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Christopher Lee

English actor and singer known for his powerful screen presence and villainous roles.

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Christopher Lee is best known for Portraying iconic villains in horror and franchise films with a commanding presence and deep voice. On Dead or Alive, Christopher Lee is listed in the Screen Icons and Bond Actors And Villains categories, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Christopher Lee is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Portraying iconic villains in horror and franchise films with a commanding presence and deep voice
Listed under: Screen Icons and Bond Actors And Villains

About Christopher Lee

In a career spanning over 60 years, he became known as an actor with tremendous screen presence and a deep and commanding voice, who often portrayed villains in horror and franchise films. Lee was knighted for services to drama and charity in June 2009, and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011 and the BFI Fellowship in 2013. After playing smaller roles in films like Corridor of Mirrors (1948), Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), Bitter Victory (1957), and A Tale of Two Cities (1958), Lee gained fame for portraying Count Dracula in seven Hammer Horror films, beginning with Dracula (1958). A fixture of Hammer films, he starred in Taste of Fear (1961), Rasputin the Mad Monk (1966), The Devil Rides Out (1968), To the Devil a Daughter (1976), and opposite his friend Peter Cushing in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), The Mummy (1959), and The Gorgon (1964). Lee received praise for his performances as Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man (1973) and Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). Around this time, he became a frequent collaborator of Tim Burton, appearing in his films Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Dark Shadows (2012).

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Christopher Lee is known for Portraying iconic villains in horror and franchise films with a commanding presence and deep voice.

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