Frequent Peter Cushing costar
Christopher Lee, CBE, was born today in London in 1922. An integral part of numerous horror movies, Lee played Sax Rohmer's
Fu Manchu and Bram Stoker's
Dracula in several films, Duc de Richelieu in
The Devil Rides Out (writ. Richard Matheson and Dennis Wheatley, 1968), and Jean-Pierre in the TV series
Colonel Marsh of Scotland Yard (many episodes written by
John Dickson Carr, 1956). His career also has a definite Sherlock Holmes emphasis; he played Sir Henry Baskerville in
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), Mycroft Holmes in
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), and Holmes himself in
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991). He's also the uncle of Harriet Walter (who appeared as Harriet Vane in
Strong Poison,
Have His Carcase, and
Gaudy Night).
About the image: Christopher Lee in The Hound of the Baskervilles (dir. Terence Fisher, 1959)
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