While the journey to acting wasn’t straightforward and straightforward, Christopher Lee’s career is incredibly rich in projects. In fact, at his death there were 280 films that make him one of the actors to have taken part in several films.
Although he often got the role of the villain, he still managed to make the audience love him.
Who was Christopher Lee
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (London, May 27, 1922 – London, June 7, 2015) was a British actor. She was born in the English capital to an army officer father and granddaughter mother of a well-known politician, particularly appreciated for her beauty. The woman is in fact often chosen by some artists to be painted, including Clare Frewen Sheridan, known for being the kitchen of Winston Churcill.
Little Christopher at the age of four attends the separation of parents and moves with his sister and mother to Switzerland. Here he enrolled at Miss Fisher’s Academy and later, once back in London, he continued his studies at Wagner’s private school and then obtained a scholarship at Wellington College.
Christopher Lee and participation in World War II
With the arrival of the second World War takes part in the Finnish ranks to defend the territory from the Soviet Union. He thinks he can follow in his father’s footsteps and make a career in the army but he realizes he is not good and so he decides to sign up as a volunteer with the Royal Air Force. During the preparation, however, he realizes that he experiences severe headaches and vision problems during the moments of flight, discovering that he has a optic nerve problem. This prevents him from continuing in this direction, but Christopher does not seem to want to abandon this path.
It then continues with the intelligence work near the Suez Canal where he carries out numerous missions. He then moves to Malta, Cartagena and Foggia where he spends a lot of time and has the opportunity to learn to speak Italian fluently in addition to the already known English, French and German. After the war he decides to indulge a passion that has remained silent for too many years: the acting.
Christopher Lee’s film and musical career
In 1946, therefore, he obtained a seven-year contract with the Rank Organization which allowed him du debut two years later with “The Mystery of Mirrors”. In the course of the following years there are numerous film projects in which he participates, especially action movie. For example, note its part in “The mask of Frankenstein” where he plays the Creature. It follows in 1958 “Dracula the Vampire” followed by over ten reinterpretations of the Count Dracula to the point of hating this character.
Among the most important roles of recent years, however, we remember that of Saruman the White, the sorcerer of the trilogy de “The Lord of the Rings” and Dooku in the prequel trilogy of “Star Wars”. In addition, in the new millennium he also dedicated himself to music for a certain period, releasing a concept album by symphonic metal together with an orchestra. Subsequently participates in the re-recording of “Battle Hymns” with the Manowar group interpreting the voice of Orson Welles, present in the original disc.