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Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93

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The veteran actor, best known for a variety of films from Dracula to The Wicker Man through to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, passed away on Sunday morning at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, according to sources.

The decision to release the news days after was based on his wife’s desire to inform family members first. The couple had been married for over 50 years.

As well as his career in film, Lee also released a series of heavy metal albums, including Charlemagne: The Omens of Death. He was knighted in 2009 for services to drama and charity and was awarded the Bafta fellowship in 2011.

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A long life and a great legacy...
 
Even cooler than the fictional characters that he played in movies is the real time war service he had in WW2 with British special forces.
 
Yes, my son told me that fact as well.  I cannot remember what movie it was that he was starring in, but he corrected the Director on what it sounds like when you take out a human being with an edged weapon etc. 

Found it.  "While filming Saruman's death scene Peter Jackson tried to tell Christopher how to react and breathe after he was stabbed in the back.  Christopher assured Jackson that he knew what a man sounded like when stabbed in the back."

Shame to lose another great actor that I respect.  :salute:  RIP, sir.
 
While Christopher Lee (and Peter Cushing) may have been great actors and responsible for much of the success of the Dracula genre, let's be honest. People of my generation (okay, specifically men of my vintage) were primarily attracted to Hammer films because they combined horror with what pubescent (pre- and post variants as well) males have always been attracted to. I recently chanced on one on TV. While it was a particularly cheesy example with its attempt to show swinging modern London (AD 1972), Hammer's formula for what the audience wanted still worked.


Keep those eyes up Chris, don't look down!

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Blackadder1916 said:
While Christopher Lee (and Peter Cushing) may have been great actors and responsible for much of the success of the Dracula genre, let's be honest. People of my generation (okay, specifically men of my vintage) were primarily attracted to Hammer films because they combined horror with what pubescent (pre- and post variants as well) males have always been attracted to. I recently chanced on one on TV. While it was a particularly cheesy example with its attempt to show swinging modern London (AD 1972), Hammer's formula for what the audience wanted still worked.


Keep those eyes up Chris, don't look down!

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Remius said:
Even cooler than the fictional characters that he played in movies is the real time war service he had in WW2 with British special forces.
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George Wallace said:
Another bio, that may or may not have all the facts correct:

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He actually wasn't. He was an RAF intelligence officer, and never served in SAS, SOE, LRDP or any other special forces unit. He was a liason officer with several units for intelligence briefing and debriefing, but that's not the same as going on missions with them.

He also claimed to have worked for the Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects, or CROWCASS, but his name doesn't appear in any document from them, and his claims of Nazi hunting don't match what CROWCASS did
 
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