He said his proudest role was as Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, in 1998’s Jinnah.Īt the turn of the century, Lee entered what he would call “the most extraordinary decade of my life”: Along with performances in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films and the second Star Wars trilogy, Lee appeared in four Tim Burton films - Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Dark Shadows - and Martin Scorsese’s Hugo.
He showed off his comedic side when he hosted a highly-rated episode of Saturday Night Live in 1978, and portrayed one of the greatest good guys of all, Sherlock Holmes, several times. While villainy may have been his calling, Lee was a deft performer across all genres. Lee would make turns as Lucifer, Rasputin, Dracula (10 times) and in 1958, appeared alongside horror pioneer Boris Karloff as one of his henchmen in Corridors of Blood. Among his most diabolical characters were criminal mastermind Fu Manchu in a handful of films released between 19, and Scaramanga, the assassin with a penchant for gold bullets in the Bond flick The Man with the Golden Gun (his cousin and golf buddy, Bond creator Ian Fleming, reportedly wanted him as the titular Dr.
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