The British
actor Christopher Lee, perhaps best known for his roles as Dracula and
the renegade wizard Saruman in the Lord of the Rings trilogy has died
aged 93.
The actor,
who spent much of his more than 50-year career playing antagonists, died
in hospital on Sunday after undergoing treatment for respiratory
problems, UK media reports said.
An official
for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London on Thursday
confirmed a death certificate was issued for Lee on June 8, the
Associated Press news agency reported. She spoke on condition of
anonymity in keeping with the policies of the borough.
Lee appeared
in more than 250 movies, including playing the James Bond nemesis,
Scaramanga, better known as ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’.
Though
normally cast as a villain, Lee said the most important part he played
was portraying the leader of the Pakistan-independence struggle,
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in a film that was never released to Western
audiences.
“Somewhere,
somehow, someone, decided they didn’t want this shown in the theatres in
the rest of the world because of what Jinnah said … he said you are all
free to worship as you please in Pakistan … a true democracy, some
people in Pakistan didn’t favour that,” Lee said at an event at the
University College Dublin in 2011.
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