Two In The Think Tank - 217 - Sir Christopher Lee

Episode Date: December 18, 2019

One of the most interesting figures of the Twentieth Century, Sir Christopher Lee is most famous as an actor, but he was also a World War II badass, Nazi Hunter, Heavy Metal Musician and multiple world record holder. Simply put, he lived one hell of a life. Dave reports on the man that played Dracula, Fu Manchu, Sherlock Holmes, Francisco Scaramanga, Rasputin, Saruman in The Lord of The Rings, Count Dooku in Star Wars and dozens upon dozens of other characters.Record live in London.Buy tickets to our live shows here: https://dogoonpod.com/events/Our website: dogoonpod.comSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasREFERENCES AND FURTHER... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hello London, how you feeling? You good? Thank you so, so much for coming out and thank you so much to Jess Perkins for closing the curtain. I appreciate that. A true professional. Oh by the way, let's give it up for Jess and Matt. Jess and Matt. It's going to say Matt Stewart there but didn't give him the benefit of the last name. You know who he is. Hi Matt. I'm Matt Stewart.

This is a hazard. Yeah. Hi. And hi to you as well. Who's ready for the stage dive part of the evening? I'm aiming for you. He looks strong. Which one? Who are we looking for? Oh big time. Yes, yes. I mean, I'm downgraded to that strength. I'm so sorry. Hello! This big tough man will catch me. No!

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Oh. Oh. Who's with me? Sorry, what? This has been a debate that's been happening between these two for the entire two weeks. It's been a lot of fun. I got a puppy, and it makes me a better person than him, so...

APPLAUSE It makes him a stinkier person. Now, I get on dogs. Well, I think they've all got their part to play. Just do it away from my house. And it was the third time. Yeah. Respect houses. Yeah, that's it. That's dumb. Day day start the show. Thank you so much for joining us tonight here in London What an absolute pleasure it is to be back at 2 to 9 the venue. I'll give you a round of applause if you've ever heard our show do go on before

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And one in the front, thank you so much. I've never seen someone as proud of that. Great to have you in. Have you been dragged along? Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for joining us. Do you have any idea what this show is?

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Not with the dog. Well, great to have you in on the last dog killer. And what we do here at the show is we're taking turns to report on a topic usually suggested by a listener. And tonight it is my turn to report on a topic. Woo! Thank you kindly. thank you so much. Supportive cheers to you, hurtful to us, but...

No, nobody said thank God, out loud, but we all thought it. And we always start with a question to get us on to topic, and I have a question. Four, Matt and Jess, and if they can't get it, we will throw it over to you, the audience. But I've got high hopes for you guys tonight. Thank you. My question is, the life of which man combines three of our favorite types of topic. Did he say man? Did he?

I don't. You've already interrupted you. Well, this is your answer. What is it? This is it. You only get one chance. Did he say man? Man.

Man. Yes. We've been here so long ago. We've been here so long ago. We've been here so long ago. Man, tell me everything you've said so far again. Okay. Okay. The life of which man?

A man. Okay. Combines three of our favourite types of topic. Hollywood, music and World War Two bad asser-y. Uh. Uh. Frank Sinatra. He's old.

They are very old. Yeah, still? Oh, they. Oh, it's the Betty Boob, the Dava Doob, the dear, bitty Boob. That band, the Chugawak Chugu. No, they remember the life of which band. Okay. all right, I'm new info. Let's see. Yeah, sorry, I should have let me do that fashion, huh? I stand by Matt's original answer. Colonel Sanders? No, he doesn't really do any of those, but he was a man, was he? Yes know Christopher Lee it is Christopher Lee

This is this has been suggested a lot a lot yeah, because he was a vampire or something oh Yeah, he's a spin suggested by 18 people whoa I'm gonna read out their names real quick here just in case any of you are in tonight Thanks so much for suggesting this to your name is Carried When from Western Australia, Pete Jopson from Akrington here in the UK, Michael Berrensey from New York, Sam Lewis from Sydney, Justin Gottlie from Canada, Nicholas Columbus, Flanders, Fummer. I bet Ethan is that all you in? From WA, Fraser Green from Canada, Johnny Dawson from Leicester. Nope, not here, okay, for now.

Brent Carpenter from Barnstapel in North Devon. Are you my wife? Are you telling me that that is... You've combined the word barn of the word staple and then come up with a completely new minute. What is it? Bottom shwoppel. Okay. Okay, that's done. Let me go again. Brent Carver from Bunch, Shwoppel. In North Devon. We know at least he knows how to do a scone right cream first. A scone, a scone, you'll get... Devano, Devano. All right, come, it is Cairz. It is Cairz.

It's Cairz. They care in Dublin actually. They care a lot. It's a score that's got it. It is kind of funny that you've gone who cares when you were the one who corrected me. Yeah, true. I just don't want to get mobbed. We're really at numbered.

I can take like 200 of them and then you guys are on your own. Do you reckon that mob over scones? Mob over scones. Just over half of this list, guys. So, Devon Bruns from Cedar Rapids, Sean Gallagher from Makina. Yeah, no correction there. Susie Otterico from Hervy Bay in Queensland, James Rampant from Victoria, Mr. LH Jones from Rexham, Will Hudson from Essex. Why are you doing this?

John Collins from Ireland, J. Swan III, I'm just making them up now. You just wanted to say the Flanders one. And also Adam Knight from Croydon and South London, and you hear? Are you here? Yes! Worth it, absolutely worth it. Yes, thank you so much. What you don't know is I paid that man 20 pounds for a 10 to be so All right, so do you know anything about Christopher Lee apart from the vampire stuff?

I was in some sort of Star one of the star movies, track or walls. No? Fuck. Yeah, yeah, one of those is right. Jesse, info on? Yeah, heaps, but I mean, you'll get to it anyway, so.

All right, thank you. Hate to step on a new toes there. So, um, yep. All right, well, Christopher Lee was born on the 27th of May 1922 and Bell, thank you so much. I thought that you were interrupting because I had mispronounced 1922. He was born in Belgrade, a world to do suburb here in London less than three miles from this venue. Oh, there you go.

