Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93
telegraph.co.uk
Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93
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#2RIP :(
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#3A life well lived.
RIP Sir Christopher Lee
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#4A true legend. RIP Sir.
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#5Even though he had quite a varied career, the first and most profound impression he had on me was his voice-acting in "The Last Unicorn".
I always felt that most of his later roles, what the telegraph calls "among the most fruitful" years, were too much of a type-cast.
requiescat in pace
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#6A sad loss, he was a seemingly constant presence in my childhood, as he would frequently pop up in children's TV shows. I'm very glad that, within his lifetime, he eventualy recieved some of the recognition he so greatly deserved.
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#7He volunteered to fight for the Finnish forces in the Winter War against the Soviets and was then in the proto-SAS:
"I was attached to the SAS from time to time but we are forbidden – former, present, or future – to discuss any specific operations. Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read in to that what they like."
That's quite impressive!
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#8He volunteered to fight for the Finnish forces in the Winter War against the Soviets and was then in the proto-SAS: "I was attached to the SAS from time to time but we are forbidden – former, present, or future – to discuss any specific operations. Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read in to that what they like." That's quite impressive! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_…
I remember, from the commentaries for The Lord Of The Rings, Peter Jackson saying that Cristopher Lee used his experience in the war to suggest how to make some death scenes more realistic. For sure he had a varied life.
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#9He volunteered to fight for the Finnish forces in the Winter War against the Soviets and was then in the proto-SAS: "I was attached to the SAS from time to time but we are forbidden – former, present, or future – to discuss any specific operations. Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read in to that what they like." That's quite impressive! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_…
There's the story of filming the scene in Lord of the Rings where Saruman is stabbed in the back by Wormtongue.
From Peter Jackson's DVD commentary:
When I was shooting the stabbing shot with Christopher, as a director would I was explaining to him what he should do"... "And he says, 'Peter, have you ever heard the sound a man makes when he’s stabbed in the back?' And I said, 'Um, no.' And he says 'Well, I have, and I know what to do.'"
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#10RIP.
IMDB lists 281 acting credits, from 1946 to 2016.