Christopher Lee, at 93, on Sunday joined fellow horror film actors John Carradine, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price in that Great Monster Mash in The Sky.

Mark Dawidziak, former BJ and current PD TV/movie critic, had these thoughts:

“The quartet now has its missing resonant voice. I will always cherish the interviews with Christopher Lee, particularly the chat we had for ‘The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dracula.’ “ which Mark wrote.

Lee on Lee during that conversation: “I seem to be associated with these authors who, like Jonathan Swift, swept readers to these wonderfully imaginative worlds with bizarre characters: J.R.R. Tolkien and "’he Lord of the Rings,’ Mervyn Peake and ‘Gormenghast,’ Bram Stoker and ‘Dracula.’

"The difference, of course, is that ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Gormenghast’ are extraordinary realizations of books people said could never be brought to the screen. They’re stunning and they’re faithful, whereas Dracula never has been brought to the screen in a manner that’s either stunning or faithful.

“I never said I wouldn’t play Dracula again. Indeed, if someone had stepped forward with a superior script that was faithful to Stoker’s novel, I would have loved to play it. That never happened.”

Quips Mark: “Imagine what would have happened if someone had stepped forward with that script.”

Lee played Dracula, the bad guy in the James Bond thriller "The Man with the Golden Gun," the evil wizard Saruman in the "Lord of the Ring" films and the dude who fought Yoda with a lightsaber in "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones."

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, with the deep, strong voice that also was suitable for singing, was knighted for services to drama and charity in 2009.

Lee was born in Belgravia, Westminster, London.

He was an uncredited spearcarrier in Laurence Olivier's film version of “Hamlet” (1948). Peter Cushing played Osric.

Lee was Frankenstein's monster and Cushing was Baron Victor Frankenstein in “The Curse of Frankenstein” (1957).

They were in more than 20 films together.

Lee co-starred with Boris Karloff in “Corridors of Blood” (1958). Lee played Frankenstein's monster in “Horror of Dracula” (1958) and “Dracula: Prince of Darkness” (1965).

Lee spoke fluent English, Italian, French, Spanish and German and was moderately proficient in Swedish, Russian and Greek.

Cushing also appeared occasionally  with Vincent Price.

John Carradine played Count Dracula after Bela Lugosi did in the movies. He appeared in dozens of low-budget horror films from the 1940s onwards to finance a touring classical theatre company.

Price's first venture into the horror genre was in the 1939 Boris Karloff film “Tower of London.”