wife Birgit Kroencke Lee (Gitte Lee).
  • In a bonding of two generations of Frankenstein’s monsters, Lee and his wife were good friends with Boris Karloff and his wife. This friendship was not as a result of them working together (they made two films together: Corridors of Blood (1958) and The Crimson Cult (1968)) but by the coincidence that they lived next door to each other in England.
  • Two of his roles have been as leaders of a separatist movement. The first was Jinnah (1998), about Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan. The second was in the Star Wars series as Count Dooku, the former mentor of Qui-Gon Jinn.
  • Was the Center of the Hollywood Universe, according to data at the Movie Oracle, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/center.html, but is now second to Rod Steiger.
  • On July 21, 2004, he was given the honorary citizenship of the Italian city of Casina (Province of Reggio Emilia) where Sarzano, the castle of his ancestors is situated. He gave his speech of thanks in Italian.
  • One of his favorite bands is the Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody, and he has also appeared on one of their album (listen to the speech in the intro on the song “Unholy Warcry” on the album “The Dark Secret”). Lee also appears on the Rhapsody single “The Magic of the Wizard’s Dream”, where he does a duet with Rhapsody vocalist Fabio Leoni in English, German, Italian and French versions of the song.
  • He was awarded Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by French culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon on December 11, 2002.
  • Although he has been in well over 200 films, he has very rarely played a hero, having been a villain in perhaps about 85% of his films (even his bit parts lean towards the unsympathetic).
  • As Darth Tyranus, he plays the first Sith apprentice to act in both body and voice.
  • One of the most prolific actors of all time, he has acted in nearly 230 films, although he later admitted that his film work was not always chosen on quality but often on whether they could support his family. His peak years of productivity were 1955 and 1970, as Lee starred in nine films in both years.
  • Was upset about the deletion of his death scene in the theatrical version of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). However, the scene was put back into the Extended Edition which is seen as the definitive version.
  • He struggled to get work early in his career as a supporting actor because almost all the male stars were shorter than he.
  • At 6 feet 5 inches, he is entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as “The Tallest Leading Actor”.
  • Since his feature film debut in Corridor of Mirrors (1948), he has had at least one film role every year except for 1993, 1995, 1997, 2000 and 2006.
  • Was originally offered the role of Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977), which he turned down. The role eventually went to his good friend Peter Cushing.
  • Both he and his fellow Star Wars Sith Lord, David Prowse, have played Frankenstein’s Monster opposite Peter Cushing: Lee in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), and Prowse in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974).
  • Sustained an injury to his hand while filming a swordfight with a slightly drunk Errol Flynn for The Dark Avenger (1955).
  • Was voted No. 31 on the recent British televised poll “The Greatest Movie Stars of All Time” above the likes of John Wayne, Michael Caine and Humphrey Bogart.
  • His stepfather (his mother’s second husband) was the maternal uncle of writer Ian Fleming (of James Bond fame). Lee and Fleming are therefore stepcousins.
  • Is an honorary member of three stuntmen’s unions.
  • Speaks very good French, good enough to understand questions and give long replies in a press conference.
  • A stunt double performed the stunts and lightsaber fights in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002). Lee’s face was imposed on the double’s body. Lee mentioned that in the last 40 years, he has done more swordfights than any other actor, but “not anymore”.
  • He made his stage debut in school as the demonic lead in “Rumpelstiltskin”, a sign of things to come.
  • From an acting dynasty, his great-grandparents founded the first Australian opera company.
  • One of Lee’s maternal great-grandfathers was Italian. Through him, Lee is of noble Italian ancestry (from the Carandini family).
  • The white coffin used in one of his Dracula films was later used in Bananarama’s music video “Venus”.
  • Has appeared in a scene from The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) on screen during the drive-in sequence in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962).
  • Served in the British Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve from 1941 to 1946. During that time, he was an active member of the Special Forces.
  • Appears on the cover of Paul McCartney’s 1973 album “Band on the Run”.
  • He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2001 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to drama.
  • In a radio interview in South Africa, Lee claimed that he held the record for number of film roles by an actor (2001).
  • Is listed as the Center of the Hollywood Universe by the Oracle of Kevin Bacon website at the University of Virginia, because he can be linked to any one in Hollywood on average in 2.59 steps. That is less than either Charlton Heston or Kevin Bacon himself.
  • The blooddripping fangs worn by Lee in many of his vampire films were created by Irish dental technician Sean Mulhall.
  • Was one of the judges for the 1995 Miss World beauty pageant.
  • Vincent Price and Christopher Lee were born on the same day (27th May) and Peter Cushing was born on the 26th.
  • Uncle of Harriet Walter.
  • A distant cousin and frequent golfing partner of Bond creator Ian Fleming, Lee was the author’s personal pick for the role of Dr. No (1962) in the first 007 film. The role, of course, went to actor Joseph Wiseman, who was brilliant. However, fans of the literary Bond might want to check out Lee’s portrayal of Chinese master criminal Fu Manchu, for an idea of how Ian Fleming himself envisioned Dr. No.
  • One of the few actors who has portrayed three different Sherlock Holmes characters: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes and Sir Henry Baskerville.
  • Classically trained singer.
  • Turned down Donald Pleasence’s role as Dr. Sam Loomis in Halloween (1978) (He later remarked that this was his biggest mistake).

