(The announcement of Lee’s death from respiratory problems and heart failure was delayed by his wife until family could be notified.) Lee played Dracula nine times, mostly for the British horror factory, Hammer Films, but was also Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy, “Rasputin, the Mad Monk,” the evil Darth Tyranus in two “Star Wars” films, and in Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Saruman, the white wizard who is corrupted by a lust for the ring of power.
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