Ooooh noooo..
This is gonna bring me down for the rest of the day :(
Just think, his first acting role was in 1946, and he was already 26. What a life he had.
I guess he'll take his secrets of the occult to the grave with him too.
Rest in peace. :'(
Christopher Lee Died in 1972, but death was too afraid to take him.
But not wanting to be mean Mr. Lee said "It's okay good man, it happens to us a lot of people", they soon became fast friends.
Then one morning Death tapped him on the shoulder and said "Chris my friend, it is time", Lee smiled and nodded "I suppose it is" "Any last thoughts?" Asked Death.
"I have lived a long full life, I have seen horror on screen and off, I have been a spy, a wizard, a hero, often a villain, I've made heavy metal music and made the odd friend along the way. Death is not the end, just a new challenge"
How old was lee during filming of the original Lord of the rings?
OH FUCK ME THIS GUY DIED!?
[QUOTE=Lexinator;47930488]How old was lee during filming of the original Lord of the rings?[/QUOTE]
76-77, when principle shooting first began on Fellowship, 78-79 when Fellowship of the Ring was released.
[QUOTE=Chrisordie;47930485]Christopher Lee Died in 1972, but death was too afraid to take him.
But not wanting to be mean Mr. Lee said "It's okay good man, it happens to us a lot of people", they soon became fast friends.
Then one morning Death tapped him on the shoulder and said "Chris my friend, it is time", Lee smiled and nodded "I suppose it is" "Any last thoughts?" Asked Death.
"I have lived a long full life, I have seen horror on screen and off, I have been a spy, a wizard, a hero, often a villain, I've made heavy metal music and made the odd friend along the way. Death is not the end, just a new challenge"[/QUOTE]
No, Death wasn't afraid.
He [I]became[/I] Death.
[video=youtube;WEHgooGAm_k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEHgooGAm_k[/video]
I am sad that our adventures with Christopher Lee are over, but I am not sad for the life he had. He will remain a tremendous role-model for myself and many many others. Rest in peace.
[QUOTE=Velocet;47930052]Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.[/QUOTE]
White shores, and beyond... a far green country, under a swift sunrise.
[editline]11th June 2015[/editline]
Christopher Lee lived a full and amazing life. Rest in peace.
Fantastic Actor had a great innings.
What an amazing human being he was. An absolute presence and overall a complete gentlemen.
Let's not be sad but grateful we were born in a world with him in it.
Possibly the coolest old-school actor of all time. Sad to see him go, but you can't live forever. I am just glad he was still creatively active and fully aware of his surroundings all the way up to his 90s.
I don't think I have ever seen a man let alone a celebrity look that damn good in his late 80s and early 90s.
Also what amount of badass stuff did he do in his life? Some kind of record? He worked for the British Intelligence, played Dracula, Played Sauroman, met Tolkien himself and got the right to be apart of a live action LOTR movie if it ever happened and it did, made fucking metal albums in his late 80s. What a badass.
He was also a direct descendant to Charlemagne
[QUOTE=DEMONSKUL;47931315]He was also a direct descendant to Charlemagne[/QUOTE]
Praises to whom he sung at several occasions.
Christopher Lee is a modern times folks tale hero, dude's been and seen through more than a knight of the round table.
Thank you for being one of the greatest actors in the world. We'll miss you :(
NOOO! Not Count Dooku!
He lived a long and interesting life.
Acting in so many iconic films, wielding a powerful singing voice and volunteered to fight for my country back during the winter war.
I am really sad to see him go.
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Rest in peace, old man.
I came into this thread telling myself it was some other Christopher lee that died, not the one we all loved.
fuck i hate being wrong.
Here's to a legend
[video=youtube;QlTGKi-UA5k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTGKi-UA5k[/video]
At least he went out the way he wanted to, still doing what he loved. RIP
He almost became part of the Swedish royal family too:
[QUOTE]Lee was engaged for a time in the late fifties to Henriette von Rosen, whom he met at a nightclub in Stockholm. Her father, Count Fritz von Rosen, proved demanding, getting them to delay the wedding for a year, asking his London-based friends to interview Lee, hiring private detectives to investigate him, and asking Lee to provide him with references, which Lee obtained from Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Boulting and Joe Jackson. Lee found the meeting of her extended family to be like something from a surrealist Luis Buñuel film and thought they were "killing me with cream".Finally, Lee had to have the permission of the King of Sweden to marry.[/QUOTE]
Me and my girlfriend are going to watch "The Devil Rides Out" in memory tonight.
