Christopher Lee

Movie Actor

Christopher Lee was born in Belgravia, London, England, United Kingdom on May 27th, 1922 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 93, Christopher Lee biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, Chris
Date of Birth
May 27, 1922
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Belgravia, London, England, United Kingdom
Death Date
Jun 7, 2015 (age 93)
Zodiac Sign
Gemini
Networth
$25 Million
Profession
Actor, Character Actor, Film Actor, Film Producer, Military Personnel, Opera Singer, Orator, Photographer, Singer, Stage Actor, Television Actor, Voice Actor, Writer
Christopher Lee Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 93 years old, Christopher Lee has this physical status:

Height
194cm
Weight
75kg
Hair Color
Dark Brown that turned white with advancing age
Eye Color
Black
Build
Slim
Measurements
Not Available
Christopher Lee Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Summer Fields School, Eton College, Wellington College
Christopher Lee Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Gitte Lee (1961-2015)
Children
1
Dating / Affair
Gitte Lee (1961-2015)
Parents
Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Trollope Lee, Contessa Estelle Marie
Siblings
Marie Carandini (great-grandmother), Harriet Walter (niece), Ian Fleming (step first cousin)
Christopher Lee Life

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922-June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and author.

Lee, who had worked with virtually 70 years, was well-known for portraying villains, and he was best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films, a typecasting he never regretted.

Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002 to 2005), and Saruman in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2005–2014). Lee was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011 for his services to drama and charity, and in 2013, he was honoured for BFI Fellowships.

In the biopic Jinnah (1998), Lee considered his best film to be that of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and that his best film to be the British cult film The Wicker Man (1973).

Lee starred in many horror films alongside his friend Peter Cushing, and he appeared in six Tim Burton films late in his career. The 260 Squadron RAF was first an intelligence officer and later the Special Operations Executive.

He retired from the RAF in 1946 with the rank of flight lieutenant, following his World War II service. Lee was also known for his singing skills, recording many opera and musical pieces from 1986 to 1998, and his latest metal band Charlemagne, by the Sword and the Cross in 2010.

On May 27, 2013 Lee's 91st birthday was announced and Charlemagne: The Omens of Death.

At the 2010 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards ceremony, he was honoured with the "Spirit of Metal" award.

Early life

Lee was born in Belgravia, London, son of Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Trollope Lee (1879-1941), and his partner, Countess Estelle Marie (née Carandini di Sarzano; 1889-1981). Lee's father was active in the Boer War and First World War, and his mother was an Edwardian beauty sculpted by Clare Sheridan, and her lineage can be traced to Charlemagne. Jerome Carandini, Lee's maternal great-grandfather, was an Italian political immigrant; Lee's great-grandmother, Lee's, was Marie Carandini, who née Burgess. Xandra Carandini Lee, his elder sister, died in 2002.

When Lee was four years old, they divorced two years later. During this period, his mother took his sister and him to Wengen, Switzerland. He appeared in Miss Fisher's Academy in Territet for the first time as Rumpelstiltskin in his debut as Rumpelstiltskin. They then returned to London, where Lee attended Wagner's private school in Queen's Gate, and his mother married Harcourt George St-Croix Rose, a banker and uncle of Ian Fleming. Fleming, the James Bond writer, became Lee's step-cousin. The family migrated to Fulham, where they met actor Eric Maturin next door. He was introduced to Prince Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, Grigori Rasputin's assassins, who were expected to compete many years later.

