Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee was an actor.

Lee played evil fictional characters who thanked other evil characters for doing his work for him. (PROSE: The Face of the Enemy)

Jo Grant expected Grigori Rasputin to look like a suave and demonic Christopher Lee. She was surprised to see that he looked completely different. (PROSE: The Wages of Sin)

Behind the scenes

Christopher Lee often appeared alongside Peter Cushing in Hammer Horror films, and in this capacity played Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, against Cushing's Van Helsing and Frankenstein. In his role in the aforementioned 1964 film The Gorgon, he also starred opposite Peter Cushing.

He has also portrayed at various points both Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, and played Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequels, and Saruman in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.