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Guiness Record Holder

He has acted in 266 movies but others have acted in more. For example, the tamil actress Manorama has acted in more than 1500 of them. Therefore, it could be edited to read "in Hollywood" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.193.4.15 (talk) 13:59, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes but it is real movies we are talking about. Not estern-wannerbe-movies! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.181.71.146 (talk) 13:04, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bacon number information

Post deleted because poster said "Do what you want".

Is the same Christopher Lee?

I notice there is a Christoper Lee who is cast in Scorcese's Hugo. Is this the same actor? If so, this role he plays is not included in his Biography or his filmography. Pjt48 (talk) 13:58, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

BLP

"Stories vary as to why Lee did not feature in the 1960 sequel The Brides of Dracula. Some[who?] state that Hammer was unwilling to pay Lee his current fee, but most[who?] tend to believe that he simply did not wish to be typecast. Lee did, however, return to the role in Hammer's Dracula: Prince of Darkness in 1965. Lee's performance is notable in that he has no lines, merely hissing his way through the film. Again, stories vary as to the reason for this: Lee states he refused to speak the poor dialogue he was given, but screenwriter Jimmy Sangster claims that the script did not contain any lines for the character. This film set the standard for most of the Dracula sequels in the sense that half the film's running time was spent on telling the story of Dracula's resurrection and the character's appearances were brief. Lee has gone on record to state that he was virtually "blackmailed" by Hammer into starring in the subsequent films; unable or unwilling to pay him his going rate, they would resort to reminding him of how many people he would put out of work if he did not take part." - there are a load of BLP violations here, accusations of unprofessional behaviour really should be cited or removed. Sophie means wisdom (talk) 13:45, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Work with rhapsody of fire

Christopher Lee has done quite a bit of voice acting for rhapsody of fire on a couple of their albums, but I don't see any info about that. Can someone who isn't as noob at wiki as me add it in? 50.135.250.142 (talk) 03:43, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

SNL Joke?

The current version of the article contains the following completely inexplicable line:

In 1978, Lee surprised many people with his willingness to go along with a joke by appearing as guest host on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

That's it, that's all the detail provided. What's "the joke"? Being guest host? That makes no sense. Was it when he flubbed the line, introducing Meat Loaf (he read the cue card, and instead of saying, "Ladies and Gentlemen, Meat Loaf!", he said, "Ladies and Gentlemen, Loaf!", ostensibly thinking the card meant for him to say, "Meet Loaf", instead of "Meat Loaf", and he just decided to drop the "meet", which he incorrectly assumed was superfluous. Anyway, I don't know if that was an intentional "joke", but neither did the editor who added that, so if it's not better explained, I'm eventually going to remove the whole thing. 76.106.149.108 (talk) 20:21, 4 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

trained opera singer?

From time to time, someone claims that he is also a trained opera singer. HE surely has an operatic bass-baritone voice, and has sung such parts, but did he receive actual operatic training, and if so where and when? There's nothing about it in the article... -- megA (talk) 19:26, 9 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

German fluency

The article claims that he is fluent in German (the reference for this claim is an article that never makes that claim), however he has appeared in interviews wherein he states he doesn't speak German so well because he has never studied it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zd9jA1WNCc) and there's another video where he has to have an earpiece for the German to be interpreted in English for him (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=572LUZA3veg). I think this is enough proof to downgrade his German ability to moderate instead of fluent. Unimaginable666 (talk) 10:01, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

18 November 2012 Death Rumors

I can't find a reliable source to support the ip editor's claim, so I am reverting it. If he did indeed die, please provide a credible source. Paulthomas2 (talk) 13:36, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Guinness World Record

The second paragraph of the lead states: "He has performed roles in 275 films since 1946 making him the Guinness World Records title holder for most film acting roles ever." The source of the reference is an article from The Metro dated 14 September 2008. The articles states that Lee "was listed in the 2001 record book as the star with the most screen appearances to his name – after playing about 300 film and TV roles." The lead gives no indication as to when this occurred or whether it holds true in 2013.

The Metro article was about Lee appearing in the then forthcoming Guinness World Records 2009 as Most Connected Living Actor. Aside from Lee still being alive, the title is quite arbitrary and based on a university database of who has worked with whom. Is the database kept up to date; and is not being identified as living “in the centre of the Hollywood universe" (which appears to be a quote from the University of Virginia) rather an indication of bias in analysis of the worldwide profession of acting? Kmitch87 (talk) 00:58, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Almer Mater?

Seeing as he's a British Actor, and "Alma Mater" is an American phrase (as stated in its relevant article), wouldn't a re-wording do better? That would seem to meet Wikipedia's policy on geodialect-relevant articles being predominantly written in the applicable dialect. Alternatives might be "Secondary School" or "Sixth Form". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.30.66 (talk) 13:47, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Alma Mater isn't an American phrase, it's Latin. And it doesn't mean "Secondary School" or "Sixth Form", it just means "old school". It has been used this way for considerably longer than the United States has existed.

Include war service in introduction?

Could anyone who has the skills mention his war service in the introduction? I only just found out about it and am impressed and surprised.

It would be good for it to get a mention at the top of the article where people skim as they browse, and I think it is a relatively little known fact.

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