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Which Hollywood actor has starred in the most movies?

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was maybe the only actor of his time to appear in so many films and cult classics. Although he is best known for portraying the bloodsucking vampire Dracula on screen, he also played a variety of characters on screen, the majority of whom were villains, such as Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), or the title monster in the Hammer Horror film The Mummy (1959). He has worked in about 276 films.

Lee was born in 1922 in London, England, to Contessa Estelle Marie (Carandini di Sarzano) and Geoffrey Trollope Lee, a professional soldier, who reared him and his older sister Xandra until their divorce in 1926. Lee’s mother then married (and later divorced) Harcourt George St.-Croix, a banker, while he was still a youngster. Lee’s maternal great-grandfather was an Italian political fugitive, and his great-grandmother was Marie (Burgess) Carandini, an English opera singer.

Christopher Lee

Lee served in the Royal Air Force as an intelligence officer, affiliated to the No. 260 Squadron RAF as a liaison officer for the Special Operations Executive, prior to his acting career. He left the RAF in 1946 with the rank of flight lieutenant after serving in World War II.

Lee was known for his singing talent, having recorded multiple opera and musical works between 1986 and 1998, as well as the symphonic metal album Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross in 2010, after having worked with several metal bands since 2005.

On Lee’s 91st birthday, May 27, 2013, the heavy metal follow-up Charlemagne: The Omens of Death was released. At the 2010 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards presentation, he received the ‘Spirit of Hammer’ award.

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