On Thursday, reports confirmed that longtime actor Sir Christopher Lee had passed away earlier this week in London at the age of 93.
Lee's incredible acting career lasted for over six decades, including a modern resurgence thanks to his wicked performance as Saruman in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films. His original rise to fame largely came from the two starring, back-to-back monster roles he took on in the late '50s: Frankenstein's monster in 1957 and Lord Dracula himself one year later. (He reprised his Dracula a number of times over the years as well.)
Over the years, he went on to portray a Bond villain—literally, he was the man with the golden gun in that 1973 film—along with an evil doctor in Gremlins 2, Sherlock Holmes, one of the Three Musketeers, and Count Dooku, quite possibly the best villain to appear in the Star Wars prequels.
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