Christopher Lee fekk útbúgving á ensku skúlunum Eton og Wellington College, áðrenn hann gjørdist soldátur, fyrst sum sjálvboðin á finsku síðuni í Finsk-Sovjettiska Vetrarkrígnum, síðan í bretska flogvápninum undir seinna veraldarkríggi.
Eftir kríggið byrjaði hann sjónleikarakarrieru sína. Hansara filmsdebut var í Corridor of Mirrors frá 1948, og síðan hevði hann nógvar leiklutir í ræðu- og krimifilmum, m.ø. Dracula, Frankenstein og James Bond. Eisini hevur hann havt nógvar leiklutir í sjónvarpsfilmum og serium.
Christopher Lee hevur eina djúpa, myndiga rødd og dámar væl at syngja opera. Hann tosar fleiri mál og hevur m.a. eisini lagt týska rødd til danska filmin Valhalla frá 1986.
Familja
Christopher Lee stavar frá aðalsættini Carandini og er í familju við Ian Fleming, sum skrivaði bøkurnar um James Bond. Hann hevur síðan 1961 verið giftur við donsku eksmodellini Birgit Krøncke og eigur eina dóttur, Christina Erika Lee. Í 2001 bleiv hann útnevndur til "Commander of the Order of the British Empire" av bretsku drotningini.
Christopher Lee hevur havt leiklutir í 266 filmum síðan 1948, og bleiv sligin til riddara í 2009.
Filmografi
Corridor of Mirrors (1948)
One Night with You (1948)
Hamlet (1948)
Penny and the Pownall Case (1948)
Song of Tomorrow (1948)
My Brother's Keeper (1948)
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
Trottie True (1949)
They Were Not Divided (1950)
Prelude to Fame (1950)
Valley of Eagles (1951)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R. N. (1951)
The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Top Secret (1952)
Paul Temple Returns (1952)
Babes in Bagdad (1952)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953)
Innocents in Paris (1952)
Destination Milan (1954)
Man in Demand (1955)
Crossroads (1955)
Moby Dick Rehearsed (1955) SV filmur
Final Column (1955)
That Lady (1955)
The Vise, í partinum "The Final Column" (1955) og "Price of Vanity" (1955)
Police Dog (1955)
The Dark Avenger (1955)
Tales of Hans Anderson, í partinum "Wee Willie Winkie" (1955) og "The Cripple Boy" (1955)
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
Storm Over the Nile (1955)
The Adventures of Aggie, í partinum "Cut Glass" (1956)
Alias John Preston (1956)
Private's Progress (1956)
The Scarlet Pimpernel, í partinum "The Elusive Chauvelin"(1956)
Colonel March of Scotland Yard , í partinum "At Night All Cats Are Grey" (1956)
Port Afrique (1956)
Beyond Mombasa (1956)
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents (1953-1956) SV seria
Sailor of Fortune, í partinum "The Desert Hostages" (1956) og "Stranger in Danger" (1956)
The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
Errol Flynn Theater (1957) Sjónvarpsseria
I'll Met by Moonlight (1957)
Fortune Is a Woman (1957)
The Traitor (1957)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Manuela (1957)
The Gay Cavalier, í partinum "The Lady's Dilemma" (1957)
Amère victoire (1957)
The Truth About Women (1957)
Assignment Foreign Legion, í partinum "As We Forgive" (1957) og "The Anaya" (1957)
O.S.S., í partinum "Operation Firefly" (1958)
Ivanhoe, í partinum "The German Knight" (1958)
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
White Hunter, í partinum "This Hungry Hell" (1958)
Dracula (1958)
The Battle of the V.1 (1958)
Corridors of Blood (1958)
William Tell, í partinum "Manhunt" (1959)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
The Treasure of San Teresa (1959)
The Mummy (1959)
Tales of the Vikings, í partinum "The Bull" (1960)
Too Hot to Handle (1960)
Beat Girl (1960)
The City of the Dead (1960)
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
The Hands of Orlac (1960)
The Terror of the Tongs (1961)
Taste of Fear (1961)
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, í partinum "The Sorcerer" (1961)
Das geheimnis der gelben Narzissen (1961)
The Devil's Agent (1961)
Ercole al centro della terra (1961)
Straglehold (1962)
Das rätsel der roten Orchidee (1962)
The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
Tempi duri per i vampiri (1962)
Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes (1962)
Katarsis (1963)
La vergine di Norimberga (1963)
La frusta e il corpo (1963)
Il castello dei morti vivi (1964)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, í partinum "The Sign of Satan" (1964)
La cripta e l'incubo (1963)
The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964)
The Gorgon (1964)
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
She (1965)
The Skull (1965)
Ten Little Indians (1965) (stem)
The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)
Theatre of Death (1966)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
Circus of Fear (1966)
The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)
Night of the Big Heat (1967)
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)
Five Golden Dragons (1967)
Die schlangengrube und das Pendel (1967)
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
The Face of Eve (1968)
The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
The Avengers, í partinum "Never, Never Say Die" (1967) og "The Interrogators" (1969)
Light Entertainment Killers (1969) SV filmur
The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
The Oblong Box (1969)
The Magic Christian (1969)
Scream and Scream Again (1970)
Umbracle (1970)
The Bloody Judge (1970)
Count Dracula (1970)
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
One More Time (1970)
Julius Caesar (1970)
Eugenie (1970)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Scars of Dracula (1970)
The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
I, Monster (1971)
Hannie Caulder (1971)
Death Line (1972)
Nothing But the Night (1972)
Dracula AD 1972 (1972)
Dark Places (1973)
The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Poor Devil (1973) SV filmur
Great Mysteries, í partinum "The Leather Funnel" (1973)
Horror Express (1973)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
The Wicker Man (1973)
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
Diagnosis: Murder (1975)
Le boucher, la star et l'orpheline (1975)
Albino (1976)
The Keeper (1976)
Killer Force (1976)
Space: 1999, í partinum "Earthbound" (1976)
To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
Dracula père et fils (1976)
Airport '77 (Airport '77) (1977)
Meatcleaver Massacre (1977)
End of the World (1977)
Starship Invasions (1977)
How the West Was Won (1978) SV miniseria
Return from Witch Mountain (1978)
Caravans (1978)
The Pirate (1978) SV filmur
Circle of Iron (1978)
The Passage (1979)
Nutcracker Fantasy (1979) (rødd)
Arabian Adventure (1979)
Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979) SV filmur
Jaguar Lives! (1979)
Bear Island (1979)
1941 (1979)
Horror Show (1979)
Serial (1980)
Once Upon a Spy (1980) sjónvarpsfilmur
Charlie's Angels, í partinum "Angel in Hiding" (1980)
The Salamander (1981)
Evil Stalks This House (1981) sjónvarpsfilmur
Desperate Moves (1981)
An Eye for an Eye (1981)
Goliath Awaits (1981) sjónvarpsfilmur
Safari 3000 (1982)
Massarati and the Brain (1982) sjónvarpsfilmur
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story (1982) sjónvarpsfilmur
The Last Unicorn (1982) (stem)
The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)
New Magic (1983)
House of the Long Shadows (1983)
The Far Pavilions (1984) SV miniseria
Faerie Tale Theatre, í partinum "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers" (1984)
The Rosebud Beach Hotel (1984)
Mask of Murder (1985)
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch (1985)
Un métier du seigneur (1986) sjónvarpsfilmur
The Disputation (1986) sjónvarpsfilmur
The Girl (1986)
The Mind of David Berglas, í partinum "Episode #1.1" (1986)
