(1973),[65] and The Beast Must Die (1974). [143], Cushing was known among his colleagues for his gentle and gentlemanly demeanour, as well as his professionalism and rigorous preparation as an actor. [30] The war years continued to prove difficult for him, however, and at one point he was forced to work designing ladies head-scarves at a Macclesfield-based silk manufacturer to make ends meet. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) Passed | 113 min | Adventure, History, Romance 7 Rate Despotic King Louis XIV discovers he has a twin brother who has grown up under the tutelage of his foster father, the patriotic musketeer D'Artagnan. One day Peter went missing, having wandered off in his frock to paddle in some puddles. [152] In total, Cushing appeared in more than 100 films throughout his career. [155][156], In 2008, fourteen years after his death, Cushing's image was used in a set of stamps issued by the Royal Mail honouring Hammer Studios films on the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Dracula. "[77], Cushing and Lee appeared together in the horror film The Gorgon (1964), about the female snake-haired Gorgon character from Greek mythology and in She (1965), about a lost realm ruled by the immortal queen Ayesha, played by Ursula Andress. It'll be a glorious death, so long as I can hear what you're saying. Though only in his early 50s at the time, Cushing regularly played decrepit characters. [41] Despite this continued success in live television, Cushing found the medium too stressful and wished to return to film. Peter and Helen Cushing with the neighborhood children Peter Vincent The Lovely Bones Peter Cushing English Gentleman Saint Peter Obe Memoirs That Way Candid More information . Story Saved You can find this story in My Bookmarks. [86] Cushing also starred in several horror films released in 1975. [49], Cushing so valued preparation for his role that he insisted on being trained by a surgeon to learn how to wield a scalpel authentically. Peter Cushing FameChain Links. Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE (26 May 1913 - 11 August 1994) was an English actor best known for his roles in the Hammer Productions horror films of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and as Grand Moff Tarkin in the 1977 film Star Wars. Please say that. [98], In July 1969, Cushing appeared as the straight man in The Morecambe & Wise Show, the British comedy series. Majendie, Paul (7 August 1986). [14] Cushing continued to appear in several Amicus Productions films during this period, including Tales from the Crypt (1972), From Beyond the Grave (1973),[103] And Now the Screaming Starts! Although some childhood injuries prevented him from serving on active duty,[10] a friend suggested he entertain the troops by performing as part of the Entertainments National Service Association. I shall remember you. No, he did not have any children. But millions want to see me as [Baron] Frankenstein, so that's the one I do. 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 autobiography [aff. PETER CUSHING, the prolific and . Actually, I'm a gentle fellow. However, when producer Anthony Hinds proposed removing the character's deerstalker, Cushing insisted they remain because audiences associated Holmes with his headgear and pipes. [5] During one Christmas in his youth, Cushing saw a stage production of Peter Pan, which served as an early source of inspiration and interest in acting. The film gave Cushing the highest amount of visibility of his entire career, and helped inspire younger audiences to watch his older films. [148] He was rushed to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital when his left eye had swollen to nearly three times its normal size, a side effect of the cancer. Here is all you want to know, and more! one didn't go to work if you had children. John Mills had worked with Peter Cushing years earlier in 1954's THE END OF THE AFFAIR, and was the one who convinced Peter to finish composing his memoirs about his devotion to his wife Helen, published in 1986. Cushing gained worldwide fame for his appearances in 22 horror films from the Hammer studio, particularly for his role as Baron Frankenstein in six of their seven Frankenstein films, and Doctor Van Helsing in five Dracula films. Fear in the Night. Witching Time/The Silent Scream. During filming he asked director Terence Fisher for permission to drive a harpoon through the mummy's body during a fight scene, to explain the poster image. Actors Who Have Played Sherlock Holmes. Peter Cushing starred alongside icons like Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and John Carradine, in this 1983 horror-comedy. He nevertheless maintained a belief in both God and an afterlife. Cushing envisioned the character as an idealist warrior for the greater good, and studied the original book carefully and adapted several of Van Helsing's characteristics from the books into his performance, including the repeated gesture of raising his index finger to emphasise an important point. Fourteen days of rehearsal was originally scheduled