When Lee was nine, he was taken to Summer Fields School, a preparatory school in Oxford, whose students later attended Eton. He continued to act in school performances, but "the laurels deservedly went to Patrick Macnee." Lee applied for a scholarship to Eton, where his interview took place in the presence of M.R., a ghost story author. James. Because of his poor maths skills, he was ranked eleventh and missed out on being a King's Scholar by one place. His step-father was unable to pay the higher tuition because he was an Oppidan Scholar, so he enrolled Wellington College, where he received scholarships in the classics, studying Ancient Greek and Latin. He didn't behave at Wellington because of a "tiny part" in a school play. He was a "passable" racquets player and fencer as well as a competent cricketer, but he didn't do well at the other sports: hockey, football, rugby, and boxing. He disapproved of parades and weapons schooling, and he'll always "play dead" during mock wars as soon as possible. Lee was regularly beaten at school, including once in Wellington for "being beaten too often," although he accepted them as "logical and therefore appropriate" punishments for intentionally breaking the rules. At the age of 17, and with just one year remaining at Wellington, 1939 was his last summer term. His step-father had gone bankrupt, owing to £25,000.

Since his mother was divorced from Rose, Lee had to get a job, and his sister, who was still working as a secretary for the Church of England Pensions Board, was unable to. Lee, who was sent to the French Riviera, where his sister was on holiday with friends, was either going on or planning to go on summer holidays. On his way to Paris, he briefly stopped for a few days with journalist Webb Miller, a friend of Rose, and witnessed Eugen Weidmann's execution by guillotine, France's last public execution. Upon arriving in Menton, he remained with the Russian Mazirov family, living among exiled princely families. It was planned that he should remain in Menton after his sister's return home, but instead of Europe returning to war, he returned to London. He served as an office clerk for United States Lines, handling the mail and running errands.

Personal life

The Carandinis, Lee's maternal ancestors, were granted the right to wear the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Lee was engaged to Henriette von Rosen, whom he had seen at a nightclub in Stockholm in the late 1950s. Count Fritz von Rosen, her father, was obstructive, causing them to postpone the wedding for a year, hiring private investigators to prosecute Lee, and asking Lee to provide them with references, which Lee obtained from Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Boulting, and Joe Jackson. Lee found the family reunion to be like something from a surrealist Luis Buuel film, and thought they were "killing me with cream." Finally, Lee had to obtain the King of Sweden's permission to marry. Lee had known him many years before filming Tales of Hans Anderson, where he received his blessing. However, Lee announced that he would not attend the wedding as a result of a short time. He was worried that his financial stability in his chosen career meant she "deserved more" than being "pitched into the disgraced world of an actor." She knew, and they called off the wedding.

Lee was introduced by a Danish friend in 1960 to Danish painter and former model Birgit "Gitte" Krncke. They got engaged and married on March 17th, 1961. Christina Erika Carandini Lee, the couple's daughter, was born in Brazil. (b. (civil rights) in 1963. Lee was the uncle of British actor Harriet Walter. Both Lee and his daughter Christina performed on Rhapsody of Fire's album From Chaos to Eternity. Lee moved to Los Angeles in the 1970s after being disillusioned with film roles in Britain at the time, and claimed that in Hollywood, he was no longer a horror actor. I was an actor." He returned to England and lived with his family in Cadogan Square, London, until his death.

Lee was known for his his height: he was 6 foot (5.96 meters) tall. Lee portrayed himself as 6 foot 4 inches tall in the BBC Radio's "View from the Boundary" interview with Brian Johnston on June 20, 1987. In March 2013, Lee and his partner Birgit were listed among the top 50 best-dressed over 50s by The Guardian.

Lee has been described as an Anglo-Catholic Christian. During the Second World War, he was a server at St Stephen's Church in South Kensington, London, during T.S. Eliot was a parishioner at the time, and it was during his time as a priest. Lee supported the Conservative Party on political grounds. In 2003, Michael Howard referred to him as "the ideal person to lead the party" and he also supported William Hague and David Cameron.

Lee died at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on June 7, 2015, after being admitted for respiratory difficulties and heart failure, just days after celebrating his 93rd birthday. His wife postponed the public declaration of her death until 11 June, informing her family of the death before releasing the news to the public.

Following Lee's death, fans, acquaintances, producers, producers, and others interested in the film industry paid their respects in public. Lee was lauded as a "titan of the golden age of cinema," according to Prime Minister David Cameron. In the annual in Memoriam section, he was honoured by the academy at the 88th Academy Awards on February 28, 2016.