Brandon Lee Brandon Filmography

Title Year Status Character Role
Murder Story 1989 Willard Hope Actor
Shaka Zulu 1986-1989 TV Mini-Series Lord Bathurst Actor
La chute des aigles 1989 Walter Strauss Actor
La révolution française 1989 Sanson (segment “Années Terribles, Les”) Actor
The Return of the Musketeers 1989 Rochefort Actor
Around the World in 80 Days 1989 TV Mini-Series Stuart Actor
Olympus Force: The Key 1988 Filly Actor
Mask of Murder 1988 Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich Actor
Dark Mission: Evil Flowers 1988 Luis Morel Stuart Actor
The Girl 1987 Peter Storm Actor
Mio min Mio 1987 Kato Actor
The Disputation 1986 TV Movie King James of Aragon Actor
Un métier du seigneur 1986 TV Movie Fog Actor
Jocks 1986 President White Actor
Howling II: … Your Sister Is a Werewolf 1985 Stefan Crosscoe Actor
The Bengal Lancers! 1984 Sir James Hunter Actor
The Rosebud Beach Hotel 1984 King Actor
Faerie Tale Theatre 1984 TV Series King Vladimir V Actor
The Far Pavilions 1984 TV Mini-Series Kaka-ji Rao Actor
New Magic 1983 Short Mr. Kellar Actor
The Return of Captain Invincible 1983 Mr. Midnight Actor
House of the Long Shadows 1983 Corrigan Actor
The Last Unicorn 1982 King Haggard (English, German version, voice) Actor
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story 1982 TV Movie Prince Philip Actor
Massarati and the Brain 1982 TV Movie Victor Leopold Actor
Safari 3000 1982 Count Borgia Actor
Steigler and Steigler 1981 Dr. Carl Boxer Actor
Goliath Awaits 1981 TV Movie John McKenzie Actor
An Eye for an Eye 1981 Morgan Canfield Actor
Tales of the Haunted 1981 TV Movie Host Actor
The Salamander 1981 Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence Actor
Charlie’s Angels 1980 TV Series Dale Woodman Actor
Once Upon a Spy 1980 TV Movie Marcus Valorium Actor
Serial 1980 Luckman Skull Actor
1941 1979 Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt Actor
Bear Island 1979 Lechinski Actor
Captain America II: Death Too Soon 1979 TV Movie Miguel Actor
Jaguar Lives! 1979 Adam Caine Actor
Nutcracker Fantasy 1979 Uncle Drosselmeyer / Street Singer / The Puppeteer / … (voice) Actor
Arabian Adventure 1979 Caliph Alquazar Actor
The Passage 1979 The Gypsy Actor
The Pirate 1978 TV Movie Samir Al Fay Actor
Caravans 1978 Sardar Khan Actor
Circle of Iron 1978 Zetan Actor
Return from Witch Mountain 1978 Victor Actor
How the West Was Won 1978 TV Series The Grand Duke Actor
Starship Invasions 1977 Capt. Rameses Actor
End of the World 1977 Father Pergado / Zindar Actor
Airport ’77 1977 Martin Wallace Actor
Meatcleaver Massacre 1977 On-Screen Narrator Actor
Dracula and Son 1976 Dracula Actor
The Night of the Askari 1976 Bill Actor
To the Devil a Daughter 1976 Father Michael Actor
Killer Force 1976 Maj. Chilton Actor
The Keeper 1976 The Keeper Actor
Diagnosis: Murder 1975 Dr. Stephen Hayward Actor
Space: 1999 1975 TV Series Captain Zantor Actor
Le boucher, la star et l’orpheline 1975 Satanus / Van Krig Actor
The Man with the Golden Gun 1974 Francisco Scaramanga Actor
The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge 1974 Rochefort Actor
The Three Musketeers 1973 Rochefort Actor
The Satanic Rites of Dracula 1973 Count Dracula Actor
The Wicker Man 1973 Lord Summerisle Actor
Great Mysteries 1973 TV Series Arnaud Actor
Poor Devil 1973 TV Movie Lucifer Actor
The Creeping Flesh 1973 James Hildern Actor
Dark Places 1973 Dr. Ian Mandeville Actor
Nothing But the Night 1973 Colonel Bingham Actor
Horror Express 1972 Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton Actor
Dracula A.D. 1972 1972 Count Dracula Actor
Raw Meat 1972 Stratton-Villiers, MI5 Actor
Hannie Caulder 1971 Bailey Actor
I, Monster 1971 Marlowe / Blake Actor
The House That Dripped Blood 1971 John Reid (segment 3 “Sweets to the Sweet”) Actor
Umbracle 1970 The Man Actor
Scars of Dracula 1970 Dracula Actor
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970 Mycroft Holmes Actor
Julius Caesar 1970 Artemidorus Actor
Taste the Blood of Dracula 1970 Dracula Actor
One More Time 1970 Dracula (uncredited) Actor
Count Dracula 1970 Count Dracula Actor
Eugenie… the Story of Her Journey Into Perversion 1970 Dolmance Actor
The Bloody Judge 1970 Judge Jeffries Actor
Scream and Scream Again 1970 Fremont Actor
The Magic Christian 1969 Ship’s Vampire Actor
The Oblong Box 1969 Dr. Newhartt Actor
Sax Rohmer’s The Castle of Fu Manchu 1969 Fu Manchu Actor
The Avengers 1967-1969 TV Series Colonel Mannering
Professor Stone
Actor
The Crimson Cult 1968 Morley Actor
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave 1968 Dracula Actor
The Blood of Fu Manchu 1968 Fu Manchu Actor
Eve 1968 Colonel Stuart Actor
The Devil Rides Out 1968 Duc de Richleau Actor
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism 1967 Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai Actor
Five Golden Dragons 1967 Dragon #4 Actor
Blood Fiend 1967 Philippe Darvas Actor
Island of the Burning Damned 1967 Godfrey Hanson Actor
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu 1967 Fu Manchu Actor
The Brides of Fu Manchu 1966 Fu Manchu Actor
Psycho-Circus 1966 Gregor Actor
Rasputin: The Mad Monk 1966 Grigori Rasputin Actor
Dracula: Prince of Darkness 1966 Dracula Actor
Ten Little Indians 1965 Mr. U. N. Owen (voice, uncredited) Actor
The Skull 1965 Sir Matthew Phillips Actor
The Face of Fu Manchu 1965 Fu Manchu Actor
She 1965/I Billali Actor
Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors 1965 Franklyn Marsh (segment “Disembodied Hand”) Actor
The Gorgon 1964 Prof. Karl Meister Actor
Castle of the Living Dead 1964 Count Drago Actor
Crypt of the Vampire 1964 Count Ludwig Karnstein Actor
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1964 TV Series Karl Jorla Actor
The Devil-Ship Pirates 1964 Captain Robeles Actor
The Whip and the Body 1963 Kurt Menliff Actor
