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  Christopher Lee - Biocrawler
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE (born May 27, 1922 in London) is a legendary and prolific British actor known for his versatility and film longevity.
Lee is a direct lineal descendent of Charlemagne through his mother's side, a famous Edwardian beauty, the Contessa Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano.
The Carandini family was given the right to bear the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.
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  Carandini, Marie (1826 - 1894) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
CARANDINI, MARIE (1826-1894), prima donna, was baptized Maria on 1 February 1826 at St Matthew's Church of England, Brixton, London, daughter of James Burgess, coachman, and his wife Martha.
In September 1854 when Catherine Hayes arrived in Sydney, Carandini was in Hobart for the birth of another daughter but in July 1855 she was chosen to sing the tenor parts, 'suitably adjusted to the soprano register' in Hayes's triumphal opera season at the Theatre Royal in Melbourne in October.
Among Carandini's roles were Elvino in Bellini's La Sonnambula and Gennaro in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia; earlier she had an enthusiastic reception from music critics for her 'vivacious and piquant' Maria in Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment, claimed to be the most ambitiously staged opera yet presented in the colonies.
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 Christopher Lee
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE (born May 27, 1922 in Belgravia, London) is a legendary and prolific British actor known for his versatility and film longevity.
Lee was born in London in 1922, the son of Geoffrey Trollope Lee, a Lieutenant Colonel in the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corp, and the Marchesina Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano, whose grandfather had been an Italian political refugee who had sought refuge in Australia.
She was a famous Edwardian beauty, the Contessa Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano.
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 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
Marie Carandini (1826-1894) was an English born Australian opera singer.
Born in 1826 in Brixton, London daughter of W. Burgess, she was brought by her parents to Tasmania in 1833.
At the age of 17 she married Jerome (originally Girolamo) Carandini, an Italian of noble birth who was a political refugee.
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 The Biography of Early Australia
Marie Carandini (q.v.) was born in Tasmania on 27 August 1844.
As a child she accompanied her mother on a concert tour in the east, and at an early age developed a soprano voice of excellent range and quality.
Her husband had died some years before, and she was survived by a son and two daughters.
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 Christopher Lee Biography
He was born Christopher Frank Carandini Lee on the 27th of May, 1922, in Belgravia, London.
She was also a paragon of refinement, very conscious that the Carandinis are one of the oldest families in Europe, dating themselves back to the first century AD.
Via Carandini, meetings were arranged and, before long, Christopher had a 7-year contract with the Rank Organisation (though it only lasted for two).
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 Christopher Lee - The films, movies, cinema, biography of British movie actor,Christopher Lee,
Christopher's mother, on the other hand, had at birth been given a name to live up to.
Her full title being the Contessa Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano, she was a noted Edwardian beauty, painted and sculpted by many of the great artists of the age.
During his attendance at Wellington College he became a natural at languages, eventually becoming fluent in French, Italian, Spanish and German, while "getting along" in Swedish, Russian and Greek.
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 Christopher Lee - Biografie WHO'S WHO.
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee wirkte an über 200 Filmen mit und spielte zahlreiche Theaterrollen.
Mai 1922, als Sohn der Gräfin Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano und eines Oberst beim King`s Royal Rifle Corps, in Balgravis bei London geboren.
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee absolvierte zunächst die Summer Fields Preparatory School.
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 Marie Carandini   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Marie Carandini (1826-1894) was an English born Australian opera singer.
Born in 1826 in Brixton, London daughter of W. Burgess, she was brought by her parents to Tasmania in 1833.
Madame Carandini continued to sing in concerts for some years throughout Australia and New Zealand, with visits to America and India.
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 Christopher Lee - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE (born May 27, 1922 in Belgravia, London) is a legendary and prolific British actor known for his versatility and film longevity.
Lee was born in London in 1922, the son of Geoffrey Trollope Lee, a Lieutenant Colonel in the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corp, and the Marchesina Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano, whose grandfather had been a Italian political refugee who had sought refuge in Australia.
She was a famous Edwardian beauty, the Contessa Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano.
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 The Marlin Chronicle of Virginia Wesleyan College
Lee, age 80, was born in 1922 in Belgravia, London to Jeffrey Tolp Lee and Contessa Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano.
The Carandini family name goes all the way back to the 1st century and is associated with King Charlemagne.
The Carandini family is one of the privileged few who is allowed to bear the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire.
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 Christhopher Lee
His father was a Colonel in the 60th King’s Royal Rifle Corps (originally the Royal Americans) and was decorated for gallantry in the Boer War and the First World War.
It is believed to have had close connections with the Emperor Charlemagne and was granted the right to bear the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.
Christopher is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as being the international star with the most screen credits and was recently awarded the London Film Critics Dilvs Powell ’94 award for his work as an actor and services to the film industry.
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 Dit moet je zien!
Hij werd op 27 mei 1922 in Londen geboren als Christopher Frank Carandini Lee.
Samen met zijn oudere zus Xandra werd hij voornamelijk opgevoed door zijn moeder die voluit Contessa Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano heet.
Een gesprek met zijn neef Niccolo Carandini, die ambassadeur is in Italië, onthult dat hij zijn acteerambities niet van een vreemde heeft.
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 Christopher Lee / Celebrity Gossip
But beyond those roles, not much is known to the regular moviegoer about Christopher Lee.
Moviegoers may not be aware that Christopher Lee is descended from the Carandini family, a very old aristocratic family in Italy through his mother, the Marchesina (Marchioness) Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano.
His mother's second marriage to the banker Harcourt Rose made Lee a step-cousin to Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, who is also Rose's nephew.
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 FILMDECULTE : Christopher Lee
Après son divorce avec Jeffrey Lee, colonel décoré lors de la Première Guerre mondiale, la comtesse Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano emménage en Suisse avec ses deux enfants.
Par chance, son cousin Niccolo Carandini, premier ambassadeur italien dans l’Angleterre de l’après-guerre, lui fait signer un contrat avec la Rank Organisation.
Mime remarquable en créature de Mary Shelley, il retrouve pour la troisième fois Peter Cushing, après Hamlet et Moulin Rouge.
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 English actors - Christopher Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Image:Dooku.jpg in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones]] Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, Order of the British Empire (born May 27, 1922 in Belgravia, London) is a legendary and prolific United Kingdom actor known for his versatility and film longevity.
Lee was born in London in 1922, the son of Geoffrey Trollope Lee, a Lieutenant Colonel in the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corp, and the Marquess Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano, whose grandfather had been an Italy political refugee who had sought refuge in Australia.
In 1946 he gained a 7 year contract with Rank Organisation after discussing his interest in acting with his cousin Nicolò Carandini, the Italy, who related to Lee that performance was in his blood as his great grandmother Marie Carandini had been a successful opera singer in Australia, a fact of which Lee was unaware.
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 Autogramm Adresse, Privates, Fotos über deinen Star: Christopher Lee!
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee ist ein britischer Schauspieler, als solcher vorwiegend Darsteller von Bösewichten.
Mit über 250 Rollen hält er den Weltrekord für die Beteiligung an den meisten Kinofilmen.
Über seine Mutter, die italienische Gräfin Estelle Marie Carandini di Sarzano, entstammt Lee einem alten Adelsgeschlecht.
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 Chronological List, Part 7
KREMER, RAYMOND JEAN MARIE de (1887-1964); see pseudonym John Flanders
LEWIS, MARY CHRISTIANNA MILNE (1907-1988); see pseudonym Christianna Brand
LOWE, JONATHAN (F. LOWNDES, MARIE (Adelaide) BELLOC [Mrs.
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