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Acting

Christopher Lee

Career: Active from 1948 to 2023, busiest in 1970 with 8 main titles.

Leading roles: 124
top three billing

Average score: 55/100

Highest rated: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 199 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Christopher Lee Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.5, average 5.4
Family Dynamics
3.4, average 4.8
Coming of Age
1.7, average 3.0
Wholesome
2.3, average 3.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Gothic Horror 23
Political Intrigue 14
Mystery 14
Psychological Thriller 13
Historical Setting 10
Hammer Horror 10
Classic Horror 10
Historical Drama 9
Character-Driven 7
Period Piece 6
Intrigue 6
Cult Classic 6

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

288

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

5 titles · average score 56

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

56

as Saruman (voice)

Constel·lació Portabella

as (archive footage)

Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending

as Lord Summerisle

Faces of Death

as (archive footage)

The Wicker Man at 50

as Lord Summerisle

2010s

22 titles · average score 55

Extraordinary Tales

59

as Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

65

as Saruman the White

Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics

70

as Narrator

The Girl from Nagasaki

63

as Old Officer Pinkerton

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

69

as Saruman the White

The Fall of the House Of Usher

as The Narrator

Hugo

80

as Monsieur Labisse

The Wicker Tree

24

as Old Man

The Resident

38

as August

Burke & Hare

46

as Old Joseph

Boogie Woogie

37

as Mr. Alfred Rhinegold

Alice in Wonderland

57

as Jabberwocky (voice)

2000s

27 titles · average score 67

Triage

59

as Joaquín Morales

The Colour of Magic

73

TV show · as Death

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

41

as Count Dooku (voice)

The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Original Poem

as Narrator (voice)

Corpse Bride

79

as Pastor Galswells (voice)

Pope John Paul II

66

TV show · as Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński

Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse

55

as Emerich

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

60

as Count Dooku

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

90

as Saruman

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

90

as Saruman

Ghost Stories for Christmas

72

TV show · as Narrator

Gormenghast

70

TV show · as Flay

1990s

39 titles · average score 58

Jinnah

76

as Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Soul Music

72

TV show · as Death (voice)

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

TV show · as Narrator

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

21

as Commandant Rakov

Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

77

as Narrator (voice) / Self

Funny Man

48

as Callum Chance

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

55

as Sherlock Holmes

Beauty and the Beast

as Monsieur Renard (voice)

Curse III: Blood Sacrifice

35

as Dr. Pearson

Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady

55

as Sherlock Holmes

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

67

as Doctor Catheter

Treasure Island

69

as Blind Pew

1980s

38 titles · average score 54

Night of the Eagles

41

as Walter Strauss

Mio in the Land of Faraway

59

as Kato

Shaka Zulu

74

TV show · as Lord Bathurst

Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch

33

as Stefan Crosscoe

The Rosebud Beach Hotel

29

as King

House of the Long Shadows

57

as Corrigan

The Return of Captain Invincible

59

as Mr. Midnight

as Mr. Kellar

The Last Unicorn

74

as King Haggard (voice)

An Eye for an Eye

34

as Morgan Canfield

Goliath Awaits

67

TV show · as John McKenzie

Once Upon a Spy

50

as Marcus Valorium

1970s

52 titles · average score 53

Return from Witch Mountain

45

as Victor Gannon

To the Devil a Daughter

39

as Father Michael

Dracula and Son

55

as Le prince des Ténèbres

The Man with the Golden Gun

51

as Francisco Scaramanga

The Wicker Man

83

as Lord Summerisle

The Satanic Rites of Dracula

41

as Count Dracula

Dracula A.D. 1972

37

as Count Dracula

Horror Express

68

as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton

The House That Dripped Blood

67

as John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")

I, Monster

52

as Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake

Taste the Blood of Dracula

58

as Dracula

Scars of Dracula

60

as Dracula

1960s

45 titles · average score 56

The Devil Rides Out

82

as Duc de Richleau

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

67

as Dracula

Curse of the Crimson Altar

45

as J.D. Morley

The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism

61

as Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai

Dracula: Prince of Darkness

74

as Count Dracula

Rasputin: The Mad Monk

55

as Grigori Rasputin

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

82

as Franklyn Marsh

The Skull

57

as Sir Matthew Phillips

The Gorgon

62

as Prof. Karl Meister

The Whip and the Body

71

as Kurt Menliff

The City of the Dead

70

as Prof. Alan Driscoll

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll

70

as Paul Allen

1950s

52 titles · average score 63

The Hound of the Baskervilles

68

as Sir Henry Baskerville

The Mummy

71

as Kharis, the Mummy

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

56

as Dr. Pierre Gerrard

Uncle Was a Vampire

52

as Baron Roderico da Frankurten

One Step Beyond

67

TV show · as Wilhelm Reitlinger

Dracula

81

as Count Dracula

Corridors of Blood

59

as Resurrection Joe

The Curse of Frankenstein

73

as The Creature

Bitter Victory

72

as Sgt. Barney

Alias John Preston

56

as John Preston

Moby Dick—Rehearsed

as A Stage Manager /Flask

Cross-Roads

as Harry Cooper

1940s

8 titles · average score 69

Trottie True

as Hon. Bongo Icklesham

Penny and the Pownall Case

58

as Jonathan Blair

A Song for Tomorrow

as Auguste

Hamlet

83

as Palace Guard (uncredited)

Scott of the Antarctic

70

as Bernard Day

Saraband for Dead Lovers

64

as Herzog Anthony von Wolfenbüttel

Corridor of Mirrors

70

as Charles

One Night with You

as Pirelli's Assistant