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Christopher Lee Career

Career

Lee was given his old job back at Beecham's, with a significant increase, but "I couldn't get myself back to the office frame of mind." The Armed Forces were sending veterans with an education in the Classics to teach at colleges, but Lee complained that his Latin was too rusty and didn't care about the tight curfews. When Carandini asked him, "Why don't you become an actor, Christopher?" Lee was discussing his war wounds during lunch with his cousin Nicola Carandini, now the Italian Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Lee loved the idea, and after assuaging his mother's protests by pointing to the success of Carandini in Australia (which also included his great-grandmother Marie Carandini, who had been a prolific opera performer), he met Nicol's friend Filippo Del Giudice, a lawyer turned film director and producer of Two Cities Films, as part of the Rank Organisation. "Looked me up and down," Lee recalled, "and] came to the conclusion that I was just what the company had been looking for." Josef Somlo was sent for a job, and he was sent to see him for a long time:

Somlo brought him to Rank's David Henley and Olive Doddds, who joined him on a seven-year deal. Lee had trouble finding jobs as a result of his rank's "Charm School" experience. In Terence Young's Gothic romance Corret of Mirrors, he made his film debut in 1947. He played Charles; the director brought him up to his height by placing him at a table in a nightclub with Lois Maxwell, Mavis Villiers, Hugh Latimer, and John Penrose. Lee had "a satirical shaft destined to reveal the lead's bravura."

He made an uncredited appearance in Laurence Olivier's film version of Hamlet (1948) as a spear carrier (obstruction and close friend Peter Cushing played Osric). He appeared in Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. a few years ago. (1951) as a Spanish captain. When the producer asked him if he could speak Spanish and fence, he was cast. He was able to do so. Lee was shot and injured in Quo Vadis (1951), a Rome shooter, playing as a chariot driver and was injured when he was thrown from it at one point during the shooting.

He recalled that his breakthrough came in 1952, when Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., began filming at the British National Studios in London. "I was cast in various parts of 16 of them, as well as Buster Keaton, making it an excellent training ground," he said in 2006. He appeared in John Huston's Oscar-nominated Moulin Rouge the same year. He made nearly 30 films, including The Cockleshell Heroes, in which he mainly played stock action characters.

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Lee's first film for Hammer, in which he played Frankenstein's hero, Baron Victor Frankenstein. It was the first film to co-star Lee and Cushing, who then appeared together in over twenty films and became close friends. "They asked me if I wanted the part, and that was fine," the actor said at a casting session for the film. Lee co-starred Boris Karloff in the film Correctors of Blood (1958). Lee appeared with Karloff in the "At Night, All Cats Are Grey" episode of the British television series Colonel March of Scotland Yard in 1955. For a time in the mid-1960s, Karloff and Lee were London neighbors.

Lee's appearance in Frankenstein's monster inspired him to his first appearance in the film Dracula (1958, also known as Horror of Dracula in the United States). According to writer Kevin Jackson, Lee's "triumphant debut" fix the image of the fanged vampire in popular culture. Dracula has been named one of the top British films ever made. "Lee's sensuality was subversive in the sense that it hinted that women might rather have their neck chewed by a stud," Lee said. Lee's portrayal as Dracula in the 7th Greatest Horror Movie Character of All Time, according to the film magazine Empire. "Chilising, sonorous tones" ranked third in CNN's top ten British villains, according to CNN, whose appearance ranked third in their top ten British villains. In an Italian-French horror film titled Uncle Was a Vampire (1959), Lee played a similar role. In the Hammer Horror film The Mummy, he appeared as Kharis for the same year.

