Marcena moore biography of christopher lee

Known and forever remembered as an icon of the silver screen, the late Sir Christopher Lee's past achievements in front of the camera cemented his place in Hollywood and British film industry folklore. Some of his greatest accomplishments, however, were collected, not on stage, but on the battlefield during the Second World War. While speaking with the Telegraph in , he said: "I was attached to the SAS from time to time but we are forbidden — former, present, or future — to discuss any specific operations.

Sir Christopher enlisted in the Royal Air Force in , working as an intelligence officer specialising in decoding German cyphers. While leapfrogging from Egypt across Tobruk to Benghazi, Sir Christopher moved behind enemy lines from base to base, sabotaging Luftwaffe planes and airfields along the way. When an enthusiastic interviewer questioned him about his SAS past, Sir Christopher leaned forward and whispered: "Can you keep a secret?

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After working with the LRDG, the future actor was assigned to the Special Operations Executive , conducting espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers. During the final months of his service, Sir Christopher, who was fluent in six languages including French and German, was assigned the task of tracking down Nazi war criminals.

This assignment involved working alongside the Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects, during which time he witnessed Nazi concentration camps first-hand. Of his time within the organisation, Sir Christopher said: "We were given dossiers of what they'd done and told to find them, interrogate them as much as we could and hand them over to the appropriate authority.

He said: "I've seen many men die right in front of me — so many, in fact, that I've become almost hardened to it. Although his service records remain classified and Sir Christopher himself was reluctant to discuss anything about his service, after his retirement he had been individually decorated for battlefield bravery by the Czech, Yugoslav, British and Polish governments.

He was also on personal terms with Josip Broz Tito, presumably after their mutual involvement with the Partisan resistance movement — widely cited as the most effective resistance movement in occupied Europe. Please select at least one newsletter to subscribe to:. You had to.