Birthday:
May 26, 1913
Place of Birth: Kenley, Surrey, England, UK
Place of Birth: Kenley, Surrey, England, UK
Peter Cushing
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Cushing, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Star Wars | Grand Moff Tarkin | 1977 |
| Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed | Baron Victor Frankenstein | 1969 |
| The Curse of Frankenstein | Baron Victor Frankenstein | 1957 |
| Frankenstein Created Woman | Baron Frankenstein | 1967 |
| Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | Baron Victor Frankenstein aka Dr. Carl Victor | 1974 |
| The Evil of Frankenstein | Baron Frankenstein | 1964 |
| The Revenge of Frankenstein | Dr. Victor Stein | 1958 |
| Biggles | Air Commodore Colonel William Raymond | 1986 |
| Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Seneschal | 1984 |
| The Brides of Dracula | Dr. J. Van Helsing | 1960 |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Sherlock Holmes | 1959 |
| Hamlet | Osric | 1948 |
| Dracula | Doctor Van Helsing | 1958 |
| The Vampire Lovers | General von Spielsdorf | 1970 |
| Top Secret! | Bookstore Proprietor | 1984 |
| Dracula A.D. 1972 | Professor Van Helsing | 1972 |
| At the Earth's Core | Dr. Abner Perry | 1976 |
| Horror Express | Dr. Wells | 1972 |
| The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires | Professor Lawrence Van Helsing | 1974 |
| Dr. Who and the Daleks | Doctor Who | 1965 |
| Asylum | Smith | 1972 |
| Shock Waves | SS Commander | 1977 |
| Dr. Terror's House of Horrors | Dr. Sandor Schreck aka "Dr. Terror" | 1965 |
| The Horror Show | (archive footage) | 1979 |
| Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror | Narrator (voice) / Self | 1994 |
| The Beast Must Die | Dr. Christopher Lundgren | 1974 |
| The Gorgon | Dr. Namaroff | 1964 |
| Madhouse | Herbert Flay | 1974 |
| Mystery on Monster Island | William T. Kolderup | 1981 |
| The Satanic Rites of Dracula | Prof. Lorrimer Van Helsing | 1973 |
| The Black Knight | Sir Palamides | 1954 |
| Island of Terror | Dr. Brian Stanley | 1966 |
| The Masks of Death | Sherlock Holmes | 1984 |
| Torture Garden | Lancelot Canning (segment 4 "The Man Who Collected Poe") | 1967 |
| Twins of Evil | Gustav Weil | 1971 |
| Nothing But the Night | Sir Mark Ashley | 1973 |
| Legend of the Werewolf | Prof. Paul | 1975 |
| And Now the Screaming Starts! | Dr. Pope | 1973 |
| The Creeping Flesh | Emmanuel Hildern | 1973 |
| Scream and Scream Again | Major Heinrich Benedek | 1970 |
| Alexander the Great | Memmon | 1956 |
| The Skull | Dr. Christopher Maitland | 1965 |
| Peter Cushing: In His Own Words | Himself | 2020 |
| Time Without Pity | Jeremy Clayton | 1957 |
| Cash on Demand | Harry Fordyce | 1961 |
| The Abominable Snowman | Dr. John Rollason | 1957 |
| The Devil's Men | Baron Corofax | 1976 |
| Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. | Doctor Who | 1966 |
| Tales from the Crypt | Arthur Edward Grimsdyke | 1972 |
| Dalekmania | Doctor Who (archive footage) | 1995 |
| House of the Long Shadows | Sebastian Grisbane | 1983 |
| The House That Dripped Blood | Philip Grayson (segment 2 "Waxworks") | 1971 |
| She | Holly | 1965 |
| Corruption | Sir John Rowan | 1968 |
| From Beyond the Grave | The Proprietor | 1974 |
| Fear in the Night | Michael Carmichael | 1972 |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Dr. Alexander Manette | 1980 |
| Dr. Phibes Rises Again | Ship's Captain | 1972 |
| The Mummy | John Banning | 1959 |
| The Howards of Virginia | Leslie Stephens | 1940 |
| Captain Clegg | Reverend Dr. Blyss | 1962 |
| The Ghoul | Dr. Lawrence | 1975 |
| I, Monster | Frederick Utterson | 1971 |
| The Flesh and the Fiends | Dr. Robert Knox | 1960 |
| Arabian Adventure | Wazir Al Wuzara | 1979 |
| John Paul Jones | Captain Richard Pearson | 1959 |
| Night of the Big Heat | Dr. Vernon Stone | 1967 |
| Son of Hitler | Heinrich Haussner | 1979 |
| The Uncanny | Wilbur Gray | 1977 |
| Shatter | Paul Rattwood | 1974 |
