Date 11/06/2015 - News People
Prolific British actor Christopher Lee, whose specialty for villainy earned him roles as far and wide as Frankenstein's monster, the Mummy, Bond foe Scaramanga, Sith Lord Count Dooku and Saruman in The Lord of the Rings franchise, died Sunday in London. He was 93.
Lee had been admitted to Westminster Hospital for respiratory problems and heart failure. His wife, former Danish model and painter Gitte Kroencke, withheld the news in order to inform family first.
Born in 1922, Lee served in the Royal Air Force and Special Forces during World War II, and in 2011 told the Telegraph, "When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime."??
