Peter Cushing
Peter Wilton Cushing OBE (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English actor. His acting career spanned over six decades and included appearances in more than 100 films, as well as many television, stage, and radio roles. He achieved recognition in his home country for his leading performances in the Hammer Productions horror films from the 1950s to 1970s, while earning international prominence as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977). Born in Kenley, Surrey, Cushing made his stage debut in 1935 and spent three years at a repertory theatre before moving to Hollywood to pursue a film career. After making his motion picture debut in the film The Man in the Iron Mask (1939), Cushing began to find modest success in American films before returning to England at the outbreak of the Second World War. Despite performing in a string of roles, including one as Osric in Laurence Olivier's film adap...
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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
Peter Cushing: In His Own Words
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Fanex Files: Hammer Films- THThe Lost
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
Dracula in the Movies
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Biggles
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Top Secret!- HEHelen Keller: The Miracle Continues
House of the Long Shadows
Black Jack
Mystery on Monster Island
A Tale of Two Cities
A Touch of the Sun
Son of Hitler
The Standard
The Uncanny
Shock Waves
Star Wars
The Great Houdinis
At the Earth's Core
Trial by Combat
The Devil's Men
The Ghoul
Legend of the Werewolf
Shatter
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
The Beast Must Die
Madhouse
From Beyond the Grave
Tender Dracula, or Confessions of a Blood Drinker
And Now the Screaming Starts!
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Nothing But the Night
The Creeping Flesh
Asylum
Horror Express
Fear in the Night
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Dracula A.D. 1972
Tales from the Crypt
I, Monster
Twins of Evil
The House That Dripped Blood
Blood Suckers
The Vampire Lovers
Scream and Scream Again
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Corruption
The Blood Beast Terror
Torture Garden
Night of the Big Heat
Frankenstein Created Woman
Some May Live
Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
Island of Terror
The Skull
Dr. Who and the Daleks
She
Dr Terror's House of Horrors
The Gorgon
The Caves of Steel
The Evil of Frankenstein
The Man Who Finally Died
Captain Clegg
Cash on Demand
The Naked Edge
The Hellfire Club
Fury at Smugglers' Bay
Sword of Sherwood Forest
Suspect
The Brides of Dracula
Cone of Silence
The Flesh and the Fiends
The Mummy
John Paul Jones
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Revenge of Frankenstein
Dracula
Violent Playground
The Abominable Snowman
The Curse of Frankenstein
Time Without Pity
Alexander the Great
Magic Fire
The Moment of Truth
The End of the Affair
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Black Knight
Hamlet
Vigil in the Night
A Chump at Oxford