He was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Trollele. That's a fun man. And Countess Estelle Mary, who came from the historically powerful Italian caradini family. She was a former Chanel model and was painted and sculpted by multiple artists. A bit of a muse, referred to as an Edwardian beauty. She just had a really boxy head. It was a lot easier. Yeah. It's a lot easier to sculpt. Perfectly square head. Ah, done. Great. She could trace her lineage

back to Charlemagne, who ruled most of Western Europe in the 700s. So Christopher Lee was related to the first Holy Roman Emperor. This man with an extraordinary background would have an extraordinary life and his childhood and early years would really influence his acting throughout his life. He's a method actor. Yes, he lived through some weird stuff. Which I'm going to tell you about. His parents separated when he was four and divorced two years later and you lived for a time in Switzerland. Made any connection to? Ah yes. Some of you

here might know that I'm one, what are we up to? 16th. One 16th Swiss Italian and so I've probably related as well. It's actually one quarter, but Dave's really trying to water it down. I'm actually quite diverse in myself. Anyone wants to offer any grants? Yeah, it's about time that a guy who's a few different kinds of white got a leg up. LAUGHTER So, then for Switzerland for a time,

before his mother, the Countess Estelle, married Harcourt George St. Croix Rose, who was the uncle of a little-known writer called Ian Fleming. So Ian Fleming, the man that would go on to create James Bond, was Lee's step cousin. OK. What is that, man? I feel like he wouldn't care unless Ian Fleming went on

to be famous, you know? Did Ian Fleming go on to be famous? We'll find out. His mother mixed with some exotic and exciting characters throughout his childhood. And this is Lee recalling meeting some people when he was younger. Quite when I was a small boy, I was hauled out of bed by my mother and our home in Kensington. Saying, come downstairs and I'll introduce you to two men who are here for dinner.

She told me, you probably won't remember what they look like, but one day you'll remember that you met them. And you would remember them. The men were both Russian, aristocrats, grand Duke Dmitry Pavlov, and Prince Yusupov, who I've mentioned on the show before, because they are known for their part in assassinating the Russian monk and mystic Rasputin. Whoa. Come, come to dinner.

Rasputin's killer's here for you. LAUGHTER She woke him up for that. Did I? They didn't get a hold of the dick, do they? LAUGHTER Rasputin's magic dick. LAUGHTER They didn't get get a hold of the dick today Yeah, that's the magic of the dick. They're gonna control themselves around it

Maybe that was a pass if so don't tell us about Rasputin's dick. It actually cured people so maybe readable Lee A bad joke. Lee acted a bit in school, bit of a bit of dabbling in the theater clubs, that kind of stuff. But he moved around before. He's father went bankrupt at his mother divorced her second husband. So both Lee and his sister, Zandra, had to get jobs. So he went to France to find work. And during this time, he witnessed the execution of Eugene Wheatman who was

executed by Gillotine and this was the last public execution performed in France and he just happened to be there when it was actually gay. This was 1939. I mean, 1939 historically is not a good view. For a couple of racists. It's quite the opposite, yeah. Well, still, guillotineing people in 1939. Yes.

Not more historical. Are you saying it's a bad view because they stopped guillotineing people in the EU? Terrific. This is the man who's going to catch you. I'm getting less and less confident. Lee's childhood connections to A.M. Flaming, Russ Bouton, and witnessing this execution would all come back into his later acting career. He's a method man, as he said.

So that's his childhood, but now it's time to enter the World War II badass part of his life. When the Second World War broke out, 1939, not a good time, as a 17-year-old Lee volunteered to fight for the Finnish forces during the Winter War. Here in the other English soldiers were kept away from fighting, so the following year Lee enlisted in the Royal Air Force, where he worked as an intelligence officer, specialising in decoding German ciphers because one thing I haven't mentioned is the fact that Lee spoke six languages fluently. That's too many. Including four more or one less. You want to... You get it now. You just wanted to forget French or something. He needs it. He could speak English, Spanish, French, Italian and German, and also knew a fair bit of Russian and Greek.

How? I think both of those are basically the same. Bonjono, bonjono, bonjono, they're all. Yeah, that's true. He then served time in North Africa, where he was based with the Long Rage Desert Group, which was a precursor of the SAS, the real badasses. Lee then moved behind enemy lines from base to base, sabotaging Luftwaffe planes and airfields along the way. He was assigned to the Special Operations Executive, aka the Ministry of Ungentleman Lee Warfare.

We've talked about it at the show before. He was there. If that guy wasn't baffled before, the one who's never heard of before, didn't realise this was the one that brought him all together. Yes, this is how that movie things must end in our spending. Oh, time tie, everything. He conducted SP&Rs, sabotage, and reconnaissance in occupied Europe. A reconnaattage. It would have been way better. He's a montage of him performing SP&Rs and sabotage.

Just him go. Which one's that? SP&Rs? Which one's... How do you do sabotage? Oh, yeah. Now do some reconnaattage. Yeah. which one's how do you do sabotage? Oh yeah. Now do some reconna tags. Fuck is good.

Thank you. Thank you. Here's a drama degree. Can you believe it? I was going to keep this to myself but that does remind me of what I caught out the corner of my backstage. I was riding my headphones on out the corner of my day. Look, no, I wasn't using it. Oh, the God. Oh, that's that as well. Yeah. But Dave, you didn't see it, I don't think.

I don't think Dave saw it anyway. He did. He was looking at himself in the mirror. He does that a lot. And then he did this maneuver. I'm not going to try and recreate it. You can. Oh, yeah.

Well, I know a guy I and recreate it. You can... Oh, yeah! Well, I know a guy could recreate it probably. But basically, he did a spin clap and pointed himself in the mirror. He does this a lot. Okay, what you're talking about is the classic turn pivot clap. Double gun. No, he didn't. He does for no one but himself. He does this all the time.

