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Christopher Lee
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Christopher Lee

1922 – 2015 · Westminster, London, England, UK · Active 1939–2024

Christopher Lee, born in 1922 in London, is a cornerstone of horror cinema, celebrated for his chilling portrayals of iconic characters. He gained fame for his role as Count Dracula in Dracula (1958), which solidified his status as a leading figure in the genre. Lee's extensive filmography includes The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and The Mummy (1959), showcasing his ability to embody both villainy and charisma. With a career spanning over 266 films, his deep voice and commanding presence left an indelible mark on cult cinema.

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Uncle Was a Vampire

Uncle Was a Vampire

1959 ★ 5.0
as Baron Roderico da Frankurten

Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi is forced to sell his ancestral castle; when it’s converted into a hotel, he stays on as a bellboy. His mysterious uncle arrives, and turns out to be a vampire. When his uncle vampirizes Osvaldo, the newly-minted blood-sucker gallops about the castle sipping from the necks of dozens of beautiful female guests.

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Filmography

379 credits
2020s 7 credits
2024
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee as Self / Various (Archive)
Movie ★ 7.6
2024
Children of the Wicker Man as Self (archive footage)
Movie
2024
Movie ★ 6.5
2024
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters as Self (archive footage)
Movie ★ 8.2
2024
Constel·lació Portabella as (archive footage)
Movie
2023
Faces of Death as (archive footage)
Movie
2020
Movie ★ 7.5
2010s 35 credits
2017
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
Movie ★ 6.0
2017
Movie ★ 5.8
2015
Extraordinary Tales as Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')
Movie ★ 6.5
2015
Angels in Notting Hill as The Boss / Mr. President (voice)
Movie ★ 5.5
2015
Fifty Shades of Erotica as (archive footage)
Movie ★ 7.0
2014
Movie ★ 7.3
2014
Movie
2014
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films as Corrigan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie ★ 7.2
2013
Night Train to Lisbon as Father Bartholomeu
Movie ★ 6.5
2013
The Girl from Nagasaki as Old Officer Pinkerton
Movie ★ 5.6
2013
Movie ★ 6.8
2013
The Trail of Dracula as Self (Archival Footage)
Movie ★ 10.0
2012
Dark Shadows as Clarney
Movie ★ 6.1
2012
Movie ★ 7.4
2012
Movie ★ 8.0
2012
Movie ★ 7.2
2012
Movie ★ 6.0
2012
Movie ★ 7.9
2012
Movie
2012
Movie ★ 6.2
2011
Season of the Witch as Cardinal D'Ambroise
Movie ★ 5.5
2011
Hugo as Monsieur Labisse
Movie ★ 7.2
2011
The Resident as August
Movie ★ 5.8
2011
Movie ★ 4.0
2010
Alice in Wonderland as Jabberwocky (voice)
Movie ★ 6.6
2010
The Heavy as Mr. Mason
Movie ★ 4.9
2010
Boogie Woogie as Mr. Alfred Rhinegold
Movie ★ 5.1
2010
Burke & Hare as Old Joseph
Movie ★ 6.1
2010
Movie ★ 10.0
2000s 56 credits
2009
Triage as Joaquín Morales
