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Christopher Lee: Peter Cushing
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Even at age 86, standing in a London recording studio in a three-piece suit as he dictates lines into a microphone, Christopher Lee is an amazing presence. With a career spanning back to 19**, and a string of recent blockbusters that include Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and an important role in the Star Wars prequels, Lee may be one of the best-known actors still working today. Go ask your grandma about him and see how she swoons…
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Christopher Lee has defined the macabre for generations of horror film enthusiasts. His long film career began in 1947. In 1957, Lee appeared in his first Hammer Film Production, The Curse of Frankenstein, opposite Peter Cushing (Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars: A New Hope). With the success of Frankenstein, Lee would go on to star in numerous Hammer films throughout the 60s and early 70s, often co-starring with Cushing.
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Horror greats Vincent Price and Christopher Lee team up in a gruesome tale of a disfigured madman seeking "vengeance" on those around him, a mission of horror that transcends the grave. Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story. "The Olbong Box" ... stars Rupert Davies and Sally Gleeson. AKA: "Dance, Mephisto." Next, Peter Cushing joins fellow frightmeisters Lee and Price for a bizarre shocker about a doctor who's out to build his own race of super-beings...with the unwilling help of some organ transplant "donors"...in "Scream and Scream Again." You won't be able to stop screaming!
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Born May 27 1922 in London, England, Christopher Lee is, of course, perhaps the last great horror star. Although he has often complained about being pigeonholed as such, with reason considering that his lengthy filmography ranges from mainstream Hollywood product (The Crimson Pirate, Airport 77, The Man with the Golden Gun) to genuine cult items such as The Wicker Man (his own favourite, and featuring Aubrey Morris) and obscure works for such as Spanish sex/horror specialist Jesus Franco. Rather charmingly, Lee and Patrick Macnee are schoolfriends, and played Holmes and Watson in a pair of little-seen early 90's TV movies, under the banner The Golden Years of Sherlock Holmes. They can ... be glimpsed as extras in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, which was also the first film in which Lee and Peter Cushing worked together; for the record, Patrick can be seen, in a false beard, watching the play-within-the-play, and as if that wasn't enough future fantasy/horror stars, Patrick Troughton, the second Doctor Who, was the Player King! Lee also played Mycroft, the slightly smarter brother, in Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, which showed some of his overlooked talent for sardonic comedy, also hinted at in "The Interrogators."
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Legendary horror actor Christopher Lee stars in this trio of classic films. Lee gives his final performance as Dracula in Hammer Studios' The Satanic Rites of Dracula, once again battling Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing). Lee plays an anthropologist who unwittingly unleashes an ancient monster in Horror Express (with Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas). And in Horror Hotel, Lee's a member of a coven of witches discovered by a young researcher.
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This time it's not just London, but the entire world that must beware the infamous bloodsucker (Christopher Lee), who masquerades as a reclusive billionaire as he launches a plan to use a deadly virus to destroy all life on Earth. Hammer chiller ... stars Peter Cushing as Van Helsing, Michael Coles and Joanna Lumley. AKA: "Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride," "The Satanic Rites of Dracula." 82 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 2.0; trivia; scene access.
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