Woo! Woo! He's up for no one but himself. He does this all the time. APPLAUSE I honestly thought I was going to embarrass him bringing it up, but I'm only involved in him. He also made up a song backstage about comedy and how he's always doing comedy. Yeah, but it did end with me saying, laugh, you fuckers, laugh. I swear I'm funny. I swear I had a breakdown anyway. You got to do what you got to do to get ready, okay? So he's a spy, I'm trying to tell you he's a spy. Yes.

Guess what his nickname was. Oh, spy Mcspyington. So close. Spy or Duke, which are both, I mean, especially spy, is a terrible nickname for a spy. This is spy, I mean, especially Spy is a terrible nickname for a Spy. This is Spy, I mean Christopher Lee. Or Duke. Duke's a pretty cool nickname.

Duke sounds like a guy that would pivot, spin, clap. That will go- It's got trying to get a nickname. Yeah, Duke, shut up. Yeah, Cobra. Honestly, the last time we were on this stage, I tried to, I told you about the time I tried to get people to call me cobra and 30, 13 months later it has not caught on. Yeah. Earthworm, fuck off.

Oh, laugh you fuckers! They are my, they are, they are laughing at you. Hey I'll take what I'm right and get. In 1943 he caught Malaria six times. One less. He had to be hospitalized but despite this he continued on with the war effort. But because he served with what is essentially the SAS, Lee was pretty tight-lipped about his time in the war. Years later, an interviewer asked him about his time

in the SAS and what he did throughout the war. Lee lent Ford and said, can you keep a secret? Yes, the interviewer replied, breathless with excitement. Lee replied, so can I. LAUGHTER What a god! But do that, do that tight lip, though. So can I.

That's how you would have said it. So he didn't boast about it, but we know he was about us because by the end of the war he'd been individually decorated for Battlefield bravery by the Czech, Yugoslav, British and Polish governments. Far out. So yeah. One more. Thanks.

I didn't even count it. Yeah. I was just sitting here blissfully unaware. For the last few months of the war, Lee was given the job of tracking down Nazi war criminals. So he's a Nazi hunter as well. His knowledge of multiple languages was used to interrogate the suspected criminals

beforehand in them over to the authorities. He later said, I've seen many men die right in front of me, so many in fact that I've almost become hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation, and seeing so unblown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to, you had to. Otherwise, we never would have won. Honestly, he can't sweat anymore, just like you.

LAUGHTER Just like your very own prince, who you must be all so proud of. What have you done allegedly? Don't tell me. I want to believe in the monarchy. The cram, great show. It actually makes me feel for Charles. Hasn't had that effect on him.

Our future king. You know, your queen is our king? No. No. It's a confusing system. It's something like system. Something like that. Yeah. A leader retired from the Air Force in 1946 having achieved the rank of flight lieutenant.

But after the war, he was offered his old job back, although funnily enough, after what he'd been through an office job, we didn't really cut it anymore. So we decided to become an actor. How'd you do it. As you do, exactly. Sorry, I lost my voice here. He didn't have a natural talent for acting. His main asset was described by the Guardian as a pleasant dark baritone voice. And that's it.

Oh, yes. I relate in some ways. Only I have so many more strings in my bow. I can smolder. Stop it, stop it, it's too much. Got to hold some back. Yeah, it's only 5 p.m. Oh, hot and flustered actually.

That's my after hours look. You got it before hours. When do your hours start? Yeah, what do you have business hours? It's a short period, five to ten minutes each. Wait, what about this before hours? Yeah. Soon. And you'll know when it happens. You'll be like, oh, he's shitties on the clock.

This next five to ten minutes are going to be amazing. So he's not a great actor. He's not. Sadly, at this time. But he studied acting, what was known as the Charm School. But initially... Ah, is that where the three people from Charm went? Would have been better if I could think of one of their names.

Shannon Doherty. Chris D'Amaco. Alyssa Milano. There we go. And the other one. And the rest. I'm so close to walking off this stage. Which way?

I'm going to get off. Do you think it's quite far enough? You'd break something, but it wouldn't be enough to. How are you going to be fine? All right. How far to the Thames? So he's studying acting, but initially he found himself dismissed by casting directors because he was six foot five described as imposingly tall.

Well, they would have been freakishly tall back then. Yeah. In the AFL, like in the what, you're is this in like the 50s, the Ruckmen, the tallest player would have been like five foot ten. And now they're like like ten foot eleven or something. Yeah, apparently it's because we're all eating KFC. Someone about that about the chicken. I'm only talking scientifically. I'm really trying to go with you on things here but I'm you know, sass twins and all that. You are making it hard. I'm gonna have a little time out. Okay, you have a little time out.

Dave, do go on. So he's too tall. A film producer's story's potential. How tall is he? Six foot five. Well, that would have been massive back then. Wow. Yeah. Oh, I'll just keep talking, great.

Nothing else he needs to be said. Actually, I know I'm an obscure Australian sport. Oh, thanks for having me. of skewer Australian sport. So, but a film producer saw what he thought was his potential early on, and quote from Lee, he looked me up and down and concluded that I was just what the industry had been looking for. Lee was then sent to Hungarian film producer Joseph Somlow for a contract who immediately announced that he was much too tall to be an actor. So someone says you're great and other person says we can't have you. Lee later said, initially I was told I was too tall to be an actor.

That's quite a fatuous remark to make. It's like saying you're too short to play the piano. I thought, right, I'll show you. And he learned the piano. You never look back. It probably, I mean, you probably can be too sure that you played the piano. It can't reach it. They probably give you a chair. Science, huh?

Is it because there weren't lenses big enough for a tall man or something back then? Could I just film him sitting down a lot? Matt Stewart ladies and gentlemen. I'm not going to move any closer. I love it. Yeah, what lenses weren't tall enough back then. How did they film the Empire State Building? The far away.