Horror Castle 1963 Erich (as Cristopher Lee) Actor
Katarsis 1963 Mephistoles Actor
Stranglehold 1962 Actor
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace 1962 Sherlock Holmes Actor
The Devil’s Agent 1962 Baron Ferdi von Staub Actor
The Pirates of Blood River 1962 Capt. LaRoche Actor
Secret of the Red Orchid 1962 Captain Allerman Actor
Hercules in the Haunted World 1961 King Lico (Licos) Actor
The Devil’s Daffodil 1961 Ling Chu Actor
One Step Beyond 1961 TV Series Wilhelm Reitlinger Actor
Scream of Fear 1961 Dr. Pierre Gerrard Actor
The Terror of the Tongs 1961 Chung King Actor
The Hands of Orlac 1960 Nero the magician Actor
The City of the Dead 1960 Alan Driscoll Actor
Wild for Kicks 1960 Kenny Actor
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll 1960 Paul Allen Actor
Playgirl After Dark 1960 Novak Actor
Tempi duri per i vampiri 1959 Baron Roderico da Frankurten Actor
Tales of the Vikings 1959 TV Series Lord Roderick Actor
The Mummy 1959 The Mummy
Kharis
Actor
Hot Money Girl 1959 Jaeger Actor
The Man Who Could Cheat Death 1959 Dr. Pierre Gerrard Actor
The Hound of the Baskervilles 1959 Sir Henry Actor
William Tell 1959 TV Series Prince Erik Actor
Corridors of Blood 1958 Resurrection Joe Actor
Missiles from Hell 1958 Brunner Actor
Horror of Dracula 1958 Dracula
Count Dracula
Actor
White Hunter 1958 TV Series Mark Caldwell Actor
Ivanhoe 1958 TV Series Sir Otto from the Rhine Actor
A Tale of Two Cities 1958 Marquis St. Evremonde Actor
O.S.S. 1958 TV Series Dessinger Actor
The Truth About Women 1957 Francois Thiers Actor
Bitter Victory 1957 Sergeant Barney Actor
The Gay Cavalier 1957 TV Series Colonel Jeffries Actor
Stowaway Girl 1957 Voice (voice, uncredited) Actor
The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 The Creature Actor
She Played with Fire 1957 Charles Highbury Actor
The Accursed 1957 Doctor Neumann Actor
Assignment Foreign Legion 1956-1957 TV Series Rodin the Gardener / El Abba Actor
Night Ambush 1957 German officer at dentists Actor
The Errol Flynn Theatre 1956-1957 TV Series The Visitant / Compte de Merret / Maurice Gabet / … Actor
Sailor of Fortune 1956 TV Series Yusif / Carnot Actor
Aggie 1956 TV Series Inspector John Hollis Actor
Rheingold Theatre 1953-1956 TV Series Felipe Nagy / Luis / Makarenko / … Actor
Beyond Mombasa 1956 Gil Rossi Actor
Pursuit of the Graf Spee 1956 Manolo Actor
Port Afrique 1956 Franz Vermes Actor
The Scarlet Pimpernel 1956 TV Series Louis Actor
Alexander the Great 1956 Nectenabus (voice, uncredited) Actor
Private’s Progress 1956 Major Schultz (uncredited) Actor
Chevron Hall of Stars 1956 TV Series Governor Actor
Moby Dick Rehearsed 1955 TV Movie A Stage Manager / Flask Actor
Storm Over the Nile 1955 Karaga Pasha Actor
Alias John Preston 1955 John Preston Actor
The Cockleshell Heroes 1955 Alan Greves – Submarine Commander Actor
Tales of Hans Anderson 1953-1955 TV Series Olle / Student / Old man / … Actor
The Vise 1955 TV Series Edgar Brookes / Richard Martell / Larry Spence Actor
Police Dog 1955 Johnny, a constable Actor
The Dark Avenger 1955 French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited) Actor
The Time War 2017 post-production Narrator (voice) Actor
That Lady 1955 Captain Actor
The Hunting of the Snark 2017 post-production Narrator (voice) Actor
Cross-Roads 1955 Short Harry Cooper Actor
Angels in Notting Hill 2015 The Boss / Mr. President (voice) Actor
Destination Milan 1954 Svenson Actor
Deus ex Machina 2 2015 Video Game The Programmer (voice) Actor
Colonel March of Scotland Yard 1954 TV Series Jeanpierre Actor
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 2014 Saruman Actor
The Mirror and Markheim 1954 Short Visitant Actor
Lego the Hobbit: The Video Game 2014 Video Game Narrator / Saruman the White (voice) Actor
Innocents in Paris 1953 Lieutenant Whitlock (uncredited) Actor
The Girl from Nagasaki 2013 Old Officer Pinkerton Actor
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales 1952 Short Actor
Extraordinary Tales 2013 Narrator (segment “The Fall of the House of Usher”) (voice) Actor
Moulin Rouge 1952 Georges Seurat (uncredited) Actor
Night Train to Lisbon 2013 Father Bartolomeu Actor
Babes in Bagdad 1952 Slave dealer Actor
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012 Saruman Actor
Bombay Waterfront 1952 Sir Felix Raybourne Actor
Dark Shadows 2012 Clarney Actor
Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow 1952 Russian Agent (uncredited) Actor
Hugo 2011 Monsieur Labisse Actor
The Crimson Pirate 1952 Joseph – Military Attaché Actor
The Wicker Tree 2011 Old Gentleman Actor
Valley of the Eagles 1951 Det. Holt Actor
The Resident 2011 August Actor
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. 1951 Spanish Captain Actor
Season of the Witch 2011 Cardinal D’Ambroise Actor
Prelude to Fame 1950 Newsman Actor
Burke and Hare 2010 Old Joseph Actor
They Were Not Divided 1950 Chris Lewis Actor
The Heavy 2010 Mr. Mason Actor
The Gay Lady 1949 Hon. Bongo Icklesham Actor
Alice in Wonderland 2010/I Jabberwocky (voice) Actor
Scott of the Antarctic 1948 Bernard Day Actor
Glorious 39 2009 Walter Actor
Penny and the Pownall Case 1948 Jonathan Blair Actor
Triage 2009 Joaquín Morales Actor
A Song for Tomorrow 1948 Auguste Actor
Boogie Woogie 2009 Mr. Alfred Rhinegold Actor
Hamlet 1948 Spear Carrier (uncredited) Actor
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days 2009 Video Game DiZ (English version, voice) Actor
One Night with You 1948 Pirelli’s Assistant Actor
Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2008 Count Dooku (voice) Actor
Corridor of Mirrors 1948 Charles Actor
The Color of Magic 2008 TV Mini-Series Death Actor
Kaleidoscope 1946-1947 TV Series Actor
The Golden Compass 2007 First High Councilor Actor
Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ 2007 Video Game DiZ
Ansem the Wise (English version, voice)
