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Peter Wilton Cushing OBE (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English 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.
IMDb profile of Peter Cushing, a British actor known for his roles in horror and science fiction films. Learn about his life, career, achievements, and trivia, and watch his trailers and videos.
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Learn about the life and career of Peter Cushing, a British actor who starred in many horror films for Hammer and Amicus Productions. Find out his birth and death dates, family, awards, trivia and more on IMDb.
- May 26, 1913
- August 11, 1994
Feb 7, 2022 · Peter Cushing first became famous for his work in often grisly horror films, but the star himself was nothing like the parts he played for Hammer Films. He personally didn't enjoy watching horror films and was afraid of the dark. Cushing described the origin of these fears in his autobiography.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) Director: Rudolph Cartier. Made for TV, this BBC production was the first screen adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel.
- The End of the Affair (1955) Director: Edward Dmytryk. In Edward Dmytryk’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1951 novel, Cushing is Henry Miles, a civil servant in a passionless marriage with Sarah (Deborah Kerr).
- The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) Director: Terence Fisher. The Curse of Frankenstein was the first film Cushing would make for Hammer Studios, the first occasion he would share the screen with Christopher Lee (the two had both appeared separately in 1948’s Hamlet and 1952’s Moulin Rouge, but didn’t meet until the shooting of this movie), and the first of six times he would star as the fiendish Baron Frankenstein, maniacal creator of the unwittingly destructive monster (Lee).
- Violent Playground (1958) Director: Basil Dearden. Violent Playground tells the story of a policeman, Truman (Stanley Baker), charged with becoming a juvenile liaison officer, and his frequent run-ins with gang leader and pyromaniac Johnnie (David McCallum).
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...
Jan 9, 2017 · After an ill-fated attempt to relaunch the series with a younger actor, the ever sodden Ralph Bates, Cushing returned for the final film in the series, “Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell,” which is an uneven effort but worth seeing for Cushing.