Well, they could have filmed this dude from far away. He persisted and eventually in 1947, a couple of years in, he was casting his first film, a British movie called... LAUGHTER CHEERING CHEERING a British movie called... Matt is funny, it's you. Matt, if you're not going to take a seat, I'm going to have to ask you to leave. Have you paid? You prefer it from the audience. Do we look good up here? Yeah, there's pink and blue lights. I think it's real. Is it

we look hot? So I was telling everyone that he got Karsani's first film, Kar Coral Ramirez, but you're thinking, but he's way too tall. Well, the director got around his height by sitting here at a table. Hang on, hang on. Have you been here this whole time not believing we're in the room? Is this news to you? She can't not stare at Matt.

He's been here the whole time. He looks like your brother! Oh my God! That's so crazy! And you couldn't tell from there! That's like a close-to-stand-to-your-brother! Good. Anyway, Dave, do go on. Yeah, half a sardine, she gets mean then. Tweety, you get close to me, I look a lot like your mum.

I'll stay up here. So, first film guys, he's off, he's off. He's got the acting bug and in the first year he appeared in eight films. He's doing alright. He basically wouldn't slow down for the rest of his life from that point. He continued to play background characters for the next 10 years into his mid to late 30s but he considered this time to be his acting apprenticeship because at the time he

had no idea what he was doing. Being on set he watched and listened to the other actors, picked up some tips and then he was finally ready to say nothing because his big break was playing Frankenstein's monster in his 40th film. Fortieth. Fortieth film. Fort, that's a nice number though. Fortieth. Fortieth film in ten years. Oh okay,, yeah, that's a good innings. It was the 1957 film The Curse of Frankenstein. In the film Lee played Frankenstein's monster and Peter Cushing played Baron Victor Frankenstein.

It was the first film to co-star Lee and Cushing who would go on to co-star in 20 films together. And this would turn out to be Lee's breakthrough because his role as Frankenstein's monster led him to be cast as Count Dracula in the 1958 film, Count Dracula. Oh, I thought it was an actual vampire. I'll get to that bit, sir.

I'll get to that bit, sir. I'll get to that bit, sir. There are Chattie Crowns. Yeah, my God. It's weird. This is the, Dracula was a role that Lee occupied, so well, that his portrayal became synonymous with the characters' appearance in popular culture.

So if you imagine an archetypal Dracula right now, chances are you're imagining Christopher Lee. He's just the guy. He also added what has been described as a dark, brooding sexuality to the character. Oh, man. Journalist and historian Tim Stanley wrote that quote, Lee's sensuality was subversive in that

hinted that women might quite like having their neck chewed on by a stud. No. I speak for all women. No. That's fucking weird. Yeah, don't chew on it. That's gross. That's fucking weird. Yeah, don't chew on it. That's gross. Oh, slippery. Get off. What are you doing? Well, you'd be surprised that the film was a real hit and made Lee famous. He started many other films afterwards and continued to be prolific with his output. In 1965, six years later, he was asked to star in a sequel to Dracula, Dracula Prince of Darkness,

and this film Dracula was completely silent. With Lee later stating this is because he read the script and had it so much that he refused to say his lines. Lee later said, quote, I said to the film company hammer, if you think I'm going to say in these lines, you're very much mistaken. So they just made his character silent. Screenwriter Jimmy Sankster wrote the scripts, disputed this saying that he didn't want the character to speak at all, later writing that vampires don't chat. So I didn't write any dialogue. They don't chat, they chew.

So the film was another hit and it led to more sequels. Many more. All up Lee Starters Dracula in 11 films, including cameos, seven of which were in the Dracula series. Eleven. Eleven. What? Let's see. I'm sorry.

No more. No more. All right, he's starting 20 Dracula movies. Matt, can you come back? Because without you here, I have to listen the whole time. I can't zone out. We're going to pick one member of the crowd to join us on stage. Oh, this guy. Don't do it.

Don't. That's a really bad idea. Okay. Yeah. That's a really bad idea. Okay. Yeah! Yeah, that's sick down there. That's real good. I look like that lady's brother. And it was freaking me out.

More the reaction than anything part of it. Yeah, so he's a blood sucker, but it sounds like... No, he's a brother. Okay. He's a ginger. Do you don't have ginger people here? I part obviously, part of my brother. Is this your family? The ones with the heads in their hands?

No, I'm not. Extend it. Extend it. All right, so you're not the mom that I look like. No. Okay. I brought that. Okay.

Actually, yes, step cousin. So again? He does. Yeah. What are the odds that I would have picked that chair? There's one there. Could have taken picked that chair? There's one there. Could have taken that one there. There's one there.

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the film Lee said, I'm doing it under protest. I can think of 20 adjectives, fatuous, pointless absurd. It's not a comedy, but it's got a good comic title. I don't see the point and this is him trying to promote the movie. You love that word, fatuous. Fatuous. He loves it. Fatuous. Sounds good though. Sounds lovely.

I may be saying it wrong. You'll probably be surprised to know that after his reen endorsement the film flopped. So he didn't have to do it anymore. I drew these years, he also started in tens of other films, having been in 118 movies by 1973. Two more. Oh. Don't worry, he's going to do a lot more. So 15 years in, he's done nearly 120 films.

He played other monsters and villains, including the mummy, Fumantu and Gregori Rasputin, the man whose killer's he he met as a boy. Oh my God! It was all research. It's crazy. How method did he go? Yeah.

How magic. Yeah. Finish it? Great, guys. No, it wasn't. You'll know when you say it. Yeah. You had a...

Someone just said regret penis. And I don't know how we knew. But... Yeah. Okay. They are, yeah. Someone said, someone gave me a show in Australia a few months ago and I said, I couldn't...

The biggest thing I took away from the show was, Haskinia Matt's pens. That was the biggest thing that took away from the show was Haskinea Matt's pins. That was the biggest thing they took away from the show. They weren't listening at all. Otherwise, the biggest thing would have been you're amazing comedy skills. Hey, you. You were racing for me to be mean. Yeah.

