Arts > Movies > Actors > List > Christopher Lee   1922-2015

Christopher Lee, pictured in 1959,

studied method acting at Rank’s ‘charm school’,

but recognised theatre was not his strength

and never went near the stage again.

Photograph: Everett/Rex Shutterstock

Christtopher Lee obituary

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Thursday 11 June 2015    14.38 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/11/
christopher-lee

Christopher Lee, who played Summerisle,

once said that he had had to cope with a ‘garrulous producer,

an underpaid and harassed writer and an overpaid and hostile director’

on the set of the film.

Photograph: Album/Alamy

‘An unkind film’:

letters reveal rift between director and writer of The Wicker Man

Exclusive: Documents show ‘hostile’ director and ‘self-indulgent’ writer

were at loggerheads during production of 1973 cult horror film

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Mon 6 Oct 2025    07.00 CEST

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/06/
an-unkind-film-letters-reveal-rift-between-director-and-writer-of-the-wicker-man

Christopher Frank Carandini Lee    UK    1922-2015

actor known

for villainous or sinister roles

in films from Hammer horror to James Bond

and The Lord of the Rings

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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