"... Lee made nearly thirty films, playing mostly stock action characters.
His first film for Hammer, made in 1956 with his close friend Peter Cushing, was
The Curse of Frankenstein, in which he played Frankenstein's monster. That led to his first appearance as the infamous Transylvanian count in the 1958 film
Dracula (known as
Horror of Dracula in the U.S.) Lee would become indelibly associated with the role and with the horror genre, making another six films as Dracula, five of them for Hammer, as well as many other horror films."
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