You're an instinct. Your legs actually look a lot like my brother. LAUGHTER Is that righteous? Don't freak out. I'm not photos. I don't even have a brother. He also appeared in three Sherlock Holmes films,

but he played a different character in each. He played Henry Baskerville in the hand of the Baskerville's, then Sherlock himself, and then Sherlock's brother, Microtht. Ah, he actually looked a lot like him. LAUGHTER That's a bit of a sec to get it. LAUGHTER He had auditioned for the part in a film called The Longest Day in 1962,

but he was turned down because he did not quote, look enough like a military man, despite 100% being a military man. In 1970 Lee had a role as the on screen narrator and Jesse Franco's film Eugenie. He did the film as a favor to the film's producer. What he didn't know was that it was a soft core porn movie. I guess he didn't read the full title of the film which is Eugeneie, dot, dot, dot, the story offered Journey Interpreter's version. So we went from Bloodsucker to...

... ... etc. In an interview with the telegraph he record the film, he said, quote, I had no idea what it was when I agreed to the role. I flew out to Spain for some, for one day's work, playing the part of the narrator. I had to wear Crimson Dinner Jacket. I mean, there's a telltale science. There were lots of people behind me. They all had their clothes on. They didn't seem to be anything peculiar or strange.

Later on, he totally forgot about being in the film until a friend asked him about it and said, I think it's a porno. So he went to see it for himself. This is again from the interview quote, so I crept along there heavily disguised in dark glasses and a scarf and found the cinema and there was my name.

That'll do it. He's still six more five. Oh, who's that? He's wearing a scarf. It couldn't be Christopher Lee. He said, I was furious. What I had left Spain that day, everyone behind me had taken their clothes off. He didn't know.

1974 he started as a villain and the title character Francisco Scaramungo, the man with a golden gun that James Bond filmed based on the book by his step cousin Ian Fleming. Fleming had reportedly offered Lee the title role in the first Sean Connery Bond Doctor No, but it didn't work out. What I read there was that Ian was offering a part that he did not have the right to offer. They just cast someone else. I'm still thinking about his porno. How did you even arrayed a porno? How soft call was it? What does that mean? What is soft? I'll get Google, but... Something I've always wondered.

Is that the kind of thing your brother has also... Um, he started as the best... This is our... What did I bring her in again? He started... What's your This is our... Why did I bring her in again? He started... What's your name? Melanie. Let's talk later.

But Melanie is my sister's name. Could it be? So he was in the Bond movie, he started as the best and most highly paid assassin in the world, commanding a million dollars per hit. And whilst Lee wasn't quite paid that well in the movie, it was his highest paying film until his later years, getting over £40,000 for his appearance. Despite this, he lamented that the bonds get the big money and they save on the heavies. All right, man. It wasn't enough.

The bonds get the big money. Yeah, you're the same. In a James Bond trip. Ah, are they pay him, yeah, no shit. The film is called The Man with a Golden Gun and I'm the man with a fucking golden gun. If I don't go on, there's no shit. The film is called The Man With A Golden Gun and I'm The Man With A Fucking Golden Gun. If I don't go on, there's no show. I'm The Titula Man. Do you enjoy saying Titula?

Titula is fun. I love Titula. Is that soft cool? Yeah. What a fatuous remark. In the 80s, Lee played Charles Henry Sanson, the executioner in France who had it over 3,000 people using the guillotine, including King Louis XVI.

Again, his younger years of witnessing the guillotine came back to help his acting. It's crazy. This whole time throughout the rest of his life, Christopher Lee was supported by his wife, Gitt. I nearly enjoyed that. A full name was Burgit. What? I knew it would enjoy that. A full name was Burkitt. What?

She's Danish. I was saying Burkitt. I say nearly everything I think. You can't tell. Before meeting Git, he had been engaged to another woman, the Swedish Henrietta von Rosen, who was the daughter of a powerful Count in Sweden. He made Lee jump through hoops to get his daughter's hand in marriage. Literally. Yeah. Well, basically. He did a lot of stuff. He asked for references. He sent private

investigators to follow Lee around. It was crazy. The final Hoop was Lee had to get the permission of the King of Sweden to marry his daughter. For many people, this would be a very difficult task. But not for Christopher Lee. Of course Lee had met the King of Sweden some years earlier whilst filming the Tales of Hands Christian Anderson. And they were friends, so he was able to receive the blessing at no trouble. Oh my God. Sadly, the marriage did not work out

and Lee went on to Mary Danish painter and former model, Bergette Gitt, Krunker in 1960. Mary Danish 61 had a daughter, Christian, a 63 and stayed together for That's married in 1961. Had a daughter, Christina in 1963, and stayed together for the rest of his life. What was her surname? Cronka. The prettiest name, part of her name. Cronka.

Git, Cronka. Oh, it's beautiful. I hope she didn't drop the surname. Yeah. I hope she's Git, Cronka Lee. You got a half a night, that shit. Oh, I like to travel git cronkely. That was almost something.

I look out of the thing I would have said, and I loved it. I was like, no, no. Lee, I'm going to stand up for a little bit. He moved to Hollywood in 1977 for fear of being typecasters, villains, or monsters and movies. Until this time, it mostly appeared in British and European cinema. But once in America, you continue to be prolific and appeared in dozens of films, but he really hit his stride in the U2000 when he was cast as Saraman in the little ultra-logy called The Lord of the Rings.

Whoa! Who was in there? Saraman. I don't know why I thought I would know where that meant but... The bad guy. This man said not only 39 a good year, 2000 solids. Stand again. I will not. Ali was a token obsessive, reported reading the novels at least once a year throughout his life, and had long dreamt of playing Gandalf. In the 90s, Lee began purposefully auditioning for Wizard roles in TV and film, just to get

some experience and some credit. He heard that we're making the film and he was like, all right, I've got a show, my God. I'm gonna get top castes of Wizard. Smart. In 1997, he landed the role. 97 was all right. He landed the role of Wizard Allwyn

in the critically-panned TV series, The New Adventures of Robin Hood. He said, quote, the only reason I did that was to show anyone who was watching that I could play a wizard and that I would be ideal casting for the Lord of the Rings. Then the movie was officially announced, Lee even sent director Peter Jackson a photo of himself

dressed up as a wizard. LAUGHTER LAUGHTER He didn't attach a letter or anything, which is a fixer. Apparently, he passed it off as a joke. Oh, that's smart. I just muck him, just muck him.

