Talk:Christopher Lee
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[edit] Video game ref
This confirms that Christopher Lee voiced Scaramanga in the video game Goldeneye: Rogue Agent, but unfortunately I can't figure out how to do a reference. User:David L Rattigan 20:58 02 May 2006 GMT
- WP:Footnotes - Motor (talk) 20:40, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
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- Cheers. I did look at that page before, but couldn't quite get the hang of it. Much easier to look at the code for what you did and just learn that way! User:David L Rattigan 21:55 2 May 2006 GMT
[edit] Trivia
Lee is a direct lineal descendent of Charlemagne through his mother's side.
Is there a source for this? christopherleeweb.com [1] states that the Carandini family is believed to have had close connections with the Emperor Charlemagne instead of claiming descendance.
Anon. 01:14, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Lee served in the military during World War II, where he acquired the knowledge of the noise a person makes when stabbed in the back. He put this to use when filming The Lord of the Rings, as can be seen on the Extended Edition DVD of The Return of the King.
Could we have a source for this? It seems like a macabre joke.
Mihoshi 14:31, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
- It isn't a joke - Peter Jackson mentions it in the commentary, reminiscing about the filming of a particular scene where Lee, an ex-secret service man adds the benefit of his experiences. sheridan 17:42, 2005 May 23 (UTC)
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- Cool. Thanks for clearing that up---Mihoshi 20:45, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
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- I moved this bit of trivia to the Trivia section, but as a matter of fact I would like remove it as irrelevant. While it makes a good anecdote in the context of the LOTR extras (so I've understood, haven't seen them), it really is rather non-surprising that someone who has served in close combat operations has knowledge of what it looks and sounds like when someone is killed. I cannot come up with arguments for keeping it, and if there are no objections, I'll remove it in a while. 194.157.147.48 00:14, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
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- Agreed, and I've taken the liberty of removing it myself. It was one of the more entertaining parts of the DVD, but it doesn't really add much to an encyclopaedia article. --Calair 10:37, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
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" He volunteered to fight for the Finnish forces during the Winter War against the Soviet Union in 1939,"
This is another point for which I would like to have a source. I have a list of all the volunteers and his name does not appear on the list. I also have a list of those Britons who volunteered but did not actually arrive to to Finland. Lee's name is not on that list either. Furthermore I would think that if such a famous person would have fought with the Finns agains the Soviets, everybody in Finland would known about it. This is not the case. --Chino 02:37, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
- The statement is a bit of an exaggeration, but the source is his autobigraphy- he was quite young and apparently paid his own third class passage with some friends, showed up, and they weren't quite sure what to do with him so sent him somewhere away from any fighting. He went home, apparently, after a few weeks. This is from memory, I'll look it up when I find the book again. -- Yrfeloran 15 November 2005
the article didnt mention tha lee made the voice intro on the manowar song king of kings
[edit] Tribute from The Guardian
When a man is 6ft 5in tall, descended from Italian aristocracy, educated at an English public school, a brilliant fencer and golfer, loves opera, speaks French, German, Spanish and Italian, and can "get along" in Swedish, Russian and Greek, you know he is destined for evil.
