Rod in Toronto Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Horror movie extraordinaire, and a career in heavy metal started at 91 years old...one of the last great names in horror has left us: http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/sir-christopher-lee-dead-at-93/ R.I.P... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satchmothesnowdog Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 He was a seriously cool dude and lived an awesome, full life RIP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtron Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombstone Mountain Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 An epic life. Proof that you get better as you age. "I'm more powerful than all the jedi" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Your_Lion Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 :( RIP to a Legend 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I'm absolutely devastated. Great man, total legend. Love him. Rest in peace... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D3strukt Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I saw that he passed away on sunday, but his wife wanted to allow time for everyone to settle before allowing it to go public. Good move. RIP Mr. Lee. One of the greats! (p.s. his symphonic metal stuff is great) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushman14 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 very sad but 93 years old is a long and hopefully happy life. http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--o4tegWQg--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/wz3knmnactzc9dk89n83.jpg 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueschica Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I'm sad to hear this. Pittsburgh had a horror movie show (Chiller Theater) Saturday nights for many years and a lot of the movies were Christopher Lee movies. I always enjoyed them. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x1yyz Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Oh no, how very sad :( RIP Mr Lee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satchmothesnowdog Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 He WAS Dracula. Played that role perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union 5-3992 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 RIP Christopher Lee. He's had such an amazing career right up till the very end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarizeMe Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Amazing actor, but also a seriously cool dude. I'll probably never be as cool as him at 93 (if I get to that age!). RIP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 This is VERY bad news for me. He's one of my absolute favourites and I've been following his stuff right up until today, including his heavy metal stuff! :haz: RIP Sir Christopher Here's some of his memorable roles: Most memorable rolesCount Dracula Dracula (1958)The Creature The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)Henry Baskerville The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)Lord Summerisle The Wicker Man (1973)Francisco Scaramanga The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)Dr Catheter Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)Mohammed Ali Jinnah Jinnah (1998)Saruman the White The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-3)Count Dooku Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 He was also a special forces guy during world war II, something he never really talked about. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezer Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 A great actor and an absolute gentleman from a golden era. "Hammer Horror won't leave me alone" (Kate Bush 1978) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueschica Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 (edited) Horror movie extraordinaire, and a career in heavy metal started at 91 years old...one of the last great names in horror has left us: http://www.blabbermo...lee-dead-at-93/ R.I.P... And I love how you changed your avatar, Rod. I hope you are feeling better these days! Edited June 11, 2015 by blueschica 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken hawk Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 :rose: Loved your movies.. God Bless and rest safely now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Pirate Robert Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Anybody keeping watch over his grave, ready with wooden stake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 (edited) I might just watch Fu Manchu on MST3K again in honor of him. RIP Dooku. Edited June 11, 2015 by invisible airwave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union 5-3992 Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 He was also a special forces guy during world war II, something he never really talked about.When filming Lord of the Rings, Wormtongue was supposed to kill Lee in a scene and Lee had to correct Jackson about the correct sound a man makes when a knife is plunged into their back. He was speaking from experience after driving one into a Nazi's lungs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 Horror movie extraordinaire, and a career in heavy metal started at 91 years old...one of the last great names in horror has left us: http://www.blabbermo...lee-dead-at-93/ R.I.P... And I love how you changed your avatar, Rod. I hope you are feeling better these days! Much better now, thanks! I wanted to change for another picture of mine, but it´s quite difficult to bring them down to less than 100kbytes, so I used this Maiden pic. It fits well, Powerslave was the first Maiden album I bought. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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treeduck Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 He was also a special forces guy during world war II, something he never really talked about.When filming Lord of the Rings, Wormtongue was supposed to kill Lee in a scene and Lee had to correct Jackson about the correct sound a man makes when a knife is plunged into their back. He was speaking from experience after driving one into a Nazi's lungs.Yeah here's more info on this: Christopher Lee: The real James Bond “I was attached to the SAS from time to time but we are forbidden – former, present, or future – to discuss any specific operations. Let’s just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like.” Christopher Lee was Ian Fleming’s cousin. Both were distantly related to Charlemagne - and Lee, in his 80s, released a heavy metal album named after his regal ancestor. Christopher Lee has an illustrious military past. As well as fighting for the SAS (then known as the Special Operations Executive or SOE), he also volunteered to fight for Finland in the Winter War prior to WW2, during WW2 fought in North Africa, and saw the concentration camps first hand. After WW2, he spent time hunting Nazi war criminals. It was on the set of the original Lord of the Rings trilogy that Peter Jackson and his crew were given a chilling hint of Lee’s past. Filming a scene in Return of the King (seen only in the extended version), when Grima Wormtongue (Brad Dourif) stabs Saruman in the back on top of the tower, Christopher Lee corrected Peter Jackson on the fact that when a person is stabbed in the back of the chest, they do not scream (as the director wanted), in fact the air is pushed out of their lungs and they “groan” with an exhalation of air, very quietly, as their lungs have been punctured. From Peter Jackson’s DVD commentary: “When I was shooting the stabbing shot with Christopher, as a director would, I was explaining to him what he should do… And he says, ‘Peter, have you ever heard the sound a man makes when he’s stabbed in the back?’ And I said, 'Um, no.’ And he says 'Well, I have, and I know what to do.’” The crew said that they knew Christopher Lee had been in the British Royal Air Force Intelligence Service in World War Two, and they didn’t really push him for more information about how he knew in such detail exactly what noise a person makes when this is done to them. He wouldn’t have told them anyway. When pressed by an eager interviewer on his SAS past, he leaned forward and whispered: “Can you keep a secret?” “Yes!” the interviewer replied, breathless with excitement. “So can I.” replied a smiling Lee, sitting back in his chair. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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