Peter Cushing
Peter Cushing | |
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| Born | 26 May 1913 |
| Died | 11 August 1994 (aged 81) Canterbury, Kent, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Actor |
Peter Cushing, OBE (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English actor. He is best known for his roles in horror movies and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
Career
[change | change source]Born Peter Wilton Cushing in London, England. His movie career began in 1939 in a small role in The Man in the Iron Mask (1939), followed by Laddie (1940). He played a character called Osric in a movie version of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet (1948), with Laurence Olivier.
His most famous roles were Victor Frankenstein, in the British horror movie The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), by Terence Fisher. Victor creates a monster in the attic of his castle. His other famous role was that of Doctor Van Helsing in Dracula (1958), in this movie he must fight Dracula. In these two movies he was accompanied by another famous actor Christopher Lee. They formed a very successful duo, starring in dozens of Hammer movies as The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), The Mummy (1959), The Gorgon (1964), Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965). They clashed again as Van Helsing and Dracula, in Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972), and The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974).
Also re-interpret the character of Baron Frankenstein, in The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), by Freddie Francis, Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974), directed by Terence Fisher.
Peter Cushing also teamed with Vincent Price in movies including Scream and Scream Again (1970), Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972), Madhouse (1974), which plays an evil agent movie., and House of the Long Shadows (1983).
In 1977 he obtained the role of Grand Moff Tarkin, in Star Wars by George Lucas.
In the last years of his career had appearances in some comedies Top Secret! (1984).
His last job was in 1986 in the movie Biggles (1986).
In 1982 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died of the disease in 1994.
Television
[change | change source]Cushing also made television, in mystery series, including Sherlock Holmes (1968), as Sherlock Holmes, The Avengers, Great Mysteries, Space: 1999, The New Avengers, Hammer House of Horror, and the TV movies The Masks of Death (1984), as Sherlock Holmes
Filmography
[change | change source]| Year | Títle | Role | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Second Officer | |
| 1940 | Laddie | Robert Pryor | |
| 1940 | A Chump at Oxford | Student (Jones) | |
| 1940 | Vigil in the Night | Joe Shand | |
| 1940 | The Hidden Master (short) | Robert Clive | |
| 1940 | Women in War | Capt. Evans (uncredited) | |
| 1940 | The Howards of Virginia | Leslie Stephens (uncredited) | |
| 1941 | They Dare Not Love | Sub-Lieutenant Blackler (uncredited) | |
| 1948 | Hamlet | Osric | |
| 1952 | Moulin Rouge | Marcel de la Voisier | |
| 1954 | The Black Knight | The Black Knight | |
| 1955 | The End of the Affair | Henry Miles | |
| 1955 | Magic Fire | Otto Wesendonk | |
| 1956 | Alexander the Great | General Memnon | |
| 1957 | Time Without Pity | Jeremy Clayton | |
| 1957 | The Curse of Frankenstein | Victor Frankenstein | |
| 1957 | The Abominable Snowman | Dr. John Rollason | |
| 1958 | Violent Playground | Father Laidlaw | |
| 1958 | Dracula | Van Helsing | |
| 1958 | The Revenge of Frankenstein | Doctor Victor Stein | |
| 1959 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Sherlock Holmes | |
| 1959 | John Paul Jones | Captain Richard Pearson | |
| 1959 | The Mummy | John Banning | |