Movie ★ 6.0
2009
Glorious 39 as Older Walter Page
Movie ★ 6.0
2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Count Dooku (voice)
Movie ★ 6.2
2008
Movie ★ 7.5
2008
Movie ★ 7.0
2008
TV ★ 6.8
2007
The Golden Compass as First High Councilor
Movie ★ 6.1
2007
Movie
2007
Movie
2007
Movie ★ 7.0
2007
Movie
2007
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman as Self (archive footage)
Movie ★ 9.0
2007
TV ★ 4.5
2006
Movie ★ 8.2
2006
TV
2005
Movie ★ 7.0
2005
Movie ★ 7.5
2005
Corpse Bride as Pastor Galswells (voice)
Movie ★ 7.6
2005
Movie ★ 5.6
2005
Pope John Paul II as Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński
TV ★ 6.4
2004
Movie ★ 6.1
2004
The Story of Star Wars as Count Dooku (archive footage)
Movie ★ 7.2
2004
TV ★ 4.0
2003
Drácula en la Hammer as Christopher Lee
Movie
2003
Movie ★ 8.0
2002
Movie ★ 8.4
2002
Movie ★ 6.6
2002
Best Ever Bond as Self / Scaramanga
Movie ★ 5.6
2002
Movie ★ 6.8
2002
Movie
2001
Movie ★ 5.7
2001
Movie ★ 6.2
2001
Movie ★ 6.7
2001
TV
2000
Movie ★ 7.3
2000
Movie ★ 3.5
2000
Movie ★ 7.1
2000
TV ★ 6.6
2000
In the Beginning as Rameses I
TV ★ 6.4
2000
TV ★ 7.0
1990s 53 credits
1999
Sleepy Hollow as Burgomaster
Movie ★ 7.2
1999
Movie ★ 5.2
1998
Jinnah as Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Movie ★ 6.7
1998
Movie ★ 4.7
1998
Movie ★ 8.0
1998
Movie ★ 5.0
1998
Movie ★ 7.0
1998
The Mummy as Self - Host
Movie
1997
Soul Music as Death (voice)
Movie ★ 6.8
1997
Soul Music as Death (voice)
TV ★ 7.0
1997
The Odyssey as Tiresias
TV ★ 7.2
1997
Ivanhoe as Lucas de Beaumanoir
TV ★ 7.1
1997
Wyrd Sisters as Death (voice)
TV ★ 6.4
1996
The Stupids as Evil Sender
Movie ★ 4.9
1996
Movie ★ 6.4
1996
Movie
1996
A Century of Science Fiction as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 6.9
1996
TV ★ 6.3
1996
Moses as Pharaoh
TV ★ 6.9
1996
100 Years of Horror as Self - Host
TV ★ 7.0
1995
TV ★ 5.5
1994
Movie ★ 7.3
1994
The Rainbow Thief as Uncle Rudolf
Movie ★ 5.3
1994
A Feast at Midnight as V. E. 'Raptor' Longfellow
Movie ★ 6.2
1994
Funny Man as Callum Chance
Movie ★ 4.8
1994
Movie ★ 4.6
1994
Brisant as Self
TV ★ 6.2
1994
The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
TV ★ 6.7
1993
Death Train as General Konstanin Benin
Movie ★ 5.1
1993
Blue Heelers as Scott James
TV ★ 6.5
1992
Beauty and the Beast as Monsieur Renard (voice)
Movie ★ 4.0
1992
Movie ★ 5.1
1992
Cyber Eden as Cedric
Movie ★ 5.3
1992
Double Vision as Mr. Bernard
Movie ★ 5.1
1992
Innocent Blood as Count Dracula (archive footage)
Movie ★ 6.2
1992
Movie ★ 10.0
1992
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as Count Ottokar Graf Czerin
TV ★ 6.5
1991
Movie ★ 4.4
1991
Movie ★ 5.4
1991
Journey of Honor as King Philip
Movie ★ 5.1
1991
Fear in the Dark as Narrator
Movie ★ 9.0
1991
Movie
1991
Halloween Monster Bash as Professor Alexander Saxton (archive footage)
Movie
1990
Gremlins 2: The New Batch as Doctor Catheter
Movie ★ 6.5
1990
Treasure Island as Blind Pew
Movie ★ 6.6
1990
The Care of Time as Karlis Zander
Movie ★ 4.8
1990
The Miser as Cardinale Spinosi
Movie ★ 6.3
1990
