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Posted on 06/11/2015 5:38:58 AM PDT by Jonty30
Christopher Lee: he could turn schlock into Shakespeare
Christopher Lee, who has died at the age of 93, brought dignity and gravitas to the most fantastical of roles.
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I imagine Lee and Peter Cushing are having a bloody good reunion right now. Probably with some fine brandy and a couple of excellent cigars.
Christopher Lee allowed death to win this time, because his lightsaber talents were needed in the afterlife.
RIP Sir Lee
What a shame. Loved him in everything I’ve seen him in.
RIP!
He also read the LoTR Trilogy more than 25 times. Read through every year. He not only KNEW Tolkien...but he REALLY knew his mythology.
In a “Two Towers” commentary, Brad Dourif (Grima Wormtongue) explained how Christopher Lee taught him how to die on screen, based on Lee’s own experience in actually knifing Nazis in World War II.
Most big-name British actors come with classical training and are incredibly versatile, and they wind up acting circles around many of our celebrities.
Case in point: if you watch Raiders of the Lost Ark, you remember the performances of Denholm Elliot, Ronald Lacey, and John Rys-Davies much more than the bland monotone of Harrison Ford, who's just there to look handsome and not do much else.
You see this even more in B-movies when someone like Christopher Lee or Donald Pleasence was cast opposite B-list actors.
He made a great villain in the 1981 Chuck Norris flick “An Eye for an Eye”.
Hang onto those autographed Saruman cards.
Incredibly sad. A truly iconic figure. Memory eternal.
I didn’t know that was him in LOR. Wow! No wonder why the performance was so good. A great role to go out on. RIP
William Shatner was a Shakesperian actor. Everyone should go to the Stratford Festival in Ontario at least once in their lifetime. After that, you usually go back.
Andre the giant was much taller......
Wow, I still have some Famous Monsters of Filmland mags and some rarer ones like Monster Mania and Castle of Frankentein.
I saw Christopher Lee guest star in an Avengers (Diana Rigg era) episode and he even made that into an impact part.
But oh, for the late nights watching the Hammer films on the tube!
Another one bites the dust. Guy was in so many good to excellent shows I watched growing up. RIP!
Kindly remember he was Knighted.
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee.
They are reprinting all those mags. If you have issues 1,2,or 3 of the original Famous Monsters in Fine condition or better you could get up to 500 bucks apiece for them.
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