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the most well known Vampire has Died in London. RIP.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-06/11/christopher-lee-dead
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His voiceover on MJ's Thriller track is legendary
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PIP Count Dooku.
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93 that's a bit young for a vampire like a baby they usually make it few hundred yrs or so...j/k guy was legend good life..
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93 that's a bit young for a vampire like a baby they usually make it few hundred yrs or so...j/k guy was legend good life..
I grew up watching his films... old school actor.
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The man lived life the way it's supposed to be done! RIP.
• Christopher Lee has led a hell of a life. He was related to Ian Fleming, personally knew JRR Tolkien, met the assassins of Rasputin and had a fight dedicated to him by Muhammad Ali. The future Prince Of Darkness was also the first person to enter the Vatican museum after WWII, having acted as an intelligence officer during the war; he was even there to see the last guillotine execution in France in 1931, aged all of 17.
• 1. He was a classically trained singer. He recorded a heavy metal album and a Christmas album.
• 2. Not only did he play a Bond villain, but he was also technically a secret agent for the “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.”
• 3. He was a polyglot, he spoke English, Italian, French German and Spanish fluently and a little Swedish, Russian, and Greek.
• 4. In WWII his job was to hunt Nazis.
• 5. He was 6 ft. 5 in, the Guinness World Record Holder for tallest leading actor.
• 6. He was a decedent of royalty, his mother was an Italian countess.
• 7. He did all his own stunts, and once smashed up his face by jumping through a plate of glass, and permanently injured his hand partaking in sword combat with a drunk colleague.
• 8. He was quoted saying “”One should try anything he can in his career, except folkdance and incest.”
• 9. When he was alive, he was in more films than any living actor, acting in movies every single year from 1948 – 2014, excluding 1955 and 2006.
• 10. Finally, he received life time achievement awards from SFX Magazine, Empire Magazine, Italy’s Fantafestival, Portugal’s Festroia International Film Festival, the Evening Standard British Film Awards and the Seattle Film Critics Awards. He was also knighted and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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206 freakin' box office movies!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee_filmography
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Shame. Had a clear mind, and was still very open to new things in the last few interviews I saw with him.
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He had a few metal bands as well....
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(http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachments/general-chit-chat/809609d1364240971-chuck-norris-pwned-sir-christopher-lee-8136_508263372543169_1017748653_n.jpg)
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Great guy, still perofming in blockbusters in his 90s
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(http://www.shropshirestar.com/wpmvc/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/bond1.jpg)
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/9/28/1285666278603/Christopher-Lee-Dracula-006.jpg)
(http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/2500000/Saruman-christopher-lee-2509319-383-549.jpg)
(https://childrenoftheforce.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/3742545-countdooku.jpg)
He was also the voice of the villain in the last unicorn 8)
(http://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/3407528/1118full-the-last-unicorn-screenshot.jpg)
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Damn he was great
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Great body of work. RIP.
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I've called dibs on every dead body since joining. Finally, an individual who deserves a proper burial. :'(
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lee is almost single handedly responsible for my love of horror films today.
i was three or four in the 70s when when the bbc ran a season of hammer and universal classic horror films.
i can still vividly recall watching these films with my mum, transfixed by these horror legends on our telly screen, scaring me witless. it was lees dracula that had me most captivated and shitting the biggest bricks. good times, lol.
the last of the great horror icons, and though not the first to play dracula on the big screen, for me, he was, and always will be, the dracula.
RIP Sir.
(http://i57.tinypic.com/302x7ic.jpg)
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My namesake said today he doesnt have the rights to show any of his movies. Which is weird because I could have sworn he has shown one of the hammer films within the past few months. So maybe he just doesnt want to repeat it again so soon, but it would be worth it in this case.
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the most well known Vampire has Died in London. RIP.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-06/11/christopher-lee-dead
c.lee and dusty rhodes[runnels] the same day.
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Best remembered as Canfield from An Eye for an Eye. RIP.
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His voiceover on MJ's Thriller track is legendary
Wasn't that Vincent Price?
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"When he was alive, he was in more films than any living actor" ???
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Dude should be an honorary getbigger...........RIP :(
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Dude should be an honorary getbigger...........RIP :(
This... ;)
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Is he chinese or something? ???
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Is he chinese or something? ???
::) Dude
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::) Dude
X2 ::)
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Damn sorry to hear
RIP
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I remember watching the Curse of Frankenstein at my old grampas house at midnight in the late 1960's around age 9 and being scared shitless by Lee's version of the monster created by Peter Cushings Dr Frankenstein. I was sleeping on the couch in their dark creepy old living room after it and I couldn't sleep for seeing his horrible face. :o :o
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I remember watching the Curse of Frankenstein at my old grampas house at midnight in the late 1960's around age 9 and being scared shitless by Lee's version of the monster created by Peter Cushings Dr Frankenstein. I was sleeping on the couch in their dark creepy old living room after it and I couldn't sleep for seeing his horrible face. :o :o
;D
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His voiceover on MJ's Thriller track is legendary
that was Vincent price not Lee
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I grew up watching his films... old school actor.
Me too. He was the best Dracula RIP
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The man lived life the way it's supposed to be done! RIP.
• Christopher Lee has led a hell of a life. He was related to Ian Fleming, personally knew JRR Tolkien, met the assassins of Rasputin and had a fight dedicated to him by Muhammad Ali. The future Prince Of Darkness was also the first person to enter the Vatican museum after WWII, having acted as an intelligence officer during the war; he was even there to see the last guillotine execution in France in 1931, aged all of 17.
