Self-described with typical good humor as “tall, dark and gruesome,” Christopher Lee was a remarkably prolific leading man and character actor whose six decades-long film career made him among the world’s most popular and recognizable performers. He languished in bit roles for almost a decade before achieving instant fame as an elegant and sexually charged Count Dracula in “Horror of Dracula” (1958) for England’s legendary Hammer Studios. Its success led to almost two decades of fright fare, during which he brought elegance and devilish charm to some of the most memorable figures in horror,
