Christopher Lee (May 5, 1922 – June 7, 2015) was an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films. Other notable roles include Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man (1973), Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in Star Wars episodes II and III (2002, 2005) and Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003). Lee considers his most important role to have been his portrayal of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998). He is well known for his deep, commanding voice. Lee has performed roles in 266 films since 1948 making him the Guinness book world record holder for most film acting roles ever. He was knighted in 2009 and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011.

KNOWN FOR

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1974
The Mike Douglas Show
1975
Saturday Night Live
1978
Champs-Elysées
1986
The Avengers
1967
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1964
Charlie's Angels
1980
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
Wetten, dass..?
1987
Blue Heelers
1995
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
Corpse Bride
2005

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
390
Producing
1
2025
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
as Self (archive footage)
2025
La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
as Self (footage)
2024
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
as Self / Various (Archive)
2024
Children of the Wicker Man
as Self (archive footage)
2024
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
as Saruman (voice)
2024
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Constel·lació Portabella
as (archive footage)
2023
Faces of Death
as (archive footage)
2023
Robin Hardy's Script - The Lost Ending
as Lord Summerisle
2023
The Wicker Man at 50
as Lord Summerisle
2022
The Sound of 007: Live from the Royal Albert Hall
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Peter Cushing: In His Own Words
as Himself
2017
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
2017
Drácula Barcelona
as Himself
2015
Extraordinary Tales
as Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')
2015
Angels in Notting Hill
as The Boss / Mr. President (voice)
2015
Fifty Shades of Erotica
as (archive footage)
2014
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Saruman the White
2014
Face of Unity
as Self
2014
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
as Self
2014
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as Corrigan (archive footage) (uncredited)
2013
Night Train to Lisbon
as Father Bartholomeu
2013
The Girl from Nagasaki
as Old Officer Pinkerton
2013
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
as Narrator
2013
The Trail of Dracula
as Self (Archival Footage)
2013
The Gillian Hills Trilogy
2013
Brisant
as Self
2012
Dark Shadows
as Clarney
2012
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Saruman the White
2012
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
as Dracula (archive footage)
2012
Everything or Nothing
as Self
2012
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
as Self
2012
The Fall of the House Of Usher
as The Narrator
2012
Dracula vs. Vampir
2012
Enzo Ferrari 1898 - 1988
as Narrator
2012
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
as Self
2012
Christopher Lee: A Legacy of Horror and Terror
as Self
2012
The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features
2011
Season of the Witch
as Cardinal D'Ambroise
2011
Hugo
as Monsieur Labisse
2011
The Resident
as August
2011
The Wicker Tree
as Old Man
2011
Semperopernball
as Self
2010
Alice in Wonderland
as Jabberwocky (voice)
2010
The Heavy
as Mr. Mason
2010
Boogie Woogie
as Mr. Alfred Rhinegold
2010
Burke & Hare
as Old Joseph
2010
Christopher Lee: Gentleman of Horror
as Self
2010
The Color of Magic 2in1
as Smrt
2009
Triage
as Joaquín Morales
2009
Glorious 39
as Older Walter Page
2009
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self
2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
as Count Dooku (voice)
2008
The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Original Poem
as Narrator (voice)
2008
Fanex Files: Hammer Films
as Self
2008
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
as Death (synchro)
2008
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
as Death (synchro)
2008
The Colour of Magic
as Death
2008
Seitenblicke
as self
2007
The Golden Compass
as First High Councilor
2007
Ein Leben wie im Flug
as Self
2007
Rhapsody of Fire - Visions from the Enchanted Lands
as Self
2007
Hollywood Chinese
as Self
2007
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
as Narrator (voice)
2007
Bloody Jess
as Self
2007
Beloved Count
as Self
2007
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
as Self (archive footage)
2007
Amazon Trek: In Search of Vanishing Secrets
as Narrator
2006
Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills
as Self
2006
The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
as Self
2006
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
as Self
2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
as Dr. Wonka
2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
as Count Dooku
2005
Corpse Bride
as Pastor Galswells (voice)
2005
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
as The Lord Provost
2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Different Faces, Different Flavors
2005
Pope John Paul II
as Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński
2005
Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel
as Self
2004
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
as Emerich
2004
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
as Self
2004
The Story of Star Wars
as Count Dooku (archive footage)