Actor
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II – The Rise of the Witch-king 2006 Video Game Saruman the White (voice) Actor
Kingdom Hearts II 2005 Video Game DiZ
Ansem the Wise (English version, voice)
Actor
Pope John Paul II 2005 TV Mini-Series Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski Actor
Corpse Bride 2005 Pastor Galswells (voice) Actor
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005 Dr. Wonka Actor
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby 2005 The Lord Provost Actor
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 2005 Count Dooku Actor
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth 2004 Video Game Saruman (voice) Actor
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent 2004 Video Game Francisco Scaramanga (voice) Actor
EverQuest II 2004 Video Game Lucan D’Lere (voice) Actor
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age 2004 Video Game Saruman the White (voice) Actor
Les rivières pourpres 2 – Les anges de l’apocalypse 2004 Heinrich von Garten Actor
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Saruman (extended edition) Actor
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Video Game Saruman (voice) Actor
Freelancer 2003 Video Game voice Actor
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Saruman Actor
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones 2002 Count Dooku
Darth Tyranus
Actor
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Saruman Actor
Conquest: Frontier Wars 2001 Video Game Anvil / Headquarters (voice) Actor
Les redoutables 2001 TV Series La mort Actor
Ghost Stories for Christmas 2000 TV Mini-Series M.R James (voice) Actor
Gormenghast 2000 TV Mini-Series Flay Actor
In the Beginning 2000 TV Mini-Series Rameses I Actor
The Rocky Interactive Horror Show 1999 Video Game Narrator (voice) Actor
Sleepy Hollow 1999 Burgomaster Actor
The New Adventures of Robin Hood 1997-1998 TV Series Olwyn Actor
Jinnah 1998 Mohammed Ali Jinnah Actor
Tale of the Mummy 1998 Sir Richard Turkel Actor
The Odyssey 1997 TV Series Tiresias Actor
Wyrd Sisters 1997 TV Mini-Series Death (voice) Actor
Soul Music 1997 TV Mini-Series Death Actor
Ivanhoe 1997 TV Mini-Series Lucas de Beaumanoir Actor
Welcome to the Discworld 1996 Short Death Actor
The Stupids 1996 Evil Sender Actor
Sorellina e il principe del sogno 1996 TV Movie Azaret Actor
Tales of Mystery and Imagination 1995 TV Series The Host / Host / Prince Prospero Actor
Moses 1995 TV Movie Ramses Actor
Street Gear 1995 TV Series Nick Dupont Actor
The Tomorrow People 1995 TV Series Sam Rees Actor
A Feast at Midnight 1994 Raptor Actor
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow 1994 Commandant Rakov Actor
Funny Man 1994 Callum Chance Actor
Ghosts 1994 Video Game Dr. Marcus Grimalkin / Himself Actor
Detonator 1993 TV Movie General Benin Actor
Cyber Eden 1992 Cedric Actor
Double Vision 1992 TV Movie Mr. Bernard Actor
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 1992 TV Series Count Ottokar Graf Czerin Actor
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls 1992 TV Movie Sherlock Holmes Actor
Beauty and the Beast 1992/I Video Monsieur Renard (voice) Actor
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady 1991 TV Movie Sherlock Holmes Actor
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice 1991 Dr. Pearson Actor
Journey of Honor 1991 King Philip Actor
The Rainbow Thief 1990 Uncle Rudolf Actor
The Care of Time 1990 TV Movie Karlis Zander Actor
Gremlins 2: The New Batch 1990 Doctor Catheter Actor
L’avaro 1990 Cardinale Spinosi Actor
Treasure Island 1990 TV Movie Blind Pew Actor
Honeymoon Academy 1989 Video Lazos Actor
Welcome to the Basement 2013-2014 TV Series performer – 2 episodes Soundtrack
The Return of Captain Invincible 1983 performer: “Evil Midnight”, “Name Your Poison” Soundtrack
Nutcracker Fantasy 1979 performer: “In Your Heart of Hearts”, “Click Clock Fantasy” Soundtrack
The Wicker Man 1973 performer: “Sumer is Icumen In”, “Tinker Of Rye” – uncredited Soundtrack
The Making of a Legend 2003 Video documentary producer Producer
Nothing But the Night 1973 producer – uncredited Producer
The Man with the Golden Gun 1974 stunt driver – uncredited Stunts
Inside ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ 2000 Video documentary short source: stills Miscellaneous
Welcome to the Basement 2016 TV Series in memory of – 1 episode Thanks
Drakul 2015 TV Movie acknowledgment Thanks
The Freddy Jenkins Show 2015 TV Mini-Series in memory of – 1 episode Thanks
The Resident 2011 personal thanks Thanks
The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry 2010 Documentary thanks – as Sir Christopher Lee Thanks
Stone of Destiny 2008 very special thanks Thanks
Bloody Jess 2007 TV Movie documentary thanks Thanks
The Fall of Fu Manchu 2003 Video documentary short special thanks Thanks
The Rise of Fu Manchu 2003 Video documentary short special thanks Thanks
Christopher Lee: Mr. Holmes, Mr. Wilder 2003 Video documentary short special thanks Thanks
Perversion Stories 2002 Video documentary short special thanks Thanks
And the Word Was Bond 1999 TV Movie documentary thanks Thanks
Frankenstein and Me 1996 special thanks Thanks
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 1993 special thanks Thanks
Dieter & Andreas 1989 Short grateful acknowledgment Thanks
Voices from the Underworld 2006 Video short Himself Self
2005 Women’s World Awards 2005 TV Special Himself Self
It’s All for Real: The Stunts of Episode III 2005 Video short Himself Self
Planet Voice 2005 TV Series Himself Self
Star Wars: Feel the Force 2005 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel 2005 TV Series Himself Self
Cast & Crew 2005 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Different Faces, Different Flavors 2005 Video documentary short Himself Self
