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27 May 13 - 05:17 AM (#3519578) Subject: BS: Happy Birthday Christopher Lee From: GUEST,Doc John Happy birthday to actor Christopher Lee, who is 91 today. He must surely be the definitive Dracula and it is a curious coincidence that Bram Stoker's book was first published on this day in 1897. |
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27 May 13 - 05:24 AM (#3519580) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Christopher Lee From: MGM·Lion Indeed, Happy Birthday. He is just 10 years older than me. I was fortunate enough to know him a little, in the mid-50s just before he made it big with the Hammer Films Frankenstein & Dracula franchises, as he was a regular customer whom I would join for a drink sometimes at my mother's restaurant off Gloucester Road. I distinctly remember his assuring me I would grow to love Wagner if I would just listen to his music a bit more! ~Michael~ |
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27 May 13 - 03:18 PM (#3519748) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Christopher Lee From: MGM·Lion Perhaps also worth mentioning on this forum in particular, that as well as his notable Dracula, Sir Christopher had a leading part in one of the most distinguished of films with folk-oriented themes, The Wicker Man, on which there have been several threads on Mudcat over the years, which he has himself named as his own favourite among the films he has appeared in. So, once again, Happy Birthday, Sir Christopher! ~M~ |
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27 May 13 - 03:29 PM (#3519751) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Christopher Lee From: GUEST,Doc John Yes indeed MtheGM and a wonderful film that is too. The fact he must have appeared in more films than any other actor shows what a superb actor he is: most others would not have got beyond Dracula. |
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27 May 13 - 03:50 PM (#3519759) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Christopher Lee From: fat B****rd Remember him in "Beat Girl"?. A great actor of superbly diverse roles. Happy Birthday Mr. Lee. |
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27 May 13 - 05:56 PM (#3519822) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Christopher Lee From: GUEST,Eliza Oh yes, I remember him in The Wicker Man. He was a kind of Lord of the Manor with a sinister smile. |
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28 May 13 - 01:17 PM (#3520085) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Christopher Lee From: MGM·Lion Lord Summerisle: that being the ironic name of the island on which so many dark deeds took place! |
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28 May 13 - 07:30 PM (#3520181) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Christopher Lee From: GUEST,Eliza Ah yes, MtheGM, Lord Summerisle. I've seen the film several times. Wasn't it Britt Ekland who tried to seduce the earnest policeman by banging on his wall in the nude? I bet that scene has fuelled many a male fantasy! |
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29 May 13 - 01:17 AM (#3520246) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Christopher Lee From: MGM·Lion Yes -- but altho it was her tits we saw, for some reason they used a bottom-double, one Jane Jackson, for the rear shots, taller than her and with a different hairstyle. 'A body double was secretly used for the naked rear shots of Willow dancing. The scenes were filmed after Britt Ekland had left the set. The body double was used because Ekland would only agree to topless shots of her body. After shooting was over, not only was Ekland furious to learn she had been doubled in some shots but that she was also a few weeks pregnant in that scene. Director Robin Hardy says it was Ekland herself who did not want her bottom to be filmed, as she did not like it.' Imdb ~M~ |
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29 May 13 - 03:41 AM (#3520269) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Christopher Lee From: MorwenEdhelwen1 Happy Birthday Christopher Lee. I love his performance as Saruman, and it doesn't hurt that he also met Tolkien. |
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29 May 13 - 04:06 AM (#3520275) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Christopher Lee From: MGM·Lion "Christopher Lee, who has appeared in 275 motion pictures, considers Lord Summerisle his best character, and The Wicker Man his best film." Wikipedia entry on The Wicker Man |
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29 May 13 - 04:28 AM (#3520283) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Christopher Lee From: GUEST,Blandiver for some reason they used a bottom-double The reason according to Ms Eckland was that she hated her bottom, describing it as looking 'like a ski-slope' - a simile that baffles me to this day. Lots more on this here: http://www.garycarpenter.net/archive/wicker3.htm * I once met Christopher Lee during the filming of Ivanhoe for the BBC back in the 90s and failed to recognise him though we talked at length on various topics. This was in the Galilee Chapel of Durham Cathedral; he was dressed as a Templar Knight, and reading his Daily Telegraph, and I took him for an extra. He even chuckled at my quoting of Walter Scott's 'Grey towers of Durham well I love thy mixed & massive piles' as carved into Prebend's Bridge thus marking that city's most famous view. |
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29 May 13 - 04:36 AM (#3520284) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Christopher Lee From: Green Man Yes, many a happy hour watching his movies (from behind the sofa) Fangs for the memories,, (Well somebody had to) :) GM |