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The man who'd foiled mutinies as a member of RAF intelligence. [113][135] He spoke fluent English, Italian, French, Spanish, and German, and was moderately proficient in Swedish, Russian, and Greek. Prime minister David Cameron called Lee a titan of the golden age of cinema while London mayor Boris Johnson tweeted his condolences alongside a picture of him and Lee together. [80] CNN listed the performance third in their top 10 British villains, noting his "chilling, sonorous tone. He was reintroduced to a new generation in 2001 with a role as the evil wizard Saruman in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and then as Count Dooku in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. [169] Politically, Lee supported the Conservative Party. 260 Squadron RAF as a liaison officer for the Special Operations Executive. Christopher Lee. [74] Throughout the next decade, he made nearly 30 films, including The Cockleshell Heroes, playing mostly stock action characters. And I would say, "Forget it! "[144] He sang the closing credits song of the 1994 horror film Funny Man. [72], He recalled that his breakthrough came in 1952, when Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. began making films at the British National Studios. [65] Of his time with the organisation, Lee said: "We were given dossiers of what they'd done and told to find them, interrogate them as much as we could and hand them over to the appropriate authority ". Stories vary as to the reason for this: Lee states he refused to speak the poor dialogue he was given, but screenwriter Jimmy Sangster claims that the script did not contain any lines for the character. 205 Group RAF before being commissioned at the end of January 1943,[46] and attached to No. In an interview in 2013, Lee spoke about his love of acting. He just looks at you with his eyes, and you are compelled., Sleepy Hollow star Johnny Depp said: Christopher is truly a force to be reckoned with. "[72] He starred in two further Dracula films for Hammer in the early 1970s, both of which attempted to bring the character into the modern-day era. Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93 - The Guardian There were lots of people behind me. His basstones and imposing presence made Lee a go-to bad guy and that means that as well as an astonishing number of performances, Lee may have died onscreen more than any other actor. [107] Lee's appearance in the final film in the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, was cut from the theatrical release, but the scene was reinstated in the extended edition. [110], In late November 2009, Lee narrated the Science Fiction Festival in Trieste, Italy. "[75] A little later, Lee co-starred with Boris Karloff in the film Corridors of Blood (1958). [31][32] In a later interview, Lee stated that he knew how to shoot but not how to ski and that he probably would not be alive if he had been allowed to go to the front line.