Christopher Lee Wikipedia. Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee. CBECSt. J 2. 7 May 1. June 2. 01. 5 was an English character actor,1singer, and author. With a career spanning nearly 7. 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 1. Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy 2. The Hobbit film trilogy 2. Count Dooku in the second and third films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy 2. Lee was knighted for services to drama and charity in 2. BAFTA Fellowship in 2. BFI Fellowship in 2. Rhapsody2010i-500x270.jpg' alt='The Frozen Tears Of Angels Rhapsody' title='The Frozen Tears Of Angels Rhapsody' />Lee considered his best performance to be that of Pakistans founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah 1. British horror film The Wicker Man 1. Serial Key For Proshow Gold 5.0.3222 more. He frequently appeared opposite Peter Cushing in Hammer Horror films, and late in his career had roles in six Tim Burton films. Always noted as an actor for his deep, strong voice, Lee was also known for his singing ability, recording various opera and musical pieces between 1. Charlemagne By the Sword and the Cross in 2. The heavy metal follow up Charlemagne The Omens of Death was released on 2. May 2. 01. 3, Lees 9. He was honoured with the Spirit of Metal award at the 2. Metal Hammer. Golden Gods Awards ceremony. Lee died from complications of respiratory problems and heart failure on the morning of 7 June 2. Early lifeeditLee was born in Belgravia, London,7 the son of Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Trollope Lee 1. Kings Royal Rifle Corps, and his wife, Countess Estelle Marie ne Carandini di Sarzano 1. Lees father fought in the Boer War and First World War, and his mother was an Edwardian beauty who was painted by Sir John Lavery, Oswald Birley, and Olive Snell, and sculpted by Clare Sheridan 1. Charlemagne. 1. 2 Lees maternal great grandfather was an Italian political refugee, whose wife, Lees great grandmother, was English born opera singer Marie Carandini ne Burgess. He had one sister, Xandra Carandini Lee 1. Lees parents separated when he was four and divorced two years later. The Frozen Tears Of Angels Rhapsody' title='The Frozen Tears Of Angels Rhapsody' />Tommy Heart Spirit Of Time Japanese Edition 2016 Tomorrows Eve. Remember. Tabtight professional, free when you need it, VPN service. Talking with some fans, Riker himself, Jonathan Frakes, who also took a turn in the directors chair for an episode of Star Trek Discovery, shared an interesting. Cheerleader Camp Horror Lucky Number ScrivimiAncora 5 a Day 50K and a Call Girl A Love Story 9. Til Death Til There Was You 500 giorni. During this time, his mother took him and his sister to Wengen in Switzerland. After enrolling in Miss Fishers Academy in Territet, he played his first role, as Rumpelstiltskin. They then returned to London, where Lee attended Wagners private school in Queens Gate, and his mother married Harcourt George St Croix Rose, a banker and uncle of Ian Fleming. Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, thus became Lees step cousin. The family moved to Fulham, living next door to the actor Eric Maturin. One night, he was introduced to Prince Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, the assassins of Grigori Rasputin, whom Lee was to play many years later. When Lee was nine, he was sent to Summer Fields School, a preparatory school in Oxford whose pupils often later attended Eton. He continued acting in school plays, though the laurels deservedly went to Patrick Macnee. Lee applied for a scholarship to Eton, where his interview was in the presence of the ghost story author M. R. James. Sixty years later, Lee played the part of James for the BBC. His poor maths skills meant that he placed eleventh, and thus missed out on being a Kings Scholar by one place. His step father was not prepared to pay the higher fees that being an Oppidan Scholar meant, and so he did not attend. Instead, Lee attended Wellington College, where he won scholarships in the classics, studying Ancient Greek and Latin. Aside from a tiny part in a school play, he didnt act while at Wellington. He was a passable racquets player and fencer and a competent cricketer but did not do well at the other sports played hockey, football, rugby and boxing. He disliked the parades and weapons training and would always play dead as soon as possible during mock battles. Lee was frequently beaten at school, including once at Wellington for being beaten too often, though he accepted them as logical and therefore acceptable punishments for knowingly breaking the rules. At age 1. 7, and with one year left at Wellington, the summer term of 1. The Frozen Tears Of Angels Rhapsody' title='The Frozen Tears Of Angels Rhapsody' />His step father had gone bankrupt, owing 2. His mother separated from Rose, and Lee had to get a job, his sister already working as a secretary for the Church of England Pensions Board. With most employers on or preparing to go on summer holidays, there were no immediate opportunities for Lee, and so he was sent to the French Riviera, where his sister was on holiday with friends. On his way there he stopped briefly in Paris, where he stayed with the journalist Webb Miller, a friend of Rose, and witnessed the execution of Eugen Weidmann, the last person to be executed in public in France. Arriving in Menton, he stayed with the Russian Mazirov family, living among exiled princely families. It was arranged that he should stay on in Menton after his sister had returned home, but with Europe on the brink of war, he returned to London instead. He worked as an office clerk for United States Lines, taking care of the mail and running errands. Military service during the Second World WareditWhen the Second World War broke out, Lee volunteered to fight for the Finnish forces during the Winter War in 1. He and other British volunteers were kept away from actual fighting, but they were issued winter gear and were posted on guard duty a safe distance from the front lines. After a fortnight, they returned home. Lee returned to work at United States Lines and found his work more satisfying, feeling that he was contributing. In early 1. 94. 0, he joined Beechams, at first as an office clerk, then as a switchboard operator. When Beechams moved out of London, he joined the Home Guard. In the winter, his father fell ill with bilateral pneumonia and died on 1. March 1. 94. 1. Realising that he had no inclination to follow his father into the Army, Lee decided to join up while he still had some choice of service, and volunteered for the Royal Air Force. The Frozen Tears Of Angels Rhapsody' title='The Frozen Tears Of Angels Rhapsody' />Lee reported to RAF Uxbridge for training and was then posted to the Initial Training Wing at Paignton. After he had passed his exams in Liverpool, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan meant that he travelled on the Reina del Pacifico to South Africa, then to his posting at Hillside, at Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia. Training with de Havilland Tiger Moths, Lee was having his penultimate training session before his first solo flight, when he suffered from headaches and blurred vision. The medical officer hesitantly diagnosed a failure of his optic nerve, and he was told he would never be allowed to fly again. Lee was devastated, and the death of a fellow trainee from Summer Fields only made him more despondent. His appeals were fruitless, and he was left with nothing to do. He was moved around to different flying stations before being posted to Southern Rhodesias capital, Salisbury, in December 1. He then visited the Mazowe Dam, Marandellas, the Wankie Game Reserve and the ruins of Great Zimbabwe. Thinking he should do something constructive for my keep, he applied to join RAF Intelligence. His superiors praised his initiative, and he was seconded into the Rhodesian Police Force and was posted as a warder at Salisbury Prison. He was then promoted to leading aircraftman and moved to Durban in South Africa, before travelling to Suez on the Nieuw Amsterdam.