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Peter Cushing

Born 1913-05-26

Died 1994-08-11

📍 Kenley, Surrey, England, UK

Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite Christopher Lee, and occasionally Vincent Price. A familiar face on both sides of the Atlantic, his most famous roles outside of "Hammer Horror" include his many appearances as Sherlock Holmes, as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977) and as the mysterious Doctor Who in Doctor Who and the Daleks and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD in 1965 and 1966, two cinema films based on the television series Doctor Who.

Filmography 139

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

as Self (archive footage)

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.

as (archive footage)

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

as (archive footage)

Peter Cushing: In His Own Words

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

as Sebastian Grisbane (archive footage) (uncredited)

Attack of the Octopus People

as Doctor Welles (archive footage)

Fanex Files: Hammer Films

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

as Self (archive footage)

The Story of Star Wars

as Grand Moff Tarkin (archive footage)

as Doctor Who (archive footage)

The World of Hammer

as Self (archive footage)

Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

as Narrator (voice) / Self

Frankenstein Reborn

as Victor's Grandfather (photo) (uncredited)

as Van Helsing (archive footage)

Dracula in the Movies

Halloween Monster Bash

as Dr. Wells (archive footage)

Peter Cushing: A One Way Ticket to Hollywood

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

as Air Commodore Colonel William Raymond

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes

as Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)

The Masks of Death

as Sherlock Holmes

Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

as Bookstore Proprietor

House of the Long Shadows

as Sebastian Grisbane

as Sir Thomas Bedford

Mystery on Monster Island

as William T. Kolderup

A Tale of Two Cities

as Dr. Alexander Manette

Hammer House of Horror

as Martin Blueck

A Touch of the Sun

as Commissioner Potts

Arabian Adventure

as Wazir Al Wuzara

Tales of the Unexpected

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

as Heinrich Haussner

as Baron Hackenberg

as Wilbur Gray (segment "Montreal 1977")

as SS Commander

as Grand Moff Tarkin

The New Avengers

The Great Houdinis

as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Devil's Men

as Baron Corofax

At the Earth's Core

as Dr. Abner Perry

Trial by Combat

as Sir Edward Gifford

Legend of the Werewolf

as Dr. Lawrence

as Paul Rattwood

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

as Professor Lawrence Van Helsing

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

as Baron Victor Frankenstein aka Dr. Carl Victor

as Judge Gautier

The Beast Must Die

as Dr. Christopher Lundgren

as Herbert Flay

From Beyond the Grave

as The Proprietor

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

as Count Gerard De Merret

And Now the Screaming Starts!

The Satanic Rites of Dracula

as Prof. Lorrimer Van Helsing

Nothing But the Night

as Sir Mark Ashley

The Creeping Flesh

as Emmanuel Hildern

Fear in the Night

as Michael Carmichael

Dr. Phibes Rises Again

as Ship's Captain

Dracula A.D. 1972

as Professor Van Helsing

Tales from the Crypt

as Arthur Edward Grimsdyke

as Frederick Utterson

as Dr. Walter Goodrich

The House That Dripped Blood

as Philip Grayson (segment 2 "Waxworks")

The Vampire Lovers

as General von Spielsdorf

as Dr. Frankenstein

Scream and Scream Again

as Major Heinrich Benedek

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

as Baron Victor Frankenstein

as Sir John Rowan

The Blood Beast Terror

as Detective Inspector Quennell

as Lancelot Canning (segment 4 "The Man Who Collected Poe")

as John Meredith

Night of the Big Heat

as Dr. Vernon Stone

Frankenstein Created Woman

as Baron Frankenstein

Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.

Island of Terror

as Dr. Brian Stanley

Dracula: Prince of Darkness

as Doctor Van Helsing (archive footage)

as Dr. Christopher Maitland

Dr. Who and the Daleks

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

as Dr. Sandor Schreck aka "Dr. Terror"

as Dr. Namaroff

The Caves of Steel

as Elijah Baley

Sherlock Holmes

as Sherlock Holmes

The Evil of Frankenstein

as Baron Frankenstein

The Man Who Finally Died

as Doctor Peter von Brecht

The Spread of the Eagle

as Caius Cassius

as Reverend Dr. Blyss

as Harry Fordyce

as Mr. Evan Wrack

Fury at Smugglers' Bay

as Squire Trevenyan

The Hellfire Club

as Merryweather

as Paul Beresford

Sword of Sherwood Forest

as Sheriff of Nottingham

as Professor Sewell

The Brides of Dracula

as Dr. J. Van Helsing

Cone of Silence

as Capt. Clive Judd

The Flesh and the Fiends

as Dr. Robert Knox

as John Banning

John Paul Jones

as Captain Richard Pearson

The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Sherlock Holmes

The Revenge of Frankenstein

as Dr. Victor Stein

as Doctor Van Helsing

Violent Playground

as Father Laidlaw

The Abominable Snowman

as Dr. John Rollason

The Curse of Frankenstein

as Baron Victor Frankenstein

Time Without Pity

as Jeremy Clayton

Alexander the Great

as Otto Wesendonk

The Moment of Truth

as The Prime Minister

The End of the Affair

as Dr. John Rollason

Nineteen Eighty-Four

as Winston Smith

The Black Knight

as Sir Palamides

as Marcel de la Voisier

Pride and Prejudice

Sunday Night Theatre

as Winston Smith

Sunday Night Theatre

as Dr. John Rollason

Sunday Night Theatre

It Might Be You

The Woman in the House

as Man Waking Up (archive footage)

They Dare Not Love

as Sub-Lieutenant Blackler

as First Dreamer

The Howards of Virginia

as Leslie Stephens

The Hidden Master

as Robert Clive of India

Vigil in the Night

A Chump at Oxford

as Robert Pryor

The Man in the Iron Mask

as Second Officer