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Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ was an English actor, voice actor, singer, author, and musician, who played Saruman in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.

Christopher Lee has over 200 film credits. He played Dr. Frankenstein's monster in the 1957 Hammer Horror film The Curse of Frankenstein and ended up co-starring with Peter Cushing in many other Hammer Horror films to follow. He has portrayed Dracula in several Hammer Horror films, such as Horror of Dracula (1958), Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1968), and Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970). He also played Kharis the Mummy in the 1959 film The Mummy, as well as Francisco Scaramanga in the 1974 James Bond film The Man With the Golden Gun. He was also known for his role as Dr. Wilbur Wonka in the 2005 family film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, one of several roles he played for director Tim Burton.

His Disney roles included Dr. Victor Gannon in Return from Witch Mountain, but he is most famous for doing the voice for Ansem the Wise in the Kingdom Hearts games Kingdom Hearts II and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. Stock footage of him from one of his Dracula films was utilized in the 2012 animated feature film Frankenweenie. He also provided the voice of the Jabberwocky in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Additionally, he played Count Dooku in the last two installments of the prequel trilogy in the Star Wars series, and Count Ottakar Von Zhernin in The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: (Chapter 13) Adventures in the Secret Service.

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