Happy Birthday to Christopher Lee and...

Vincent Price, and, a day late, Peter Cushing!

Ages 88, 99 and 93, respectively.

Long healthy life to you, Sir Christopher (because you know he reads the SDMB!) and rest well, Vincent and Peter.

How’s that birthday cluster for a coincidence?

I never realized Lee and Cushing had birthdays so close. There’s some really intertwined karma with those two. How many movies did they appear in together? How many were Dracula movies? :slight_smile:

(IMDB’s co-star search function sucks…it’s pulling everything with either or both Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in, instead of just pulling ones with both)

:dubious: I don’t think you’re doing it right. I get 24 feature films together.

I get 42 titles, which includes TV series in which they may not have been in the same episode, and retrospectives which probably included archive footage.

Christopher Lee has 192 feature film credits on IMDb, including a few that are still in postproduction. Here’s hoping he breaks 200.

Yeah, I subtracted the TV, documentary, and archive footage results, and that’s how I came up with 24.

Wow, wild grouping of actors. :smiley:

Yeah, I was basically confirming your results, but I’m just too lazy to do math on my own time.

One of those postproduction films is The Wicker Tree, which has been variously described as a “reimagining,” a “companion piece,” and a spiritual sequel to “The Wicker Man.”

Shock: Do you play a Lord Summerisle again?

Lee: Don’t really know who I play in honesty, I’m not named. Good god, I don’t play Summerisle – in the movie I look like I do here [in Burke and Hare playing old Joseph in rags]. He’d be at least 38 years older. I was 50 when I shot the movie, so I suppose I could have done without it being too much of a stretch. I don’t know what happens in the film in truth, it’s a bit of a mystery to me. Apparently it’s in the style of the first whatever that means and it explores similar themes. However I wish them all the luck in the world of course because they have a superb cast and there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be good with all the talent they have attached. It didn’t matter if my role was going to be large or small in The Wicker Tree. Audiences expected me to be in it anyway, and I am, so why do longer than a day’s work when that perception is out there already?