Sir Christopher Lee in Dracula/The Horror of Dracula (1958)
On Friday, October 30th, 2009 (the day before Halloween), Christopher Lee was knighted by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace. As reported by AP and the BBC, Sir Christopher commented "A whole new career opened up for me when I was in Lord Of The Rings and Star Wars [Episode II: Attack of the Clones]. What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me too."
Born the son of a Lieutenant-Colonel in the King's Royal Rifle Corps and an Italian Contessa, Lee was often unhappy with being typecast in Hammer Films' Dracula series and has done excellent work in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), The Wicker Man (1973) and The Three Musketeers (1973) and its sequels, as well as The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Sleepy Hollow (1999) and on TV in "Gormenghast" (2000)
As busy as ever at the age of 87, Lee can soon be seen in Hammer's The Resident (2010), Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Robin Hardy's Wicker Man sequel The Wicker Tree (2010).
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