In 1966′s Rasputin: the Mad Monk, Christopher Lee played a version of the titular Russian myst
In 1966′s Rasputin: the Mad Monk, Christopher Lee played a version of the titular Russian mystic in a Hammer horror film interpretation of his life. Oddly, much like how he was acquainted with JRR Tolkien prior to eventually getting cast as Saruman in the Lord of the RIngs film, Lee also has a connection to Rasputin also.Or, more accurately, when he was a child he actually met Felix Yusupov and Dmitri Pavlovich via his parents, who were two of the men who killed Rasputin back in 1916. Additionally, in 1976, a decade after appearing in the Mad Monk, Lee also met Rasputin’s daughter Maria, who reported told him that he’d successfully captured her father’s “expression“.Side-note: the Mad Monk was filmed back to back with the aforementioned Dracula: Prince of Darkness, and used many of the same sets and cast members. -- source link
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