Christopher Lee knighted | Film

Fri 30 Oct 2009 16.50GMT First published on Fri 30 Oct 2009 16.50GMT Photograph: Johnny Green/PA Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features Photograph: Johnny Green/PA Photograph: Cine Text / Allstar

Christopher Lee is knighted

The veteran actor, famous for playing Dracula among other roles, received a knighthood for his services to drama and charity

Fri 30 Oct 2009 16.50 GMT First published on Fri 30 Oct 2009 16.50 GMT

  • The count looms perilously close to the royal jugular. Is he making polite small talk with HRH or struggling to contain a raging thirst for blue blood?

  • Absolutely fangulous: Lee hovers over a young Joanna Lumley in The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974).

  • The Prince of Wales wisely opts to knight Sir Christopher - aka Star Wars' Count Dooku - with a ceremonial sword rather than a light sabre

  • Don't cross me: The count meets his match in Dracula (1958)

  • The newly enobled Sir Christopher displays his knightly credentials. Shame he went for morning dress rather than fangs and a cape …

  • Your vampire needs you: Lee bewitches the camera with his sharp threads, sharper teeth and starey eyes in Dracula AD 1972 (1972, obviously)

  • Sir Christopher practises his dark Sith mind tricks on the unsuspecting prince: "You will not believe critics who claim the last three Star Wars films are vastly inferior to the first three …"

  • He's behind you: The count goes in for the kill in Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
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