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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Kenley, Surrey, England, UK, 1913-05-26

Died: 1994-08-11

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1939	The Man in the Iron Mask	Second Officer	71
2	1940	Laddie	Robert Pryor	60
3	1940	A Chump at Oxford	Student	68
4	1940	Vigil in the Night	Joe Shand	60
5	1940	The Hidden Master	Robert Clive of India	0
6	1940	Women in War	Capt. Evans	30
7	1940	The Howards of Virginia	Leslie Stephens	64
8	1940	Dreams	First Dreamer	50
9	1941	They Dare Not Love	Sub-Lieutenant Blackler	60
10	1942	The Woman in the House	Man Waking Up (archive footage)	65
11	1946	It Might Be You	The doctor	0
12	1948	Hamlet	Osric	74
13	1951	When We Are Married	Gerald Forbes	0
14	1952	Moulin Rouge	Marcel de la Voisier	67
15	1953	Anastasia	Piotr Petrovsky	0
16	1954	The Black Knight	Sir Palamides	62
17	1954	Nineteen Eighty-Four	Winston Smith	74
18	1955	The End of the Affair	Henry Miles	56
19	1955	Magic Fire	Otto Wesendonk	48
20	1956	Alexander the Great	Memmon	59
21	1957	Time Without Pity	Jeremy Clayton	66
22	1957	The Curse of Frankenstein	Baron Victor Frankenstein	68
23	1957	The Abominable Snowman	Dr. John Rollason	62
24	1958	Violent Playground	Father Laidlaw	70
25	1958	Dracula	Doctor Van Helsing	73
26	1958	The Revenge of Frankenstein	Dr. Victor Stein	66
27	1959	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sherlock Holmes	67
28	1959	John Paul Jones	Captain Richard Pearson	61
29	1959	The Mummy	John Banning	67
30	1960	The Flesh and the Fiends	Dr. Robert Knox	66
31	1960	The Brides of Dracula	Dr. J. Van Helsing	67
32	1960	Cone of Silence	Capt. Clive Judd	67
33	1960	Suspect	Professor Sewell	65
34	1960	Sword of Sherwood Forest	Sheriff of Nottingham	60
35	1961	Fury at Smugglers' Bay	Squire Trevenyan	46
36	1961	The Hellfire Club	Merryweather	52
37	1961	The Naked Edge	Mr. Evan Wrack	62
38	1961	Cash on Demand	Harry Fordyce	75
39	1962	Captain Clegg	Reverend Dr. Blyss	62
40	1962	Lolita	John Banning (archive footage) (uncredited)	73
41	1963	The Man Who Finally Died	Doctor Peter von Brecht	62
42	1964	The Evil of Frankenstein	Baron Frankenstein	61
43	1964	The Gorgon	Dr. Namaroff	63
44	1965	Dr. Terror's House of Horrors	Dr. Sandor Schreck aka "Dr. Terror"	64
45	1965	She	Holly	56
46	1965	Dr. Who and the Daleks	Doctor Who	56
47	1965	The Skull	Dr. Christopher Maitland	60
48	1966	Dracula: Prince of Darkness	Doctor Van Helsing (archive footage)	68
49	1966	Island of Terror	Dr. Brian Stanley	58
50	1966	Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.	Doctor Who	61
51	1967	Some May Live	John Meredith	35
52	1967	Frankenstein Created Woman	Baron Frankenstein	65
53	1967	Night of the Big Heat	Dr. Vernon Stone	54
54	1967	Torture Garden	Lancelot Canning (segment 4 "The Man Who Collected Poe")	61
55	1968	The Blood Beast Terror	Detective Inspector Quennell	55
56	1968	Corruption	Sir John Rowan	58
57	1969	Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed	Baron Victor Frankenstein	64
58	1970	Scream and Scream Again	Major Heinrich Benedek	54
59	1970	One More Time	Dr. Frankenstein	43
60	1970	The Vampire Lovers	General von Spielsdorf	64
61	1971	The House That Dripped Blood	Philip Grayson (segment 2 "Waxworks")	63
62	1971	Blood Suckers	Dr. Walter Goodrich	39
63	1971	Twins of Evil	Gustav Weil	67
64	1971	I, Monster	Frederick Utterson	55
65	1972	Tales from the Crypt	Arthur Edward Grimsdyke	69
66	1972	Dracula A.D. 1972	Professor Van Helsing	60
67	1972	Dr. Phibes Rises Again	Ship's Captain	63
68	1972	Fear in the Night	Michael Carmichael	59
69	1972	Horror Express	Dr. Wells	63
70	1972	Asylum	Smith	60
71	1973	Heiße Ware aus Hong Kong	(archive footage)	0
72	1973	The Creeping Flesh	Emmanuel Hildern	58
73	1973	Nothing But the Night	Sir Mark Ashley	61
74	1973	The Satanic Rites of Dracula	Prof. Lorrimer Van Helsing	56