2004
Aeschbacher
as Self
2003
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
as Self
2003
Drácula en la Hammer
as Christopher Lee
2003
Whales of Atlantis: In Search of Moby Dick
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2003
J.R.R. Tolkien: Origins of Middle-Earth
as Self
2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
as Saruman
2002
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
as Count Dooku
2002
To the Devil... The Death of Hammer
2002
Best Ever Bond
as Self / Scaramanga
2002
From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II
as Self / Count Dooku
2002
Perversion Stories
as Self
2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: From Book to Script
as Self
2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: Designing and Building Middle-earth + Weta Workshop + Costume Design
as Self
2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
as Self
2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: Cameras in Middle-earth
as Self
2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
as Saruman
2001
Quest for the Ring
as Self
2001
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
as Self
2001
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
2001
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
as Self
2001
The Wicker Man Enigma
as Himself
2001
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
as Self
2001
The Devil's Island: Journey Into Jungle Alcatraz
as Narrator
2000
Ian Fleming: 007's Creator
as Self
2000
The Many Faces of Dracula
as Narrator
2000
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
as Self
2000
Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
2000
Ghost Stories for Christmas
as Narrator
2000
In the Beginning
as Rameses I
2000
Gormenghast
as Flay
1999
Sleepy Hollow
as Burgomaster
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
as Count Ottokar Graf Czernin
1998
Jinnah
as Muhammad Ali Jinnah
1998
Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy
as Sir Richard Turkel
1998
Ex-S: The Wicker Man
as Self
1998
100 Years of Horror
as Presenter
1998
Dare To Dream: The Making of Jinnah
as Self
1998
The Mummy
as Self - Host
1997
Soul Music
as Death (voice)
1997
Soul Music
as Death (voice)
1997
The Odyssey
as Tiresias
1997
Ivanhoe
as Lucas de Beaumanoir
1997
Wyrd Sisters
as Death (voice)
1996
The Stupids
as Evil Sender
1996
The Many Faces of Christopher Lee
1996
Welcome to the Discworld
as Death
1996
The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry
as Self
1996
A Century of Science Fiction
as Narrator (voice)
1996
In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
1996
Alisea and the Dream Prince
as Azaret
1996
Moses
as Pharaoh
1996
100 Years of Horror
as Self - Host
1995
In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
as Self
1995
A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghosts of M.R. James
as Self
1995
Blue Heelers
as Scott James
1995
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
as Narrator
1994
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
as Narrator (voice) / Self
1994
The Rainbow Thief
as Uncle Rudolf
1994
A Feast at Midnight
as V. E. 'Raptor' Longfellow
1994
Funny Man
as Callum Chance
1994
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
as Commandant Rakov
1994
Stern TV
as Self
1994
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
1993
Death Train
as General Konstanin Benin
1992
Beauty and the Beast
as Monsieur Renard (voice)
1992
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
as Sherlock Holmes
1992
Cyber Eden
as Cedric
1992
Double Vision
as Mr. Bernard
1992
Innocent Blood
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
1992
Dracula in the Movies
as (archive footage)
1992
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Count Ottokar Graf Czerin
1991
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
as Dr. Pearson
1991
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
as Sherlock Holmes
1991
Journey of Honor
as King Philip
1991
Fear in the Dark
as Narrator
1991
Ghost
as Self - Narrator
1991
Halloween Monster Bash
as Professor Alexander Saxton (archive footage)
1990
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
as Doctor Catheter
1990
Treasure Island
as Blind Pew
1990
The Care of Time
as Karlis Zander
1990
The Miser
as Cardinale Spinosi
1989
The French Revolution
as Sanson
1989
Night of the Eagles
as Walter Strauss
1989
The Return of the Musketeers
as Rochefort
1989
Murder Story
as Willard Hope
1989
For Better or for Worse
as Lazos
1989
Around the World in 80 Days
as Stuart
1989
Wedden, dat..?
as Self
1989
The French Revolution
as Sanson (« Les Années terribles »)
1989
Nase vorn
as Self
1988
Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil
as Luis Morel
1988
Olympus Force: The Key
as Filly
1987
Mio in the Land of Faraway
as Kato
1987
Creepy Classics
as Franklyn Marsh - (archive footage)
1987
The Girl
as Peter Storm
1987
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as Self
1987
Casanova
as Branicki
1987
Stars in der Manege
as Self
1987
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1986
Jocks
as President White
1986
The Disputation
as King James of Aragon
1986
Un métier de seigneur
as Fog
1986
Shaka Zulu
as Lord Bathurst
1986
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1985
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
as Stefan Crosscoe
1985
Mask of Murder
as Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich
1985
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
as Himself - Presenter
1985
The Best of All Time Horror Classics
1985
Don't Scream: It's Only a Movie!
as Self - Narrator
1984
The Rosebud Beach Hotel
as King
1984
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
as King Vladimir V
1984
The Bengal Lancers!
