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Yeah, he's such an underrated guy by the modern moviegoer. Everybody just remembers him as Fredo.

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I think he would have been right up there with De Niro and Pacino, but hopefully without the awful post-millenium output.

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My minor gripe, not his acting for sure, was that his "biggest" roles where the wimpy and pathetic guy. I mean he was damn fine at them but I'm not sure if he would've been as into the mainstream as Pacino and De Niro. He probably could've been more subtle in his choice of roles too where he alive. I don't think he'd pick some of the trash Michael and Young Vito did.

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Christopher Lee has them all beat:


Mario Bava
Terence Fisher
J. Lee Thompson
Edouard Molinaro
Val Guest
Sidney Hayers
Guy Hamilton
Richard Lester
Robin Hardy
Freddie Francis
Eugenio Martin
Burt Kennedy
Roy Ward Baker
Jess Franco
Billy Wilder
Jerry Lewis
Gordon Hessler
Harald Reinl
John Gilling
Seth Holt
Terence Young
Nicholas Ray
Ralph Thomas
Sidney Gilliat
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
John Boulting
George Marshall
Rudolph Maté
Zoltan Korda
Henry Levin
John Huston
Robert Siodmak
Edgar G. Ulmer
Raoul Walsh
Basil Dearden
Laurence Olivier
Tim Burton
Joe Dante

Not to mention a trio of kids whom I’m inclined to leave off any list of “best directors,” but over whom the fanboys will have hissy fits and conniptions if they’re not included: Spielberg, Jackson and Lucas.

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Yet you included Joe Dante :lol:

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And Guy Hamilton?!?

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Jesus....I see so little of Lee's work actually. What Christopher Lee films should I watch...ie the good ones?

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You should see the Hammer horrors, esp. his Dracula films (he made about 6 of them for Hammer), starting with the first and best, HORROR OF DRACULA (1958), with Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. They reteamed 14 years later in a modern-day update, DRACULA A.D. 1972. He made quite a few Fu Manchu films, but I haven't seen many of those.
There was a German one I liked called TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM (aka BLOOD DEMON).
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1975) is a Bond film that's worth watching for Lee (as the title villain).
He's funny as a German officer in Spielberg's 1941.
THE WICKER MAN (1972), of course. He has one of the lead roles (not the hero, needless to say).
HORROR EXPRESS (1971) - a Spanish horror film on a train. Lee and Cushing play the heroes, while Telly Savalas plays a Cossack villain.
He made a few pirate movies, but I haven't seen those.
He plays Sherlock Holmes' brother in Billy Wilder's THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, a film I like a great deal, but is not recommended to Sherlock purists.

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Good list, especially mentioning TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM which is one of my favorites. Regretably there isn't a good Region 1 release, I had to pick up the Region 2 German DVD.

I would also highly recommend THE DEVIL RIDES OUT, one of the best Satanic/Occult films ever.

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I am sure the last name on your list is in jest. ;)

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Alain Delon


Michelangelo Antonioni
Jean-Pierre Melville
Louis Malle
Luchino Visconti
Terence Young
Julien Duvivier
René Clément
Anthony Asquith
Joseph Losey
Jacques Deray
Michael Winner

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^ That's a great list, but Michael Winner...really?

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He did give us this masterpiece :sarcasm:

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He directed Delon in SCORPIO (1973), which co-starred Burt Lancaster and is a very good CIA/hitman/conspiracy thriller that's playing on one of the movie channels (FLIX?) tonight. It's highly recommended. Even though the film is anti-CIA, Winner managed to finagle permission to shoot some scenes at CIA HQ in Langley, VA. I heard him tell the story once when he did a Q&A at a local college.

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Plus, I'll Never Forget What's'isname is a decent, if dated, comedy.

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What about "The Duke"?

John Ford
John Huston
Howard Hawks
William Wellman
Don Seigal
Henry Hathaway
Michael Curtiz
Cecil B. DeMille
Raoul Walsh
George Marshall
Mark Rydell
Otto Preminger
Andrew V. McGlaglen
George Stevens
Burt Kennedy
George Sherman
John Sturges
Jules Dassin
Edward Dmytrik
Mervyn LeRoy
Allan Dwan
Nicholas Ray
Josef Von Sternberg
John Farrow

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Jimmy Stewart was THE go to guy for Hitchcock and Capra, and a go to guy for John Ford.

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Steve Buscemi:


Woody Allen
Francis Ford Coppola
Martin Scorsese
James Ivory
Jim Jarmusch
Abel Ferrara
Coen Brothers
Quentin Tarantino
Tom DiCillo
Robert Rodriguez
John Carpenter
Robert Altman
Simon West (kidding)
Michael Bay (come on, Bay is one of the best action directors)
Terry Zwigoff
Tim Burton
Florian Gallenberger