Stern TV as Self
TV ★ 6.5
1980s 47 credits
1989
Movie ★ 7.5
1989
Night of the Eagles as Walter Strauss
Movie ★ 3.9
1989
Movie ★ 6.2
1989
Murder Story as Willard Hope
Movie ★ 5.0
1989
Movie ★ 5.2
1989
TV ★ 6.7
1989
The French Revolution as Sanson (« Les Années terribles »)
TV ★ 10.0
1988
Movie ★ 3.6
1988
Movie ★ 2.5
1987
Movie ★ 6.0
1987
Creepy Classics as Franklyn Marsh - (archive footage)
Movie ★ 6.4
1987
The Girl as Peter Storm
Movie ★ 4.9
1987
TV ★ 8.0
1986
Jocks as President White
Movie ★ 4.3
1986
The Disputation as King James of Aragon
Movie ★ 5.5
1986
Movie ★ 10.0
1986
Shaka Zulu as Lord Bathurst
TV ★ 7.1
1986
TV ★ 7.0
1985
Movie ★ 4.9
1985
Mask of Murder as Chief Supt. Jonathan Rich
Movie ★ 3.4
1985
Movie ★ 8.5
1984
Movie ★ 4.5
1984
Movie ★ 6.5
1984
The Bengal Lancers! as Sir James Hunter
Movie ★ 1.0
1984
The Far Pavilions as Rao-Sahib
TV ★ 7.5
1983
Movie ★ 6.4
1983
Movie ★ 6.1
1983
New Magic as Mr. Kellar
Movie ★ 8.0
1982
The Last Unicorn as King Haggard (voice)
Movie ★ 7.3
1982
Safari 3000 as Count Borgia
Movie ★ 5.4
1982
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! as Self (archive footage)
Movie ★ 6.0
1982
Movie
1982
Massarati and the Brain as Victor Leopold
Movie ★ 5.7
1982
Movie ★ 4.0
1982
Faerie Tale Theatre as King Vladimir V
TV ★ 8.1
1982
TV ★ 6.8
1981
An Eye for an Eye as Morgan Canfield
Movie ★ 5.2
1981
Movie ★ 5.7
1981
The Salamander as Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence
Movie ★ 5.5
1981
TV ★ 5.4
1981
Goliath Awaits as John McKenzie
TV ★ 6.9
1980
Serial as Luckman Skull
Movie ★ 5.4
1980
Once Upon a Spy as Marcus Valorium
Movie ★ 5.2
1980
Desperate Moves as Dr. Carl Boxer
Movie ★ 4.5
1970s 62 credits
1979
1941 as Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt
Movie ★ 5.8
1979
The Horror Show as (archive footage)
Movie ★ 3.8
1979
Bear Island as Lechinski
Movie ★ 6.1
1979
The Passage as Gypsy
Movie ★ 6.2
1979
Arabian Adventure as Caliph Alquazar
Movie ★ 5.9
1979
Jaguar Lives! as Adam Caine
Movie ★ 4.2
1979
Movie ★ 3.8
1978
Movie ★ 5.6
1978
Caravans as Sardar Khan
Movie ★ 5.6
1978
Movie ★ 5.9
1978
The Pirate as Samir Al Fay
Movie ★ 4.5
1978
Movie ★ 9.0
1977
End of the World as Father Pergado / Zindar
Movie ★ 3.8
1977
Airport '77 as Martin Wallace
Movie ★ 5.6
1977
Starship Invasions as Captain Rameses
Movie ★ 3.3
1977
Meatcleaver Massacre as On-Screen Narrator
Movie ★ 4.3
1977
TV ★ 8.0
1977
How the West Was Won as The Grand Duke
TV ★ 7.0
1977
The Pirate as Samir Al Fay
TV ★ 5.0
1976
Dracula and Son as Le prince des Ténèbres
Movie ★ 5.8
1976
Movie ★ 5.5
1976
Killer Force as Major Chilton
Movie ★ 5.4
1976
Albino as Bill
Movie ★ 4.0
1976
The Keeper as The Keeper
Movie ★ 4.4
1976
Charlie's Angels as Dale Woodman
TV ★ 6.7
1975
Movie ★ 5.0
1975
In Search of Dracula as Self – Host / Vlad Tepes / Count Dracula
Movie ★ 7.3
1975
Space: 1999 as Captain Zandor
TV ★ 7.1
1975
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
TV ★ 6.9
1974
The Man with the Golden Gun as Francisco Scaramanga
Movie ★ 6.5
1974
Movie ★ 6.5
1974
Diagnosis: Murder as Dr. Stephen Hayward
