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Amerigo Vespucci

(30,885 posts) Sat Apr 20, 2013, 12:37 PM Apr 2013

Sir Christopher Lee...an overview.

Just got my copy of "Dracula Prince Of Darkness" from Amazon yesterday and I'm going to put it on as soon as I finish this post.

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Sir Christopher Lee...an overview. (Original Post) Amerigo Vespucci Apr 2013 OP

he is definitely an interesting man! Flaxbee Apr 2013 #1

He's been one of my favorite actors for almost as long as I've been alive. Aristus Apr 2013 #2

+1 Joe Shlabotnik Apr 2013 #3

Re his WWII SAS service. sarge43 Apr 2013 #4

Flaxbee

(13,661 posts)

1. he is definitely an interesting man!

Reply to Amerigo Vespucci (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2013, 11:42 PM

Apr 2013

I had no idea about any of that --- will have to read his bio!

On edit - his niece is Harriet Walter - who played Harriet Vane so wonderfully in the Mystery adaptations of Dorothy Sayers' novels.

Step-cousin of Ian Fleming

Met JRR Tolkien

Aristus

(66,267 posts)

2. He's been one of my favorite actors for almost as long as I've been alive.

Reply to Amerigo Vespucci (Original post)

Sun Apr 21, 2013, 01:59 AM

Apr 2013

I started watching the Hammer horror flicks when I was about nine. I had fairly open-minded parents.

Christopher Lee rocks. Even as he heads into his nineties...

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)

3. +1

Reply to Aristus (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 21, 2013, 02:22 AM

Apr 2013

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Peter Cushing, Ingrid Pitt, the Collinson twins as well as Christopher Lee made for wonderful viewing as a kid. Cheap budget, gothic and cool combined.

sarge43

(28,940 posts)

4. Re his WWII SAS service.

Reply to Amerigo Vespucci (Original post)

Sun Apr 21, 2013, 05:58 AM

Apr 2013

Someone was bugging him for details. When he had enough, he said, "Can you keep a secret?" "Yeah, yeah." "Well, so can I."

He's been married to his wife, Birgit Kroenche, since 1961.

Class act, both on and off the screen.

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