CHRISTOPHER LEE – HEART FAILURE

Christopher Lee achieved worldwide fame for his performance as Saruman on Lord of The Rings trilogy and 2 Hobbit movies as well Count Dooku in Star Wars Episode II and III. Before he became known with those roles, his film appearance began with the film Corridor of Mirrors in 1948 and had an uncredited role with the film Hamlet. Fast forward in 1957, the year he started working at Hammer Film Productions through the film The Curse of Frankenstein where he played The Creature and it stars his longtime friend Peter Cushing who played Victor Frankenstein.

Then on the following year, he played the titular role of Dracula in the eponymous film and it was considered as one of Time Out’s 100 best British films and let us give the film Dracula credit for introducing the fangs on the titular character which later became a fixture on other vampire characters on other vampire-related movies. He continued to play Dracula up until the 1973 film The Satanic Rites of Dracula. He also appeared in James Bond’s movie The Man With The Golden Gun playing the villainous Francisco Scaramanga. His last appearance was The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies in 2014 and passed away on the following year.