A Filmmaker’s Journey: Making ‘The Return of the King’ 2004 Video documentary short Himself Self
Cameras in Middle-Earth 2004 Video documentary Himself Self
Editorial: Completing the Trilogy 2004 Video documentary short Himself Self
From Book to Script: Forging the Final Chapter 2004 Video documentary short Himself Self
The Passing of an Age 2004 Video documentary short Himself Self
The Ultimate Film 2004 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Greasepaint and Gore, Part 2: The Hammer Monsters of Roy Ashton 2004 Documentary short Himself Self
Greasepaint and Gore: The Hammer Monsters of Phil Leakey 2004 Documentary Himself Self
Christopher Lee: A Life in Films 2003 TV Movie Himself Self
National Geographic: Beyond the Movie – The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 2003 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Dracula’s Bram Stoker 2003 TV Movie documentary Himself – Actor Self
J.R.R. Tolkien: Origins of Middle-Earth 2003 Video documentary short Himself – Saruman Self
The Soundscapes of Middle-Earth 2003 Video documentary short Himself Self
This Morning 2003 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
Drácula en la Hammer 2003 Documentary short Self
Richard & Judy 2003 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
The 100 Greatest Scary Moments 2003 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
2003 World Awards 2003 TV Special Himself Self
The Fall of Fu Manchu 2003 Video documentary short Himself Self
The Rise of Fu Manchu 2003 Video documentary short Himself Self
Christopher Lee: Mr. Holmes, Mr. Wilder 2003 Video documentary short Himself Self
The 100 Greatest Movie Stars 2003 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The Making of a Legend 2003 Video documentary Himself Self
From Hollywood to Borehamwood 2003 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Whales of Atlantis: In Search of Moby Dick 2003 Documentary Narrator (voice) Self
To the Devil… The Death of Hammer 2002 Video documentary short Himself Self
James Bond: A BAFTA Tribute 2002 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Happy Anniversary Mr. Bond 2002 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Best Ever Bond 2002 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Cameras in Middle-Earth 2002 Video documentary Himself – Saruman Self
Costume Design 2002 Video documentary short Himself – Saruman Self
Episode II: Behind the Scenes 2002 Video documentary Himself Self
From Book to Script 2002 Video documentary short Himself – Saruman Self
From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in ‘Episode II’ 2002 Video documentary Himself Self
The Fellowship of the Cast 2002 Video documentary short Himself – Saruman Self
Weta Workshop 2002 Video documentary short Himself Self
Perversion Stories 2002 Video documentary short Himself Self
2002 World Awards 2002 TV Special Himself Self
Two Wizards 2002 Video documentary short Himself Self
The Heaven and Earth Show 2002 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
Leute heute 2002 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Actor’s Notebook: Christopher Lee 2002 Video documentary short Himself Self
Turning Points 2001 TV Series Himself Self
Burnt Offering: The Cult of the Wicker Man 2001 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
National Geographic Explorer 2001 TV Series documentary Himself / Saruman the White Self
Live Lunch 2001 TV Series Himself – Interviewee Self
The Big Breakfast 2001 TV Series Himself Self
A Passage to Middle-earth: The Making of ‘Lord of the Rings’ 2001 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Quest for the Ring 2001 TV Short documentary Himself Self
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome 2001 TV Special short Himself (uncredited) Self
The Wicker Man Enigma 2001 Video documentary short Himself Self
Once Upon a Time in Europe 2001 TV Series documentary Presenter / Introduction Self
Nulle part ailleurs cinéma 2001 TV Series Himself Self
E! Mysteries & Scandals 2000-2001 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Îles du diable – L’archipel des mondes perdus 2001 TV Movie documentary Narrator Self
Ian Fleming: 007’s Creator 2000 Video documentary short Himself Self
Inside ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ 2000 Video documentary short Himself / Franciso Scaramaga Self
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend 2000 Video documentary short Himself / The Burgomeister Self
Death of an Empire 2000 TV Series Narrator Self
Legends 2000 TV Series documentary Himself Self
And the Word Was Bond 1999 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Dare to Dream 1998 Documentary Himself Self
Ex-S 1998 TV Series documentary Himself Self
A-Z of Horror 1997 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Self
Strictly Supernatural 1997 TV Series Narrator Self
100 Years of Horror: The Aristocrats of Evil 1996 Video documentary Host / Narrator Self
100 Years of Horror: The Count and Company 1996 Video documentary Host / Narrator Self
100 Years of Horror: The Double Demons 1996 Video documentary Host / Narrator Self
100 Years of Horror: The Evil Unseeable 1996 Video documentary Host / Narrator Self
100 Years of Horror: The Frankenstein Family 1996 Video documentary Host / Narrator Self
100 Years of Horror: The Monster Makers 1996 Video documentary Host / Narrator Self
100 Years of Horror: The Walking Dead 1996 Video documentary Host / Narrator Self
100 Years of Horror: Witchcraft and Demons 1996 Video documentary Host / Narrator Self
A Century of Science Fiction 1996 Video documentary Narrator Self
The Many Faces of Christopher Lee 1996 Video documentary Himself Self
In Search of Dracula with Jonathan Ross 1996 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema 1996 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Self