| Violent Playground | Father Laidlaw | 1958 |
| Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood | Self | 1987 |
| The Blood Beast Terror | Detective Inspector Quennell | 1968 |
| The End of the Affair | Henry Miles | 1955 |
| Blood Suckers | Dr. Walter Goodrich | 1971 |
| The Hellfire Club | Merryweather | 1961 |
| Trial by Combat | Sir Edward Gifford | 1976 |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | Winston Smith | 1954 |
| The Naked Edge | Mr. Evan Wrack | 1961 |
| Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues | Professor Charles Copeland | 1984 |
| The Man Who Finally Died | Doctor Peter von Brecht | 1963 |
| Tender Dracula | MacGregor | 1974 |
| Sword of Sherwood Forest | Sheriff of Nottingham | 1960 |
| Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook | Victor Frankenstein / Dr. Carl Victor (archive footage) | 1991 |
| They Dare Not Love | Sub-Lieutenant Blackler | 1941 |
| Magic Fire | Otto Wesendonk | 1955 |
| Vigil in the Night | Joe Shand | 1940 |
| The Great Houdinis | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 1976 |
| Fury at Smugglers' Bay | Squire Trevenyan | 1961 |
| Peter Cushing: A One Way Ticket to Hollywood | Himself | 1989 |
| Cone of Silence | Capt. Clive Judd | 1960 |
| Suspect | Professor Sewell | 1960 |
| Dr. Who: Classic Movie Double Bill | 2022 | |
| The Standard | Baron Hackenberg | 1977 |
| Laddie | Robert Pryor | 1940 |
| Moulin Rouge | Marcel de la Voisier | 1952 |
| A Chump at Oxford | Student | 1940 |
| The Man in the Iron Mask | Second Officer | 1939 |
| Women in War | Capt. Evans | 1940 |
| Anastasia | Piotr Petrovsky | 1953 |
| Some May Live | John Meredith | 1967 |
| A Touch of the Sun | 1979 | |
| Black Jack | Sir Thomas Bedford | 1981 |
| Frankenstein Reborn | Victor's Grandfather (photo) (uncredited) | 1993 |
| One More Time | Dr. Frankenstein | 1970 |
| The Woman in the House | Man Waking Up (archive footage) | 1942 |
| The Detour | Narrator | 1979 |
| The Story of Star Wars | Grand Moff Tarkin (archive footage) | 2004 |
| Attack of the Octopus People | Doctor Welles (archive footage) | 2010 |
| The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes (archive footage) | 1985 |
| Fists of Fire | Himself | 1975 |
| Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions | Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage) | 2017 |
| The Skywalker Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2020 |
| The Hidden Master | Robert Clive of India | 1940 |
| AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A. | Self | 2020 |
| The World of Hammer: Dracula and the Undead | Professor Lawrence Van Helsing | 1994 |
| It Might Be You | The doctor | 1946 |
| Heiße Ware aus Hong Kong | (archive footage) | 1973 |
| Halloween: The Inside Story | (archive footage) | 2010 |
| Dreams | First Dreamer | 1940 |
| Fanex Files: Hammer Films | Self | 2008 |
| Dracula: Prince of Darkness | Doctor Van Helsing (archive footage) | 1966 |
| Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman | Self (archive footage) | 2007 |
| When We Are Married | Gerald Forbes | 1951 |
| The World of Hammer: Peter Cushing | 1994 | |
| Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters | Self (archive footage) | 2024 |
| The World of Hammer: Mummies, Werewolves, and the Living Dead | (archieve footage) | 1994 |
| Lolita | John Banning (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1962 | Series | Cast | Year |
| Space: 1999 | Raan | 1975 |
| Tales of the Unexpected | Von Baden | 1979 |
| The Avengers | Paul Beresford | 1961 |
| The New Avengers | Von Claus | 1976 |
| Orson Welles' Great Mysteries | Count Gerard De Merret | 1973 |
| Hammer House of Horror | Martin Blueck | 1980 |
| Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | 1964 |
| The World of Hammer | 1994 | |
| The Zoo Gang | Judge Gautier | 1974 |
| Wogan | Self | 1982 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Mr. Darcy | 1952 |
| Treffpunkte | Self | 1970 |
| Sunday Night Theatre | Winston Smith | 1950 |
