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Sir Christopher Lee, star of countless genre roles from Hammer Horror to Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings, has died aged 93.

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that he died at 8.30am on Sunday at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, sources close to his family said. He was being treated for respiratory problems and heart failure over the preceding three weeks.

Lee’s worked spanned many genres, but he is probably best known for his roles as Count Dracula, 007’s nemesis Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun, Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequels and Saruman in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films.