Sdiver
06-11-2015, 12:56
Apparently Christopher Lee passed away on 7June and the news is now only being released.
Appearing in over 250 movies, Mr. Lee is most notably recognized is his portrayal of Count Dracula as well as Francisco Scaramanga in The Man With The Golden Gun, Saruman in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, as well as Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequels.
But before that, Mr. Lee served with the British Royal Air Force and while stationed in North Africa during WWII, he was attached to their Long Range Dessert Patrol which was a forerunner to their SAS.
Christopher Lee enlisted in the Royal Air Force in 1940, where he worked as an intelligence officer specializing in cracking German ciphers and skulls and any other Nazi bullshit he came in contact with. In North Africa he was attached to the Long Range Desert Patrol, the forerunner of the SAS, where he would jump in a badass fucking four-wheel-drive jeep with a gigantic machine gun mounted in the back, drive hundreds of miles behind enemy lines, survive the scorching heat of the Sahara Desert, then sneak-attack Luftwaffe airfields by rolling up on them at sixty miles an hour with his .50-caliber machine guns blazing out curtains of white-hot Nazi-smiting justice, planting dynamite on their airplanes, then peeling ass out of there leaving nothing but bullet-riddled corpses and gigantic explosions in his wake. After working with the LRDP, Lee was assigned to the Special Operations Executive – better known as Winston Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare – a group that did shit like lead a twelve-man assault that destroyed the German top secret nuclear weapons development facility in Norway and assist brave Eastern European partisans and rebels sabotage Nazi supply lines to prevent them from bringing reinforcements up to fight the Soviets. His service records are sealed and Lee doesn't talk much about his service (when pressed on the subject, he reportedly asks his interviewer, "Can you keep a secret?". When they excitedly say yes, he leans in close and says, "So can I."), but we do know that by the time he retired as a Flight Lieutenant in 1945 he'd been personally decorated for battlefield bravery by the Czech, Yugoslavian, English, and Polish governments and was good friends with Josip Broz Tito, so draw your own conclusions.
A master stuntman (doing all of his own stunts), he was also a master fencer, golfer and linguist, knowing several languages.
You can read the rest of his life here ... http://www.badassoftheweek.com/christopherlee.html
He was 93 ... http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/christopher-lee-legendary-movie-villain-and-horror-icon-dies-at-93/ar-BBkXkal?ocid=ansHollywoodReporter11
Appearing in over 250 movies, Mr. Lee is most notably recognized is his portrayal of Count Dracula as well as Francisco Scaramanga in The Man With The Golden Gun, Saruman in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, as well as Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequels.
But before that, Mr. Lee served with the British Royal Air Force and while stationed in North Africa during WWII, he was attached to their Long Range Dessert Patrol which was a forerunner to their SAS.
Christopher Lee enlisted in the Royal Air Force in 1940, where he worked as an intelligence officer specializing in cracking German ciphers and skulls and any other Nazi bullshit he came in contact with. In North Africa he was attached to the Long Range Desert Patrol, the forerunner of the SAS, where he would jump in a badass fucking four-wheel-drive jeep with a gigantic machine gun mounted in the back, drive hundreds of miles behind enemy lines, survive the scorching heat of the Sahara Desert, then sneak-attack Luftwaffe airfields by rolling up on them at sixty miles an hour with his .50-caliber machine guns blazing out curtains of white-hot Nazi-smiting justice, planting dynamite on their airplanes, then peeling ass out of there leaving nothing but bullet-riddled corpses and gigantic explosions in his wake. After working with the LRDP, Lee was assigned to the Special Operations Executive – better known as Winston Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare – a group that did shit like lead a twelve-man assault that destroyed the German top secret nuclear weapons development facility in Norway and assist brave Eastern European partisans and rebels sabotage Nazi supply lines to prevent them from bringing reinforcements up to fight the Soviets. His service records are sealed and Lee doesn't talk much about his service (when pressed on the subject, he reportedly asks his interviewer, "Can you keep a secret?". When they excitedly say yes, he leans in close and says, "So can I."), but we do know that by the time he retired as a Flight Lieutenant in 1945 he'd been personally decorated for battlefield bravery by the Czech, Yugoslavian, English, and Polish governments and was good friends with Josip Broz Tito, so draw your own conclusions.
A master stuntman (doing all of his own stunts), he was also a master fencer, golfer and linguist, knowing several languages.
You can read the rest of his life here ... http://www.badassoftheweek.com/christopherlee.html
He was 93 ... http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/christopher-lee-legendary-movie-villain-and-horror-icon-dies-at-93/ar-BBkXkal?ocid=ansHollywoodReporter11