The passing of the great Christopher Lee
When I told my husband, he said, "He can't die, he's Dracula."
I've known his work all my life. Long before others discovered him as Saruman in "The Lord of the Rings" I knew him as Dracula, and Scaramanda in the James Bond movies, and Sherlock Holmes. He had one of those voices that made me swoon, and I could recognize it anywhere.
Here is his obituary. I would love to see the movie on Pakistan in which he played Jinna.
He was 93, which is a good age, but I will still miss him. May you thrive a...
I've known his work all my life. Long before others discovered him as Saruman in "The Lord of the Rings" I knew him as Dracula, and Scaramanda in the James Bond movies, and Sherlock Holmes. He had one of those voices that made me swoon, and I could recognize it anywhere.
Here is his obituary. I would love to see the movie on Pakistan in which he played Jinna.
He was 93, which is a good age, but I will still miss him. May you thrive a...
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Jun 18, 2015 02:37PM
He could do genial and twinkle-eyed as well. On an obscure, otherwise-dreadful TV series called The New Adventures Of Robin Hood, he played a kindly wizard called Olwyn, who had a holographic "watch dragon" at his gate. And when the Tolkien Consort started recording all of Tolkien's songs he played a delightful Treebeard, complete with 'harrumphs' - he could sing, of course, he had an operatic basso profundo voice - and yet, in his old age, he got right into heavy metal!
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