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
2025
- Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies as Self - (archive footage)
2024
- Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters as Self (archive footage)
2020
- Peter Cushing: In His Own Words as Himself
- The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault as (archive footage)
- AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A. as (archive footage)
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
- Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror as Narrator (voice) / Self
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
1993
- Frankenstein Reborn as Victor's Grandfather (photo) (uncredited)
1992
- Innocent Blood as Van Helsing (archive footage)
1991
- Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Victor Frankenstein / Dr. Carl Victor (archive footage)
1989
- Peter Cushing: A One Way Ticket to Hollywood as Himself
1987
1986
- Biggles as Air Commodore Colonel William Raymond
1985
- The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes as Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
1984
- Top Secret! as Bookstore Proprietor
- The Masks of Death as Sherlock Holmes
- Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues as Professor Charles Copeland
- Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as Seneschal
1983
- House of the Long Shadows as Sebastian Grisbane
1982
- Wogan as Self
1981
- Black Jack as Sir Thomas Bedford
- Mystery on Monster Island as William T. Kolderup
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
- Son of Hitler as Heinrich Haussner
- The Horror Show as (archive footage)
- A Touch of the Sun
- The Detour as Narrator
1977
- Star Wars as Grand Moff Tarkin
- The Uncanny as Wilbur Gray (segment "Montreal 1977")
- The Standard as Baron Hackenberg
- Shock Waves as SS Commander
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 Sir Arthur 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
- Shatter as Paul Rattwood
- Madhouse as Herbert Flay
- Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell as Baron Victor Frankenstein aka Dr. Carl Victor
- From Beyond the Grave as The Proprietor
- Tender Dracula as MacGregor
- The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires as Professor Lawrence Van Helsing
- The Zoo Gang as Judge Gautier
- The Beast Must Die as Dr. Christopher Lundgren
1973
- 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
- Orson Welles' Great Mysteries as Count Gerard De Merret
1972
- Asylum as Smith
- Dracula A.D. 1972 as Professor Van Helsing
- Fear in the Night as Michael Carmichael
- Dr. Phibes Rises Again as Ship's Captain
- Tales from the Crypt as Arthur Edward Grimsdyke
- Horror Express as Dr. Wells
1971
- Blood Suckers as Dr. Walter Goodrich
- Twins of Evil as Gustav Weil
- I, Monster as Frederick Utterson
- The House That Dripped Blood as Philip Grayson (segment 2 "Waxworks")
- Film '72 as Self
1970
- The Vampire Lovers as General von Spielsdorf
- Scream and Scream Again as Major Heinrich Benedek
- One More Time as Dr. Frankenstein
- Treffpunkte as Self
1969
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed as Baron Victor Frankenstein
1968
- Corruption as Sir John Rowan
- The Blood Beast Terror as Detective Inspector Quennell
1967
- Torture Garden as Lancelot Canning (segment 4 "The Man Who Collected Poe")
- Night of the Big Heat as Dr. Vernon Stone
- Frankenstein Created Woman as Baron Frankenstein
- Some May Live as John Meredith
1966
- Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. as Doctor Who
- Dracula: Prince of Darkness as Doctor Van Helsing (archive footage)
- Island of Terror as Dr. Brian Stanley
1965
- The Skull as Dr. Christopher Maitland
- She as Holly
- Dr. Who and the Daleks as Doctor Who
- Dr. Terror's House of Horrors as Dr. Sandor Schreck aka "Dr. Terror"
1964
- The Gorgon as Dr. Namaroff
- Sherlock Holmes as Sherlock Holmes
- Story Parade as Elijah Baley
- The Evil of Frankenstein as Baron Frankenstein
1963
- The Man Who Finally Died as Doctor Peter von Brecht
- The Spread of the Eagle as Caius Cassius
1962
- Lolita as John Banning (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Captain Clegg as Reverend Dr. Blyss
1961
- The Avengers as Paul Beresford
- Fury at Smugglers' Bay as Squire Trevenyan
- Cash on Demand as Harry Fordyce
- The Naked Edge as Mr. Evan Wrack
- The Hellfire Club as Merryweather
1960
- Suspect as Professor Sewell
- The Flesh and the Fiends as Dr. Robert Knox
- Sword of Sherwood Forest as Sheriff of Nottingham
- The Brides of Dracula as Dr. J. Van Helsing
- Cone of Silence as Capt. Clive Judd
- Look at Life: Model World as Self
1959
- The Mummy as John Banning
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Sherlock Holmes
- John Paul Jones as Captain Richard Pearson
1958
- Violent Playground as Father Laidlaw
- Dracula as Doctor Van Helsing
- The Revenge of Frankenstein as Dr. Victor Stein
1957
- The Abominable Snowman as Dr. John Rollason
- The Curse of Frankenstein as Baron Victor Frankenstein
- Time Without Pity as Jeremy Clayton
1956
- Alexander the Great as Memmon
1955
- Magic Fire as Otto Wesendonk
- The End of the Affair as Henry Miles
1954
- Nineteen Eighty-Four as Winston Smith
- The Black Knight as Sir Palamides
1953
- 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
- They Dare Not Love as Sub-Lieutenant Blackler
- 49th Parallel ... (Props)
1940
- Dreams as First Dreamer
- Laddie as Robert Pryor
- A Chump at Oxford as Student
- The Howards of Virginia as Leslie Stephens
- The Hidden Master as Robert Clive of India
- Vigil in the Night as Joe Shand
- Women in War as Capt. Evans
1939
- The Man in the Iron Mask as Second Officer