Tall Dark and Gruesome…

Sir Christopher Lee’s title for his autobiography. One of the most skilled, competent, badass character actors to ever grace stage or set. We in the US tend to think of him as a villain in Star Wars or the recent Tolkien movies, but he was so much more.

He passed a few days ago, but I didn’t hear about it until today. This has been a rough year: my heroes are passing, one by one.

Here is a short primer on Sir Lee’s sheer badassery.