100 Years of Horror 1996 TV Series documentary Himself – Host / Himself / Host – Narrator Self
Tales of Mystery and Imagination 1995 TV Series Himself – Host Self
A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghost of M.R. James 1995 TV Movie documentary Self
In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross 1995 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The Vampire Interviews 1995 Video documentary Himself Self
The Big Picture 1993-1995 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Gottschalk Late Night 1995 TV Series Himself Self
This Is Your Life 1974-1995 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror 1994 TV Movie documentary Narrator / Himself Self
The Little Picture Show 1994 TV Series Himself Self
Stern TV 1994 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Biography 1993 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Le divan 1993 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Fear in the Dark 1991 TV Movie documentary Narrator Self
Això és massa! 1991 TV Series Himself Self
Wahre Wunder 1991 TV Series Himself – Host Self
ARD-Mittagsmagazin 1990 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
Der grosse Preis 1990 TV Series Himself Self
An Invitation to Remember 1989 TV Series Himself Self
Nase vorn 1988-1989 TV Series Himself / LKW-Fahrer Self
Secret World 1988 TV Series documentary Himself – Host Self
WWF Club 1988 TV Series Himself Self
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood! 1987 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Stars in der Manege 1987 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Wetten, dass..? 1987 TV Series Himself Self
The Mind of David Berglas 1986 TV Series Himself Self
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes 1985 Video documentary Host Self
Tele-Illustrierte 1984 TV Series Himself Self
Àngel Casas Show 1984 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler 1983 Video documentary Himself – Narrator Self
Witness the Impossible 1983 TV Movie Himself – Host Self
Sunday, Sunday 1983 TV Series Himself Self
Auf los geht’s los 1983 TV Series Himself Self
International Pro-Celebrity Golf: Six of the Best 1981 TV Series Himself Self
Whicker’s World 1968-1980 TV Series Himself Self
The American Movie Awards 1980 TV Special Himself – Presenter Self
The Mike Douglas Show 1975-1979 TV Series Himself – Actor / Himself -Actor Self
The Bob Wilkins Super Horror Show 1979 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Looks Familiar 1978 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
Tomorrow Coast to Coast 1978 TV Series Himself Self
Saturday Night Live 1978 TV Series Himself – Host / Henry Higgins / Mr. Death / … Self
Science Fiction Film Awards 1978 TV Movie documentary Himself – Presenter Self
Mysteries from the Unknown: The Occult 1977 TV Movie documentary Narrator Self
Film ’72 1977 TV Series Himself Self
Celebrity Squares 1975 TV Series Himself Self
In Search of Dracula 1975 Documentary Himself
Vlad Tepes
Count Dracula
Self
Stars on Sunday 1975 TV Series German Singer Self
Clapper Board 1974 TV Series Himself Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1974 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
Just a Nimmo 1974 TV Series Himself Self
Russell Harty Plus 1973 TV Series Himself / Himself – Special Guest Self
Theatre Macabre 1971 TV Series documentary Himself – Host Self
Treffpunkte 1971 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Cuadecuc, vampir 1971 Documentary Himself / Count Dracula (as Cristopher Lee) Self
Cinema 1971 TV Series documentary Himself Self
London aktuell 1970 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Apropos Film 1970 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Beat-Club 1969 TV Series Himself Self
Quelle horreur mon saigneur Dracula 1969 TV Short documentary Himself Self
Film Review 1968 TV Mini-Series Himself Self
The Eamonn Andrews Show 1968 TV Series Himself Self
Tonight with Dave Allen 1967 TV Series Himself Self
Hinter der Leinwand 1967 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Victims of Vesuvius 1967 Documentary short On-screen narrator Self
Horror 1964 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Face of Unity 2014 Documentary Self
Timeshift 2014 TV Series documentary Himself – Actor Self
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics 2013 Documentary Narrator (voice) Self
Brisant 2013 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Christopher Lee: A Legacy of Horror and Terror 2012 Video documentary Himself Self
56th BFI London Film Festival 2012 TV Special documentary Himself – Presenter Self
Everything or Nothing 2012 Documentary Himself Self
British Legends of Stage and Screen 2012 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Shoot the Moon: The Making of ‘Hugo’ 2012 Video short Himself Self
Episode II: Crew and Cast Interviews 2011 Video documentary short Himself Self
Seitenblicke 2008-2011 TV Series documentary Himself Self
The Orange British Academy Film Awards 2011 TV Special Himself – Academy Fellowship Ricipient Self
Midnight Madness: The History of Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Films 2010 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Christopher Lee – Gentleman des Grauens 2010 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
On the Edge of War: Uncovering ‘Glorious 39’ 2010 Video short Himself Self
Troldspejlet 2001-2009 TV Series Himself – Actor / Himself Self
American Masters 2009 TV Series documentary Himself Self
The Alan Titchmarsh Show 2009 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
Na plovárne 2009 TV Series Himself Self
Fanex Files: Hammer Films 2008 Video documentary Himself Self
Visions from the Enchanted Lands 2007 Video Himself Self
Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs 2007 Documentary Narrator Self
Prominent! 2007 TV Series Himself Self
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn 2007 TV Movie documentary Himself – Narrator Self
Hollywood Chinese 2007 Documentary Himself Self
Ein Leben wie im Flug 2007 TV Movie Himself Self
Caiga quien caiga 2007 TV Series Himself Self
100 Years Under the Sea: Shipwrecks of the Caribbean 2007 Video documentary Narrator Self
Amazon Trek: In Search of Vanishing Secrets 2007 Video documentary Narrator Self
Bloody Jess 2007 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Breakfast 2003-2006 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
2006 Women’s World Awards 2006 TV Special Himself Self
Le grand journal de Canal+ 2006 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Morning Glory 2006 TV Series Himself Self
Wogan Now & Then 2006 TV Series Himself Self
The Witch’s Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills 2006 Video documentary Himself Self
Tim Burton: Dark vs. Light 2006 Video short Himself Self
Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix 2017 Video Game DiZ
Ansem the Wise
Archive Footage
The Other Dracula – The Vampire Films of John Carradine 2016 Video documentary short Narrator Archive Footage
The 88th Annual Academy Awards 2016 TV Special Himself (Memorial Tribute) Archive Footage
22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards 2016 TV Special Himself – In Memoriam Archive Footage
Welcome to the Basement 2013-2016 TV Series Lord Summerisle
Himself
Count Dracula
Archive Footage
Entertainment Tonight 2015 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
The Drunken Peasants 2015 TV Series Count Dooku Archive Footage
A Conversation with Jack Taylor 2015 Video documentary short Count Dracula (uncredited) Archive Footage
Handsome Harker 2015 Video documentary short Count Dracula Archive Footage
Stake Holders: An Appreciation of Jess Franco’s ‘Count Dracula’ 2015 Video short Count Dracula (uncredited) Archive Footage
Dante’s Domicile 2015 TV Series Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton Archive Footage
Wogan: The Best Of 2015 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Gentleman Gothic: Gordon Hessler at American International Pictures 2015 Video documentary short Various Roles (uncredited) Archive Footage
Neil Sean Meets… 2015 TV Series Sir Henry Archive Footage
Uta Screams Again!: Interview with Uta Levka 2015 Video documentary short Fremont (uncredited) Archive Footage
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix 2014 Video Game DiZ
Ansem the Wise
Archive Footage
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films 2014 Documentary Corrigan (uncredited) Archive Footage
Ouija Are You There? 2013 Short Voice #1 Archive Footage
The Culture Show 2013 TV Series documentary Duc de Richleau Archive Footage
Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness 2007-2013 TV Series documentary Count Dracula
Dracula
The Creature
Archive Footage
Lego the Lord of the Rings: The Video Game 2012 Video Game Saruman the White Archive Footage
Top Gear 2012 TV Series Francisco Scaramanga Archive Footage
Frankenstein Reborn: The Making of a Hammer Classic 2012 Video documentary short The Creature Archive Footage
Dracula vs. Vampir 2012 Documentary short Dracula Archive Footage
Frankenweenie 2012 Movie Dracula (uncredited) Archive Footage
Erik Schumann über ‘Der flüsternde Tod’ 2012 Video documentary short Bill (uncredited) Archive Footage
Tod in der Sonne: Ein Interview mit Jürgen Goslar 2012 Video documentary short Bill (uncredited) Archive Footage
Wie fotografiert man den flüsternden Tod? Interview mit Wolfgang Treu 2012 Video documentary short Bill (uncredited) Archive Footage
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness 2012 Video documentary short Dracula Archive Footage
Mansome 2012 Documentary Fu Manchu Archive Footage
Halloween: The Inside Story 2010 TV Movie documentary Archive Footage
A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss 2010 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself
Creature
Count Dracula
Archive Footage
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape 2010 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy 2010 Video documentary Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Margaret John: National Treasure 2010 TV Movie documentary Sherlock Holmes Archive Footage
Memòries de la tele 2009 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! 2008 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
The McCartney Years 2007 Video documentary Himself Archive Footage
Have I Got News for You 2007 TV Series Count Dracula Archive Footage
Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia 2007 TV Short documentary Himself Archive Footage
British Film Forever 2007 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Cómo conseguir un papel en Hollywood 2007 TV Movie documentary Archive Footage
Beloved Count 2007 Video documentary short Count Dracula Archive Footage
On Location with ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ 2006 Video documentary short Himself Archive Footage
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II 2006 Video Game Saruman Archive Footage
Timeshift 2005 TV Series documentary Sherlock Holmes Archive Footage
Ban the Sadist Videos! 2005 Video documentary Himself Archive Footage
Cineastas contra magnates 2005 Documentary Dracula (uncredited) Archive Footage
Science of Star Wars 2005 TV Mini-Series documentary Archive Footage
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 2005 Video Game Count Dooku Archive Footage
Lego Star Wars: The Video Game 2005 Video Game Count Dooku (uncredited) Archive Footage
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow – Underneath the Mission 2004 Video documentary short Commandant Rakov (uncredited) Archive Footage
Sendung ohne Namen 2002 TV Series documentary Saruman Archive Footage
The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster 2002 Video documentary The Monster (uncredited) Archive Footage
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Video Game Saruman the White Archive Footage
Bond Girls Are Forever 2002 TV Movie documentary Francisco Scaramanga (uncredited) Archive Footage
Gomorron 2001 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Midsomer Murders 2001 TV Series Dracula Archive Footage
Llámale Jess 2000 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service 1999 Video Count Ottokar Graf Czernin Archive Footage
The James Bond Story 1999 TV Movie documentary Francisco Scaramanga (uncredited) Archive Footage
Nightmare: The Birth of Victorian Horror 1996-1997 TV Series documentary Sir Henry Baskerville
The Creature
Count Dracula
Archive Footage
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes 1996 TV Movie documentary Sherlock Holmes Archive Footage
The World of Hammer 1994 TV Series documentary The Creature
Captain Robeles
The Mummy
Archive Footage
The Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Revue 1985 Video short Dr. Victor Gannon Archive Footage
Fright Night 1985 Dracula Archive Footage
The Best of All Time Horror Classics 1985 Video documentary Dracula Archive Footage
James Bond: The First 21 Years 1983 TV Movie documentary Francisco Scaramanga Archive Footage
Fade to Black 1980 uncredited Archive Footage
The Horror Show 1979 TV Movie documentary Archive Footage
Light Entertainment Killers 1969 TV Movie Colonel Mannering Archive Footage
The Avengers 1969 TV Series Professor Stone Archive Footage
Lolita 1962 Frankenstein’s Creature (uncredited) Archive Footage
Final Column 1955 Larry Spence Archive Footage
Man in Demand 1955 Martell Archive Footage

Brandon Lee Brandon Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie Category
2014 Cinema for Peace Honorary Award Cinema for Peace Awards Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) Won
2013 BFI Fellowship British Film Institute Awards Won
2013 Excellence Award Locarno International Film Festival Won
2011 Academy Fellowship BAFTA Awards BAFTA Film Won
2008 Festival President’s Award Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Won
2007 Capri Legend Award Capri, Hollywood Won
2007 Golden Dolphin Festróia – Tróia International Film Festival For his career. Won
2003 MTV Movie Award MTV Movie Awards Best Fight Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) Won
2003 OFCS Award Online Film Critics Society Awards Best Ensemble The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Won
2003 PFCS Award Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Acting Ensemble The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Won
2003 Living Treasure Award Seattle Film Critics Awards Won
2003 SFX Award SFX Awards, UK Lifetime Achievement Award Won
2002 Lifetime Achievement Award Empire Awards, UK Won
2002 Special Award Evening Standard British Film Awards For lifetime achievement. Won
2002 PFCS Award Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Acting Ensemble The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Won
2001 ACCA Awards Circuit Community Awards Best Cast Ensemble The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Won
1995 Lifetime Achievement Award Bram Stoker Awards Won
1994 Dilys Powell Award London Critics Circle Film Awards Won
1993 Career Award Fantafestival Won
1984 International Fantasy Film Award Fantasporto Best Actor For his contributions to the fantastc film genre. Won
1983 Caixa de Catalunya Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival Best Actor House of the Long Shadows (1983) Won
1979 Life Career Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Won
2014 Cinema for Peace Honorary Award Cinema for Peace Awards Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) Nominated
2013 BFI Fellowship British Film Institute Awards Nominated
2013 Excellence Award Locarno International Film Festival Nominated
2011 Academy Fellowship BAFTA Awards BAFTA Film Nominated
2008 Festival President’s Award Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Nominated
2007 Capri Legend Award Capri, Hollywood Nominated
2007 Golden Dolphin Festróia – Tróia International Film Festival For his career. Nominated
2003 MTV Movie Award MTV Movie Awards Best Fight Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) Nominated
2003 OFCS Award Online Film Critics Society Awards Best Ensemble The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Nominated
2003 PFCS Award Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Acting Ensemble The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Nominated
2003 Living Treasure Award Seattle Film Critics Awards Nominated
2003 SFX Award SFX Awards, UK Lifetime Achievement Award Nominated
2002 Lifetime Achievement Award Empire Awards, UK Nominated
2002 Special Award Evening Standard British Film Awards For lifetime achievement. Nominated
2002 PFCS Award Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Acting Ensemble The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Nominated
2001 ACCA Awards Circuit Community Awards Best Cast Ensemble The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Nominated
1995 Lifetime Achievement Award Bram Stoker Awards Nominated
1994 Dilys Powell Award London Critics Circle Film Awards Nominated
1993 Career Award Fantafestival Nominated
1984 International Fantasy Film Award Fantasporto Best Actor For his contributions to the fantastc film genre. Nominated
1983 Caixa de Catalunya Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival Best Actor House of the Long Shadows (1983) Nominated
1979 Life Career Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Nominated