Lee died Sunday, a spokesman for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea said.
He had more than 150 film credits to his name, beginning in 1948 and stretching into this decade.
Lee
initially made his name in horror films. His first major horror role
was as Frankenstein's creature and then the infamous vampire Dracula in a
series films for Britain's Hammer Films studios from the 1950s until
the 1970s.
He was often quoted as saying he had to be
talked into playing in some of the Dracula films. He said he played the
character silently in one film -- 1965's "House of Horrors" -- because
the lines were so bad.
Later, he took
on the role of James Bond's nemesis Francisco Scaramanga in 1974's "The
Man with the Golden Gun," and was introduced to a new generation of
film-goers in 2001 with "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the
Ring."
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