Yet another uncredited credit

[Charles Prepolec]

While watching the DVD of Saving Grace (vaguely amusing comedy film about a respectable widow growing pot to save her home...nothing to write home about really) the other night, I was amused to find Mr. Lee suddenly appearing on my screen. No, not as a character in the film, but in a clip from Scars of Dracula. One of the character was viewing televison and Scars was playing, quite visibly too, in the background. The clip was the sequence where Mr. Lee as Dracula is setting his fangs to the throat of the lovely Anushka Hempel.

This isn't an isolated occasion as clips of Mr. Lee as Dracula also turn up in feature films like Innocent Blood (even noted in the credits) and strangely enough on the occasional television program, including of all things, an episode of Rumpole of the Bailey. Both times as clips playing on television screens in the background.

I love finding those uncredited sort of secondary credits! If anyone has spotted others, by all means, post where you've seen him.

Cheers!

[Alfonso Casal]

I've noticed more than a few "uncredited credits." Right off the top of my head. . .

1. Fright Night -- Dracula summoning Stanislaus the bat from SCARS (You have to see the 'extras' on the Man with the Golden Gun to appreciate that.) appears on a TV in the main character's room.

2. Cuba -- Sean Connery film about a British mercenary during the last days of the Batista regime. Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista watches a private screening of Horror of Dracula while Castro's revolutionary forces converge on Havana. This really did happen.

3. Winstanley -- Film about a paleo-anarchist during the Cromwellian period. On the DVD 'extras' there is a documentary on the state of the British film industry in the '70s. For a good bit of time the screen is taken up by a photograph of Mr. Lee and the Queen at the premiere of the Three Musketeers.

4. Curse of the Blair Witch -- 'Mockumentary' that was part of the whole Blair Witch phenomena a couple of years ago. Mr. Lee doesn't personally appear, but a whole segment is lifted from City of the Dead/Horror Hotel.

[Colin Bushby]

I remember last year watching a British sitcom and seeing Mr. Lee on the Television in the background as Dracula, I'm not 100% sure, but I think it was "Some mothers Do Av Em", If anyone can verify this it would stop me racking my brain.

Cheers
Colin

[saruman12]

The greatest "secondary" appearence for me, is in
Stanley Kubricks Lolita.
Lotita watch Mr. Lees Frankenstein movie in a drive-in cinema. Mr. Lee und Peter Cushung have the whole screen for 5 seconds!!!!

[Juan Aneiros]

Credits like that are in the thousands. From Eastenders and Coronation Steet to Rayders of the Lost Ark and Fade to Black.

[Carmen and Greg]

And what is interesting is that sometimes that little moment when Mr Lee is shown as the main characters are watching one of his films or the film is running in the background---I have found that this is the best part of the movie!

Hmm....I must be a fan or something.

Carmen

[Lamoreux]

I distinctly remember Mr. Lee's bloodshot eyes (from DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE, I believe) making a guest appearance as the "close-up" eyes of Mike Raven in LUST FOR A VAMPIRE.

Doug

[Frederick Bergstrom]

Dont forget music..The iron Maiden video from Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter uses Horror Hotel scenes and The Number of the Beast uses Devil Rides Out. Also Mr. Lee is used in a White Zombie song saying something from The Devil a Daughter about Heresey and he shall not recant. My personal Fave is in Fierce creatures when John Cleese is licking blood of a leg and they say his name which is Lee and a guy in the crowd says "More like Christopher Lee". I remeber seeing Fright Night back in the 80s and being pissed they wouldnt show more of Scars cause as of then i hadnt seen it yet!!