75	1973	And Now the Screaming Starts!	Dr. Pope	60
76	1974	From Beyond the Grave	The Proprietor	66
77	1974	Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell	Baron Victor Frankenstein aka Dr. Carl Victor	62
78	1974	The Beast Must Die	Dr. Christopher Lundgren	54
79	1974	Madhouse	Herbert Flay	61
80	1974	The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires	Professor Lawrence Van Helsing	59
81	1974	Tender Dracula	MacGregor	46
82	1974	Shatter	Paul Rattwood	58
83	1975	Fists of Fire	Himself	0
84	1975	The Ghoul	Dr. Lawrence	50
85	1975	Legend of the Werewolf	Prof. Paul	53
86	1976	Trial by Combat	Sir Edward Gifford	77
87	1976	At the Earth's Core	Dr. Abner Perry	51
88	1976	The Devil's Men	Baron Corofax	41
89	1976	The Great Houdinis	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	60
90	1977	Star Wars	Grand Moff Tarkin	82
91	1977	Shock Waves	SS Commander	49
92	1977	The Uncanny	Wilbur Gray	59
93	1977	The Standard	Baron Hackenberg	5
94	1979	Son of Hitler	Heinrich Haussner	52
95	1979	A Touch of the Sun		35
96	1979	The Detour	Narrator	0
97	1979	The Horror Show	(archive footage)	60
98	1979	Arabian Adventure	Wazir Al Wuzara	59
99	1980	A Tale of Two Cities	Dr. Alexander Manette	57
100	1981	Mystery on Monster Island	William T. Kolderup	44
101	1981	Black Jack	Sir Thomas Bedford	0
102	1983	House of the Long Shadows	Sebastian Grisbane	63
103	1984	Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues	Professor Charles Copeland	65
104	1984	Top Secret!	Bookstore Proprietor	71
105	1984	Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	Seneschal	52
106	1984	The Masks of Death	Sherlock Holmes	56
107	1985	The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)	70
108	1986	Biggles	Air Commodore Colonel William Raymond	52
109	1987	Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood	Self	64
110	1989	Peter Cushing: A One Way Ticket to Hollywood	Himself	100
111	1991	Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook	Victor Frankenstein / Dr. Carl Victor (archive footage)	57
112	1993	Frankenstein Reborn	Victor's Grandfather (photo) (uncredited)	100
113	1994	Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror	Narrator (voice) / Self	74
114	1994	The World of Hammer: Peter Cushing		70
115	1994	The World of Hammer: Dracula and the Undead	Professor Lawrence Van Helsing	87
116	1994	The World of Hammer: Mummies, Werewolves, and the Living Dead	(archieve footage)	70
117	1995	Dalekmania	Doctor Who (archive footage)	71
118	2004	The Story of Star Wars	Grand Moff Tarkin (archive footage)	70
119	2007	Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman	Self (archive footage)	90
120	2008	Fanex Files: Hammer Films	Self	70
121	2010	Attack of the Octopus People	Doctor Welles (archive footage)	0
122	2010	Halloween: The Inside Story	(archive footage)	74
123	2017	Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions	Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)	60
124	2020	Peter Cushing: In His Own Words	Himself	75
125	2020	The Skywalker Legacy	Self (archive footage)	77
126	2020	AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.	Self	0
127	2022	Dr. Who: Classic Movie Double Bill		0
128	2024	Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters	Self (archive footage)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Winston Smith	35
2	1952	Pride and Prejudice	Mr. Darcy	0
3	1961	The Avengers	Paul Beresford	77
4	1964	Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock Holmes	64
5	1970	Treffpunkte	Self	0
6	1973	Orson Welles' Great Mysteries	Count Gerard De Merret	67
7	1974	The Zoo Gang	Judge Gautier	70
8	1975	Space: 1999	Raan	71
9	1976	The New Avengers	Von Claus	69
10	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Von Baden	67
11	1980	Hammer House of Horror	Martin Blueck	71
12	1982	Wogan	Self	45
13	1994	The World of Hammer		65