Christopher Lee S/D

search : In a Land Faraway. Lee plays a knight with a heart of stone and he's so evil that every time someone speaks his name there's a sudden gust of wind and the sky grows dark! That's how evil he is, see. And little American Psycho's in it, too. Not in the wind, in the film. Christopher Lee turns him into a seagull or something. But I digress. Christopher Lee is sitting around looking real evil and important throughout the film but in the end he gets up and swordfights some kid who cannot swordfight for shit. And Christopher Lee fights even worse than the kid! Intentionally, surely, so the kid actor doesn't lose face. Which shows that Christopher Lee may be a bad guy in the film but he surely is very nice in real life!

Search Dracula and Son too, while you're at it, that one's even awesome-r

Christopher Lee as Dracula is stone-cold classic, especially since Peter Cushing plays Van Helsing.

I think the first thing I saw him in was The Man With the Golden Gun, my favorite Bond movie, as the title character, Scaramanga.

Destroy: Many other Hammer films.

D: Howling II.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/10-best-christopher-lee-movies/

a brief but stellar performance. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRuUnXjMxZ0

greater than almost anyone in the field of horror. 93's too old to begrudge somebody their rest. glad we had him while we did.

agh him and Ornette on the same day is a blow

when is someone evil/deserving going to die, feel like it's all been people I love this year

apparently did a mean Foghorn Leghorn

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-christopher-lee-1922-2015

NP the film score from the 1959 The Mummy (which Lee considered the best looking and best scored film Hammer ever made)

Mentioned Jinnah as his fave role alongside Wicker Man:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183306/fullcredits

Kills it in the Lester Musketeers too.

RIP

his singing voice is fucking gorgeous

(listening to wicker man ost now)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNj-jqW8V2g&index=17&list=PLjh7tr226aahhGNHfySm5ZbgBZhLX91Vn

RIP a legend. Here is him in Starship Invasions, a movie about aliens that communicate via telepathy, with psychedelic mod set design and music.

RIP, i was way into the Hammer movies as a little kid. by the time the LotR movies came out i had no idea he was still alive, crazy that he did those in his early 80s.

RIP

somehow i did not know he was in the RAF

he'd been married nearly 55 years!

what a life, what an actor...

for his latter-day roles i imagine the directors saying something like, "for the villain, we need a christopher lee type..." and the casting director saying "i think christopher lee is available."

Jonathan Rigby wrote an excellent book about Lee's screen career, and his obituary here is, unsurprisingly, better informed than others I've read:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/obituaries/christopher-lee-1922-2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmANHj8Tn7A

RIP. I sort of met him once, he was very tall and quite frightening.

somehow i did not know he was in the RAF

I get the impression that he may or may not have played up the dangerousness of his time in the special forces, but it does bring us the story where he explains to Peter Jackson that no, that's perfectly fine, he does not require training in how to sound like a man who has just been stabbed in the back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vGkgC_5Ppo
Loved this guy, RIP. Here is a clip that does not feature him.

City of the

..Dead, AKA Horror Hotel?

It's a cheap but effective little chiller - a pre-Amicus horror movie produced by Milton Subotsky and Max J Rosenberg. There are few interesting visual/thematic similarities to Bava's Black Sunday, made in the same year (the Bava is far superior). It's not something I would go out of my way to see, if only for the simple reason than it has fallen into the public domain, so is incredibly common on DVD etc - the best home video version is from Redemption, as it includes a commentary track from Christopher Lee.

they're showing Black Sunday before it at BAM tonight, which i've seen and don't love.