Movie ★ 6.1
1973
Movie ★ 6.7
1973
Movie ★ 5.6
1973
Nothing But the Night as Col. Charles Bingham
Movie ★ 6.2
1973
The Creeping Flesh as James Hildern
Movie ★ 5.9
1973
The Wicker Man as Lord Summerisle
Movie ★ 7.3
1973
Dark Places as Dr. Ian Mandeville
Movie ★ 5.5
1973
Poor Devil as Lucifer
Movie ★ 5.9
1973
TV ★ 6.8
1972
Dracula A.D. 1972 as Count Dracula
Movie ★ 5.9
1972
Horror Express as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton
Movie ★ 6.3
1972
Movie ★ 6.2
1972
Umbracle as The Man
Movie ★ 6.0
1972
Death Line as Stratton-Villiers, MI5
Movie ★ 5.8
1971
Movie ★ 6.2
1971
The House That Dripped Blood as John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")
Movie ★ 6.4
1971
I, Monster as Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake
Movie ★ 5.5
1971
Theatre Macabre as Self - Host
TV ★ 3.0
1971
Film '72 as Self
TV ★ 4.7
1970
Movie ★ 5.9
1970
Movie ★ 6.8
1970
Movie ★ 6.0
1970
Movie ★ 6.1
1970
Movie ★ 5.3
1970
Julius Caesar as Artemidorus
Movie ★ 5.9
1970
The Bloody Judge as Lord George Jeffreys
Movie ★ 5.1
1970
Eugenie as Dolmance
Movie ★ 4.9
1970
One More Time as Dracula
Movie ★ 5.0
1970
TV
1960s 50 credits
1969
The Castle of Fu Manchu as Dr. Fu Man Chu
Movie ★ 3.7
1969
The Oblong Box as Dr. J. Neuhartt
Movie ★ 5.7
1969
The Magic Christian as Ship's Vampire
Movie ★ 5.8
1968
The Blood of Fu Manchu as Dr. Fu Man Chu
Movie ★ 4.4
1968
The Movie Orgy as Fu Manchu/Dracula (archive footage)
Movie ★ 6.6
1968
Movie ★ 5.2
1968
Movie ★ 6.7
1968
The Devil Rides Out as Duc de Richleau
Movie ★ 6.5
1968
The Face of Eve as Colonel Stuart
Movie ★ 4.2
1967
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism as Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai
Movie ★ 6.4
1967
Movie ★ 6.4
1967
Night of the Big Heat as Godfrey Hanson
Movie ★ 5.3
1967
Movie ★ 5.2
1967
Theatre of Death as Philippe Darvas
Movie ★ 6.1
1966
Movie ★ 5.9
1966
Rasputin: The Mad Monk as Grigori Rasputin
Movie ★ 5.8
1966
Movie ★ 5.5
1966
Movie ★ 6.7
1965
The Face of Fu Manchu as Dr. Fu Man Chu
Movie ★ 6.2
1965
Movie ★ 6.5
1965
The Skull as Sir Matthew Phillips
Movie ★ 6.1
1965
She as Billali
Movie ★ 5.5
1965
Ten Little Indians as Mr. U.N. Owen (voice)
Movie ★ 6.3
1964
Movie ★ 6.1
1964
The Gorgon as Prof. Karl Meister
Movie ★ 6.4
1964
The Devil-Ship Pirates as Captain Robeles
Movie ★ 5.7
1964
Crypt of the Vampire as Count Ludwig Karnstein
Movie ★ 4.9
1964
Horror!!! as Self
Movie ★ 1.0
1963
Movie ★ 6.4
1963
Movie ★ 5.7
1963
Movie ★ 3.4
1962
Secret of the Red Orchid as Capt. Allerman
Movie ★ 5.8
1962
Movie ★ 5.5
1962
Movie ★ 6.2
1962
The Devil's Agent as Baron Ferdi von Staub
Movie ★ 6.7
1962
TV ★ 7.8
1961
Hercules in the Haunted World as King Lico (Licos)
Movie ★ 6.6
1961
Movie ★ 5.7
1961
Taste of Fear as Doctor Pierre Gerrard
Movie ★ 7.1
1961
Movie ★ 5.8
1961
TV ★ 5.8
1961
The Avengers as Professor Stone
TV ★ 7.8
1961
The Avengers as Colonel Mannering
TV ★ 7.8
1960
Movie ★ 6.1
1960
Beat Girl as Kenny King
Movie ★ 5.9
1960
The Hands of Orlac as Nero the magician
Movie ★ 4.4
1960
Movie ★ 4.7
1960
