Born into a distinguished London family, he was educated at Summer Fields and Wellington College, where he earned classics scholarships and later honed his voice as a classically trained singer. After modest parts in post-war films, his breakthrough came with the Hammer Horror series, most famously embodying Count Dracula in seven installments and appearing in titles such as The Devil Rides Out an… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005 Series ★ 8.1 Faerie Tale Theatre 1982
King Vladimir V Series ★ 7.9 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962
Karl Jorla ★ 7.4 Hamlet 1948
Palace Guard (uncredited) ★ 7.3 The Last Unicorn 1982
King Haggard (voice) ★ 7.2 Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films 2014
Corrigan (archive footage) (uncredited) ★ 7.2 The Story of Star Wars 2004
Count Dooku (archive footage) Series ★ 7.2 Shaka Zulu 1986
Lord Bathurst ★ 7.2 Scott of the Antarctic 1948
Bernard Day Series ★ 7.1 Space: 1999 1975
Captain Zandor ★ 7.1 Taste of Fear 1961
Doctor Pierre Gerrard Series ★ 7 How the West Was Won 1977
The Grand Duke ★ 7 The Crimson Pirate 1952
Joseph - Military Attaché ★ 7 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. 1951
Spanish Captain Series ★ 6.9 Gormenghast 2000
Flay ★ 6.9 Jinnah 1998
Muhammad Ali Jinnah ★ 6.8 Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics 2013
Narrator Series ★ 6.8 The Colour of Magic 2008
Death ★ 6.8 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970
Mycroft Holmes ★ 6.8 A Tale of Two Cities 1958
Marquis St. Evremonde ★ 6.7 Treasure Island 1990
Blind Pew ★ 6.7 Dracula Has Risen from the Grave 1968
Dracula ★ 6.7 Dracula: Prince of Darkness 1966
Count Dracula ★ 6.6 Hercules in the Haunted World 1961
King Lico (Licos) ★ 6.6 Private's Progress 1956
Major Schultz ★ 6.6 Moulin Rouge 1952
Georges Seurat (uncredited) ★ 6.6 Saraband for Dead Lovers 1948
Herzog Anthony von Wolfenbüttel ★ 6.5 The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim 2024
Saruman (voice) ★ 6.5 Extraordinary Tales 2015
Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher') Series ★ 6.5 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 1992
Count Ottokar Graf Czerin ★ 6.5 The Four Musketeers 1974
Rochefort ★ 6.5 The Devil Rides Out 1968
Duc de Richleau ★ 6.5 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors 1965
Franklyn Marsh ★ 6.5 The City of the Dead 1960
Prof. Alan Driscoll ★ 6.4 House of the Long Shadows 1983
Corrigan ★ 6.4 The House That Dripped Blood 1971
John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet") ★ 6.4 The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism 1967
Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai ★ 6.4 The Vengeance of Fu Manchu 1967
Dr. Fu Manchu ★ 6.4 The Gorgon 1964
Prof. Karl Meister ★ 6.4 The Whip and the Body 1963
Kurt Menliff ★ 6.4 Bitter Victory 1957
Sgt. Barney ★ 6.4 The Battle of the River Plate 1956
Manolo ★ 6.3 The Miser 1990
Cardinale Spinosi ★ 6.3 Horror Express 1972
Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton ★ 6.3 Ten Little Indians 1965
Mr. U.N. Owen (voice) ★ 6.2 Innocent Blood 1992
Count Dracula (archive footage) ★ 6.2 The Return of the Musketeers 1989
Rochefort ★ 6.2 The Return of Captain Invincible 1983
Mr. Midnight ★ 6.2 Nothing But the Night 1973
Col. Charles Bingham ★ 6.2 Hannie Caulder 1971
Bailey ★ 6.2 The Face of Fu Manchu 1965
Dr. Fu Man Chu ★ 6.2 The Pirates of Blood River 1962
