Review Christopher Lee

chainsaw_metal1

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Probably the last of the gentleman actors. Guys like him, Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and Basil Bathbone were not only known for their turns in horror movies, but also being well-read, cultured gentlemen who were also great actors. You would be hard pressed to find actors of that caliber in this day and age.

Lee was such a reader that he would often go into roles knowing more about the source material than the filmmakers. When he went in to do his lines for the animated film The Last Unicorn, he actually took his copy of the book, and made sure that the creators didn't leave vital parts out of the movie. I assume he finished that by dropping the book, giving them a stern look, and saying "I just dropped some knowledge on you bitches", before flashing them the peace sign and having fireworks explode behind him. He also recorded two heavy metal album, which makes him more badass than most badasses on the planet.

Of course, there's the fact that he was politically on the right, but nobody can be perfect.
 

Doctor Omega

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I remember his anecdote about when he and Peter Cushing were working on the low budget - but great in it's own way - HORROR EXPRESS. They were stuck in some unknown locale and Lee admitted that he was grumbling relentlessly to Peter about the whole, as he saw it, fiasco.

He said that eventually Peter turned around and quietly said "Well, there's no point in grumbling about it old chap!" and Christopher said that he felt that he had been severely told off, because it was coming from Peter and stopped on the spot!

Yes, two wonderful gentlemen. I wrote to Peter Cushing just after Hammer House of Horror's The Silent Scream had been broadcast in 1980. He sent a lovely signed photo of Grand Moff Tarkin that had my name on it and said "May God's blessings be with you always, in all sincerity, Peter Cushing".

Yes, you are right. They were what they seemed. I think that there are no genuine people of their calibre nowadays. If you are ever in the U.K., a nice place to visit is Whitstable, Kent, where Peter lived, bicycled around and was well loved by the locals. There is a bench in his honour you can sit on - and a pub/bar named after him.

1 peter cushing pub.jpg


https://whitstableviews.wordpress.c...fect-place-for-an-actor-who-sought-obscurity/



https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pubs/all-pubs/england/kent/the-peter-cushing-whitstable


Peter Cushing OBE was known for his many roles in ‘Hammer Horror Films’ and his numerous appearances as the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Cushing first visited Whitstable in the 1940s and, in 1958, bought a house, initially for weekend use and then as a retirement home, until his death in 1994. Cushing and his wife, Helen, loved Whitstable and the townspeople took to them. A local beauty spot, near the bottom of High Street, has been named Cushing’s View

His appreciation society.....


http://petercushingblog.blogspot.co.uk/
 

Doctor Omega

Member: Rank 10
This an abridged, dramatised version that Christopher Lee recorded for vinyl release in the mid 1960's for an american record company. It was available by mail order thru the magazine Castle of Frankenstein. Joe Dante, future director of Gremlins, and the Howling and other films was a contributor to the magazine.


 
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