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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 756 |
| | Posted: | | | | Extracted from the BBC Website:
"Veteran horror star Christopher Lee.....has been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
Lee, 87,....who has more than 250 film and TV appearances to his name, became famous in the Hammer Horror movies of the 1950s and 1960s.
More recently, he appeared as Saruman in The Lord Of The Rings trilogy and Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequels.
He is still working and a representative said he was unavailable for comment on his knighthood as he was filming in New Mexico." | | | | Chris |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | About time too. If any of our actors deserve a Knighthood it's him. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,587 |
| | Posted: | | | | Marvellous news!  | | | In the end; Winning is the only safety.
Kerr Avon
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| Registered: March 16, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 943 |
| | Posted: | | | | Sir Christopher Lee. That sounds good. He deserves it. | | | Just in from somewhere left of the middle of nowhere
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | I always enjoy him telling stories in any DVD special features he appears in. Well done! | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | One of my favorite actors. It's about time too, he deserves it without a doubt. | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | Pretty good year for recognition, with him appearing on the British Hammer films postage stamps recently too. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Posts: 158 |
| | Posted: | | | | Remembering a couple of his more interesting roles:
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace -- a German production ruined by Lee's voice being dubbed as were those of the non-English-speaking cast by some anonymoid. Lee also played Holmes with his own voice in a couple more recent productions with Patrick McNee and Watson, as well as playing Sir Henry in one of the best screen versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Serial -- Lee playing a cutthroat executive with a secret avocation involving leather and horsepower. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Good thing he got it now. At 87 he's already lived longer than most of his contemporaries. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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