In Hammer's Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1965), Lee returned to the role of Dracula. Lee's character has no lines; he simply hisses his way into the film. The reason for this differs: Lee says he refused to speak the poor dialogue he was given, but screenwriter Jimmy Sangster confirms that the script did not include any lines for the character. In the sense that half of the film's running time was spent on telling the tale of Dracula's resurrection and the protagonist's appearances were brief, this film set the tone for most of the Dracula sequels. Lee went on record to state that Hammer was practically "blackmailed" into acting in the forthcoming films; if they were unable or unwilling to pay him his going rate, they'd resort to reminding him how many people he should put out of work if he didn't take part:

His appearances in Dracula (1968), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969), and Scars of Dracula (1970) left the Count with little to do. "All they do is write a story and try and fit the character in somewhere," Lee said in an interview in 2005. When you see the films, it's pretty clear."

They gave me nothing to do!

I begged Hammer to let me use some of the lines that Bram Stoker had written. I sneaked one in "occasionally." In the early 1970s, he appeared in two other Dracula films, both of which attempted to bring the character to the modern-day era. These were not commercially viable: Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972), and The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973). Dracula Is Dead... and Well and Living in London, a parody of the stage and film musical revue Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well; Living in Paris, but Lee was not amused. "I'm doing it under attack," Lee said at a press conference in 1973 to announce the film. I think it is fatuous. I can think of twenty words – fatuous, pointless, absurd. It's not a comedy, but it does have a comedic name. I don't get the point. The Satanic Rites of Dracula was Lee's last Dracula film in which he appeared too often and that the Dracula films had deteriorated in quality.

Lee appeared in Dracula (1970) and Édouard Molinaro's Dracula (1976). In The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), Lee portrayed Rasputin in Rasputin (1966), the Mad Monk (1966) and Sir Henry Baskerville (to Cushing's Sherlock Holmes). In 1962's Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace, Lee later returned to Holmes films with Billy Wilder's British-made The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), in which he portrays Sherlock Holmes's smarter brother, Mycroft. Lee claims that this film was the reason he stopped being typecast: "I've never been typecast since." Sure, I've performed countless heavies, but Anthony Hopkins says, "I don't play villains, I play people." Lee starred in the German film The Puzzle of the Red Orchid (1962), speaking German, which he had acquired during his Swiss education. He applied for a role in the film The Longest Day (1962), but was turned down because he did not "look like a soldier." Any film books incorrectly attribute him with a role in the film, something he was forced to do for the remainder of his life.

Dennis Wheatley, Lee's companion, was responsible for the occult's arrival. Lee was in two films from Wheatley's books, both starring Lee. The New York Times characterized Lee's appearance in The Devil Rides Out (1967) as "suave dignity." However, production difficulties hindered To the Devil a Daughter (1976), and its author was disowned by the film's author. Although it was profitable, Hammer's last horror film was not quite as popular. Leonard Maltin described it as well-made but lacking punch.

During the 20-year span from 1957 to 1977, Lee appeared in horror films for other businesses. These included the Dr. Fu Manchu film series produced between 1965 and 1969 (beginning with The Face of Fu Manchu), in which he played the villain in the yellowface remake; I, Monster (1976), a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 filmla The Wicker Man (1973), in which he played Lord Summerisle; Lee wanted to break free of his Dracula persona and try out more challenging acting roles. Anthony Shaffer, a screenwriter, and they decided to work together. Peter Snell, the project's producer, and British Lion chief Robin Hardy were both interested. In stark contrast to the classic Hammer films of the day, Shaffer had a series of interviews with Hardy, and the two decided that it would be fun to make a horror film centring on "old faith." Shaffer read through David Pinner's book Ritual, in which a devout Christian policeman is called to look into what appears to be the ritual murder of a teenage girl in a rural village, and that it would be able to provide the project's source material. Shaffer and Lee paid Pinner £15,000 for the rights to the book, and Schaffer will direct the filmplay. However, he soon decided that a direct adaptation would not work well and began to write a new story, using only the novel's basic outline. Lee was so keen to get the film produced, that he gave his services for free. He later called the film the best he's ever made.

In Jess Franco's Eugenie (1970) as a favor to producer Harry Alan Towers, who was unaware that the sex scenes were shot separately, Lee appeared as the on-screen narrator.