No, it isn't. Unless you want me to, then I'll serious. But if not, just muck him already. Oh. LAUGHTER Within the year 2000, he was already 78, too, was considered too old and had to settle for Saruman as the role of Gandalf required horseback riding and way more fighting. Isn't it crazy to be considered too old and had to settle for Saramant as the role of Gandalf required horseback riding and way more fighting. Isn't it crazy to be considered too old to be playing a

wise old wizard? It was a cut off, yeah. What's the cut off? It's a Gandalf Ford in that film. Sounds sick. Do you say that? Yeah. Because I'm cool.

We've got a 26-hour flight home. I'm sure you could manage to squeeze them in just. Ah, busy. Yeah. Of course, Lee's childhood again and fourth, again and fourth his role for as a child, he once met the author, J.R. Tolkien. He was the only person that worked on the film that ever met him. He met Tolkien by chance, let him describe it.

I met him with a group of other people in a pub in Oxford who used to go to called the Eagle and Child, and he didn't waste the opportunity to meet the literary great. He asked him, how do you do? Nailed it. So when was Tolkien alive? We did a report on him.

Did we? You? I think you you did it I didn't do it I Didn't do it I Think you did Which one of us did it? Did Matt do it? I could have told you that we'd done a topic. Are you sure I'm not getting confused? I did roll dowl. Roll dowl.

Are you sure I wasn't here brother? What do we do? I should listen to that. It was a lot of time. What do we do? We do it. I should listen to that. Yeah, it was alive. You know, yeah. Yeah. It was alive around that time. So that makes that checks out as we know. Oh my God.

I'm having an existential crisis right now. And no idea. Fuck. Are we okay? No. He's rolling Lord of the Rings Revival his career and let him to be cast as Count Duku in episode 2 and 3 of the Star Wars movies. That's what you're thinking about.

Yes. Count Duku of the Star Wars movies. I've definitely seen those and I actually remember now I saw Lord of the Rings. I couldn't tell you a thing about it but I don't remember Gandalf fighting in it, and I actually didn't see the end because the end sort of, it was a fake out after fake out with that end. You seen it? The third one it felt like it ended, but it hadn't ended.

And then it felt like it had ended, but it happened. And I said, well, it's ended. But I think it kept going. I just left the room. It's still going, no. Starting in the 2000s, Lee also began collaborating with Tim Burton, starring in five of his films. He was nodded in 2009 for his services to drama. So the 2000s was easily his most successful decade and he was in his 80s. And then he was nodded for his services to drama and he was told he can't act. Yeah, that's wild.

What a legend, this guy's sick, this is the best report we've ever done. You'll forget it as soon as we walk through those curtains. He's not about again. In his late 80s and 90s, he added another string to his bow, heavy metal. Seriously. In 2005 Lee was invited to perform a duet with Fabio Leone, one of the members of the band, Rhapsody of Fire. And from there, he was off. In 2010 he released his debut metal album called Charlemagne by the Sword and the Cross. It was a symphonic metal concept album that tells the story of Charlemagne, the first

holy Roman emperor and Lee's relative. Again his background is informing the rest of his life. I thought it was the dirtiest metal album ever. Oh, you don't know metal. That's great. It was critically acclaimed and Lee won the Spirit of Metal Award in the Metal Hammer Golden Gods 2010. Which we all know, we all know that. His next album, Charlemagne, The Omens of Death, was even heavier.

He dropped this emphonic part. It was just metal at this point. The music was arranged by Richie Fork, who was associated from performing with Judas Priest. He released a couple of Christmas themed metal EPs and the song Jingle Hell entered the hot 100 chart at number 22 22 making him the oldest living performer to ever enter the music charts He charted at 91. He's 91 years old. She'll be remame in Christmas. Lee You'll get that in a future episode

Oh, man, we had a meltdown during the Petru on Read in the hotel yesterday. Yeah that was a joke for us. And I shouldn't have said it out loud but it will make sense. It is very funny. Look at this. That was on... I think in the audio media everyone knows that I'm now the thing I did. Man, I don't want to interrupt you there, but sadly, all good things must come to an end. But what a life! Christopher Lee died on the 7th of June 2015 at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital,

less than four miles away from this venue. He passed just a couple of weeks after celebrating his 93rd birthday. His final on-screen role was in... Sorry, he lived three years too long for you to... Or hold on for two more. Ideally, seven more really. Yeah, ideally, yes. That would be good. I wish I had my 100th birthday. That would be more. I want to die on my 100th birthday.

That can be arranged. Thank you. He's finalised. James is going to kill me. How are you going to do it? I hope I don't go with you because I have to survive two more days to make it for me to make it to 100. Yeah. Imagine seeing a 100-year-old killer mother.

No, imagine seeing a 99-year-old kill a 100-year-old killer Mava. No, imagine singing a 99-year-old killer 100-year-old. Oh, so close. So we can't film her on the way, is it, then? No. Then you won't make it to 100. Matt, you'll have to kill both of us. How old will I be? Think of a number and double it.

You were already too old to play handheld. I'm sorry to say. Lee's final on-screen role was in the Hobbit, the Battle of the Five Armies. They got him back to the Hobbit films. He was, he's 212th credited film appearance. Fucking hell. Let me. Two less. And just around things up, I have a few more fun facts to round out the life of Sir Christopher

Lee. What a fantastic life it was. Lee held the Guinness World Record on 2007 for the most screen credits. At that point, and you made more after this, he had made appearances in 244 films and TV movies. So, if I haven't mentioned your favourite Lee film, then I'm sorry, there's just so many. that point and you made more after this, he had made appearances in 244 films and TV movies. So if I haven't mentioned your favourite Lee film, then I'm sorry there's just so many. That was basically me stopping tweets. Um, actually, I can't believe you didn't mention that film he did in 1971. So Christopher

was a champion fencer, he showed this off on screen, it is, uh, he appeared in more on screen sawdules than any other actor in history. What? He even did as in the Lord of the Rings films. He did some of his own sword work. No, maybe Star Wars. Oh. Star Wars.

