Christopher Lee
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Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was an English actor and singer. In a career spanning over 60 years, he became known as an actor with tremendous screen presence and a deep and commanding voice, wh
Lee as the title character in Dracula (1958). He fixed the image of the fanged vampire in popular culture.
Lee and his close friend Peter Cushing in Horror Express (1972). They starred in twenty-two films together.
Lee at Festival des Passions in Aubagne, France, in September 1996
Lee at Forbidden Planet, New Oxford Street, London, signing The Two Towers
Ian Fleming
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Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his f
Christopher Lee
…to London, where Lee attended Wagner's private school in Queen's Gate, and his mother married Harcourt George St-Croix Rose, a banker and uncle of Ian Fleming. Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, thus became Lee's step-cousin. The family moved to Fulham, living next door to the actor Eric Maturin. One…
Fleming c. 1958
The Glenelg War Memorial, listing Valentine Fleming, Ian's father
The Admiralty, where Fleming worked in the Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War
Goldeneye, where Fleming wrote all the Bond stories