On top of his acting career, Lee was also an operative in the Special Operations Executive during WWII. It was a secret organisation tasked by Churchill to "set Europe ablaze", several member of which served as real-life inspiration for characters in the James Bond novels. If that isn't metal enough, Lee also released a couple of metal music albums. A remarkable man, to say the least.
On top of his acting career, Lee was also an operative in the Special Operations Executive during WWII. It was a secret organisation tasked by Churchill to "set Europe ablaze", several member of which served as real-life inspiration for characters in the James Bond novels. If that isn't metal enough, Lee also released a couple of metal music albums. A remarkable man, to say the least.
He had an incredible life all together. Another WW2 related thing he did was volunteering to defend Finland against the Soviets in 1939. He never saw combat action, but did some training / guard duty.
Total legend. Had such a great degree of variety in his lifes work as well. Everything from Saruman to music to even Sherlock Holmes and Dracula. My favourite though still would have to be The Wicker Man. Love that movie and he was great in it.
Rhapsody of Fire is my favorite band of all time. I loved his work with them . I was actually going to link this earlier but couldn't find an HD version. Thanks for the link n_n
He had an incredible life all together. Another WW2 related thing he did was volunteering to defend Finland against the Soviets in 1939. He never saw combat action, but did some training / guard duty.
I did not know that and being a Finn it makes me appreciate him even more.
It is always sad when a great person dies, but on the other hand... he died in a very old age, and after living a very eventful, interesting and fulfilling life. It's not hard to imagine he could be inspiration to many. And since you know, great and charismatic actors aren't growing on trees.... Someone promising should step up, less there won't be actors such as him anymore around.
Christopher Lee was an awesome guy! I think out of all the cast members of LotR, he was the only one that got to meet Tolkien, within Tolkien's lifetime of course.
Incidentally, Lee considered his best performance to be his title role in "Jinnah" (about the founding of Pakistan), and has often cited "The Wicker Man" as being his best overall film.
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Rest in peace.
But damn, he lived for 93 years... That's a long, good life full of accomplishments.
Such a brilliant actor.
Hats off to a great man with a great voice.
he led an amazing life and lived a long time leaving behind a great legacy of work
IMDB shows Christopher Lee had 666 titles.
http://www.imdb.com/filmosearch?role=nm0000489&sort=num_votes&explore=title_type
RIP
this is truly wonderful