He is sorely, sorely missed.
He's not dead he's just gone to live with the elves in the west
This was written by an admin of a page I follow on Facebook, lots of interesting things in it.
[quote]Sir Christopher Lee has passed away at the age of 93. We will likely not see in our lifetimes another man so magnificent and extraordinary. It would not be much of an exaggeration to say that he was probably the most interesting person in the world at this time.
This was a man who not only played a James Bond villain in a movie, but INSPIRED James Bond in real life. His cousin was Sir Ian Fleming, Bond’s creator, and the two of them were, for lack of a better term, secret agents during World War II. Fleming worked for Naval Intelligence, but Lee found something greater. Winston Churchill personally commissioned his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, also known as the Special Operations Executive, which was a task force dedicated to espionage, sabotage, and general secretive Nazi-killing. They helped to train the infamous Auxiliary Units, autonomous bands of local militiamen established throughout Britain to sabotage public works and assassinate key officials who would collaborate in the event of a Nazi occupation of Britain, using tactics learned from the IRA; they were also instrumental in the development of the Independent Companies, precursors to the legendary British Commandos, themselves precursors to the SAS. What’s more, they operated out of Baker Street – as in Sherlock Holmes’s place of residence. Of course, they did get their hands dirty, traveling all throughout Europe, Africa, and even Southeast Asia (occupied and free territories alike) performing reconnaissance, launching daring raids, and aiding underground resistance. Lee personally served in North Africa as part of the Long Range Desert Patrol, another of the main predecessors to the SAS. To recap, Sir Christopher Lee was a Nazi-killing spy who operated under Winston Churchill as part of the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare out of Baker Street. I daresay you’d be hard-pressed to find something more inconceivably English than this. On His Majesty’s Secret Service indeed. Of course, he also served in the Finnish Army prior to this, wanting to protect Finland from the Soviet invasion in 1939, and during the war was decorated not only by the English government, but by those of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia as well.
As an actor, Christopher Lee became most known for his many appearances in Hammer horror films of the ’50s and ’60s, often alongside his dear friend Peter Cushing. His portrayal of Dracula was iconic, and is perhaps second only to that of Bela Lugosi in the public consciousness, if even that; he also portrayed Thor, Frankenstein’s monster, the Mummy (well, “a” mummy, really, but it’s “the” Mummy in the films), Rasputin, Mephistopheles, Fu Manchu, Ramses, Tiresias, Vlad the Impaler, Lucifer, and even Death itself. He was also well-known for his work in the world of Sherlock Holmes – not only being the only actor to portray both Sherlock and his brother Mycroft Holmes, but also playing Sir Henry Baskerville in the 1959 film adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. His performances in such films as the original Wicker Man and The House That Dripped Blood are legendary, as is the role he considered his greatest of all time, that of Pakistan’s founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, in the 1998 biopic Jinnah. Short of the handful of absurdly prolific Bollywood and Tollywood actors who have appeared in mind-boggling numbers of movies, Lee held the world record for most film appearances, at over 300; he certainly held the undisputed title in the West, beating out even such impressive career men as John Wayne and Elvis Presley. These days Lee is probably most known for his roles as Saruman (for which he was well-versed, being the only person involved in the films to have met J.R.R. Tolkien [even receiving his personal blessing to play Gandalf in the event of a film adaptation, though being too old at the time he instead played Saruman], and having made it a habit to re-read the trilogy every year since the late ’40s) and Count Dooku (a role for which he did all of his own stunts, being a world-class fencer). He holds the record for most onscreen sword fights, and was apparently the tallest leading actor in Hollywood (at 6’5″). He is also the highest-grossing actor of all time; as of several years ago, his films had made over $4.4 billion, and that was even before any of these new Hobbit films came out. He already led Harrison Ford, the second-highest, by a comfortable lead of a billion-and-a-half, so who can imagine where his record now stands?
