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Christopher Lee (1922- )

Date of Birth: 27 May 1922
Place of Birth: London, England, UK

Date of Death:
Place of Death:

Also Known As: Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (full name)

Given the huge amount of films that Lee has produced over the years, this filmography will be split into six pages, one for each decade that he's been making films

1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s

* = television
+ = computer games

GENRE FILMOGRAPHY

1948
Corridor of Mirrors (Charles)
La extraña cita - Spanish title
Im Banne der Vergangenheit - Austrian/West German title
Il mistero degli specchi - Italian title
Die Spiegelgalerie - Austrian title

Hamlet (spear carrier - uncredited)
Amleto - Italian title

NON-GENRE FILMOGRAPHY

1942
Went the Day Well (uncredited)
48 Hours - US title

1946
Kaleidoscope #3 (participant in Word Play segment) *

1947
Kaleidoscope #5 (participant in Word Play segment) *

My Brother's Keeper (2nd constable - scenes deleted)
Der Mann ohne Gewissen - Austrian / West German title
Vanki karkaa - Finnish title

One Night With You (Charles)

Penny and the Pownall Case (Jonathan Blair)

Saraband for Dead Lovers (Duke Anthony Von Wolfenbuttel - scenes deleted)
Königsliebe - West German title
Matrimonio de estado - Spanish title
La prisionera del castillo - Argentinian title
Saraband
Saraband for Dead Lovers - US title
Sarabanda tragica - Italian title
Sydämen yksinäisyys - Finnish title
Tödliche Liebe - Austrian title

1948
Song of Tomorrow (Auguste)
Song for Tomorrow
A Song for Tomorrow

Scott of the Antarctic (Bernard Day)
Scott, Etelänavan valloittaja - Finnish title
Scotts letzte Fahrt – Austrian / West German title
La tragedia del capitano Scott - Italian title

Trottie True (Bongo)
Il duca e la ballerina - Italian title
The Gay Lady - US title
Kultasydän tyttö - Finnish title
Trottie tanzt ins Glück - Austrian title

1949
They Were Not Divided (Chris Lewis)

Prelude to Fame (newsman)
Preludio - Spanish title
Die Sensation von San Marino – Austrian title
Das Wunder von San Marino - West German title

PERIODICALS

Castle of Frankenstein no.6 p9 (USA)
interview

Cinefantastique vol.30 no.5/6 p19 (USA)
interview

Cinefantastique vol.33 no.5 p.6 (USA)
interview

Entertainment Weekly no.247 p.80 (USA)
interview

Famous Monsters no.42 p.16 (USA)
interview

Fangoria no.1 (August 1979) pp.14-18, 66 (USA)
illustrated interview (Monster No More! by Roscoe Pound)

Fangoria no.188 p.27 (USA)
interview

Fangoria no.209 p.42 (USA)
interview

Femme Fatales vol.6 no.1 p.16 (USA)
interview

Filmfax no.80 p.60 (USA)
interview

Hammer Horror Special p.8 (UK)
article

House of Hammer no.1 p26 (UK)
article

The House That Hammer Built Dracula Special p.8 (UK)
interview

The House That Hammer Built no.16 pp.423; 432 (UK)
article; interview

Journal of Frankenstein no.4 p.64 (USA)
article

Midnight Marquee no.54 p.34 (USA)
article

Monster World no.7 p.40 (USA)
article

Outre no.26 p.47 (USA)
interview

Picturegoer 20 December 1958 p.4 (UK)
article

Scarlet Street no.4 p.40 (USA)
interview

Scarlet Street no.5 p.40 (USA)
interview

Scarlet Street no.44 p.44 (USA)
interview

Scarlet Street no.45 p.48 (USA)
interview

Shivers no.13 p.8 (UK)
interview

Shivers no.39 pp.14-15 (UK)
article

Shivers no.48 p.47 (UK)
article

Shivers no.50 p.18 (UK)
interview

Shivers no.51 p.32 (UK)
interview

Shivers no.87 p.34 (UK)
article

Shivers no.88 p.34 (UK)
article

Shivers no.98 p.18 (UK)
interview

Total Film no.72 (January 2003) p.62 (UK)
illustrated interview

Video Watchdog no.43 p.4 (USA)
article

BOOKS

Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and horror cinema: a filmography of their 22 collaborations by Mark A. Miller (Jefferson, NC: McFarland (1994))

Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History by Jonathan Rigby (Richmond: Reynolds and Hearn (2001))

Famous Film Stars Volume 1: Christopher Lee by G.R. Parfitt (ed.) (Bath: G.R. Parfitt (1971))

The Films of Christopher Lee by Robert W. Pohle and Douglas C. Hart (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press (1983))

Lord of Misrule: The Autobiography of Christopher Lee (London, UK: Orion (2003))

Tall, Dark and Gruesome (USA: Midnight Marquee Press Inc (1999))

OTHER SOURCES

Christopher Lee in discussion with Philip Strick (at the) National Film Theatre, 1st August (1973)
pamphlet produced by the British Film Institute as part of their John Player Lecture Series

Last Updated: 21 March, 2010