BBC News_Sir Christopher Lee Screen legend dies aged 93

R.I.P. Christopher xx The world has lost a great actor

(27 May 1922 - 7 June 2015)

Obituary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12446345


Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was born on 27 May 1922, in the upmarket Belgravia area of London.

He spent part of his childhood in Switzerland, where his mother had taken him following the breakup of his parents' marriage, but later returned to England where he attended Wellington College in Berkshire.

In 1939, he volunteered to fight for Finland against the invading Soviet army but he saw no action and returned home to join the Royal Air Force.

Prevented from training as a pilot, due to poor eyesight, he became an intelligence officer, finishing the war as a Flight Lieutenant.

His career spanned seven decades, and he was still appearing on screen well into his eighties, notably in Peter Jackson's blockbusting trilogy, The Lord of the Rings and Tim Burton's Dark Shadows in 2012.