Christopher Lee dies

Sir Christopher’s career began in the 1940s, but it was the 1958 film Dracula Has Risen From The Grave that made him a star.

  More Dracula films followed in 1960s for the Hammer studio, but the actor was keen to move on.
 In a 2011 interview with the Telegraph, he said: “Please don’t describe me as a ‘horror legend’. I moved on from that.”

 His memorable roles included Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man (1973) and Scaramanga in The Man With The Golden Gun (1974). He had a personal connection to James Bond: Ian Fleming, Bond’s creator, was his cousin.
 Sir Christopher was knighted in 2009 and received a Bafta fellowship in 2011, and said he would never retire. “I hate being idle. As dear Boris [Karloff] used to say, when I die I want to die with my boots on.”

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