His name is synonymous with Count Dracula, his form, when he had to, scary, causing nightmares to teenagers who secretly watched his parents from their parents. Wearing his black bert and displaying the fiery hematical eyes and teeth, ready to suck blood, the blood of the spectators froze.
Christopher Leethe important and iconic, for the horror cinema, but also holds an inimitable record, for the protagonist of the 244 films, who played in his long career, and his life was so adventurous that it is difficult to believe.
The tall, near two meters, a British actor, but was not only the iconic Dracula, the role that made him famous, but also a performer who played everything and managed to get out of the cinematic costume. After all, his latest successes were in the films of famous cinematic franchisees ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Star War’.
Christopher Lee, a strong bone, will die ten years ago, at the age of 93, on June 7, 2015having spent a lot in his life, he left behind a particularly rich work and finally proving that he was an important actor, but also because of his charismatic and work deep voice, a good singer who interpreted operas, though his great love was his … heavy metal!
The beauty mother and the Colonel Father
He was born on May 27, 1922 in the western aristocratic London. His father was Colonel Jeffrey Stop and his mother was the Italian beauty Countess Estel Marie Marie Carantini Di Sarsano, a descendant of Emperor Charlemagne. His parents separated when he was just four years old, as his beautiful mother, painted by John Laveri, Oswald Birley and Olive Snell and imprinted by sculptor Claire Seridan, had been alienated from her military husband. He studied at the College of Wellington, where he learned ancient Greek and Latin, and then, with a particular inclination to foreign languages, will learn French, Spanish, German and Italian, and to some extent and Russian, Swedish and Chinese!
The incredible war and spy adventures
In 1939, months before the start of World War II, he lived in Paris for a while, where he was an eyewitness to the latest public execution with Gillotina, in 1939, he took part, as a volunteer, in the Soviet -fiery war, with the Finnish War, with the Finnish War, with the Finnish War, and the Finnish side of the Finnish War, with the Finnish side. groups. During World War II, he will be ranked in the Royal Air Force, but never flew due to eye problems. Thus, he became an intelligence officer, fighting the Nazis in North Africa, undertaking dangerous missions. He will take part in the recapture of Sicily, was infected six times in a year by malaria, and then transferred to Winston Churchill’s “Special Operations Exections”, whose missions are still secret, but concerned “conducting” spy and sabotage “.
Nazi hunter
Lee, who received praise for his bravery from many foreign states (Poland, Yugoslavia, Czech Republic, etc.), will see many deaths of men, torture and extreme images in battles, making him become familiar with death, and he was a death, War.
Cinematic terror
And while he had already lived many lives at the age of only 25, he would decide shortly thereafter, to deal with acting, which was suggested by his mother’s cousin, Nikolos Karantini, Italy’s ambassador to Britain. A friend and film producer, Nicolo Filipip Del Juniis, told him that he had all the features for a great career. Without knowing anything about acting, for several years he will devote himself to the profession, watching, listening and learning. In fact, his debut will make it in 1948 in the romantic “The Tower with the Mirrors”. He will play in several more films until the first horror films come. His first horror film, for the famous Hammer production company, will come in 1956 with the “Mask of Frankenstein”, playing the creature. Terrible and at the same time exaggerating, he will immediately become famous, and with co -star Peter Cashing next to him, they will create an irresistible twin playing together in more than 20 films.
Nature of nature
Shortly thereafter he would co -star with renowned Boris Carloff in the film “Corridors of Blood” (1958), and immediately afterwards he will star in “The Terror of Dracula” making another huge success. Christopher Lee’s Dracula is a power of nature, overwhelmed by anger, hypnotic, physically powerful, ruthless sex demon, who uses a look and voice, making women faint.
James Bond
Among the horror films she returned with Hammer, she turned many other films of different genres, and collaborated with huge names of acting and directing. In fact, he will find a step to take the role of James Bond, as Ian Fleming was his relative, but also from his first choices for the famous fictional spy, as in addition to the demand for the famous British phlegm, Lee had a great deal. Ultimately, the role will be played by the irresistible rayon Sean Connery, and Lee will have a role in a role in the film “James Bond, Agent 007: The Man with the Golden Pistol”, when the protagonist role had now passed on to Roger Moore.
Lord and to the younger
When he had left behind Dracula, Frankenstein, Fu Man Chu and other horror films, unmistakable, he would also play in some Franciscan films “The Star Wars”, while gaining a special popularity in a different younger audience, the 21st century, the 21st century.
Champion of fencing and knight
In addition to his unbeatable productive cinematic career, Lee was a fan of Heavy Metal and at the age of 88, the album “Charlemagne: By The Sword and the Cross” will be released, making him the oldest metal performer. But Christopher Lee, who had an unusual quiet emotional life (a marriage and a daughter), was also a world champion of fencing, an excellent golf player, and he became a knight, received many honors and won the Award.
Christopher Lee, who believed that “comedy is by far the most difficult kind of the rest” and that in cinema “we have to admit that evil is very often much more interesting than good”, he will remain in history as the most beloved Dracula of the Cinephille, though
Source :Skai
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