Christopher Lee
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Christopher Lee (b. 1922) is a prolific British actor whose film career has spanned nearly six decades, and who has been distinguished by his deep erudite voice and his height (at 6 foot five inches, he's registered in the Guiness Book of Records as the world's tallest leading actor). He played Tiresias in the 1998 Creature Shop TV movie The Odyssey.
Lee began his film career in the 1940s, with small parts in movies like Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (as a spear carrier, the quintissential Shakespearean bit part), and continued in slightly larger roles, often as exotic ethnic types. In 1957, Lee began his long association with Hammer Studios, the British firm specializing in horror movies, playing the monster in The Curse of Frankenstein, and would soon be cast in the iconic role of Dracula. He reprised the role in six more films, and also played the stereotyped Chinese villain Fu Manchu in a low-budget series. In Sherlock Holmes adaptations, Lee had the distinction of playing Sir Henry Baskerville (The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1959), Holmes himself (in the German film Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace, 1962 and Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady, 1992), and Mycroft Holmes (The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970). Still more villainous portrayals ranged from the infamous Russian Rasputin (Rasputin: the Mad Monk) and the unseen "Mr. Owen" (Ten Little Indians, 1966), to Scaramanga in the James Bond entry The Man with the Golden Gun and Rochefort in The Three Musketeers (1973).
Lee has remained active in recent decades, including a showy supporting role as mad geneticist Dr. Catheter in Gremlins II: The New Batch, spoofing his horror resume, and the voice of Death in several animated adaptations of Terry Pratchett's DiscWorld books. In the last five years, the actor has been particularly prominent as key villains in two sci-fi/fantasy franchises, playing the treacherous wizard Saruman in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus in the Star Wars entries Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. For Tim Burton, Lee appeared in Sleepy Hollow (as the burgomaster), The Corpse Bride (voice of Pastor Gallswothy), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Dr. Wilbur Wonka).
