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The chief of all wizards, Saruman hopes to win the evil
ring for himself.Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, born in
Belgravia, London, entered the film industry in 1947 and
was for a time under contract to the Rank Organisation.
He has appeared in numerous theatre and operatic performances,
television, and has recorded radio world-wide. Lee has filmed
in English, Russian, Italian, French, German, and Spanish.
He has appeared in over 250 films and television productions,
among which the best known are A Tale of Two Cities, Dracula,
The Wicker Man, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The
Three and The Four Musketeers, The Man with the Golden Gun,
1941, Airport 77, Gremlins II, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,
Jinnah and the BBC’s production of "Gormenghast."
He will next be seen in the highly-anticipated Star Wars:
Episode 2.
The directors for whom he has worked include John Huston,
Raoul Walsh, Joseph Losey, George Marshall, Orson Welles,
Nicholas Ray, Michael Powell, Edward Molinaro, Jerome Savary,
Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, John Landis,
Tim Burton, and George Lucas. He has also appeared as host
of "Saturday Night Live" in 1978, the third highest
rated show of the series.
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