[121], When Star Wars was first released in 1977, most preliminary advertisements touted Cushing's Tarkin as the primary antagonist of the film, not Vader;[122] Cushing was extremely pleased with the final film, and he claimed his only disappointment was that Tarkin was killed and could not appear in the subsequent sequels. [10] He did not enjoy the repetitive nature of stage performances, and once compared it to a painter being forced to paint the same picture every day. Peter Cushing was one of the handful of actors who defined the horror movie. Cushing won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor in 1956. In 1939, his father bought him a one-way ticket to Hollywood, where he moved with only 50 to his name. [105], In 1975, Cushing was anxious to return to the stage, where he had not performed in ten years. Cushing was known for his roles as Baron Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. Who, and Grand Moff Tarkin. His career was revitalised once he started to work in live television plays, and he soon became one of the most recognisable faces in British television. [10] He appeared alongside actor John Mills as Watson, and the two were noted by critics for their strong chemistry and camaraderie. Given what we know of Vader any man who could control him was a man of great power and ability. Peter Cushing was not a handsome man. Christopher Lee has never captured my admiration the way Cushing did, but that is no slight to Lee. Peter Cushing is best known for the huge number of horror films he made for Hammer Studios between 1957 and 1974. He portrayed heroes and villains with equal skill. 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. Never harmed a fly. Scully, Rob (11 August 1994). [77] Cushing and director Peter Graham Scott did not get along well during filming and at one point, when the two were having a disagreement on set, Cushing turned to cameraman Len Harris and said, "Take no notice Len. Study now. [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. [21] It was filmed on location in County Wicklow in the Republic of Ireland. He appeared in several horror films and was in Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet. Peter Cushing starred alongside icons like Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and John Carradine, in this 1983 horror-comedy. [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). The effects of his wife's death proved to be as much physical as mental. Fear in the Night. It was Broughton who encouraged Cushing to have the book published. Thus a grey pallor is added to his . Wesley Snipes has taken out more in single scenes, no doubt. [10] As with the Frankenstein film, critics largely disliked Dracula because of its violence and sexual content, deeming it inferior to the 1931 Universal version. [10] Cushing saw a promotional poster for The Mummy that showed Lee's character with a large hole in his chest, allowing a beam of light to pass through his body. Instead, Cushing asked to play Arthur Grymsdyke,[105] a kind, working-class widower who gets along well with the local children, but falls subject to a smear campaign by his snobbish neighbours. He looked like a schoolteacher that would struggle to hold the attention of the children. [98], In July 1969, Cushing appeared as the straight man in The Morecambe & Wise Show, the British comedy series. "Talking toPeter Cushing". [45], After his wife's death, Cushing visited several churches and spoke to religious ministers, but was dissatisfied by their reluctance to discuss death and the afterlife, and never joined an organized religion. Christopher Neame, who also starred in the film, said he was particularly impressed with Cushing's agility and fitness, considering his age. [21] He returned for The Evil of Frankenstein (1963), where the Baron has a carnival hypnotist resurrect his monster's inactive brain,[54] and Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), in which the Frankenstein's monster is a woman played by Playboy magazine centrefold model Susan Denberg. 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. [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. Adapted from a serial novella of the same name, it was a drama film about a nurse played by Carole Lombard working in a poorly-equipped country hospital. As one of the most famous women on the planet throughout the 1950s and '60s the one thing that she didn't have . Peter Cushing's wife died in the early 1970's, they never had children so when he died of cancer in 1994 he left his estate to his secretary Joyce Broughton. [41] Despite this continued success in live television, Cushing found the medium too stressful and wished to return to film. [10] He appeared in the Hammer film Captain Clegg (1962), known in the United States as Night Creatures. His mother was the daughter of a carpet merchant and considered of a lower class than her husband. Actually, I'm a gentle fellow. Like Guinness, Cushing had difficulty with some of the technical jargon in his dialogue, and claimed he did not understand all of the words he was speaking. MacDonald, Andrew and MacDonald, Gina (2003). ", Thanks to his former teacher Davies, Cushing continued to