Lee produced films in mainland Europe in addition to making films in the United Kingdom: in Count Dracula (1970), where he appeared in two German films, as well as Dr. Sadism (1967). Castle of the Dead (1964) and Horror Express (1972). Lee was a producer of the horror film Nothing But the Night (1972), in which he appeared. It was the first and last film he made because he didn't enjoy the process.

In Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers (1973), Lee appeared as Comte de Rochefort. He hurt his left knee while filming, something he still felt many years later. Lee eschewed horror roles almost completely in the mid-1970s. Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond spy books and Lee's step-cousin, had been given the role of the titular antagonist in the first Eon-produced Bond film Dr. No (1962). Lee enthusiastically accepted, but producers informed the designers that Joseph Wiseman had already been selected for the role by the time Fleming discovered it. In The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), in which he was cast as the assassin Francisco Scaramanga, Lee finally had to play a James Bond villain. Lee said of his appearance, "In Fleming's novel he's just a West Indian thug," says Lee, but in the film he's charming, chic, amusing, lethal..." I played him on the "dark side of Bond."

Ken Russell, the film director, was unable to convince Lee to appear as the Specialist in Tommy (1975). Jack Nicholson was eventually given the opportunity. John Carpenter explains that before Donald Pleasence took the role, he did offer Samuel Loomis to Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in an AMC film about Halloween (1978). Lee told Carpenter that the biggest regret of his career was not playing Dr. Loomis.

Lee left the United Kingdom in 1977 after being worried about being typecast in horror films, as had happened to his close friends Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. He made his American debut in the disaster film Airport '77 (1977). When Lee first appeared as a guest host on NBC's Saturday Night Live in 1978, he shocked many people by his willingness to go along with a parody. In 1941 (1979), Steven Spielberg, who was in the audience for that performance, cast him in 1941 (1979). In addition, Lee co-starred with Bette Davis in the Disney film Return from Witch Mountain (1978). In the disaster spoof Airplane, he played Dr. Barry Rumack (finally played by Leslie Nielsen). (1980) a decision he later described as "a big mistake."

In Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Lee played the mad scientist Dr. Catheter. Dr. Catheter experiences deja-vu as the Bat Gremlin transforms, offering Dracula music in a nod to his role as Dracula in Hammer Films. In the television films Incident at Victoria Falls (1991) and Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1992), Lee made his last appearances as Sherlock Holmes. Lee and Peter Cushing appeared in more than a dozen feature films together for Hammer Films, Amicus Productions, and other companies, as well as in Hamlet (1948) and Moulin Rouge (1952), though in separate scenes. They appeared in separate instalments of the Star Wars films: Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin in the original film and Lee decades later as Count Dooku. The last project that brought them together in person was a documentary called Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror (1994), which they co-narrated two months before Cushing's death.

When Lee played Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998), he said he was his best show to be in this period.

Lee appeared in several television shows. Flay's role in the BBC television miniseries Gormenghast (2000), based on Mervyn Peake's books, was one of them. Lucas de Beaumanoir, the Grand Master of the Knights Templar, appeared in the BBC/A&E co-production of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1997).

In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Lee played Saruman. He said in the interview that he had been dreaming of playing Gandalf for decades. He confessed that he was now too old and that his physical impairments barred him from being considered. Saruman's role, unlike Gandalf's, necessitated no horse riding nor fighting. Lee had met J. R. Tolkien once, making him the first person to have done so in the film trilogy. At least once a year, he made a point of reading the novels at least once a year. In addition,, he appeared on At Dawn, The Tolkien Ensemble's album in Rivendell in 2003. In the extended version, Lee's appearance in the final film in the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, was cut from the theatrical release, but the scene was reimagined. The Lord of the Rings began his career revival in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III – Resurrection of the Sith (2005), in which he portrayed the villainous Count Dooku. He did the bulk of the swordplay himself, but a stunt double was required for the long shots with more vigorous footwork. In Tim Burton's film version of Roald Dahl's classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he played Dr. Wonka, father of Willy Wonka.

