Christopher Lee, singer of fantastic cinema of the sixties and the first of the Hammer, died on Sunday at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital as a result of respiratory failure at the age of 93 years. Back on Religion roles of one who has just played Dracula, Frankenstein, Mummy, Doctor Fu Manchu, Rasputin, enemy of James Bond, Nazi, Count Dooku, Saruman.
in DRACULA DRACULA’S NIGHTMARE Terrence Fisher
Christopher Lee pledged in 1957 to embody the creature of Baron Frankenstein face Peter Cushing. His two meters, his face, his silhouette mark the retinas. Impact all the more striking that Frankenstein is the first in color. The following year, Hammer hired him as Count Dracula and this is her first real success, totally dusting the image of the Count, even to glamorize the. In the collective unconscious, Dracula is Bela Lugosi which, as Blauhaus sang in Predators Tony Scott, died. In his play, Christopher Lee comes the antithesis of voluble Bela Lugosi; which made Dracula more mysterious, seductive and scary. Christopher Lee take over that role ten times in films such as Dracula: Prince of Darkness Terence Fisher in 1966, Dracula and women Freddie Francis in 1968 or Scars of Dracula Roy Ward Baker in 1970.
in RASPOUNTINE RASPOUTINE THE MAD MONK Don Sharp
Rasputin announced its gift of healing, in full Russia, healing the wife of a tavern. He decides to travel to the capital to become significant. It mesmerizes some, allowing it to enter the Tsar’s court. Hammer Film production launched June 7, 1963, three days after the shooting Dracula: Prince of Darkness was finished. Consequently, both films share several actors in common, four of the main protagonists, Christopher Lee, Francis Matthews, Barbara Shelley and Suzan Farmer. Similarly some decorations of Dracula were also reused.
Francisco Scaramanga in THE MAN IN GOLDEN GUN (James Bond) Guy Hamilton
face of James Bond played by Roger Moore, Christopher Lee was the super villain, Francisco Scaramanga alias, aka “Man with the Golden Gun” from the movie of the same name. A hitman character wishing to sell solar power to the highest bidder. This component was the ninth in the series of James Bond films.
SAMOURANE in Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson
Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in November 2001, Christopher Lee reborn like a phoenix contact filmmakers in vogue. Peter Jackson who remembered that Christopher Lee had this huge chance to meet JRR Tolkien. He then offered the role of Saruman the White in his trilogy Lord of the Rings . Similarly, under the direction of Tim Burton, Lee returned to the big screen in 2005 for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when it interprets a disturbing dentist, and the animated film Les Noces Funeral in which Lee lends his voice to a zany pastor. The filmmaker to find the Dark Shadows .
Count Dooku in Star Wars George Lucas
George Lucas called on him. In the same way that Cushing had interpreted before Grand Moff Tarkin Wilhuff in the first game of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope by George Lucas in 1977, Christopher Lee succumbs to the call of George Lucas to embody Count Dooku, leader of the separatist aka Darth Tyrannus in the second ( Attack of the Clones ) and third installment ( Revenge of the Sith ).
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