Captain LaRoche ★ 6.2 Corridors of Blood 1958
Resurrection Joe ★ 6.2 Ill Met by Moonlight 1957
German officer at The Dentist's office ★ 6.1 Burke & Hare 2010
Old Joseph ★ 6.1 Bear Island 1979
Lechinski ★ 6.1 Taste the Blood of Dracula 1970
Dracula ★ 6.1 Theatre of Death 1967
Philippe Darvas ★ 6.1 The Castle of the Living Dead 1964
Count Drago ★ 6.1 The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll 1960
Paul Allen ★ 6.1 Alexander the Great 1956
Nectenabus (voice) ★ 6 Triage 2009
Joaquín Morales ★ 6 Glorious 39 2009
Older Walter Page ★ 6 Mio in the Land of Faraway 1987
Kato ★ 6 The Passage 1979
Gypsy ★ 6 Dracula A.D. 1972 1972
Count Dracula ★ 6 The Skull 1965
Sir Matthew Phillips ★ 6 Corridor of Mirrors 1948
Charles ★ 5.9 Arabian Adventure 1979
Caliph Alquazar ★ 5.9 The Creeping Flesh 1973
James Hildern ★ 5.9 Count Dracula 1970
Dracula ★ 5.9 Scars of Dracula 1970
Dracula ★ 5.9 Julius Caesar 1970
Artemidorus ★ 5.9 The Brides of Fu Manchu 1966
Fu Manchu ★ 5.9 Rasputin: The Mad Monk 1966
Grigori Rasputin ★ 5.9 Beat Girl 1960
Kenny King ★ 5.9 The Cockleshell Heroes 1955
Submarine Commander Alan Grieves ★ 5.8 Return from Witch Mountain 1978
Victor Gannon ★ 5.8 Death Line 1972
Stratton-Villiers, MI5 ★ 5.8 The Oblong Box 1969
Dr. J. Neuhartt ★ 5.8 The Magic Christian 1969
Ship's Vampire ★ 5.8 The Devil-Ship Pirates 1964
Captain Robeles ★ 5.8 The Secret of the Red Orchid 1962
Capt. Allerman ★ 5.8 The Devil's Daffodil 1961
Ling Chu ★ 5.8 The Man Who Could Cheat Death 1959
Dr. Pierre Gerrard ★ 5.7 The Resident 2011
August ★ 5.7 Dracula and Son 1976
Le prince des Ténèbres ★ 5.7 Horror Castle 1963
Erich ★ 5.7 The Terror of the Tongs 1961
Chung King ★ 5.6 Circle of Iron 1978
Zetan ★ 5.6 Airport '77 1977
Martin Wallace ★ 5.6 The Satanic Rites of Dracula 1973
Count Dracula ★ 5.6 She 1965
Billali ★ 5.5 To the Devil a Daughter 1976
Father Michael ★ 5.5 I, Monster 1971
Dr. Charles Marlowe / Mr. Edward Blake ★ 5.5 Circus of Fear 1966
Gregor ★ 5.5 Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace 1962
Sherlock Holmes ★ 5.4 Dark Places 1973
Dr. Ian Mandeville ★ 5.3 The Rainbow Thief 1994
Uncle Rudolf ★ 5.3 An Eye for an Eye 1981
Morgan Canfield ★ 5.3 The Salamander 1981
Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence ★ 5.3 Scream and Scream Again 1970
Fremont ★ 5.3 Night of the Big Heat 1967
Godfrey Hanson ★ 5.2 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service 1999
Count Ottokar Graf Czernin ★ 5.2 Curse of the Crimson Altar 1968
J.D. Morley ★ 5.2 Five Golden Dragons 1967
Dragon #4 ★ 5.1 Boogie Woogie 2010
Mr. Alfred Rhinegold ★ 5 Death Train 1993
General Konstanin Benin ★ 4.9 The Heavy 2010
Mr. Mason ★ 4.9 The Bloody Judge 1970
Lord George Jeffreys ★ 4.9 Eugenie 1970
Dolmance ★ 4.9 Crypt of the Vampire 1964
Count Ludwig Karnstein ★ 4.8 The Stupids 1996
Evil Sender ★ 4.8 Funny Man 1994
Callum Chance ★ 4.8 Too Hot to Handle 1960
Novak ★ 4.7 Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy 1998
Sir Richard Turkel ★ 4.4 Curse III: Blood Sacrifice 1991
Dr. Pearson ★ 4.4 The Blood of Fu Manchu 1968
Dr. Fu Man Chu ★ 4.3 Jocks 1986
President White ★ 4.3 Meatcleaver Massacre 1977
On-Screen Narrator ★ 3.9 The Wicker Tree 2011
Old Man ★ 3.9 End of the World 1977
Father Pergado / Zindar ★ 3.8 Captain America II: Death Too Soon 1979
Miguel ★ 3.6 The Castle of Fu Manchu 1969
Dr. Fu Man Chu ★ 3.3 Starship Invasions 1977
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