Christopher Lee played Mycroft Holmes in the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes in 1970.
Screen legend Sir Christopher Lee has died at the age of 93.
The veteran actor died at 8.30am on Sunday at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, sources close to his family said.
He had been admitted for respiratory problems and heart failure over the preceding three weeks and spent his 93rd birthday there.
Sir Christopher was knighted in 2009 and received a Bafta fellowship in 2011, and said he would never retire. “I hate being idle. As dear Boris [Karloff] used to say, when I die I want to die with my boots on.”
His memorable roles included Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man (1973) and Scaramanga in The Man With The Golden Gun (1974).
He survived by his wife, Birgit, who he married in in 1961 and the couple’s daughter, Christina.