for each episode, but they were cut down to ten days for economic reasons. To their surprise, however, Cushing recovered well enough to be released from the hospital,[149] and although his health continued to gradually decline, Cushing lived another twelve years without any operative treatment or chemotherapy. Cushing was cast (again uncredited) in one of a series of short films in an entry in the MGM series The Passing Parade, which focused on strange-but-true historical events. [18] The tour, which lasted until February 1949, took them to Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart, Tasmania, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, and included performances of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, Shakespeare's Richard III, Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, Jean Anouilh's Antigone and Anton Chekhov's The Proposal. [64] Cushing and Lee both reprised their respective roles in the sequel The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974), which was known in the United States as Count Dracula and his Vampire Bride. Cushing was known for his roles as Baron Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. Who, and Grand Moff Tarkin. Lawrence broke off the engagement citing his frequent crying and bringing his parents on dates. [60] During filming, Cushing himself suggested the staging for the final confrontation scene, in which Van Helsing leaps onto a large library table, opens window curtains to weaken Dracula with sunlight, then uses two candlesticks as a makeshift crucifix to drive the vampire into the sunlight. For his role in Dracula A.D. 1972, Cushing (who was 58) had originally been cast as the father of Stephanie Beacham's character, but had aged so visibly and lost so much weight that the script was hastily rewritten to make him her grandfather: it was done again in the last Dracula film from Hammer, The Satanic Rites of Dracula. Peter Cushing Among my many acting heroes was the marvelous Peter Cushing whom I both loved and respected. Best of all, he received $75 a week for 4 months - which seemed like a small fortune to the young Cushing. [14] Also appearing in the film was Christopher Lee, who eventually became a close friend and frequent co-star with Cushing. Crisp and executive producer Kevin Francis both in turn sought to portray them as two old-fashioned men in a rapidly changing world. They Dare Not Love. [15][26] In 1942, the Nol Coward play Private Lives was touring the military stations and hospitals in the British Isles, and the actor playing the lead role of Elyot Chase was called to service. [144] His co-stars and colleagues often spoke of his politeness, charm, old-fashioned manners and sense of humour. [11] Cushing hated the job, where he remained for three years without promotion or advancement due to his lack of ambition in the profession. He got fair grades only through the help of his brother, a strong student who did his homework for him. Cushing appeared in several films released in 1961, including Fury at Smugglers' Bay, an adventure film about pirates scavenging ships off the English coastline;[84] The Hellfire Club, where he played a lawyer helping a young man expose a cult;[85] and The Naked Edge, a British-American thriller about a woman who suspects her husband framed another man for murder. [21] In the first, The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), his protagonist is sentenced to death by guillotine, but he flees and hides under the alias Doctor Victor Stein. Cushing said he would have preferred to play Kenobi rather than Tarkin, but could not have done so because he was to be filming other movie roles when Star Wars was shooting, and Tarkin's scenes took less time to film than those of the larger Kenobi role. [129][130][131] Joyce Broughton, Cushing's former secretary, had approved recreating Cushing in the film. He had long blonde hair, tied with a bow, and enviable selection of dresses. Find out the cause of death and more exciting information regarding the death of this famous movie actor. [39] For that film, he travelled to Spain and filmed scenes on location in the castles of Manzanares el Real and El Escorial. [21] During this discouraging period for Cushing, his wife encouraged him to seek roles in television, which was beginning to develop in England. Cushing struggled to find work during this period, with some plays he was cast in failing to even make it past rehearsals into theatres. Cushing turned it down, in part because he did not like the script by Jimmy Sangster, and the lead role was taken instead by Anton Diffring. To join Helen is my only ambition. [38], In the two years following Nineteen Eighty-Four, Cushing appeared in thirty-one television plays and two serials, and won Best Television Actor of the Year from the Evening Chronicle. His first film for the studio was 1957's "The Curse of Frankenstein," in which he played Frankenstein's monster opposite actor Peter Cushing. Lucas felt a talented actor was needed to play the role and said Cushing was his first choice for the part. His mother