— Leo Benedictus, The Guardian 24 June 2005 [[2]]
[edit] Robert E. Lee
Someone on imdb says that Christopher Lee is related to Civil War General Robert E. Lee. Despite the similar last time, I've never heard of this. I didn't think he had any relatives, or in particular any ancestors, who were American, as all of Robert E. Lee's descendants have been. In particular, two of General Lee's descendants are Harper Lee and Robert Duvall. The imdb poster also said that, in numerous interviews, Lee said that he and Duvall were cousins. Has anyone else ever read this?(Kenobifan 04:52, 22 January 2006 (UTC))
- See Talk:Harper Lee for a refutation of the widely-circulated claim about her kinship (circulated by, among others, the Encyclopedia Britannica): "General Robert E. Lee has very few descendants, considering that he had seven children. None of his daughters married and only two of his sons had children." (family tree) --Dystopos 00:02, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
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- Strangely enough there does seem to be some resemblance between Christopher Lee and Robert E Lee's family. Christopher Lee's family were also the same class, upper middle-gentry and served as officers in the military. Lee's grandfather was Ellis Lee, an army Colonel, and his father was a Henry Lee jun. of Finsbury Square, London who was presumably son of another Henry Lee Arniep 00:19, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
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- Well, obviously we can't rely on original research here. Shall we look for an authoritative source? --Dystopos 00:49, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
- There are a few biographies of Lee that might contain some more info on his family, I'll see if I can order them through my library. There is also a book on the Lee family of Virginia: Edmund Jennings Lee, Lee of Virginia 1642-1892, (1895; reprinted., Baltimore, 1983) which might mention an English branch. Arniep 01:07, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
- Well, obviously we can't rely on original research here. Shall we look for an authoritative source? --Dystopos 00:49, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
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- Strangely enough there does seem to be some resemblance between Christopher Lee and Robert E Lee's family. Christopher Lee's family were also the same class, upper middle-gentry and served as officers in the military. Lee's grandfather was Ellis Lee, an army Colonel, and his father was a Henry Lee jun. of Finsbury Square, London who was presumably son of another Henry Lee Arniep 00:19, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Photo
Since Lee is most closely associated with playing Dracula in the Hammer movies, shouldn't there be a picture of him in the role?Willerror 21:14, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Languages and army
Apparently he speaks several languages, specifically French and German but can get by with the basics in another few European languages. Moreover, he did eventually end up in the army and has spoken more than once in general terms about being in combat. His advice, btw, is don't go into combat!
[edit] External links
I just chopped out a lot of unnecessary external links and sorted out a few references while converting it to the new notes system. I added the fact template to many of the claims too. It's worth noting too, that the Tiscali biography calls his father Jeffrey, this article calls him Geoffrey. The Carandini pedigree calls him Geoffrey too... so maybe that raises some concerns about the accuracy of the Tiscali biog. Also, IMO, the Trivia section is way too long. It is a mix of stuff that should be in the article body, irrelevancies, and in places it strays into being a filmography. Addition: if anyone would like to add references to replace the fact templates, see: Wikipedia:Footnotes for instructions on the new system. - Motor (talk) 01:43, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
- The Tiscali bios are generally pretty good, I don't think a small spelling mistake is an indication of general inaccuracy. Jeffrey is the spelling that is usually found on most other bios (I only found that it was Geoffrey as I traced his ancestry). Arniep 02:42, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Family?
Isn't there anything on Christopher Lee's family? Not background, I mean is he a father? Grandfather? I think there needs to be a "Personal Life" section in this article. Crazy Eddy 20:00, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Making a habit of reading the books once a year
I recall hearing something like this: he had once met Tolkien and made a habit of reading the books once a year, making him the Tolkien consultant in the interviews on one of the LoTR disks, just forgot which one. Could someone find which one and add the citation into the article? Comics
[edit] Knighthood
The man has to get one soon.
[edit] DiZ?
I know that Christopher plays Ansem, but has anyone thought that perhaps Ansem was MODELLED after Lee?
[edit] POV
This is written like a press release by a Christopher Lee publicist lol
[edit] Batman!
This is related moreso towards Hammer than Lee himself, but, has anyone noticed that Dracula in Batman vs. Dracula looks exactly like Christopher Lee in Scars of Dracula and+? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.222.238.42 (talk) 02:31, 23 February 2007 (UTC).
[edit] J.B. Tito
Does anubody know something more about C. Lee`s taking part in the Second World War finishing in Yugoslavia. My unproved information is that he was the bond between UK government and Yugoslav partisans` Supreme command in 1944. Same information is that he speaks Serbo - Croat language well. Thank you. Cheers. Petronije 12:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
- The Yugoslavia bit is noticably skimmed over in his autobiography. That's possibly the time he was in SOE. He has has generally said that he's not going to talk about anything that was secret. 205.201.7.191 23:04, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
