Broadsheet ballad (1884) Distinguished actor Christopher Lee (b. 1922) was awarded a knighthood in 2009 in recognition of a long screen career, which included roles in the James Bond film The Man With the Golden Gun and the acclaimed adaptation of Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. During the 1990s, Lee narrated a number of audiobooks from the works of Agatha Christie – Hound of Death, Witness For the Prosecution and The Call of Wings – and was also heard, but not seen, as the uncredited voice of the mysterious host, Mr U.N. Owen, who records a message accusing his guests and servants of past crimes when they assemble on a remote island in the film Ten Little Indians (1965). As an RAF pilot during the Second World War, Christopher Lee spent some time on the English Riviera stationed at an Initial Training Wing in Paignton. The recruits frequented the pubs in the nearby Babbacombe area of Torquay and learnt about ‘The Man They Could Not Hang’, the story of a local villain called John Lee who notoriously survived three attempts to execute him for murder.
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