Lee played Sweeney Todd's victims, "The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," alongside Anthony Head, with both singing "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" and the Epilogue. These songs were originally recorded but they were later cut due to Burton's inability that the songs were too dramatic for the film. Lee's appearance was entirely deleted from the film, but Head nevertheless had an uncredited one-line appearance.

Lee narrated the Science Fiction Festival in Trieste, Italy, in late November 2009. Lee appeared in Stephen Poliakoff's British period drama Glorious 39, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Danis Tanovi's war film Triage, and Duncan Ward's comedy Boogie Woogie.

As people were afraid of taking financial risks, Lee lamented that Hollywood scripts were mostly spin-offs of Lord of the Rings or Star Wars, while others were afraid of taking financial risks. In 2010, he marked his fourth collaboration with Tim Burton by voicing the Jabberwock in Burton's adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic book Alice in Wonderland, alongside Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anne Hathaway. Lee regarded Depp as "a fellow survivor" who was "inventive and [having] a lot of flexibility."

Lee was named in 2010 with the Steiger Award (Germany) in 2010, and in February 2011, Lee was given the BAFTA Fellowship.

For the first time in thirty-five years, he appeared in The Resident, a Hammer film. Antti Jokinen directed the film, and Lee gave a "fully sinister" appearance alongside Hilary Swank and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. When filming scenes in New Mexico in early 2009, Lee strained his back when tripping over power cables on set. In a flashback, Lee appears as the unidentified "Old Gentleman" who appears as Lachlan's mentor in a flashback. In 2011, Lee appeared in Martin Scorsese's critically acclaimed Hugo.

For the prequel film The Hobbit, Lee reimagined Saruman. He said he would have liked to see Saruman's defiance by Sauron, but he was too old to fly to New Zealand, so the show was modified to allow him to watch from London.

Lee spent his fifth and final collaboration with Tim Burton in Burton's film adaptation of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows in the small role of a New England fishing captain.

In an interview in August 2013, Lee said he was "saddened" to learn that Johnny Depp was considering resigning from acting, although he had no intention of doing so:

In 2013, Lee narrated the feature-length documentary Necessary Evil: DC Comics' Super-Villains, which was released on October 25th. He appeared in a Timeshift episode titled How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective. The character and the various interpretations of Sherlock Holmes were discussed by Lee and others who had attended his lecture. In a web exclusive, he was reading an excerpt from Sherlock Holmes' short story The Final Solution.

Lee had signed to appear in The 11th Danish film one month before his death. In Notting Hill, a film about an angel trapped in London who falls in love with a human being, Michael Pakleppa's last work was the independent Angels. Lee appeared in The Boss/Mr President and the film premiered in Regent Street Cinema in London on October 29, 2016.

Lee sang of several films and video games. He spoke fluent English, Italian, French, Spanish, and German, and German, and was moderately proficient in Swedish, Russian, and Greek. Thor's first voiced in the German dubs of the Danish animated film Valhalla (1986) and of King Haggard in both the English and German dubs of the 1982 animated version of The Last Unicorn's The Last Unicorn's original English and German dubs. He was the voice of Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953), who was in possession of all the voices. He appeared in Terry Pratchett's Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters' animated film version, as well as reprised his role in Sky1's live action version The Colour of Magic, replacing the late Ian Richardson. In video games such as Kingdom Hearts II, he played Ansem the Wise/Diz. In the video game The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth, Lee revived his role as Saruman. He narrated and performed on At Dawn, the Danish musical ensemble, in Rivendell, where he appeared as Treebeard, King Théoden, and others in the readings or singing of their respective poems or songs. In 2007, he contributed to J. R. Tolkien's transcript of The Children of Hrin, which was included in the audiobook version of the book. In 2005, Lee served as the voice of Pastor Galswells in The Corpse Bride, co-directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson. He was the narrator on The Nightmare Before Christmas story, which also was written by Tim Burton. In the animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008), Lee reprised his role as Count Dooku. In the video game GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, Lee provided the voice of Scaramanga thirty years after playing Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun. In the BBC Radio 4 radio play Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, Lee portrayed The Earl of Earl's Court in 2013. Lee narrator for the Lego The Hobbit video game released in April 2014, and the oldest video game narrator appears in the Guinness Book of Records at 91 years and 316 days old.

