Actor Christopher Lee Dead at 93

[Governor Megachris%Participant 3584]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11666316/christopher-lee-dies-live.html

Well, this stinks.  Not MGTOW-related, but this guy was my favorite actor and played my favorite Star Wars character (though the prequels were cheesy, he was easily my favorite part of it).  I also, of course, loved him as Saruman in Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit and as Dracula.

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Sir Christopher was a true artist.  He is probably best known for the numerous roles he played in a variety of movies he made for Britain’s Hammer Studios along with his friend Peter Cushing.

[Governor Megachris%Participant 3584]

I would actually LOVE to own the older movies he was in as well, especially the ones with Peter Cushing.  I was trying to think of some movies I wanted to add to my slowly growing collection, so this might be just down my aisle.

[experiencedParticipant]

Liked his movies but for some reason never scared by them. Not as unscary as Vincent Price, but not as scary as Anthony Hopkins.

"It seems like there's times a body gets struck down so low, there ain't a power on earth that can ever bring him up again. Seems like something inside dies so he don't even want to get up again. But he does."

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Megachris:

The Lee-Cushing movies that were made for Hammer show up on Turner Classic Movies once in a while.

One story I heard about Lee and Cushing was that, whenever they appeared together in a movie, scenes often had to be re-shot several times because the two of them would break out laughing during filming.

Another bit of trivia is that Sir Christopher was related to Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond:

http://wlmager.tumblr.com/post/42350397080/christopher-lee-the-real-james-bond-i-was

He certainly had an interesting life, didn’t he?

 

[AkibarangerParticipant 37]

He was my hero, I normally am indifferent to celebrity deaths but this one hit me (or maybe it’s just because I have the flu)

[KingOfTheSeaParticipant 1270]

Just read about this a couple of hours ago; a really depressing thing to have to read. I always remembered him best as “The Man with the Golden Gun” as my dad was an avid James Bond fan and we watched all the movies together when my brothers and I were kids. What an incredible person.

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