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Sir Christopher dead at the age of 93
« on: June 11, 2015, 08:03:06 am »
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11666316/christopher-lee-dies-live.html

Well, at least you can't say that he didn't live a full life. Soldier, spy, actor, heavy metal artist. The characters he played fought James Bond, Van Helsing, Captain America, Gandalf, Sauron and even Yoda.

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The thing about Sir Christopher Lee being dead is that it doesn’t immediately strike you as being much of a career setback.

For as long as he was an actor (which was a very long time indeed; his first film role was a one-line part in Terence Young’s baroquely strange romance Corridor of Mirrors, in 1948), his characters have often exuded – not immortality, exactly, but a kind of ennobled deathlessness.

You always sensed they’d been around for longer than was perhaps entirely natural, and would more than likely outlast you.
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Re: Sir Christopher dead at the age of 93
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2015, 08:32:06 am »
Damn...least he managed to live a long life and do a LOT of things.  Fare thee well, Sir Christopher Lee.
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Re: Sir Christopher dead at the age of 93
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2015, 08:34:42 am »
Saruman has fallen. What an amazing life. Sir Christopher brilliantly brought to life the best of literature's villains on screen.
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Re: Sir Christopher dead at the age of 93
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2015, 08:50:02 am »
Did you know he actually met Tolkien?

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Re: Sir Christopher dead at the age of 93
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2015, 11:36:22 am »
Death finally won their chess game

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Re: Sir Christopher dead at the age of 93
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2015, 11:52:50 am »
Did you know he actually met Tolkien?

Tolkien said himself that he wanted Sir Christopher to play Gandalf. And if they had filmed the trilogy 10 years earlier he would have, but he decided to let "someone younger" do the more physically demanding role.

And since everyone is already linking his heavy metal songs on the net:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceH_yCEnprQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceH_yCEnprQ</a>
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Re: Sir Christopher dead at the age of 93
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2015, 12:55:25 pm »
So long Christopher... Rest in peace

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Re: Sir Christopher dead at the age of 93
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2015, 10:44:28 pm »
Fare thee well, Sharky. May flights of Uruk-Hai sing thee to thy rest. You will be missed, Sir Christopher Lee.
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