appear in school productions during this time, as well as amateur plays such as W.S. Gilbert's Pygmalion and Galatea,[12] George Kelly's The Torch-Bearers, and The Red Umbrella, by Brenda Girvin and Monica Cosens. [73] In later years, Cushing considered his Holmes performance one of the finest accomplishments of his career. Cushing next appeared for Hammer when he played the Sheriff of Nottingham in the adventure film Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960), which starred Richard Greene as the outlaw Robin Hood. Actor: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. [87][102] Cushing wrote the forewords to two books about the detective: Peter Haining's Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook (1974) and Holmes of the Movies: The Screen Career of Sherlock Holmes (1976), by David Stuart Davies. [10] She suggested he write to all the producers listed in the Radio Times magazine seeking work in the medium. [118], During this period, Cushing was honoured by the British Film Institute, which invited him in 1986 to give a lecture at the National Film Theatre. [28] Shot in dynamic colour with a 65,000-budget, the film became known for its heavy usage of gore and sexual content. He moved to New York City in anticipation of his eventual return home, during which time he voiced a few radio commercials and joined a summer stock theatre company to raise money for his voyage back to England. No, he did not have any children. [9] He attended the Purley County Grammar School, where he swam and played cricket and rugby. [143], Cushing was known among his colleagues for his gentle and gentlemanly demeanour, as well as his professionalism and rigorous preparation as an actor. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were two of the most prolific actors in horror cinema. Cushing often appeared alongside actor Christopher Lee, who became one of his closest friends, and occasionally with the American horror star Vincent Price. [120] The close-up shots of Cushing aboard the Death Star, shown right before the battlestation is destroyed, were actually extra footage taken from previously-shot scenes with Cushing that did not make the final film. Mr. Beard's first marriage, to Minnie Cushing, the daughter of a distinguished Newport, R.I., family, ended in divorce, as did his second, to Ms. Tiegs, to whom he was married in the 1980s. However, when producer Anthony Hinds proposed removing the character's deerstalker, Cushing insisted they remain because audiences associated Holmes with his headgear and pipes. Acquaint yourself with Peter Cushing OBE (1913 -1994), film actor, television star and artist. His acting career spanned over six decades and included appearances in more than 100 films, as well as many television, stage, and radio roles. Peter Cushing is one of the most highly regarded performers amongst all manner of cinephiles. The latter was often fatal during that period, although he survived. [86], Cushing took the lead role in two science fiction films by AARU Productions based on the British television series, Doctor Who. "After the recording, I cleared the studio and left Peter and Christopher alone with the TV. Very few. 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. Tarkin, played by the late Peter Cushing, was outwardly polite and aristocratic, but as princess Leia noted, there's no hiding the foul stench of his evil. Before filming began, however, Cushing said he had reservations about the screenplay written by Jimmy Sangster and Peter Bryan. He portrayed an English botanist searching the Himalayas for the legendary Yeti. UnknownQTY 5 yr. ago (1972), a sequel to The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and then co-starred with Price again in the film Madhouse (1974). They both appeared in numerous Hammer films, as well as other genre films, throughout their careers. one didn't go to work if you had children. At times, this put him at odds with writers and producers; Hammer Studios producer Anthony Hinds once declared him a "fusspot [and] terrible fusser about his wardrobe and everything, but never a difficult man. [1] Peter Cushing was born in Surrey. [51] Many felt Cushing's performance helped create the archetypal mad scientist character. Published in 1994, it was originally written specifically for the daughter of Cushing's long-time secretary and friend Joyce Broughton, to help her overcome reading problems resulting from her dyslexia. 