What The Cast Of Hugo Is Doing Today – Looper

As Hugo uncovers the mystery of Georges' past, other characters living out other stories move in and out of the background. While they only appear briefly, the skill of Hugo's all-star cast give each of these bit parts enough weight that we never doubt they have full lives offscreen. And no cast member comes with as much weight of history as Christopher Lee, who plays Monsieur Labisse, the owner of the station bookstore.

Lee made a career playing characters who were as far as you could get from this kindly old man at Hammer Studios, where he redefined all the classic monsters, from Dracula to Frankenstein to the Mummy to Mr. Hyde. He even got to join the illustrious ranks of Bond villains inThe Man with the Golden Gun. But his most beloved role from this period took him to Hammer's rivals at British Lion Studios, where he played the aristocratic villain of the cult classic The Wicker Man.

As the kids who grew up on Hammer horror (including Scorsese) came of age and started making their own films, they couldn't wait to cast Lee, turning him from a disreputable B-actor to an elder statesman. This got him major roles in the two biggest franchises of the new millennium as Saruman the White Wizard in Lord of the Rings and Count Dooku in Star Wars. Hammer superfan Tim Burton cast Lee in nearly every movie he made between Sleepy Hollow in 1999 and Lee's death in 2015.

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