Lee was also a musician, having trained as an opera singer and utilized his magnificent bass voice both onscreen and on record. He sang on the soundtrack to The Wicker Man, and in the film The Return of Captain Invincible sang a wonderful tune called “Name Your Poison,” penned by Richard O’Brien and Richard Hartley (of Rocky Horror [Picture] Show fame). He recorded multiple songs with Rhapsody of Fire, making him the oldest person to ever record a metal song (several times over), and provided narration for Manowar’s “Dark Avenger” on the 2010 re-recording of their debut album, taking over for the late Orson Welles in this capacity. In addition to all the opera and other classical pieces he recorded and released in his many years, he released his own symphonic/metal album in 2010, Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross. It was more of a symphonic album with some metal elements than an actual symphonic metal album, but its successor was much more full-on metal, and re-established him as the oldest metal performer ever. He inspired songs by Alice Cooper (“The Man With the Golden Gun”), Rob Zombie (“The Ballad of Resurrection Joe and Rosa Whore”), and an endless stream of other bands, most of whom were probably metal. Not only that, but Tony Iommi himself credited Lee with inspiring the earliest works and philosophy of Black Sabbath; Lee not only inspired individual metal songs, but the entire genre of heavy metal itself. In 2010, Iommi presented him with Metal Hammer’s Spirit of Metal Award, and later played guitar on his second Charlemagne-themed album, 2013’s The Omens of Death. He also held the record for oldest person to have a song make the charts, his 2013 single “Jingle Hell” making #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 when he was 91 years old.
Of course, his interest in Charlemagne was more than passing; if it weren’t already completely obvious from his stately bearing, regal stature, booming voice, and incredible sophistication and intellect, Lee was a direct descendant of Charlemagne, and was even allowed to bear his coat of arms. He was also distantly related to Robert E. Lee, was friends with Josip Broz Tito, had a scar on his hand from a drunken sword fight with Errol Flynn, received a medal from Mikhail Gorbachev, and apparently is the Center of the Hollywood Universe because he is only one degree away from Kevin Bacon and an average of 2.59 away from everyone else who has ever existed. He spoke many languages, with his knowledge of English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Swedish, Russian, Greek, and Mandarin ranging from fluent to conversational.
This is a man whose ancestors were prominent nobles of the Holy Roman Empire. This is a man who once gained the permission of the King of Sweden to marry a completely unrelated woman for no other reason than that her father demanded it. This is a man whose Badass of the Week article is so full to bursting that it cannot even be called an “article” so much as a laundry list of incredible things that he did in his life. This is a man who shortly informed Peter Jackson that he had intimate knowledge of the sound a person makes after being stabbed in the back and needed no coaching on his performance in Return of the King.
Sir Christopher Lee was the most extraordinary person we have had the good fortune to co-exist with. His services to cinema, music, literature, history, the cause of justice, and the general culture of our world will be forever remembered – and I am certain that we may never know the full extent of his many deeds and experiences. He was not only MY hero, he was A hero – and an institution, a treasure, a consummate professional, an artist, an inspiration, and, truly, a king. Rest in peace.[/quote]
My cousin made this today
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[QUOTE=Ignhelper;47931763]He almost became part of the Swedish royal family too:[/QUOTE]
Not only that, but he called it off with her, because he thought it wouldn't be right/fair with his relatively low wages for his career.
I was REALLY hoping this was a hoax.
Damnit Dooku!
The one person above all who I would have wanted to chat with at a convention dies
One of the most interesting people in the world has left us.
I guess the world will never know what other badass things he did during his life.
Reminds me of what he said about Peter Cushing,
"I don't want to sound gloomy, but, at some point of your lives, every one of you will notice that you have in your life one person, one friend whom you love and care for very much. That person is so close to you that you are able to share some things only with him. For example, you can call that friend, and from the very first maniacal laugh or some other joke you will know who is at the other end of that line. We used to do that with him so often. And then when that person is gone, there will be nothing like that in your life ever again."
Here's to many laughs to come with Peter Cushing and all the other screen legends who have gone before you Chris...
This man's a legend. He's been many things in life:
A Soldier...
A Count...
A Bond Villain...
A Detective...
A Vampire...
A Wizard...
A Jabbywocky(albeit a SHORT cameo)...
A Philosopher...
And a Hero.
He's one of my top five actors at least with Peter Cushing close behind. God I'm gonna miss him.
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