Peter Cushing
Born: 1913-05-26 in Kenley, Surrey, England, UK
Died: 1994-08-11
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2024
- Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters as Self (archive footage)
2020
- The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault as (archive footage)
- AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A. as (archive footage)
- Peter Cushing: In His Own Words as Himself
2017
- Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
2016
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ... (Actor's Assistant)
2014
- Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films as Sebastian Grisbane (archive footage) (uncredited)
2010
- Attack of the Octopus People as Doctor Welles (archive footage)
2008
- Fanex Files: Hammer Films as Self
2007
- Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman as Self (archive footage)
2004
- The Story of Star Wars as Grand Moff Tarkin (archive footage)
1995
- Dalekmania as Doctor Who (archive footage)
1994
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
- Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror as Narrator (voice) / Self
1993
- Frankenstein Reborn as Victor's Grandfather (photo) (uncredited)
1992
- Innocent Blood as Van Helsing (archive footage)
- Dracula in the Movies as (archive footage)
1991
- Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Victor Frankenstein / Dr. Carl Victor (archive footage)
- Halloween Monster Bash as Dr. Wells (archive footage)
1989
- Peter Cushing: A One Way Ticket to Hollywood as Himself
1987
1986
- Biggles as Air Commodore Colonel William Raymond
1985
- Television
- The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes as Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
1984
- Top Secret! as Bookstore Proprietor
- Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as Seneschal
- The Masks of Death as Sherlock Holmes
- Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues as Professor Charles Copeland
1983
- House of the Long Shadows as Sebastian Grisbane
1982
- Wogan as Self
1981
- Mystery on Monster Island as William T. Kolderup
- Black Jack as Sir Thomas Bedford
1980
- Hammer House of Horror as Martin Blueck
- A Tale of Two Cities as Dr. Alexander Manette
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Von Baden
- Arabian Adventure as Wazir Al Wuzara
- The Horror Show as (archive footage)
- Son of Hitler as Heinrich Haussner
- A Touch of the Sun as Commissioner Potts
- The Detour as Narrator
1977
- Star Wars as Grand Moff Tarkin
- Shock Waves as SS Commander
- The Uncanny as Wilbur Gray (segment "Montreal 1977")
- The Standard as Baron Hackenberg
1976
- The New Avengers as Von Claus
- At the Earth's Core as Dr. Abner Perry
- The Devil's Men as Baron Corofax
- Trial by Combat as Sir Edward Gifford
- The Great Houdinis as Conan Doyle
1975
- Space: 1999 as Raan
- The Ghoul as Dr. Lawrence
- Fists of Fire as Self
- Legend of the Werewolf as Prof. Paul
1974
- 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
- The Zoo Gang as Judge Gautier
- From Beyond the Grave as The Proprietor
- The Beast Must Die as Dr. Christopher Lundgren
- Madhouse as Herbert Flay
- Shatter as Paul Rattwood
- Tender Dracula as MacGregor
1973
- Orson Welles' Great Mysteries as Count Gerard De Merret
- The Satanic Rites of Dracula as Prof. Lorrimer Van Helsing
- And Now the Screaming Starts! as Dr. Pope
- The Creeping Flesh as Emmanuel Hildern
- Nothing But the Night as Sir Mark Ashley
1972
- Tales from the Crypt as Arthur Edward Grimsdyke
- Horror Express as Dr. Wells
- Dracula A.D. 1972 as Professor Van Helsing
- Dr. Phibes Rises Again as Ship's Captain
- Asylum as Smith
- Fear in the Night as Michael Carmichael
1971
- Film '72 as Self
- Twins of Evil as Gustav Weil
- The House That Dripped Blood as Philip Grayson (segment 2 "Waxworks")
- I, Monster as Frederick Utterson
- Blood Suckers as Dr. Walter Goodrich
1970
- The Vampire Lovers as General von Spielsdorf
- Treffpunkte as Self
- Scream and Scream Again as Major Heinrich Benedek
- One More Time as Dr. Frankenstein
1969
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed as Baron Victor Frankenstein
1968
- The Blood Beast Terror as Detective Inspector Quennell
- Corruption as Sir John Rowan
1967
- Frankenstein Created Woman as Baron Frankenstein
- Torture Garden as Lancelot Canning (segment 4 "The Man Who Collected Poe")
- Night of the Big Heat as Dr. Vernon Stone
- Some May Live as John Meredith
1966
- Dracula: Prince of Darkness as Doctor Van Helsing (archive footage)
- Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. as Doctor Who
- Island of Terror as Dr. Brian Stanley
1965
- Thirty-Minute Theatre as Leonard
- She as Holly
- Dr. Who and the Daleks as Doctor Who
- Dr. Terror's House of Horrors as Dr. Sandor Schreck aka "Dr. Terror"
- The Skull as Dr. Christopher Maitland
1964
- Story Parade as Elijah Baley
- Sherlock Holmes as Sherlock Holmes
- The Gorgon as Dr. Namaroff
- The Evil of Frankenstein as Baron Frankenstein
- The Caves of Steel as Elijah Baley
1963
- The Spread of the Eagle as Caius Cassius
- The Man Who Finally Died as Doctor Peter von Brecht
1962
- Captain Clegg as Reverend Dr. Blyss
1961
- The Avengers as Paul Beresford
- Drama 61-67 as Frederick James Parsons
- Cash on Demand as Harry Fordyce
- The Naked Edge as Mr. Evan Wrack
- The Hellfire Club as Mr. Merryweather
- Fury at Smugglers' Bay as Squire Trevenyan
1960
- The Brides of Dracula as Dr. J. Van Helsing
- The Flesh and the Fiends as Dr. Robert Knox
- Sword of Sherwood Forest as Sheriff of Nottingham
- Suspect as Professor Sewell
- Cone of Silence as Capt. Clive Judd
- Look at Life: Model World as Self
1959
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Sherlock Holmes
- The Mummy as John Banning
- John Paul Jones as Captain Richard Pearson
1958
- Dracula as Doctor Van Helsing
- The Revenge of Frankenstein as Dr. Victor Stein
- Violent Playground as Father Laidlaw
1957
- The Curse of Frankenstein as Baron Victor Frankenstein
- The Abominable Snowman as Dr. John Rollason
- Time Without Pity as Jeremy Clayton
1956
- Alexander the Great as Memmon
1955
- The End of the Affair as Henry Miles
- Magic Fire as Otto Wesendonk
- The Creature as Dr. John Rollason
- The Moment of Truth as The Prime Minister
1954
- The Black Knight as Sir Palamides
- Nineteen Eighty-Four as Winston Smith
1953
- Number Three as Simpson
- Anastasia as Piotr Petrovsky
1952
- Moulin Rouge as Marcel de la Voisier
- Pride and Prejudice as Mr Darcy
1951
- When We Are Married as Gerald Forbes
1950
- Sunday Night Theatre as Winston Smith
1948
- Hamlet as Osric
1946
- It Might Be You as The doctor
1942
- The Woman in the House as Man Waking Up (archive footage)
1941
- 49th Parallel ... (Props)
- They Dare Not Love as Sub-Lieutenant Blackler
1940
- The Howards of Virginia as Leslie Stephens
- A Chump at Oxford as Student
- Women in War as Capt. Evans
- Vigil in the Night as Joe Shand
- Dreams as First Dreamer
- Laddie as Robert Pryor
- The Hidden Master as Robert Clive of India
1939
- The Man in the Iron Mask as Second Officer