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Sir Christopher Lee's life to made into a documentry.

Started by Alex, May 20, 2024, 11:04:03 AM

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Alex

I can't imagine that it will shed much light on the wartime activities that he himself refused to talk about, but I'll be watching out for this one nonetheless.

QuoteSir Christopher Lee's military career is still shrouded in mystery.
The untold story of Sir Christopher Lee is set to be revealed in an upcoming documentary film.
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee features interviews with friends, family members and famous directors.
Jon Spira, from Headington, Oxford, had access to Lee's scrapbooks and 100 interviews from the British Film Institute's library.
The filmmaker tells the BBC the actor's life was an "incredible story" waiting to be told.
Lee starred in more than 250 films across eight decades, including the Hammer Horror, James Bond, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars franchises.
But as Spira's film explains, he had a military career during World War Two still shrouded in mystery, and helped track down Nazi war criminals.
"Because he could speak fluently a range of different languages he got pulled into the secret service doing missions of which the facts have never fully come out," Spira explains.
"His cousin was Ian Fleming and a lot of people think the character of James Bond was based on him.
"He certainly didn't do anything to disavow people of that.
"You could almost do this as two films. That's why we called it The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee, because his life is one story and his career is another."
Did you know that Sir Christopher Lee was...
1 Born into Italian aristocracy
2 A witness to the last public execution by guillotine
3 Introduced to Rasputin's assassins as a boy
4 A swordsman in an Errol Flynn film
5 The only person in the Lord of the Rings films to have met JRR Tolkien
6 An expert knife thrower
7 The oldest person to get on the Billboard music charts (with a Heavy Metal album)
Your kisses turn princes into frogs and passion plays into monologues.

Trevor

Ian Fleming was Sir Christopher's step cousin by marriage.
He served in my birth country during the war before being deployed to North Africa and then on to Italy.
He made several movies here including KILLER FORCE, THE CURSE 3 aka PANGA and the very disturbing THE WHISPERING DEATH.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

RCMerchant

Love Christopher Lee! I'll be looking out for it!  :thumbup:
"Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."

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Gabriel Knight

About time. I always thought this guy had a very interesting life.
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