Peter Cushing

Peter Cushing
Born	(1913-05-26)26 May 1913 Kenley, London, England
Died	11 August 1994(1994-08-11) (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.

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.

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

• 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