Peter Cushing

May 26, 1913 - August 11, 1994
Born in Kenley, Surrey, England

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A Lot of Favorite Memories of Peter Cushing

As "King's messenger" in James Whale's The Man in the Iron Mask (1939), starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Albert Dekker, Dwight Frye, and Warren William, Alan Hale, Miles Mander and Bert Roach (as the Four Musketeers). .
As "Joe Shand" in Vigil in the Night (1940), starring Carole Lombard.
As "Jones," one of the students in the comedy A Chump at Oxford (1940), starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
As the foppish "Osric" in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948).
As "Marcel de la Voisier" in John Huston's biopic about the artist Toulouse-Lautrec, Moulin Rouge (1952). Christopher Lee is in it too!
As "Sir Palamides" in The Black Knight (1954).
As "Winston Smith" in the television adaptation of George Orwell's frightening vision of a very bleak future, 1984 (written in 1948, televised in 1954).
As "Dr. John Rollason" in the television version of Nigel Kneale's Abominable Snowman story, The Creature (1955).
As "Baron Victor Frankenstein" in the Hammer film The Curse of Frankenstein (1957).
As "Dr. John Rollason" in Hammer's film version of Nigel Kneale's story about The Abominable Snowman (1957).
As "Doctor Van Helsing" in Hammer's Dracula (US title Horror of Dracula, 1958).
As "Dr. Victor Frankenstein," alias "Dr. Victor Stein" and "Dr. Franck," in Hammer's The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958).
As "Sherlock Holmes" in Hammer's The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959).
As "John Banning" in Hammer's The Mummy (1959).
As "Dr. Robert Knox" in The Flesh and the Fiends (US title Mania, 1959).
As "Dr. J. Van Helsing" in Hammer's The Brides of Dracula (1960).
As "Sheriff of Nottingham" in Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960).
As "Merryweather" in The Hellfire Club (1960).
As "Reverend Dr. Blyss," alias "Captain Clegg," in Hammer's Captain Clegg (US title Night Creatures, 1962).
As the Great Detective in the TV series Sherlock Holmes (1964-1968).
As "Baron Frankenstein" in Hammer's The Evil of Frankenstein, (1964).
As "Dr. Namaroff" in The Gorgon (1964).
As "Dr. Sandor Schreck" in Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965).
As "Major Horace Holly" in Hammer's She (1965).
As "Dr. Christopher Maitland" in The Skull (1965).
As "Dr. Who" in Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965).
As "Dr. Brian Stanley" in Island of Terror (1966).
As "Dr. Who" in Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966).
As uncredited narrator of Hammer's The Mummy's Shroud (1967).
As "Baron Frankenstein" in Hammer's Frankenstein Created Woman (1967).
As "Lancelot Canning" in Torture Garden (1967).
As "Dr. Vernon Stone" in Night of the Big Heat (1967).
As "Sir John Rowan" in Corruption (1967).
As "Paul Beresford" in the "Return of the Cybernauts" episode of the TV series The Avengers (September 30, 1967).
As "Inspector Quennell" in The Blood Beast Terror (1968.
As "Dr. Baron Victor Frankenstein" in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969).
As "Benedek" in Scream and Scream Again (1969).
As "Dr. Frankenstein" (uncredited) in One More Time (1970).
As "General von Spielsdorf" in The Vampire Lovers (1970).
As "Philip Grayson" in the "Waxworks" segment of The House That Dripped Blood (1970).
As "Gustav Weil" in Twins of Evil (1971). (1971) ....
As "Frederick Utterson" in I, Monster (1971).
As "Arthur Edward Grimsdyke" in the "Poetic Justice" segment of the horror anthology film Tales from the Crypt (1972).
As "Ship's Captain" in Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972).
As "Smith" in Asylum (1972).
As "Professor Van Helsing" in Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972).
As "Dr. Wells" in Horror Express (1972).
As "Emmanuel Hildern" in The Creeping Flesh (1973).
As "Antique Shop Proprietor" in From Beyond the Grave (1973).
As "Dr. Pope" in And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973).
As himself, paying tribute to his old friend Christopher Lee in the long-running UK TV series This Is Your Life (1974).
As "Prof. Larimer Van Helsing" in Hammer's The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974).
As "Herbert Flay" in Madhouse (1974).
As "Baron Victor Frankenstein," aka "Dr. Carl Victor" in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974).
As "MacGregor" in Tender Dracula, or Confessions of a Blood Drinker (1974).
As "Prof. Van Helsing" in The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974).
As "Paul Rattwood" in Shatter (1974)
As "Dr. Christopher Lundgren" in The Beast Must Die (1974).
As "Professor Paul" in Legend of the Werewolf (1975).
As " Dr. Lawrence" in The Ghoul (1975).
As "Raan" in the "Missing Link" episode of the TV series Space: 1999 (February 27, 1976).
As "Dr. Abner Perry" in At the Earth's Core (1976).
As "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" in the TV movie The Great Houdini, (1976).
As "Von Claus" in "The Eagle's Nest" episode of the TV series The New Avengers (October 17, 1976).
As "Grand Moff Tarkin" in George Lucas' Star Wars (1977).
As the "SS Commander" in Shock Waves (1977).
As "Wilbur Gray," in The Uncanny (1977).
As "Baron Corofax" in Land of the Minotaur (1978).
As "Wazir Al Wuzara" in Arabian Adventure (1979).
As "Dr. Alexandre Manette" in the television adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities (1980).
As "Martin Brueck" in "The Silent Scream" episode of the TV series Hammer House of Horror (October 25, 1980).
As "William T. Kolderup" in Monster Island (1981).
As "Von Baden" in "The Vorpal Blade" episode of the Roald Dahl's TV series Tales of the Unexpected (1982).
As "Sebastian Grisbane" in House of the Long Shadows (1983).
As "Sherlock Holmes" in the TV movie The Masks of Death (1984).
As " Colonel William Raymond" in Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986).
As himself, graciously receiving heartfelt tributes from friends and co-workers on the long-running UK TV series This Is Your Life (1990).
As himself, performing as commentator or narrator of documentaries including:
- Peter Cushing: A One-Way Ticket to Hollywood (1989)
- Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the Tardis (1993)
- Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror (1994)
- 100 Years of Horror: The Count and Company (1996)

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Peter Cushing

May 26, 1913 - August 11, 1994Born in Kenley, Surrey, England

A Lot of Favorite Memories of Peter Cushing

May 26, 1913 - August 11, 1994
Born in Kenley, Surrey, England