The City of the Dead as Prof. Alan Driscoll
Movie ★ 6.5
1950s 56 credits
1959
The Hound of the Baskervilles as Sir Henry Baskerville
Movie ★ 6.8
1959
The Man Who Could Cheat Death as Dr. Pierre Gerrard
Movie ★ 5.8
1959
The Mummy as Kharis, the Mummy
Movie ★ 6.7
1959
Uncle Was a Vampire as Baron Roderico da Frankurten
Movie ★ 5.7
1959
Movie ★ 6.4
1959
One Step Beyond as Wilhelm Reitlinger
TV ★ 5.7
1959
TV ★ 5.3
1958
A Tale of Two Cities as Marquis St. Evremonde
Movie ★ 6.8
1958
Corridors of Blood as Resurrection Joe
Movie ★ 6.2
1958
Dracula as Count Dracula
Movie ★ 7.2
1958
Movie ★ 5.2
1958
Ivanhoe as Sir Otto from the Rhine
TV ★ 6.4
1958
TV ★ 6.8
1957
Movie ★ 6.8
1957
Bitter Victory as Sgt. Barney
Movie ★ 6.3
1957
Fortune Is a Woman as Charles Highbury
Movie ★ 6.8
1957
Manuela as Voice (voice)
Movie ★ 6.3
1957
The Traitor as Doctor Neumann
Movie ★ 7.6
1957
Ill Met by Moonlight as German officer at The Dentist's office
Movie ★ 6.3
1957
The Truth About Women as Francois Thiers
Movie ★ 6.3
1957
Sailor of Fortune as Yusif Carnot
TV
1956
Port Afrique as Franz Vermes
Movie ★ 5.9
1956
Private's Progress as Major Schultz
Movie ★ 6.6
1956
Beyond Mombasa as Gil Rossi
Movie ★ 6.8
1956
Alexander the Great as Nectenabus (voice)
Movie ★ 6.0
1956
Movie ★ 6.4
1956
TV ★ 7.5
1956
The Errol Flynn Theatre as Maurice Gabet
TV ★ 9.0
1956
The Errol Flynn Theatre as Compte de Merret
TV ★ 9.0
1956
TV ★ 9.0
1956
The Errol Flynn Theatre as General Hamelin
TV ★ 9.0
1955
Alias John Preston as John Preston
Movie ★ 5.8
1955
The Cockleshell Heroes as Submarine Commander Alan Grieves
Movie ★ 5.9
1955
The Dark Avenger as French Patrol Captain at Tavern (uncredited)
Movie ★ 6.4
1955
That Lady as Capitán
Movie ★ 6.6
1955
Cross-Roads as Harry Cooper
Movie ★ 7.4
1955
Storm Over the Nile as Karaga Pasha
Movie ★ 6.4
1955
Police Dog as Johnny, a constable
Movie ★ 6.7
1955
Contraband Spain as Narrador (voz)
Movie ★ 6.3
1955
Moby Dick—Rehearsed as A Stage Manager /Flask
Movie ★ 7.0
1955
TV ★ 8.0
1954
The Awakening as Factory proprietor (uncredited)
Movie ★ 6.5
1954
Movie
1954
Mark Saber as Larry Spence
TV ★ 8.0
1953
Innocents in Paris as Lieutenant Whitlock
Movie ★ 5.2
1953
Movie ★ 5.0
1952
The Crimson Pirate as Joseph (attache)
Movie ★ 7.0
1952
Babes in Bagdad as Slave Dealer
Movie ★ 5.8
1952
Top Secret as Russian Agent (uncredited)
Movie ★ 8.0
1952
Paul Temple Returns as Sir Felix Raybourne
Movie ★ 6.1
1952
Moulin Rouge as Georges Seurat (uncredited)
Movie ★ 6.6
1951
Quo Vadis as Chariot Driver (uncredited)
Movie ★ 7.1
1951
Movie ★ 6.2
1951
Movie ★ 6.9
1950
Movie ★ 6.8
1950
Movie ★ 6.4
1940s 8 credits
1949
Trottie True as Hon. Bongo Icklesham
Movie ★ 7.0
1948
Movie ★ 6.0
1948
Movie ★ 6.1
1948
Movie ★ 6.3
1948
Hamlet as Palace Guard (uncredited)
Movie ★ 7.4
1948
One Night with You as Pirelli's Assistant
Movie ★ 7.3
1948
Movie ★ 7.2
1948
Saraband for Dead Lovers as Herzog Anthony von Wolfenbüttel
Movie ★ 6.6
1930s 1 credit
1939
Movie
s 3 credits
The Wicker Man At 50 as Lord Summerisle
Movie
Movie
Crew Credits
1970s 1 credit
1973
Movie ★ 6.2