as Sir James Hunter
1984
Faerie Tale Theatre
as King Vladimir V
1984
The Far Pavilions
as Rao-Sahib
1983
House of the Long Shadows
as Corrigan
1983
The Return of Captain Invincible
as Mr. Midnight
1983
New Magic
as Mr. Kellar
1983
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
as Narrator
1983
Auf los geht's los
as Self
1982
The Last Unicorn
as King Haggard (voice)
1982
Safari 3000
as Count Borgia
1982
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
as Self (archive footage)
1982
The Rank Charm School
as Self
1982
Massarati and the Brain
as Victor Leopold
1982
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
as Prince Philip
1981
An Eye for an Eye
as Morgan Canfield
1981
Evil Stalks This House
as Host
1981
The Salamander
as Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence
1981
Goliath Awaits
as John McKenzie
1980
Serial
as Luckman Skull
1980
Once Upon a Spy
as Marcus Valorium
1980
Desperate Moves
as Dr. Carl Boxer
1980
Charlie's Angels
as Dale Woodman
1979
1941
as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
1979
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
1979
Bear Island
as Lechinski
1979
The Passage
as Gypsy
1979
Arabian Adventure
as Caliph Alquazar
1979
Jaguar Lives!
as Adam Caine
1979
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
as Miguel
1978
Circle of Iron
as Zetan
1978
Caravans
as Sardar Khan
1978
Return from Witch Mountain
as Victor Gannon
1978
Mickey's 50
as Self
1978
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1978
How the West Was Won
as The Grand Duke
1977
End of the World
as Father Pergado / Zindar
1977
Airport '77
as Martin Wallace
1977
Starship Invasions
as Captain Rameses
1977
Meatcleaver Massacre
as On-Screen Narrator
1977
The Occult: Mysteries Of The Supernatural
as Narrator
1977
Playboy's Playmate Party
1977
The Pirate
as Samir Al Fay
1977
Film '72
as Self
1976
Dracula and Son
as Le prince des Ténèbres
1976
To the Devil a Daughter
as Father Michael
1976
Killer Force
as Major Chilton
1976
Albino
as Bill
1976
The Keeper
as The Keeper
1975
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
as Satanus / Van Krig
1975
In Search of Dracula
as Self – Host / Vlad Tepes / Count Dracula
1975
Space: 1999
as Captain Zandor
1975
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1974
The Man with the Golden Gun
as Francisco Scaramanga
1974
The Four Musketeers
as Rochefort
1974
Diagnosis: Murder
as Dr. Stephen Hayward
1974
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1973
The Three Musketeers
as Rochefort
1973
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
as Count Dracula
1973
Nothing But the Night
as Col. Charles Bingham
1973
The Creeping Flesh
as James Hildern
1973
The Wicker Man
as Lord Summerisle
1973
Dark Places
as Dr. Ian Mandeville
1973
Poor Devil
as Lucifer
1973
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
as Arnaud
1972
Dracula A.D. 1972
as Count Dracula
1972
Horror Express
as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton
1972
Vampir Cuadecuc
as Self
1972
Umbracle
as The Man
1972
Death Line
as Stratton-Villiers, MI5
1971
Hannie Caulder
as Bailey
1971
The House That Dripped Blood
as John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")
1971
I, Monster
as Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake
1971
Theatre Macabre
as Self – Host
1971
Treffpunkte
as Self
1970
Count Dracula
as Dracula
1970
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
as Mycroft Holmes
1970
Scars of Dracula
as Dracula
1970
Taste the Blood of Dracula
as Dracula
1970
Julius Caesar
as Artemidorus
1970
Scream and Scream Again
as Fremont
1970
The Bloody Judge
as Lord George Jeffreys
1970
Eugenie
as Dolmance
1970
One More Time
as Dracula
1969
The Castle of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
1969
Quelle horreur mon saigneur Dracula
as Self
1969
The Oblong Box
as Dr. J. Neuhartt
1969
The Magic Christian
as Ship's Vampire
1969
The Avengers
as Colonel Mannering
1968
The Blood of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
1968
The Movie Orgy
as Fu Manchu/Dracula (archive footage)
1968
Curse of the Crimson Altar
as J.D. Morley
1968
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
as Dracula
1968
The Devil Rides Out
as Duc de Richleau
1968
The Face of Eve
as Colonel Stuart
1968
Whicker's World
1967
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
as Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai
1967
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Manchu
1967
Night of the Big Heat
as Godfrey Hanson
1967
Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #4
1967
Theatre of Death
as Philippe Darvas
1967
The Avengers
as Professor Stone
1966
The Brides of Fu Manchu
as Fu Manchu
1966
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
as Grigori Rasputin
1966
Circus of Fear
as Gregor
1966
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
as Count Dracula
1965
The Face of Fu Manchu
as Dr. Fu Man Chu
1965
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
as Franklyn Marsh
1965
The Skull
as Sir Matthew Phillips
1965
She
as Billali
1965
Ten Little Indians
as Mr. U.N. Owen (voice)
1964
The Castle of the Living Dead
as Count Drago
1964
The Gorgon
as Prof. Karl Meister
1964
The Devil-Ship Pirates
as Captain Robeles
1964
Crypt of the Vampire
as Count Ludwig Karnstein
1964
Horror!!!
