Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ was an English actor, singer and author. Lee was well known for portraying villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun and Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Lee retired from the RAF in 1946 with the rank of flight lieutenant. He was knighted for services to drama and charity in 2009.
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Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ was an English actor, singer and author. Lee was well known for portraying villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun and Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. He considered his best performance to be that of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah, and his best film to be the British cult film The Wicker Man. Lee retired from the RAF in 1946 with the rank of flight lieutenant. He was knighted for services to drama and charity in 2009, received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011, and received a BFI Fellowship in 2013. Lee’s mother was an Edwardian beauty who was painted by Sir John Lavery, Oswald Birley, and Olive Snell, and sculpted by Clare Sheridan; her lineage can be traced to Charlemagne. His maternal great-grandfather was an Italian political refugee whose wife, Lee’s great- grandmother, was English-born opera singer Marie Car andini. He had one sister, Xandra Carandinis Lee. Lee also recorded various opera and musical pieces between 1986 and 1998, and the symphonic metal albumCharlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross in 2010, after having worked with several metal bands since 2005. The heavy metal follow-up Charlemache: The Omens of Death was released on 27 May 2013, Lee’s 91st birthday.
Lee played the part of James for the BBC for 60 years, and later later played the role of James in the BBC series James Bond: The Man With The Golden Gun. He also played Saruman in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy and the Hobbit film trilogy. His mother married Harcourt George St-Croix Rose, a banker and uncle of Ian Fleming, and thus became Lee’s step-cousin. Lee served in the Royal Air Force, where he was attached to the No. 260 Squadron RAF as an intelligence officer. He did not do well at the other sports: hockey, football, rugby and boxing. He didn’t act while studying at Wellington College, but would always soon as possible as dead as he disliked mock parades and mock weapons and would always play dead as possible. When Lee was nine, he was sent to Summer Fields School, a preparatory school in Oxford whose pupils often later attended Eton. Lee applied for a scholarship to Eton, where his interview was in the presence of the ghost story author M. R. James. His poor maths skills meant that he placedventh and missed out on being a King’s Scholar. He later attended Wagner’s private school in Queen’s Gate, and his step-father was not prepared to pay higher fees that being an Oppidan Scholar meant he did not, and so he attended Wellington College instead.
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