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.
