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      • Cardiovascular nurse scientist Christopher S. Lee, Ph.D., RN, FAHA, FAAN, FHFSA, is the Barry Family/Goldman Sachs Endowed Professorship in Nursing at the Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing. Dr. Lee has dedicated his career to better understanding heart disease and improving long term outcomes for patients and their families.
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  2. The untold story of Sir Christopher Lee is set to be revealed in an upcoming documentary film. The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee features interviews with friends, family members and...

  3. Dec 1, 2023 · In a documentary about the legacy of the movie, Halloween – A Cut Above the Rest, producer Debra Hill revealed: “Christopher Lee declined to do the role. But it’s funny, we ran into Lee at a party, and he said that ‘The biggest mistake I ever made of my career was not being in this movie.’”

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    Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was born in West London on May 27, 1922. His father, Geoffrey, had fought in the Boer War and the First World War with the 60th King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Getty Images

    Lee remains to be one of the very few actors who has played three different characters from the Sherlock Holmes stories. He played Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, and Ser Henry Baskerville, in different productions, of course—otherwise, that would’ve made one heck of a one-man show. Getty Images

    At the outbreak of World War II, Lee signed up with the Royal Air Force to become a fighter pilot. However, Lee was diagnosed with a failed optic nerve while he was nearly finished training. He was forbidden from flying, much to his disappointment. However, he had himself transferred to the RAF Intelligence unit instead. Wikimedia Commons

    After Lee’s parents divorced in the late 1920s, his mother remarried the uncle of none other than Ian Fleming, who would go on to create the literary—and film—legend James Bond. Getty Images

    Lee’s towering height at 6’5” got him entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest lead actor. Despite this honor, his height actually proved to be a handicap early on in Lee’s career. He couldn’t land many supporting roles because the leading actors were all much shorter than he, and this was a time when men would happily wear pl...

    Despite any initial setbacks, Lee proved to be one of the most prolific actors of all time. In two different years—1955 and 1970—Lee acted in nine films within the span of the year. In total, he appeared in more than 220 feature films. Flickr

    According to Lee, he turned down the role of Dr. Sam Loomis in Halloween, which eventually went to Donald Pleasance. Lee considered his refusal to be the biggest mistake of his professional career, despite the fact that he had also turned the role of Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Considering that Christopher Lloyd’s performance in that fil...

    Movie buffs will be able to recognize the game of connecting actors to one another through other actors they’ve worked with. This game is called “Six Degrees of Separation” but is more popularly referred to as “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” due to that actor’s prolific career. However, Guinness officially recognized Lee as the most connected actor in...

    Lee was reportedly one of Tim Burton’s favorite actors, and late in his career, Lee became a regular collaborator with Burton. Whether in person or just in voice, Lee appeared in five of Burton’s films, including Corpse Bride and Sleepy Hollow. All of his films with Burton also included Johnny Depp in the cast. To be fair, it’s easier to name the B...

    Rare in the entertainment industry—and arguably rare in Western society at this point—Lee only ever married once, to Danish actress Birgit Kroencke. They were married in 1961 and remained together until Lee’s death in 2015. Shutterstock

  4. Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE CStJ (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and military officer. [1] In a career spanning more than sixty years, Lee became known as an actor with a deep and commanding voice who often portrayed villains in horror and franchise films.

  5. From his film debut in 1948 until his death in 2015, Christopher Lee appeared in at least one film in every year except for 1993, 1995, 1997, 2000 and 2006. His final film, "The Hunting of the Snark", was released posthumously in 2016. The most films in which he appeared in any year was 11 in 1970.

  6. Jun 11, 2015 · Nick Higham looks back at the life of Sir Christopher Lee, who has died at the age of 93. Despite playing an astonishing variety of roles, Sir Christopher Lee was never quite able to escape...

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