was the daughter of a carpet merchant and considered of a lower class than her husband. [13][18] While he was in Southampton he met an 18 year old fellow actor Doreen Lawrence and they were engaged to be married. He played the lead in nearly every school production during his teenage years, including the role of Sir Anthony Absolute in a 1929 staging of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy of manners play, The Rivals. [11], Cushing wanted to enter the acting profession after school, but his father opposed the idea, despite the theatrical background of several of his family members. Although I didn't . [21] Cushing performed many of his own stunts in Dracula A.D. 1972, which included tumbling off a haywagon during a fight with Dracula. Peter Cushing in Dracula (1958) Peter Cushing is well known to modern audiences as Grand Moff Tarkin in the original Star Wars. Cushing's biographer Tony Earnshaw said Cushing's performance in The Masks of Death was arguably the actor's best interpretation of the role, calling it "the culmination of a life-time as a Holmes fan, and more than a quarter of a century of preparation to play the most complex of characters". They first met on the set of the film, where Lee was still wearing the monster make-up prepared by Phil Leakey. [16][17] By the end of the summer of 1936, Cushing accepted a job with the repertory theatre company Southampton Rep, working as assistant stage manager and performing in bit roles at the Grand Theatre in the Hampshire city. "[46] The film critic Roger Ebert described Cushing's work in the Hammer films: "[Cushing is] the one in all those British horror films, standing between Vincent Price and Christopher Lee. Peter Cushing may have been best known for bringing life to ghostly characters, but in an unlikely twist, the actor was brought back from the dead himself in 2016. . [27] During this tour he met Violet Hlne "Helen" Beck, a former dancer who was starring in the lead female role of Amanda Prynne. [107] His performance in Tales from the Crypt won him the Best Male Actor award at the 1971 French Convention of Fantasy Cinema in France. [10] Cushing met a Columbia Pictures employee named Larry Goodkind, who wrote him a letter of recommendation and directed him to acquaintances Goodkind knew at the company Edward Small Productions. Peter Cushing: A Life in Film Hardcover - April 16, 2013 by David Miller (Author) 24 ratings Hardcover $15.79 13 Used from $9.99 Peter Cushing was an unforgettable presence in cult cinema of the fifties, sixties and seventies, and remains one of Britain's best-loved film stars. He also won best actor awards from the Guild of Television Producers in 1955,[39] and from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1956. [108] Another was The Ghoul, where he played a former priest hiding his cannibalistic son in an attic. The production proved to be controversial, resulting in death threats for director Rudolph Cartier and causing Cushing to be vilified for appearing in such "filth. [114] Cushing consciously attempted to define their characters as opposite representations of good and evil, and the actor purposely stood in the shadows so the light shone on Fisher's face. [18] He found a modest success in a 1945 production of Sheridan's The Rivals at Westminster's Criterion Theatre, which earned him enough money to pay off some growing debts. [75] The Hound of the Baskervilles was originally conceived as the first in a series of Sherlock Holmes films, but eventually no sequels were made. [29], Cushing recorded occasional radio spots and appeared in week-long stints as a featured player in London's Q Theatre, but otherwise work was difficult to come by. Many actors turned down the role as a result, but Cushing accepted,[89] and the BBC believed his Hammer Studios persona would bring what they called a sense of "lurking horror and callous savagery" to the series. "Who wants to see me as Hamlet? When Peter Cushing was a child, his mother dressed him as a girl. [91] He tried to keep his performance identical to his portrayal of Holmes from The Hound of the Baskervilles. Peter Cushing (26 may 1913 - 11 august 1994) was a British actor who played Sherlock Holmes 3 times. [96] Cushing also appeared in non-Amicus horror films like Island of Terror (1966) and The Blood Beast Terror (1968), in both of which he investigates a series of mysterious deaths. [28] Picturegoer writer Margaret Hinxman, who was not complimentary of Lee's performance, praised Cushing and wrote of the film: "Although this shocker may not have created much of a monster, it may well have created something more lasting: a star! Peter Wilton Cushing OBE (26 May 1913 11 August 1994) was an English actor. [112] However, Cushing has claimed that Lucas originally approached him to play the Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, and only decided to cast him as Tarkin instead after the two met each other. In the skit, Cushing portrayed King Arthur, while the other two gave comedic portrayals of characters like Merlin and the knights of the Round Table. With the aid of