Lee's maternal great-grandfather had been an Italian political refugee who sought refuge in Australia; his great-grandmother was Australian opera singer Marie Carandini.
After enrolling in Miss Fisher's Academy in Wengen, he played his first villainous role as Rumpelstiltskin.
His mother then married Harcourt "Ingle" Rose, a banker and uncle of the James Bond author Ian Fleming.
Lee witnessed the execution of Eugen Weidmann, the last person to be publicly executed in France, in June 1939.
Christopher Lee was the only person of the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy to have ever actually met J.R.R.
Lee was the only actor of The Lord of the Rings who had ever met Tolkien.
In the Film The House that Dripped Blood Lee, in one clip, is filmed reading a paperback edition of The Lord of the Rings . »