WASHINGTON – Cinema has lost a legend.
Actor Christopher Lee has reportedly died at age 93.
Lee is best known as the villain Saruman in the “Lord of the Rings” films.
He also played Count Dooku in the “Star Wars” prequels.
Film buffs will also remember him as Dracula and Frankenstein in a series of horror films produced by British studio Hammer Films from the 1950s to the 1970s.
After that, he memorably played the villain Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film “The Man with the Golden Gun” (1974).
Lee was 93.
