He was a "passable" racquets player and fencer and a competent cricketer but did not do well at the other sports played: hockey, football, rugby and boxing. Aside from a "tiny part" in a school play, he did not act while at Wellington. His step-father was not prepared to pay the higher fees that being an Oppidan Scholar meant, so instead he attended Wellington College, where he won scholarships in the classics, studying Ancient Greek and Latin. His poor maths skills meant that he was placed eleventh, and thus missed out on being a King's Scholar by one place. He continued acting in school plays, though "the laurels deservedly went to Patrick Macnee." Lee applied for a scholarship to Eton, where his interview was in the presence of the ghost story author M.R. When Lee was nine, he was sent to Summer Fields School, a preparatory school in Oxford, some of whose pupils later attended Eton. One night, he was introduced to Prince Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, the assassins of Grigori Rasputin, whom Lee was to play many years later. The family moved to Fulham, living next door to the actor Eric Maturin.
Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, thus became Lee's step-cousin. They then returned to London, where Lee attended Wagner's private school in Queen's Gate, and his mother married Harcourt George St-Croix Rose, a banker and uncle of Ian Fleming. After enrolling in Miss Fisher's Academy in Territet, he played his first role, as Rumpelstiltskin. During this time, his mother took his sister and him to Wengen in Switzerland. Lee's parents separated when he was four and divorced two years later. He had an elder sister, Xandra Carandini Lee (1917–2002). Lee's maternal great-grandfather, Jerome Carandini, the Marquis of Sarzano, was an Italian political refugee his wife, Lee's great-grandmother, was English-born opera singer Marie Carandini ( née Burgess). Lee's father fought in the Boer War and First World War, and his mother was an Edwardian beauty who was painted by Sir John Lavery, Oswald Birley, and Olive Snell, and sculpted by Clare Sheridan. Lee was born on in Belgravia, London, the son of Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Trollope Lee (1879–1941) of the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps, and his wife, Countess Estelle Marie ( née Carandini di Sarzano 1889–1981). He was honoured with the "Spirit of Hammer" award at the 2010 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards ceremony. The heavy metal follow-up Charlemagne: The Omens of Death was released in 2013 on Lee's 91st birthday. Known as an actor with a deep, strong voice, Lee also sang, recorded opera and musical pieces between 19, and the symphonic metal album Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross in 2010, after having worked with several metal bands since 2005. Following his World War II service he retired from the RAF in 1946 with the rank of flight lieutenant.
260 Squadron RAF as a liaison officer for the Special Operations Executive. Prior to his acting career, Lee served in the Royal Air Force as an intelligence officer, attached to the No. He frequently appeared opposite his friend Peter Cushing in horror films, and late in his career had roles in five Tim Burton films. He considered his best performance to be that of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998), and his best film to be the British cult film The Wicker Man (1973). He credited three films for making his name as an actor, A Tale of Two Cities (1958), in which he played the villainous marquis, and two horror films, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), and Dracula (1958). Lee was knighted for services to drama and charity in 2009, received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011, and received the BFI Fellowship in 2013. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in several Star Wars films (2002–2008), and Saruman in both the Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and the Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014). In a long career spanning more than 60 years, Lee often portrayed villains, and appeared as Count Dracula in seven Hammer Horror films, ultimately playing the role nine times. Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE CStJ ( – 7 June 2015) was an English actor and singer.
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