Lee sang on The Wicker Man soundtrack, performing Paul Giovanni's "The Tinker of Rye" in his operatic bass voice. He sang the closing credits song of the 1994 horror film Funny Man. He appeared on Peter Knight and Bob Johnson's (from Steeleye Span) concept album The King of Elfland's Daughter in 1977.

Lee's first encounter with heavy metal music came when he performed a duet with Fabio Lione, lead vocalist of Rhapsody of Fire's album Symphony of Enchanted Lands II, The Dark Secret, although he only appears backing vocals on the album version. On the band's four albums Symphony of Enchanted Lands II – The Dark Secret, Triumph or Agony, The Frozen Tears of Angels, The Frozen Tears of Angels, and From Chaos to Eternity – A Dark Romantic Symphony depicting the Wizard King. When Manowar was recording a new version of their first album, Battle Hymns, he collaborated with them. Orson Welles' original voice (long deceased at the time of re-recording) was recorded.

Lee's album "Jingle Hell" debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 1. At 91 years and 6 months, she became the second oldest living performer to ever make it to the charts. The song soared to No. 1 after widespread coverage. Lee was the first person to have a top-20 hit.

In May 2014, Lee released Metal Knight, his third EP of covers, as well as "The Toreador March," based on the opera Carmen's opera, and "I, Don Quixote" and "I, Don Quixote" from the Don Quixote musical Man of La Mancha's "I, Don Quixote." "As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know," Lee was inspired to record the latter songs. In December 2014, he released "Darkest Carols, Faithful Sing," a joking interpretation of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. "It's light-hearted, joyful, and fun." "It's the most important thing for me at this age is to keep active by doing things that I love doing." I'm not sure how long I'll be around for, so every day is a celebration and I want to share it with my followers."

In the track "The Last Vampire," the self-titled debut album by Hollywood Vampires, a supergroup made up of Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper, and Joe Perry, Lee is included as a narrator. This is Lee's last appearance on a musical note, and it was recorded shortly before his death. Rhapsody of Fire's latest album, The Eighth Mountain, in which Lee narrated the band's Nephilim Empire Saga's concept story, was included.

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After Mercedes slammed into him at a 'high rate of speed,' a boy, 11, had criss grill marks imprinted on his body, the coroner testifies as LA socialite wipes tears away when pictures of the child's mangled body were shown in court

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According to forensic pathologist Dr. Matthew Miller, Mark Iskander's body was imprinted with a pattern that matched that of the grill Rebecca Grossman's white Mercedes. Mark and his brother Jacob, 8, were killed in a horrific auto crash on September 29, 2020, and Grossman is now on trial for his murder. Grossman denies the charges, while her defense team has argued that the children were struck by her lover's car.

Rebecca Grossman's defense team tries to have the mother of two young boys she's accused of killing KICKED OUT of court for sobbing during testimony

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Rebecca Grossman's attorneys attempted to have Nancy Iskander barred from the Van Nuys courtroom after she began sobbing during testimony. The defendant's counsel told the judge that "perceptible expressions of emotion" in front of jurors might'impact the defendant's fundamental right to a fair trial.' Grossman, 62, has been charged with murder for the November 29, 2020 disaster that killed Jacob Iskander, 8, and his brother Mark.

In any of the stories, did Sherlock Holmes have a deertalker?

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ANSWERS: ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Holmes' iconic photograph of him sporting his deerstalker cap and Inverness cape came from artist Sidney Paget's illustrations (1860-1908). In 1891, the short story A Scandal In Bohemia became the first of 24 stories in The Strand magazine and illustrated by Paget. These adventures will be published in book form as The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes.