Biography: life and films
Christopher Lee is an English actor. He was born in Belgravia, London, England on 27th May 1922.His best films as an actor include Seth Holt's thriller Taste of Fear (1961), Mario Bava's The Whip and the Body (1963), Terence Fisher's The Devil Rides Out (1968), Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) and Robin Hardy's crime-thriller The Wicker Man (1973), and whose best work as a screenwriter include Craig Boreham's Before the Rain (2010).
Christopher Lee has so far appeared in 196 films and scripted 2 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Terence Fisher (12 films), Jesus Franco (7), Tim Burton (6), Terence Young (6), Don Sharp (6), Peter Jackson (4), Freddie Francis (4), Richard Lester (3), Peter Sasdy (3), Gordon Hessler (3), David MacDonald (3), Vernon Sewell (2), Steve Carver (2), Robin Hardy (2), Robert Day (2), Philippe Mora (2), Pere Portabella (2), Michael Powell (2), Mario Bava (2), John Llewellyn Moxey (2), John Gilling (2), Jeremy Summers (2), Harry Hurwitz (2), Guy Hamilton (2), George Lucas (2), Edouard Molinaro (2), Edmond T. Gréville (2), Arne Mattsson (2) and Alan Gibson (2).
His most frequent genres include: Horror (70 films), drama (67), Thriller (57), comedy (31), Fantasy (29), crime-thriller (15), War (15), history (9), romance (6), comedy-drama (5), Biography (5), Animation (4), comedy-thriller (3), comedy-romance (2) and Documentary (2).
Our average rating for Christopher Lee over all films is: 2.9
Filmography
Key: a = actor; w = writer
A Song for Tomorrow (1948) [a]
Corridor of Mirrors (1948) [a]
Hamlet (1948) [a]
One Night with You (1948) [a]
Penny and the Pownall Case (1948) [a]
Scott of the Antarctic (1948) [a]
Trottie True (1949) [a]
Prelude to Fame (1950) [a]
They Were Not Divided (1950) [a]
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) [a]
Valley of Eagles (1951) [a]
Babes in Bagdad (1952) [a]
Paul Temple Returns (1952) [a]
The Crimson Pirate (1952) [a]
Destination Milan (1954) [a]
Alias John Preston (1955) [a]
Final Column (1955) [a]
Man in Demand (1955) [a]
Police Dog (1955) [a]
Storm Over the Nile (1955) [a]
That Lady (1955) [a]
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955) [a]
The Dark Avenger (1955) [a]
Port Afrique (1956) [a]
The Battle of the River Plate (1956) [a]
Fortune Is a Woman (1957) [a]
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) [a]
Manuela (1957) [a]
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) [a]
The Traitor (1957) [a]
The Truth About Women (1957) [a]
A Tale of Two Cities (1958) [a]
Battle of the V-1 (1958) [a]
Dracula (1958) [a]
Beat Girl (1959) [a]
Tempi duri per i vampiri (1959) [a]
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) [a]
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) [a]
The Mummy (1959) [a]
The Treasure of San Teresa (1959) [a]
The City of the Dead (1960) [a]
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) [a]
Too Hot to Handle (1960) [a]
Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen (1961) [a]
Ercole al centro della terra (1961) [a]
The Terror of the Tongs (1961) [a]
Das Rätsel der roten Orchidee (1962) [a]
Pirates of Blood River (1962) [a]
Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes (1962) [a]
Stranglehold (1962) [a]
The Devil's Agent (1962) [a]
Katarsis (1963) [a]
La Vergine di Norimberga (1963) [a]
The Whip and the Body (1963) [a]
Il Castello dei morti vivi (1964) [a]
La Cripta e l'incubo (1964) [a]
The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964) [a]
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) [a]
She (1965) [a]
The Face of Fu Manchu (1965) [a]
The Skull (1965) [a]
Circus of Fear (1966) [a]
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) [a]
Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966) [a]
The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966) [a]
Theatre of Death (1966) [a]
Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel (1967) [a]
Five Golden Dragons (1967) [a]
Night of the Big Heat (1967) [a]
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967) [a]
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968) [a]
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) [a]
The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968) [a]
The Devil Rides Out (1968) [a]
The Face of Eve (1968) [a]
The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969) [a]
The Magic Christian (1969) [a]
Eugenie (1970) [a]
Il Trono di fuoco (1970) [a]
Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht (1970) [a]
Scream and Scream Again (1970) [a]
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) [a]
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) [a]
Umbracle (1970) [a]
Cuadecuc, vampir (1971) [a]
Hannie Caulder (1971) [a]
The House That Dripped Blood (1971) [a]
Death Line (1972) [a]
Dark Places (1973) [a]
Nothing But the Night (1973) [a]
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) [a]
The Three Musketeers (1973) [a]
The Four Musketeers (1974) [a]
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) [a]
Diagnosis: Murder (1975) [a]
Le Boucher, la star et l'orpheline (1975) [a]
Vem var Dracula? (1975) [a]
Albino (1976) [a]
Dracula père et fils (1976) [a]
Killer Force (1976) [a]
The Keeper (1976) [a]
To the Devil a Daughter (1976) [a]
Airport '77 (1977) [a]
End of the World (1977) [a]
Meatcleaver Massacre (1977) [a]
Starship Invasions (1977) [a]
Caravans (1978) [a]
Circle of Iron (1978) [a]
Return from Witch Mountain (1978) [a]
1941 (1979) [a]
Bear Island (1979) [a]
Jaguar Lives! (1979) [a]
The Passage (1979) [a]
Serial (1980) [a]
An Eye for an Eye (1981) [a]
Desperate Moves (1981) [a]
The Salamander (1981) [a]
Safari 3000 (1982) [a]
The Last Unicorn (1982) [a]
House of the Long Shadows (1983) [a]
The Return of Captain Invincible (1983) [a]
The Rosebud Beach Hotel (1984) [a]
Fright Night (1985) [a]
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch (1985) [a]
Mask of Murder (1985) [a]
The Girl (1986) [a]
Jocks (1987) [a]
Shaka Zulu (1987) [a]
Columbian Connection (1988) [a]
Dark Mission (Operación cocaína) (1988) [a]
La Chute des aigles (1989) [a]
La Révolution française (1989) [a]
Murder Story (1989) [a]
The Return of the Musketeers (1989) [a]
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) [a]
Honeymoon Academy (1990) [a]
L'Avaro (1990) [a]
The Rainbow Thief (1990) [a]
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice (1991) [a]
Kabuto (1991) [a]
Jackpot (1992) [a]
Funny Man (1994) [a]
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994) [a]
A Feast at Midnight (1995) [a]
Rough Diamonds (1995) [w]
Jinnah (1998) [a]
Tale of the Mummy (1998) [a]
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) [a]
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) [a]
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) [a]
Les Rivières pourpres II - Les anges de l'apocalypse (2004) [a]
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) [a]
Corpse Bride (2005) [a]
Greyfriars Bobby (2005) [a]
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) [a]
Walker Payne (2006) [a]
The Golden Compass (2007) [a]
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) [a]
The Heavy (2008) [a]
Boogie Woogie (2009) [a]
Da xi shi (2009) [a]
Glorious 39 (2009) [a]
Triage (2009) [a]
Alice in Wonderland (2010) [a]
Before the Rain (2010) [w]
Burke and Hare (2010) [a]
Hugo (2011) [a]
Season of the Witch (2011) [a]
The Resident (2011) [a]
The Wicker Tree (2011) [a]
Dark Shadows (2012) [a]
Frankenweenie (2012) [a]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) [a]
The Hunting of the Snark (2012) [a]
Night Train to Lisbon (2013) [a]
The Girl from Nagasaki (2013) [a]
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) [a]
The best of British film comedies
The best French Films of the 1910s
The best of Indian cinema
