Christopher Lee in 1941 | 1979

Clip Name: Saving the Block

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Christopher Lee in 1941 | 1979

Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty and John Belushi
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
About this actor

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ (born 27 May 1922) is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films. Other notable roles include Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man (1973), Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), King Haggard from The Last Unicorn (1982), and Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Lee considers his most important role to have been his portrayal of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998). Lee has performed roles in 266 films since 1948 making him the Guinness book world record holder for most film acting roles ever, and was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2009. Lee was born in Belgravia, Westminster, England, as the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Trollope Lee of the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps and his wife Contessa Estelle Marie (née Carandini di Sarzano). Lee's mother was a famous...