Happy Halloween
And just for you, enjoy the late Sir Christopher Lee reading Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven
And if you aren’t properly creeped out, take this.
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Vale, Christopher Lee
You may not known this about me, but I’m named after a film icon.
Yup, I am Christopher Lee Eger, after the Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ. You know? Count Dooku, Saruman, The Man with the Golden Gun. My mother was a huge fan of 1970s Hammer films.
He was also a real-life legend.
Well before all that he volunteered for the Finns in the 1939 Winter War, then served in the RAF in World War II doing intelligence work.
Years later he said of this, “I was attached to the SAS from time to time but we are forbidden – former, present, or future – to discuss any specific operations. Let’s just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that.”
Sadly, the world’s most renowned man card holder is no longer with us. He died yesterday at 93 and I truly don’t think anyone could ever fill his shoes.
I will leave you with this sobering interview of him recalling his WWII service in an interview in Italy in 2009
The world is somehow not as bright today.
Of Christopher Lee, Zeppelins, and Serial.
You may not known this about me, but I’m named after a Hammer Films icon. Yup, Christopher Lee Eger, after the Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ. You know? Count Dooku, Saruman, The Man with the Golden Gun. Well before all that he volunteered for the Finns in the 1939 Winter War, then served in the RAF in World War II doing intellegence work. Years later he said of this, “I was attached to the SAS from time to time but we are forbidden – former, present, or future – to discuss any specific operations. Let’s just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that.”
Truly a pimp.
Well, Lee came to fame in the 1960s and 70s when I was born as Count Dracula in a number of films from the famous Hammer Film studio in the UK. My mom was so enamored with him that I picked up his first and last as my first and middle and I was Dracula several times as a kid of Halloween.
Hammer was a great company. One of the films they attempted to make but never did was Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls in 1971. All that is left from that attempt is the poster:
I would have seen it. They should have cast Lee as the Zeppelin commander and my mom would have seen it too. Bet it would be a classic today.
Oh, they “borrowed” the concept from a serial made in the 1930s by the way. Enjoy!
Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls (1936)