The Christopher Lee Film Encyclopedia

The British actor Sir Christopher Lee (1922-2015) is perhaps best-remembered for his screen appearances as, for many, the definitive Count Dracula. However, as is pointed out in a preface to this superb new book, vampire-related films accounted for only about 5 per cent of Lee’s filmography over eight decades. The Encyclopedia is a revised and is an expanded second edition of Pohle and Hart’s (1983) The Films of Christopher Lee. It is intended to incorporate Lee’s splendid later years, by the end of which the authors claim that their subject had made “far more films than any other major...