Sir Christopher Lee met Rasputin's assassins, saw the last guillotine execution, hunted Nazis, recorded a heavy metal album, spoke 9 languages, was Ian Fleming's cousin (James Bond) & was the only actor in “The Lord of the Rings” to have met J.R.R. Tolkien
And it's all out there for the doing.
ReplyDeleteExcellent role model.
a real old school gentleman badass who didn't have to talk about what he did or had done. others did it for him ! he was a class act no matter how one looks at it.
ReplyDeleteHe surely played his roles as a badass to a T very well. Godspeed dude.
ReplyDeleteChristopher was born in 1922 and Kieth Richards was in attendance.
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere Keith was the busboy at the Last Supper.
DeleteI still remember what it took to finally get rid of Rasputin. Are we sure he’s dead?
ReplyDeleteBest story is when a Director asked him if he knew how to stab someone with a knife. Since he worked behind the lines in WW2, he described how to do it silently and the noises made when the stabee expired. Bad ass of the century.
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Age 17 when WWII broke out, and still believably badass as Count Dooku, at the age of 86, and Saruman at 92 in the last installment of The Hobbit, the year before he passed away.
ReplyDeleteAfter a brief non-combat stint in Finland during their war with Russia, his entire military service was in the RAF, where he was medicaled out of ever flying before graduating flight training, he was a squadron intelligence officer. He did no behind-the-lines work in any theater, and likely the closest he got to slitting any throats was cutting prime rib in a London restaurant, though he was briefly attached to the 8th Infantry (Gurkha) Division in Italy as a liason officer.
He was a well-known embellisher of his wartime service, and cheerfully let wilder tales of his imaginary exploits continue uncorrected his entire life.