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.