codeorama Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Sadly, Christopher Lee has passed away. What a great actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rictus58 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Don't you mean Saruman? I like when old school actors gain new audiences like he did in the 2000s. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky21 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Don't you mean Dracula from the Hammer Films? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slateman Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Don't you mean Dracula from the Hammer Films? Thank you. Bunch of young'ins in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 12th Commandment Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I grew up with those Dracula movies scaring me on Creature Feature Sat nights. Scaramanga too. That guy did several bodies of work, over a very long time. RIP Edit: Had to add this picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Man, 93. That's why he's seem old forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USS Redskins Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Please change the title to a respectable representation of his great body of work! Always a fan... such a great Dracula and also played Frankenstein, the Mummy, Sherlock Holmes... he was The Man with the Golden Gun, the bad guy in the Musketeer movies from the 70's and so many more great roles. I hated the prequels but Dooku was a high point of the series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma There Goes That Man Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Never realized Scaramanga was the same actor as Dooku and Saruman. Very talented man. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redskin4ever Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Man, 93. That's why he's seem old forever. Yeah, I remember him most from The Man with the Golden Gun. He will always be Scaramanga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeesburgSkinFan Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 RIP to an all time great. Ron Moody just died as well. Someone should check on Roger Moore and Michael Caine to see if they're okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 He was recording metal albums in his 90s. We should all aspire to be that badass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
War Paint Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Man, this sucks. He's a legend. I was amazed at how active he was into his 90s. I was hoping to see him defy the odds and make movies into his 100s. He was like the energizer bunny, just kept on going and going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Thread title is crap. RIP Sir Christopher Lee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
War Paint Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Here's some very interesting things about his life. http://listverse.com/2014/12/14/10-reasons-christopher-lee-is-truly-amazing/ The man was actually in the British special forces and fought in WW2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM72 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 RIP Mr Daniels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sticksboi05 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Please change the title to a respectable representation of his great body of work! Always a fan... such a great Dracula and also played Frankenstein, the Mummy, Sherlock Holmes... he was The Man with the Golden Gun, the bad guy in the Musketeer movies from the 70's and so many more great roles. I hated the prequels but Dooku was a high point of the series. Dooku was the only good thing about Episode II. And the Episode III quote -- "Twice the pride, double the fall". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostofSparta Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" is the most awesomely British thing I've ever heard. RIP Mr. Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lombardi's_kid_brother Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Those Hammer Films were amazing. It seems weird to me that the democratization that the Internet has provided, we can't have that kind of mid-level, speciality production company today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 And it's like he didn't age. The guy was a spooky old guy in the 60s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrFan Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 "I couldn’t do the trip to New Zealand, I shot those scenes here with ordinary people standing there giving me the lines. So you do have to use your imagination quite a bit." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjBm9VJs5pU Top 10 things to know about Christopher Lee, a legend disappears: 1 He met TolkienThis is also the only person who took part in the trilogy of films. Tolkien dreamed of seeing him playing Gandalf. He will ultimately play Saruman. 2 He holds the largest number of movie characters record.276 movies, Christopher Lee just could not say no. 3 He appeared in just about everything we love in the moviesEverything wasn't magic in his filmography, but knowing he played Dracula, he played in the Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, he was a James Bond villain, he was Sherlock Holmes and his brother Mycroft. 4 Special Air Service, and Nazi hunter During the beginning of the war, Lee was living for a time in Finland and volunteered to help fight but was not placed in any particularly dangerous assignments. After he returned to England, he joined up officially. Before long, he was performing the kind of missions for which the phrase “I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you,” was designed. He spent some time with the SAS, which was one of the first elite special forces units in modern warfare. While it would be fascinating to know exactly what he got up to, none of his actions have been unclassified to date, and the man himself will not elaborate on any details. However, he apparently saw more action than most people imagine and witnessed more than his share of terrible things during the war. The “real horror and blood” left him unable to be moved much by such scenes depicted in cinema. Yet he says most soldiers who have witnessed the atrocities of war rarely cry—except when seeing off the friends with whom they fought. At the end of his military career after the war, the talents of Christopher, who spoke (among others) English, French and German, will be involved to track down war criminals. 5 He attended the last public execution in France It was Eugen Weidmann, dubbed the "killer velvet eyes" at Versailles in 1939. Christopher (teenager) was there, during a short stay in Paris. 6 He is a cousin of Ian Fleming The creator of James Bond thought about him to play 007 in the adaptation of his books. But family ties were not enough, and he will only got the role of the villain in Man with the Golden Gun. 7 Royal Lineage The family from which Sir Christopher Lee hails is the same Lee family that eventually found their way to the new world, making him related to the American Civil War general Robert E. Lee. Christopher Lee made both his albums about Charlemagne because of a family connection—Christopher Lee is a descendant of Charlemagne himself. His family is quite proud of the fact, still bearing the coat of arms to prove it. While such a powerful historical ancestor may seem like an awful lot to live up to, we’d say Christopher Lee may be giving old Charlemagne a run for his money 8 Opera Christopher’s grandparents started the first opera company in Australia. Lee had a natural talent for music and sang in a public venue at an early age. Tenor Jussi Bjorling—one of the best opera singers in the world—wanted to nurture the young man’s natural talent and invited him to join the opera house permanently. Unfortunately for opera, but very fortunately for the silver screen, Christopher Lee decided he still wanted to go into acting. It is clear from his recent musical endeavors though, that he never forgot his love for singing. Bjorling might have been proud. 9 He Met Rasputin’s Killers Christopher Lee’s mother once woke her son in the middle of the night so he could meet some very bizarre guests Prince Yusopov and another of the conspirators, Dmitri Pavlovich. While he doesn’t remember the visit very well, it still had quite a lasting impression on the young man and may have affected his portrayal of Rasputin on screen many years later. 10 His Alleged Occult Library While he has some interest in the occult—he admitted to owning maybe five occult books—that does not mean he takes any part in such practices or puts any stock in them. Taking a question from the audience, he explained that he has met Satanists, but he warned everyone in the audience away from delving into such matters. If you get involved, you “will not only lose your mind, you will lose your soul.” He then lightheartedly criticized the media for simply making the whole thing up because they had nothing else to say. RIP Sir Christopher, we will miss you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 He was recording metal albums in his 90s. We should all aspire to be that badass.Yeah. I never got into the band that he actually sung for, but I was a fan of a band that he narrated for. Christopher Lee was one cool cat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Nothing about his role as Willy Wonka's creepy dentist father in the Johnny Depp remake? no because that movie mostly sucked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEANDWARF Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 RIP. He was a great actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojo Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Quite a life he had. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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