• 1. He was a classically trained singer. He recorded a heavy metal album and a Christmas album.
• 2. Not only did he play a Bond villain, but he was also technically a secret agent for the “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.”
• 3. He was a polyglot, he spoke English, Italian, French German and Spanish fluently and a little Swedish, Russian, and Greek.
• 4. In WWII his job was to hunt Nazis.
• 5. He was 6 ft. 5 in, the Guinness World Record Holder for tallest leading actor.
• 6. He was a decedent of royalty, his mother was an Italian countess.
• 7. He did all his own stunts, and once smashed up his face by jumping through a plate of glass, and permanently injured his hand partaking in sword combat with a drunk colleague.
• 8. He was quoted saying “”One should try anything he can in his career, except folkdance and incest.”
• 9. When he was alive, he was in more films than any living actor, acting in movies every single year from 1948 – 2014, excluding 1955 and 2006.
• 10. Finally, he received life time achievement awards from SFX Magazine, Empire Magazine, Italy’s Fantafestival, Portugal’s Festroia International Film Festival, the Evening Standard British Film Awards and the Seattle Film Critics Awards. He was also knighted and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Let's not forget he was on the cover of Paul McCartney's 'Band on the Run.' Very cool. Guy must have been in 300+ movies, too. What a life. What a life. PIP.
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whats funny is only yesterday (whilst listening to a podcast about 1931's DRACULA) was i thinking about lee and would he make it to his 100th birthday. which oddly, in turn, make me wonder if kirk douglas (98) would make it to his.
interesting trivia.. it was only last year that the last surviving member of the 1931 cast (carla aemmle) die age 104.
now, in the spanish version of DRACULA, which was filmed at exactly the same time and on the same sets as it holluywood counterpart. there is still one last surving member (lupita tovar) of that cast sti ll alive today. she is currently 104 years old.
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Christopher Lee’s Last Message Feels Like a Premonitory Farewell
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206 freakin' box office movies!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee_filmography
Now that's an impressive resume of films.
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Wasn't that Vincent Price?
Yes, it was Vincent Price.
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Has anybody put a stake through his heart yet to make sure?
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Me too. He was the best Dracula RIP
agree Booty......Wanna fuck ?
Says Dr Dutch.
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A special message from Ian McKellen
Christopher Lee, CBE, CStJ (1922-2015)
When I arrived in New Zealand to start filming as Gandalf, in the first week of the 21st Century, Peter Jackson held a dinner for some of the cast. I was happily next to Christopher Lee who I had known of throughout my actor-admiring life. He'd been cast as the white wizard Saruman but his opening line to me was: "I've always thought I should play Gandalf. I read 'Lord of the Rings' every year - sometimes twice."
He then treated me to a snatch of the black speech of Mordor and I felt inadequate. Not that that was Chris's intention: he was 78 and well practised in the art of gentlemanly rectitude. The epitome of "tall, dark and handsome" kept any inner demons for his acting Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and, once, as Sherlock Holmes.
It's what made his Saruman so effective. With his long beard and white robes, he had the air of a stern yet benign Pope that belied his ambition to rule Middle-earth, with cruelty and spite.
Between our facing-off on the set, he could easily be persuaded to reminisce. After all there were over 200 films on his CV and a couple of singing albums. His earliest intention was to be an opera bass., Touchingly he was a little nervous at the outset. "Peter made me do my first speech 10 times!!" I told him not to worry as the previous day I'd had to repeat a scene 27 times. His dark eyes widened and glinted but he didn't complain again.
Peter was tickled to have his Hammer Horror hero as the villain and devised a spectacular death to acknowledge his vampiric past - falling onto a spike which pierced his dastardly heart. Chris didn't much approve and I think the episode can only be seen in the extended Director's Cut.
An odd pity that he didn't work in the theatre, nor direct a film, like his idol Laurence Olivier who had Chris as a spear-carrier in his film of 'Hamlet.' But he was justly proud of the span and success of his career in movies and when knighted must, like all of us, have been pleased to share a title with Sir Larry.
The last time Saruman and Gandalf filmed together was 'round a table in Rivendell but while Galadriel, Elrond and I were in the Wellington studio, Sir Christopher's interjections were filmed in London some months later. You can't tell. In movies, all is not as it seems.
Yet when he joined the "Star Wars" cast he said he did all his own stunts without benefit of a stand-in. That certainly wasn't true of his gravity-defying fight with Gandalf. I suspect he just wanted to declare he was in old age fit for purpose. He needn't have worried. His acting prowess never declined. -- Ian McKellen, June 2015
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RIP to one of the true greats. 8)
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whats funny is only yesterday (whilst listening to a podcast about 1931's DRACULA) was i thinking about lee and would he make it to his 100th birthday. which oddly, in turn, make me wonder if kirk douglas (98) would make it to his.
interesting trivia.. it was only last year that the last surviving member of the 1931 cast (carla aemmle) die age 104.
now, in the spanish version of DRACULA, which was filmed at exactly the same time and on the same sets as it holluywood counterpart. there is still one last surving member (lupita tovar) of that cast sti ll alive today. she is currently 104 years old.
and coincidentally my nan who didnt watch Dracula films died aged 89
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I was a huge fan..............great actor.
RIP :(
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Dracula never died >:(
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Let's not forget he was on the cover of Paul McCartney's 'Band on the Run.' Very cool. Guy must have been in 300+ movies, too. What a life. What a life. PIP.
(https://columbusmusicblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/wings_wallpaper___band_on_the_run_cover_by_felipemuve-d695uz8.jpg)