NEW YORK: Christopher Lee, a towering British movie actor who lent his distinguished good looks, Shakespearean voice and aristocratic presence to a gallery of villains, from a seductive Count Dracula to a dreaded wizard in "The Lord of the Rings," has died. He was 93.
His death was confirmed by an official for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, The Associated Press reported.
Lee was 35 when his breakthrough film was released: Terence Fisher's British horror movie "The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957), in which he played the creature. But it was a year later, when he played the title role in Fisher's "Dracula," that his cinematic identity became forever associated with Bram Stoker's noble, ravenous vampire, who in Lee's characterization exuded a certain lascivious sex appeal.
When the film was reissued in 2007, Jeremy Dyson of the British newspaper The Guardian wrote, "Lee's count is piercingly rapt, a fierce carnal evil burning behind his flashing eyes."
Christopher Lee, British Actor Who Dead At 93
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