Christopher Lee

Biography of Christopher Lee
Later, while Lee was still a child, his mother married (and later divorced) Harcourt George St.-Croix (nicknamed Ingle), who was a banker. In 2001, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his contributions to the film and television industries.. The British actor Christopher Lee was born in 1922 in London, England, where he and his older sister Xandra were raised by Estelle Marie and Geoffrey Trollope, a professional soldier, until their divorce in 1926. After attending Wellington College from age 14 to 17, Lee worked as an office clerk in a couple of London shipping companies until 1941 when he enlisted in the RAF during World War II. Lee continued his role as “Dracula” in a number of Hammer sequels throughout the 1960s and into the early 1970s.


Christopher Lee trivia

• This square-jawed actor often plays hard-headed military men and police officers.

• Moved from Alabama to Mississippi at age 6, where his family lived on a bayou.
• Has a daughter Cassandra with Paula Profit.
• His mother is a teacher in Orange County, California

• Stand-up comic.

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