No, he did some Star Wars. The only stuff they didn't let him do was the stuff from a wide angle. I guess it's hard to retreat. Who's the Lord of the Rings character that's older than Gando? Sarah Gond. Sarah Gond. I mean, it's another thing I can look up later, but I can't picture it.

You look at up later and you'll go, oh, like that. Yeah, you'll do that. That's why. LAUGHTER I mean, it wasn't always the best for the sword. In 1955, during the filming of the movie, The Dark Avengers, Errol Flynn, fantastic Australian actor, got slightly drunk, and in a sword fighting sequence,

cut Lee's hand so badly that his finger almost came off. Yeah, copped that England. Why was he drunk while they were filming? I'm pretty sure he was arranging alcohol. This swathe buckling arrow fin. Drunk? What? That makes me miss home. So he's cut his finger, almost cut Lee's finger off. Following this Lee struck Flynn's wig off while he was still wearing it. You never struck another man's wig. Flynn, the star of the film, locked himself in his trailer and wouldn't come out until Lee told him

that it was only an excellent. Proud of being a strolling right now. You've probably heard of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon, that thing from a few years ago, where any star can be traced back to Kevin Bacon in 6 steps. Well, in 2008, Guinness World Records declared Christopher Lee is the most connected actor in the world. He was believed to be able to connect to any actor in Hollywood in just two and a half steps. Whoa, what's a half step?

It's called an average people look it up. You guys just got school. Look it up. Don't kill me. Finally, when filming Lord of the Rings Lee gave the director Peter Jackson some very specific advice. Jackson was blocking a scene in which Wormtong played by Brad Duriff. Isn't that your one nickname which Wormtong played by Brad Duriff. No, you're a Nickname? Wormtong? No, I'm Wormgullet. In which he stabbed

Saramon played by Lee in the back. Jackson went into a long explanation about how he wanted Lee to react and Lee just stopped him and said, have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody stabbed in the back? Because I do. That's it. What a fucking way. How little odds to man die. Because I have. Sit down, Peter. Let me act. Lee informed Jackson that it's more of a gasp because quote, the breath is driven out of your body.

Jackson later said, Lee proceeded to sort of talk about some very clandestine part of World War II. This is still Peter Jackson. He seemed to have expert knowledge of exactly the sort of noise that they make. So I just didn't push the subject any further. LAUGHTER Again, his early years in the war had informed his acting. What a guy, so Christopher Lee!

Give that to Dave Warnock here, everybody. That was it. Yeah. I want to 18 people suggest that, including Jake Knight or what? Close? Adam. Adam Knight. What's it night though? No.

Yes? No. We don't have to keep pointing at you, I'm sorry. What's your pin number? No, I don't worry about it. It's pin, not pin number. The am is already doing the work for the number of guests. You just made a fool of yourself in front of all these people. I've been supporting you this whole time.

And that was ironic, but I just... Well, we've had some times tonight. Let us bring us to the end of the episode. But, Christopher, what a crazy, crazy life. Insane, filly. What a crazy crazy life insane well done great report Dave Thank you report Dave. Brad reports with David Warner key Thank you Big round of applause for Adam not Dros Malini down the front my sister

Sandal you so much. Yes. Mark Chattell, he actually made it so possibly brought us over here, so we ran a porcelain bar. Big bro, we love you, Mark. But thank you so much, give yourselves a big round of applause, it's so cool to have you here. Thank you so, so much London. And until next time, I'll say thank you and goodbye! And there you have it. Recorded live in London again. thanks to everyone for coming out and supporting us on the UK tour. It was truly the best time of our lives. It is Dave here by the way, not the one that looks like that girl's brother, that's Matt, the one that looks like her mother, I think I was talking about in the episode. But yeah, thanks so much for listening to the episode.

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the fact, quote, or question, which has a theme song that I will attempt. Fact quote or question. There it is. And this is the part of the show where people that support us on the Sydney Shineburg Reston piece, Deluxe Package Level, which is the premium tier on Patreon, they get to write in with a fact quote or question and also give themselves a title, which is nice. And this week Sam Cross is our first enterant with the fact quote or question. Thank you so much, Sam, who has given themselves the name the great and almost magical red Sam Cross. Wow, what a title. I absolutely love it. Now, you get to give a fact, quote, or question,

and just reading slightly ahead here as I'm doing a mat and haven't read it in advance. Sam's given us a fact, but also a question, two in one. Appreciate that, Sam, you're not wasting your time here on the platform. Fact down to question. The question, or fact, starts with, the inventor of the Frisbee was cremated and his ashes, and his ashes were made into a frisbee after he died. Wow! Sam's question is, what would you get your ashes made into? Oh my goodness. And he can make get them made into diamond rings, you know, they say those things sort of last forever. Is it weird to say a pie? Yeah, that's weird. Someone would eat the pie. I obviously love pies, but I don't want anyone eating my ashes.

I'm not sure. What about a lovely pot? That you could put a beautiful tree in and that way because sometimes people put They get cremated and then they become the tree, but then trees often die. Especially in a cemetery, whatever you know, you plant the tree in the ashes and then They live for 10 more years, but if you're a pot and hear me out like a beautiful ceramic pot, that could last centuries and he just keep replacing the plant when it died. Was that a satisfying answer, Sam? Was it either pick pie if you want to go with the weird one, pot if you want to go with an off track sincere one? Thank you so much, Sam.