| 1960 | Manía | Dr. Robert Knox | |
| 1960 | Cone of Silence | Capt. Clive Judd | |
| 1960 | The Brides of Dracula | Dr. J. Van Helsing | |
| 1960 | Suspect | Capt. Clive Judd | |
| 1960 | Sword of Sherwood Forest | Sheriff of Nottingham | |
| 1961 | The Hellfire Club | Merryweathe | |
| 1961 | Fury at Smugglers' Bay | Squire Trevenyan | |
| 1961 | The Naked Edge | Mr. Evan Wrack | |
| 1962 | Cash on Demand | Fordyce | |
| 1963 | The Man Who Finally Died | Dr. Peter von Brecht | |
| 1964 | The Evil of Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein | |
| 1964 | The Gorgon | Dr. Namaroff | |
| 1965 | Dr. Terror's House of Horrors | Dr. Terror | |
| 1965 | She | Holly | |
| 1965 | The Skull | Dr. Christopher Maitland | |
| 1965 | Dr. Who and the Daleks | Dr. Who | |
| 1966 | Island of Terror | Dr. Brian Stanley | |
| 1966 | Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. | Dr. Who | |
| 1967 | Some May Live | John Meredith | |
| 1967 | Frankenstein Created Woman | Baron Frankenstein | |
| 1967 | Night of the Big Heat | Dr. Vernon Stone | |
| 1967 | Torture Garden | Lancelot Canning | |
| 1968 | The Blood Beast Terror | Detective Inspector Quennell | |
| 1968 | Corruption | Sir John Rowan | |
| 1969 | Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | Baron Frankenstein | |
| 1970 | Scream and Scream Again | Major Heinrich Benedek | |
| 1970 | One More Time | Dr. Frankenstein (uncredited) | |
| 1970 | The Vampire Lovers | General von Spielsdorf | |
| 1971 | The House That Dripped Blood | Philip Grayson | |
| 1971 | Twins of Evil | Gustav Weil | |
| 1971 | I, Monster | Frederick Utterson | |
| 1972 | Incense for the Damned | Dr. Walter Goodrich | |
| 1972 | Tales from the Crypt | Arthur Edward Grimsdyke | |
| 1972 | Dracula A.D. 1972 | Professor Van Helsing | |
| 1972 | Fear in the Night | The Headmaster/Michael Carmichael | |
| 1972 | Dr. Phibes Rises Again | Captain | |
| 1972 | Asylum | Mr. Smith | |
| 1972 | Horror Express | Dr. Wells | |
| 1973 | Nothing But the Night | Sir Mark Ashley | |
| 1973 | The Creeping Flesh | Emmanuel Hildern | |
| 1973 | And Now the Screaming Starts! | Dr. Pope | |
| 1973 | The Satanic Rites of Dracula | Prof. Van Helsing | |
| 1974 | From Beyond the Grave | The Proprietor | |
| 1974 | Madhouse | Herbert Flay | |
| 1974 | The Beast Must Die | Dr. Christopher Lundgren | |
| 1974 | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | Baron Victor Frankenstein | |
| 1974 | The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires | Professor Laurence Van Helsing | |
| 1974 | Tendre Dracula | MacGregor | |
| 1975 | The Ghoul | Dr. Lawrence | |
| 1975 | Legend of the Werewolf | Prof. Paul | |
| 1975 | Shatter | Paul Rattwood | |
| 1976 | Trial by Combat | Sir Edward Gifford | |
| 1976 | At the Earth's Core | Dr. Abner Perry | |
| 1976 | The Devil's Men | Baron Corofax | |
| 1977 | Star Wars | Grand Moff Tarkin | |
| 1977 | Shock Waves | SS Commander | |
| 1977 | The Uncanny | Wilbur Gray | |
| 1977 | Die Standarte | Baron von Hackenberg | |
| 1978 | Son of Hitler | Heinrich Haussner | |
| 1979 | A Touch of the Sun | Commissioner Potts | |
| 1979 | Arabian Adventure | Wazir Al Wuzara | |
| 1981 | Mystery on Monster | William T. Kolderup | |
| 1981 | Black jack | Sir Thomas Bedford | |
| 1983 | House of the Long Shadows | Sebastian Grisbane | |
| 1984 | Top Secret! | Bookstore Proprietor | |
| 1984 | Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Seneschal / Gaspar | |
| 1986 | Biggles | Colonel William Raymond |
References
[change | change source]- Peter Cushing on IMDb
- Peter Cushing at the Internet Broadway Database
- Peter Cushing at Find a Grave
- Overview of Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street Dozen.
- Literature on Peter Cushing
- Peter Cushing Association Archived 2011-02-07 at the Wayback Machine