as Self
1964
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Karl Jorla
1963
The Whip and the Body
as Kurt Menliff
1963
Horror Castle
as Erich
1963
Challenge the Devil
as Mephistoles
1962
The Secret of the Red Orchid
as Capt. Allerman
1962
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
as Sherlock Holmes
1962
The Pirates of Blood River
as Captain LaRoche
1962
The Devil's Agent
as Baron Ferdi von Staub
1961
Hercules in the Haunted World
as King Lico (Licos)
1961
The Terror of the Tongs
as Chung King
1961
Taste of Fear
as Doctor Pierre Gerrard
1961
The Devil's Daffodil
as Ling Chu
1961
One Step Beyond
as Wilhelm Reitlinger
1960
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
as Paul Allen
1960
Beat Girl
as Kenny King
1960
The Hands of Orlac
as Nero the magician
1960
Too Hot to Handle
as Novak
1960
The City of the Dead
as Prof. Alan Driscoll
1959
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Sir Henry Baskerville
1959
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
as Dr. Pierre Gerrard
1959
The Mummy
as Kharis, the Mummy
1959
Uncle Was a Vampire
as Baron Roderico da Frankurten
1959
The Treasure of San Teresa
as Jaeger
1959
The Adventures of William Tell
as Prince Erik
1958
A Tale of Two Cities
as Marquis St. Evremonde
1958
Corridors of Blood
as Resurrection Joe
1958
Dracula
as Count Dracula
1958
Battle of the V-1
as Brunner
1958
Ivanhoe
as Sir Otto from the Rhine
1957
The Curse of Frankenstein
as The Creature
1957
Bitter Victory
as Sgt. Barney
1957
Fortune Is a Woman
as Charles Highbury
1957
The Truth About Women
as Francois Thiers
1957
Ill Met by Moonlight
as German officer at The Dentist's office
1957
Manuela
as Voice (voice)
1957
The Traitor
as Doctor Neumann
1957
The Errol Flynn Theatre
as Compte de Merret
1956
Port Afrique
as Franz Vermes
1956
Private's Progress
as Major Schultz
1956
Beyond Mombasa
as Gil Rossi
1956
Alexander the Great
as Nectenabus (voice)
1956
The Battle of the River Plate
as Manolo
1956
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
as Jeanpierre
1956
The Errol Flynn Theatre
as The Visitant
1956
The Errol Flynn Theatre
as Maurice Gabet
1956
The Errol Flynn Theatre
as General Hamelin
1955
Alias John Preston
as John Preston
1955
The Cockleshell Heroes
as Submarine Commander Alan Grieves
1955
The Dark Avenger
as French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited)
1955
That Lady
as Capitán
1955
Cross-Roads
as Harry Cooper
1955
Storm Over the Nile
as Karaga Pasha
1955
Police Dog
as Johnny, a constable
1955
Contraband Spain
as Narrador (voz)
1955
Moby Dick—Rehearsed
as A Stage Manager /Flask
1955
Final Column
1955
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
as Louis the Executioner (uncredited)
1955
Mark Saber
as Larry Spence
1954
The Awakening
as Factory proprietor (uncredited)
1954
The Mirror and Markheim
as Visitant
1953
Innocents in Paris
as Lieutenant Whitlock
1953
The Top and the Ball
as Father
1952
The Crimson Pirate
as Joseph - Military Attaché
1952
Babes in Bagdad
as Slave Dealer
1952
Top Secret
as Russian Agent (uncredited)
1952
Paul Temple Returns
as Sir Felix Raybourne
1952
Moulin Rouge
as Georges Seurat (uncredited)
1951
Quo Vadis
as Chariot Driver (uncredited)
1951
Valley of the Eagles
as Det. Holt
1951
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
as Spanish Captain
1950
Prelude to Fame
as Newsman
1950
They Were Not Divided
as Chris Lewis
1949
Trottie True
as Hon. Bongo Icklesham
1948
Corridor of Mirrors
as Charles
1948
Penny and the Pownall Case
as Jonathan Blair
1948
A Song for Tomorrow
as Auguste
1948
Hamlet
as Palace Guard (uncredited)
1948
One Night with You
as Pirelli's Assistant
1948
Scott of the Antarctic
as Bernard Day
1948
Saraband for Dead Lovers
as Herzog Anthony von Wolfenbüttel
1939
Eugen Weidmann Execution Film
as Himself
Science Fiction Film Awards
as Self