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Christopher Lee This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 381
  • Subject No: 382
  • Broadcast date: Wed 3 Apr 1974
  • Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
  • Recorded: Wed 27 Mar 1974 10.30pm
  • Venue: Euston Road Studios
  • Series: 14
  • Edition: 21

on the guest list...

  • Bill Hobbs
  • Oliver Reed
  • Gitte - wife
  • Estelle - mother
  • Xandra - sister
  • Christina - daughter
  • Nicolas - brother
  • John Lavel
  • Peter Sturgeon
  • Bobby Brown
  • George Black
  • Peter Cushing
  • Veronica Carlson
  • Joanna Lumley
  • Valerie Van Ost
  • Trevor Howard
  • Vincent Price
  • Filmed tributes:
  • Charlton Heston
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Sammy Davis Jr

production team...

  • Researcher: Dee Maclure
  • Writer: John Sandilands
  • Director: Peter Webb
  • Producer: Malcolm Morris
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
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Christopher Lee biography

Jonathan Rigby recalls this edition of This Is Your Life in his book, Christopher Lee, The Authorised Screen History...


The week after the Royal premiere of The Three Musketeers, Thames TV broadcast Christopher Lee's This Is Your Life on Wednesday 3 April.


Enticed into performing a sword fight with Bill Hobbs for the children's magazine programme Magpie, Lee found himself presented with the familiar red book by the equally familiar Eamonn Andrews.


Among the guests were Trevor Howard, Oliver Reed, Peter Cushing, Vincent Price and "the most attractive blood group in pictures," as Lee dubbed them – Veronica Carlson, Valerie Van Ost and Joanna Lumley.


Filmed tributes were sent in by Charlton Heston, Patrick Macnee and Sammy Davis Jr, while 10-year-old Christina claimed that, despite having seen her father on TV as Count Dracula, her dreams of Donny Osmond remained undisturbed.

Roy Bottomley This Is Your Life book

Scriptwriter Roy Bottomley recalls this edition of This Is Your Life in his book, This Is Your Life: The Story of Television's Famous Big Red Book...


Horror film veteran Christopher Lee had just appeared in the Royal Film Premiere of The Three Musketeers when we 'ambushed' him in March 1974.


Friends who hadn't found him quite so frightening in real life included Charlton Heston, Sammy Davis Junior, Trevor Howard and Joanna Lumley.


Peter Cushing told us about making The Curse of Frankenstein with Christopher as the monster and himself as the baron. Christopher kept giving Peter the giggles doing Bugs Bunny impressions while in costume as the monster.



Christopher Lee This Is Your Life

Vincent Price related how a fellow passenger on his flight from Hollywood had asked, 'Are you Boris Karloff?'


Vincent: 'No, he's dead.'


Tried again: 'Are you Christopher Lee?'


Vincent: 'Nope, I'm not him either.'


Passenger: 'Well, then, who the hell are you?'

Series 14 subjects

Jim Dale | Vic Feather | Hayley Mills | Pete Murray | George Sewell | David Nixon | Robert Dougall | Deryck Guyler
Derek Dougan | William Coles | Jimmy Jewel | John Alderton | Patrick Moore | Sam Kydd | John Dankworth
Gordon Ostlere (Richard Gordon) | Lionel Blair | Sheila Scott | Roy Dotrice | Barry Briggs | Christopher Lee
Beryl Grey | Terry Biddlecombe | Don Revie | Robert Morley | David Hemery | Eamonn Andrews