advanced CGI, a walking, talking Cushing once again reprises his role as the sneering Imperial Officer Grand Moff Tarkin from the 1977 original Star Wars: A New Hope, even though. A necessary requirement to having a family and children is of course, having a spouse. O'Brien, John (20 April 2002). [21] Around the same time, Cushing played the original nineteenth century Van Helsing in The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (also 1974), a co-production between Hammer Studios and the Shaw Brothers Studio, which brought Chinese martial arts into the Dracula story. [136], Cushing wrote two autobiographies, Peter Cushing: An Autobiography (1986) and Past Forgetting: Memoirs of the Hammer Years (1988). We began a close personal correspondence that lasted for several years. Did Peter Cushing have any family? Peter Wilton Cushing OBE (26 May 1913 - 11 August 1994) was an English actor. [68], Immediately upon completion of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Cushing was offered the lead role in the Hammer film The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959), a remake of The Man in Half Moon Street (1945). His daughter Antonia told the Hollywood Reporter that he passed on due to natural causes. 4 Grand Moff Tarkin. [20] Cushing was hired as a stand-in for scenes that featured both characters played by Louis Hayward, who had the dual lead roles of King Louis XIV and Philippe of Gascony. . [3] Cushing's family consisted of several stage actors, including his paternal grandfather Henry William Cushing (who toured with Henry Irving),[4] his paternal aunt Maude Cushing (his father's sister) and his step-uncle Wilton Herriot, after whom Peter Cushing received his middle name. Peter Cushing was born in Surrey, England on May 26, 1913, to George Edward and Nellie Marie Cushing, and was younger of the two brothers. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-destroyer, but never a monster. His is most identified with the horror films of Hammer Pictures, often sharing the screen with Christopher Lee. Peter Cushing is one of the most highly regarded performers amongst all manner of cinephiles. In the films where Lee iconically played Dracula, Cushing plaid his foil and rival, the righteous vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing. Payne, Graham (June 1958). As both actors were in their seventies, screenwriter N.J. List of the best Peter Cushing movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Wesley Snipes has taken out more in single scenes, no doubt. As a Hammer Film actor, he portrayed Baron Frankenstein, Dr. Van Helsing, and . Missing Helen To underscore just how difficult Helen's passing was for Peter Cushing, he ended his first autobiography, published in 1986, with her death: Peter felt his life effectively ended with Helen's passing. Nevertheless, he worked hard to master the lines so they sounded natural and that his character appeared intelligent and confident. Cushing played the lead role twice more in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974). See answer (1) Peter Cushing (and, until her untimely death in 1971, his wife Helen), lived in this one: As you can see, it is adorned by a blue plaque, and it is notably the only one in that row to have large bushes growing in its front garden. The move proved to be a wise one, as Cushing was hired to complement the cast of a string of major theatre successes that were being adapted to live television. [10][35] Among them was the John Huston film Moulin Rouge (1952) in which he played a racing spectator named Marcel de la Voisier appearing with Jos Ferrer, who played the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. [140] He also loved games and practical jokes,[15] and enjoyed drawing and painting watercolours, the latter of which he did especially often in his later years. [78] Among his final Hammer roles was Fear in the Night (1972), where he played a one-armed school headmaster apparently terrorising the protagonist, played by Judy Geeson. [21] The film was roughly based on the Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike. [68], Around the same time, he portrayed the detective Sherlock Holmes in the Hammer production of The Hound of the Baskervilles (also 1959), an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of the same name. This article incorporates text from a free content work. Peter Cushing played a vampire in a French film called "Tender Dracula". Peter Bogdanovich's passing was announced by one of his daughters, Antonia, on Thursday, January 6. As a Hammer Film actor, he portrayed Baron Frankenstein, Dr. Van Helsing, and Sherlock Holmes. His stoic portrayals in Hammer horror films and Star Wars is legendary, but did you know that he also played Dr Who in two films? Eventually, the character is driven to commit suicide, but returns from the grave to seek revenge against his tormentors. Stevens cast Cushing in the second male lead role of Joe Shand, the husband of the Lombard character's sister. [99] Cushing and Lee made cameos as their old roles of Frankenstein and Dracula in the comedy One More Time (1970), which starred Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr.[100] The single scene took only one morning of filming, which Cushing agreed to after Davis asked him to do it as a favour. "It's very likely that [the filmmakers] secured permission from Cushing's estate or his direct heirs, because the laws regarding postmortem rights of publicity differ from state to state," Tyler. Very few. He appeared in several horror films and was in Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet. [35] His largest television success from this period was the leading role of Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, (1954) an adaptation by Nigel Kneale of George Orwell's novel of the same name about a totalitarian regime. 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 has adorned our screens as Dr. . Davies, the Purley County Grammar School physics teacher who produced all the school's plays, recognised some acting potential in him and encouraged him to participate in the theatre, even allowing Cushing to skip class to paint sets. I remember quite vividly the sincere anguish he so openly expressed to me when his beloved wife Helen passed away. Before filming began, however, Cushing said he had reservations about the screenplay written by Jimmy Sangster and Peter Bryan. His first job was as a surveyor's assistant in . [14][28] They fell in love and were married on 10 April 1943. Studio executives were pleased with Cushing's performance, and there was talk among Hollywood insiders grooming him for stardom. Torture Garden. He said his only regret about working on it was that he wasn't able to be in ESB or RotJ. [10] In 1986, he appeared on the British television show Jim'll Fix It, hosted by Jimmy Savile, in which it was arranged for the wishes of guests to be granted. [15] The two had little money around this time, and Cushing had to collect from both National Assistance and the Actors' Benevolent Fund. [128] This extensive use of CGI to "resurrect" an actor who had died many years earlier created a great deal of controversy about the ethics of using a deceased actor's likeness. Director: James Whale | Stars: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Joseph Schildkraut Votes: 1,771 2. [33] Cushing designed custom hand-scarves in honour of the Hamlet film, and as it was being exhibited across England, the scarves were eventually accepted as gifts by the Queen and her daughter Princess Elizabeth. The order of these top Peter Cushing movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Peter Cushing movies will be at the top of the list. "[146], In his autobiography, Cushing implies that he attempted suicide on the night of his wife's death by running up and down stairs in the vain hope that it would induce a heart attack. Cushing later said his unscreened scenes alongside Hayward were terrible performances, but that his experience on the film provided an excellent opportunity to learn and observe how filming on a studio set worked. In the 1970s, he garnered fame for his role in a slew of horror films, including his performance as Van . shocked by the marriage, learned to love their new daughter-in-law. Biography - A Short Wiki. [2] His father, a quantity surveyor, was a reserved and uncommunicative man whom Peter said he never got to know very well. Grant, Devin (19 May 2005). He and his older brother David were raised first in Dulwich Village, a south London suburb, and then later back in Surrey. [48] The Curse of Frankenstein also featured Christopher Lee, who played Frankenstein's monster. [110] Cushing also appeared in the horror film The Uncanny (1977). Given what we know of Vader any man who could control him was a man of great power and ability. [10] Along with Alec Guinness, who was ultimately cast as Kenobi, Cushing was among the best known actors at the time to appear in Star Wars, as the rest of the cast were then relatively unknown. The latter film starred Deborah Kerr, Cushing's co-star from The End of the Affair, and Gary Cooper, one of Cushing's favourite actors. [45] He later said that his career decisions entailed selecting roles where he knew that he would be accepted by the audience. We've done enough of these now to know what we're doing. In the following we list the major anecdotes which blend into an interesting story. [33] A huge fan of Sherlock Holmes, Cushing was highly anxious to play the character,[69] and reread the novels in anticipation of the role. [41] Director Val Guest said he was particularly impressed with Cushing's preparation and ability to plan which props to best use to enhance his performance, so much so that Cushing started to become known as "Props Peter". Parents who let children . His old friend and co-star John Mills encouraged him to publish his memoirs as a way of overcoming the reclusive state Cushing had placed himself into following her death. He appeared in Corruption (1968), a film that was billed as so horrific that "no woman will be admitted alone" into theatres to see it. 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