The great and almost magical red and one more fact quote a question this week is Michael Derrizzi who probably doesn't need a title because that's such a great name but Michael Derrizzi says his title is the unofficial sorry official unofficial homey of Patrick Mahomes brackets he's the star quarterback of my favorite NFL team the The Kansas City Chiefs. Right, so the official, unofficial home of Patrick Mahomes from the Kansas City Chiefs. I love it. Fantastic. Thank you so much, Michael D'Arizzi. I've been thinking about picking an NFL team. I picked the an NBA team a couple of years ago. I picked the New Orleans Pal Pelicans as a bit of a joke because I thought their mascot was the silliest one that they

had available. And now they had the number one draft pick with Zion. People are talking about how they in a couple years might actually be a great team. So I got on board at the right time, but just know that I'm not a bandwagon. I got on when they were not doing very well. And, um, Anthony Davis was the only good player there and I thought the team was the funniest one. Anyway, Kansas City Chiefs, that's a pretty good one, but is that the silliest NFL team? What's the silliest one? I really like the, uh, the Raiders, the Oakland Raiders logo, because he has an eye patch, which I think is quite cool. But maybe tweet me out, Dave Wonky. What's the silliest NFL team? I'll pick one. I will pick one. Anyway, Michael Derrizzy, the

official unofficial homey of Patrick Mahomes, is also given us a fact and it is about his beloved home state of Kansas. Thanks so much for writing in Kansas. My home state is home to the world's largest ball of twine. And if that's not exciting enough, no, it is. It is. It's 7 million. 974,454 feet of twine rolled into a big ball. That is amazing. Wow. And a little addendum here from Michael PS. I understand why Kansas doesn't get much attention. It's because it's a boring fucking place. No, that's not true at all. You get the shout out in the Wizard of Oz. No other

state gets that. Thank you Michael Derrizzy. Do you have the words largest cat to play with that giant ball? If not, many cats will be crushed. I appreciate your support Sam and Michael Derrizzy. Now, it's time to move on to the other section of the Patreon read at the end of the show where we shout out to six people that support show through Patreon and we usually play a game here where we sign them in a title or a name or or something like that and I what I've got here is because we talked about the great Christopher Lee there and he's a 250 plus movie and TV roles I've brought up his wiki pdf page for Christopher Lee's filmography

for his TV and film characters. I'm going to scroll through this and at random give you a Christopher Lee character name because there are some incredible ones here. Some incredible names here. So thank you so much. First of all, from, let me share that out too, from Boston Massachusetts. Did I say it right? Massachusetts. What does Matt say? Massachusetts. Anyway, Massachusetts.

I'm nail that right. First go. Eric Stenark. Eric Stenark. Thank you so much for supporting us over in Boston, Eric. And your official Christopher Lee character, pretending this is some sort of a random character generator. You are the character Philip Philip Darvis.

From the 1967 film Theatre of Death, a British horror film. Well there you go, Philip Darvis. That was his 87th film role. What a guy. Thank you so much to our for Leap Davies, Eric Stenark. I would also like to thank from Northern Ireland in London, dairy, Chris Moran. Chris Moran, thank you so much for supporting the show Chris. Let me give you your random character. Oh wow, you are Baron von Storb, Baron von Storb, who's from the Devil's agent, 1962 film, co-productive twin, written West Germany and the Republic of Ireland. There you go, based on a novel by Hans Haib. Fantastic, the Devil's agent, Baron von Storb, aka Chris Moran. I would like to thank now a person who needs only one name and they are from lower hut in New Zealand and that is

Mel. Thank you so much for your support Mel the one and only we know the Mel we know the right one It's keeping forward here. I am going to give you the nickname of Commandant Alexander Nickelovic Rackov. What an amazing name. Which is a 1994 comedy movie called Oh it's from police academy mission to Moscow. There you go from 1994 one of the sequels, the seventh and final film and most critically acclaimed in the police

academy films. The one that killed the series that no one thought would die. 1994, Commandant, Alexandre, Nicolavic, Rackov. Incredible names. Incredible names here. Oh, thanks, Mel. I would also like to thank from York in North Yorkshire, not far from Leeds where we were a couple of weeks ago now. Johnny Ollis.

Johnny Ollis, maybe you're at the show. Thank you so much for your support. I would like to give you your random character. Let's go through here. Count Ludwig Kahnstein. Count Ludwig Kahnstein from Terra in the crypt, a 1964 Italian Spanish horror film, also called Crypt of the Vampire and Crypt of Horror.

Count Ludwig Kahnstein. Fantastic. Love those names. Thank you so much from North Yorkshire Johnny Ellis. We would like to thank now from London, England, where this episode was recorded. Maybe you were there, Larissa Murray. Thank you so much, Larissa Murray. Thank you so much Larissa Murray for your support of the show and let's give you a nickname now. How about Prince Boldezard, Prince Boldezard

from the 1981 film The Salamander, 1981 thriller film directed by Peter Zinnah. Fantastic. From the Salamander, Prince Bolder's R. Larissa Murray. And finally, another Englishman now from Liverpool in England. I would like to shout out and thank Matthew Doyle. Matthew Doyle, thank you so much for your support of the show. Matthew Doyle, let's bring it home strong here. Let's Find a fantastic name Well, he did a lot of people with titles. I will tell you that from a tale of two cities Which I imagine is an adaptation of the Charles Dickens. It is 1958

movie Marquis St. Evermond Marquis St. Evermond. Marquis Saint Evermond. I've just seen another one here. Resurrection Joe. Which one do you want?

They're both good. That's from Corridor's of Blood, 1958 film. Two movies he did that year. Two very different characters I imagine. Marquis Saint Evermond or Resurrection Joe, take your pick there, Matthew Doyle. Thank you so much for supporting the show. Well, that brings us to the end of another episode of Dogemon.

Thank you so much for joining us. We'll be back next week with another episode, which Australian time is going to come out on Christmas Day? So maybe you don't celebrate Christmas, or you're going on a big drive, or perhaps you just need something to put on after the terror that is the exhaustion, that is a Christmas lunch, the terror. I mean how much pudding can you eat? So you can put that on next week on Christmas Day but until then thank

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