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[-] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 33 points 11 hours ago

“Before his acting career, Lee served in the Royal Air Force as an intelligence officer, attached to the No. 260 Squadron RAF during World War II as a liaison officer for the Special Operations Executive. He was discharged from the RAF in 1946 with the rank of flight lieutenant.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee

[-] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 1 points 29 minutes ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago)

Intelligence and spy work is always undertaken by the poshest of poshboys. I mean, nothing against the actor and it's certainly not his fault for being bagasse. Just something to observe in our society.

[-] Zorsith 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

He's also at least partially who James Bond was based on, IIRC

[-] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 18 points 11 hours ago

I'm really glad that I know exactly what this is referring to lol

[-] TomMasz@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago

Really. It’s my favorite bit of trivia about him.

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