In London, a 94-year life died the legendary British actor Sir Christopher Lee.
According to The Daily Telegraph with reference to the widow of the actor, the star of “Lord of the Rings”, “Star Wars” and James Bond, died on Sunday at London’s Chelsea and Westminster hospital after three weeks treatment due to problems with breathing and heart complaints.
The decision to announce the death of the actor only a few days later it was the desire of his wife, with whom the actor had lived together for more than 50 years.
Christopher Lee has appeared in over 250 films, 69 of them in horror films. He became famous as a performer of roles of Count Dracula, the wizard Saruman in the trilogy “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit”, Count Dooku in the second and third episodes of “Star Wars”, the main villain Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film “The Man With The Golden Gun” (1974 ), Rasputin, Count Rochefort and other kinozlodeev.
It should be noted that played Saruman in the film adaptations of novels by John. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Lee was personally acquainted with the writer.
Lee recorded several albums, including two albums in the genre of symphonic metal. His last album, “Charlemagne: The Omens of Death” came out in 2013, when the actor was 91. Lee became the oldest musician ever to release an album in the genre of heavy metal.
In June 2009, he became a Knight Bachelor, which allowed him to use the title Sir.
My condolences on the death of the actor has already expressed on Twitter London Mayor Boris Johnson.
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