The British actor Christopher Lee, famous for living in the movie Dracula vampire role in the 1950s and 1960s and the antagonist of long white hair Saruman, the sagas “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit”, died on Sunday at 93 years due to respiratory problems. The information was released Thursday by the website of the British newspaper The Telegraph.
According to The Telegraph, citing sources close to the Lee family, the actor died at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. The artist was receiving treatment for three weeks due to cardiac and respiratory failure. On May 27, completed 93 years in the hospital.
According to the British website, Lee’s death announcement has only just been released because the actor’s wife, former actress and model Danish Gitte Lee (born Birgit Kroencke) decided to wait until all close relatives were notified. The couple were together for over 50 years and had a daughter, Christina Erika Lee, 53.
Lee was also known for giving life to Count Dooku, the “Star Wars” series (episodes II and III – “Attack of the Clones,” 2002, and “Revenge of the Sith”, 2005), the character Frankenstein and the villains who tried to disrupt the 007 missions in James Bond movies
Born in 1922, the British began his career in the 1950s and was considered one of the best actors of his time when, in 1958, played Count Dracula. Since then, he participated in dozens of film productions. In 2009, he received a knighthood (“Sir”) granted by the British Crown.
In November 2015, a feature film posthumous Lee will be released, the drama “Angels in Notting Hill” (Angels in Notting Hill).
Lee also had a musical career that began in 2004 when he was invited to narrate passages of music from Italian symphonic metal band Rhapsody of Fire. His performance was so well received that recorded a song on the album and also came to join three other group’s records.
In addition, the British actor collaborated on the remake of a metal band Manowar album and in 2012, recorded his second CD gender, “Charlemagne: The Omens of Death»., to celebrate his 90th birthday
A little over a year, in May 2014, Lee celebrated 92 years with the launch of a new heavy metal album entitled “Metal Knight.” The album was his third solo musical work.
The album brings together four original songs and three alternate versions. Among the tracks, there are two songs based on music of Don Quixote, classic character of Miguel de Cervantes; plus “The Toreador March”, the opera “Carmen” by George Bizet, and “My Way”, popularized in the voice of Frank Sinatra.
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