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Peter Wilton Cushing OBE (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was a British actor. His acting career spanned over six decades and included appearances in more than 100 films, as well as many television, stage and radio roles. He achieved recognition for his leading performances in the Hammer Productions horror films from the 1950s to 1970s, and as ...
Peter Wilton Cushing was born on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, Surrey, England, to Nellie Maria (King) and George Edward Cushing, a quantity surveyor. He and his older brother David were raised first in Dulwich Village, a south London suburb, and then later back in Surrey. At an early age, Cushing was attracted to acting, inspired by his favorite...
Peter Cushing. Actor: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Peter Wilton Cushing was born on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, Surrey, England, to Nellie Maria (King) and George Edward Cushing, a quantity surveyor. He and his older brother David were raised first in Dulwich Village, a south London suburb, and then later back in Surrey. At an early age, Cushing was attracted to acting, inspired by his ...
2 days ago · Clive Hammond and Callum Parke, PA. September 9, 2024 at 10:31 AM. A High Court legal battle over the use of the image of actor Peter Cushing in a Star Wars film should go to trial, a judge has ...
1 day ago · Peter Cushing is most widely known for his appearance in the original 1977 Star Wars film as Grand Moff Tarkin. The imposing British actor’s gravitas in the role made him a fan favourite and ...
Oct 2, 2020 · Peter Cushing was born in Kenley, Surrey, England, on May 26, 1913. At birth, Peter disappointed his mother, who, already having a son—Peter’s older brother David—really wanted a daughter. Peter spent the first few years of his life with long blond tresses and wearing feminine attire, before his father, as Peter writes in his ...
May 26, 2021 · Peter Cushing is best known for the huge number of horror films he made for Hammer Studios between 1957 and 1974. Yet unlike some of his spooky cousins working across the pond, such as Vincent Price and Boris Karloff, he managed to sidestep the burden of typecasting. He portrayed heroes and villains with equal skill.
Aug 12, 1994 · Peter Cushing, a British actor who chilled a generation of filmgoers as the evil Baron Frankenstein, died yesterday in a hospice in Canterbury, England. He was 81. The cause was cancer, The ...
Aug 11, 1994 · 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 ...
Jan 8, 2017 · The music crescendos as the vampire writhes in agony. Cushing would return in the Lee-less first sequel “The Brides of Dracula,” which is one of the most beautiful and sensuous films Hammer ever made. Cushing’s warmth as Van Helsing, the very opposite of Frankenstein’s frost, comes through in what has to be one of the gentlest vampire ...