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Christopher Lee, a towering British movie actor and famous for Dracula films, has died. He was 93.
Of his roughly 250 movies and television roles, only 15 or so, he contended in a 2002 interview with The New York Times, had been in horror films. And that included at least 10 outings as Dracula, plus one as Frankenstein's monster and one as the Mummy.
But Lee also played the role of dying founder of Pakistan in Jinnah (1998).
He was born in London on May 27, 1922, the son of Lt. Col. Geoffrey Trollope Lee and Contessa Estelle Marie Carandini, a member of an old Italian family.
He had reached his full height of 6 feet 5 inches as a boy, which caused embarrassment and recalled in his autobiography 'Tall, Dark and Gruesome.'
Of his roughly 250 movies and television roles, only 15 or so, he contended in a 2002 interview with The New York Times, had been in horror films. And that included at least 10 outings as Dracula, plus one as Frankenstein's monster and one as the Mummy.
But Lee also played the role of dying founder of Pakistan in Jinnah (1998).
He was born in London on May 27, 1922, the son of Lt. Col. Geoffrey Trollope Lee and Contessa Estelle Marie Carandini, a member of an old Italian family.
He had reached his full height of 6 feet 5 inches as a boy, which caused embarrassment and recalled in his autobiography 'Tall, Dark and Gruesome.'