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. [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. His written candor was nearly too painful to read. [13], One of his earliest professional stage performances was in 1935 as Captain Randall in Ian Hay's The Middle Watch at the Connaught Theatre in Worthing. Over the next three years, he became one of the most active and favoured names in British television,[10][15][35] and was considered a pioneer in British television drama. Parents who let children . The supremely talented British actor portrayed some of horror literature's best-loved heroes . [21] The former film portrays Frankenstein as a far more ruthless character than had been seen before, and features a scene in which Cushing's Frankenstein rapes the character played by Veronica Carlson. [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. Cushing wrote to the couple and suggested they stage The Heiress, a play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, with Cushing himself in the lead role. [10] However, Cushing was very proud of his experiences with the Hammer films, and never resented becoming known as a horror actor. [138] His final acting job was narrating, along with Christopher Lee, the Hammer Films documentary Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror (1994), which was recorded only a few weeks before his death. More information Peter and Helen Cushing with the neighborhood children Comments More like this Old Hollywood Actors Hollywood Stars Classic Hollywood Classic Movie Stars [21] In that film, Cushing's Van Helsing travels to the Chinese city Chungking, where Count Dracula is heading a vampire cult. One day Peter went missing, having wandered off in his frock to paddle in some puddles. Oliver, Myrna (12 August 1994). Peter Bogdanovich's passing was announced by one of his daughters, Antonia, on Thursday, January 6. [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. 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. Did St Peter who was married have any children? 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. Despite performing in a string of roles, including one as Osric in Laurence Olivier's film adaptation of Hamlet (1948), Cushing struggled greatly to find work during this period. Shooting ran from September to November 1939,[23] and the film was released in 1940, drawing Cushing's first semblance of attention and critical praise. [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. [81], He appeared in the biographical epic film John Paul Jones (1959), in which Robert Stack played the title role of the American naval fighter in the American Revolutionary War. According to Peter Cushing's autobiography, he took a piece of silk that Helen's family had smuggled out of Russia. [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. [127] Henry provided the on-set capture and voice work with the reference material augmented and mapped over his performance like a digital body-mask. Here is all you want to know, and more! [10] While working, he actively provided feedback and suggestions on other elements beyond his performance, such as dialogue and wardrobe. [68] However, Cushing was able to star in Twins of Evil (also 1971), a prequel of sorts to The Vampire Lovers, as Gustav Weil, the leader of a group of religious puritans trying to stamp out witchcraft and satanism. Cushing played one part against Hayward in one scene, then the opposite part in another, and ultimately the scenes were spliced together in a split screen process that featured Hayward in both parts and left Cushing's work cut from the film altogether. [15] The two had little money around this time, and Cushing had to collect from both National Assistance and the Actors' Benevolent Fund. [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. Filmed on location in Munich, Cushing played Otto Wesendonck, the husband of poet Mathilde Wesendonck, who in the film is portrayed as having an affair with Wagner. Cushing played the lead role twice more in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974). [10] In an interview published in ABC Film Review in November 1964, Cushing stated, "People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. He played Dr. Who in Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) and gained the highest amount of visibility in his career with his part in the original Star Wars film. [144] His co-stars and colleagues often spoke of his politeness, charm, old-fashioned manners and sense of humour. Peter Wilton Cushing OBE (26 May 1913 - 11 August 1994) was an English actor. Lucas felt a talented actor was needed to play the role and said Cushing was his first choice for the part. 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. [27] During this tour he met Violet Hlne "Helen" Beck, a former dancer who was starring in the lead female role of Amanda Prynne. He appeared in the episode The Hidden Master (1940) as a young Clive of India, well before the soldier established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company. Originally Doyle wanted to call his detective Sherrinford Hope. Cushing starred as Parson Blyss, the local reverend of an 18th-century English coastal town believed to be hiding his smuggling activities with reports of ghosts. Peter Cushing seems like the perfect person to play the Doctor. His mother had always wanted a daughter, and was deeply disappointed that her second and last child was a boy. Helen Cushing David CushingNellie Marie CushingGeorge Edward Cushing Peter Cushing/Family. 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". For example, you can call that friend, and from the very first maniacal laugh or some other joke you will know who is at the other end of that line. During this period, he lived with Joyce Broughton and her family at their homes in Hartley, Kent. [48] The Curse of Frankenstein also featured Christopher Lee, who played Frankenstein's monster. [14][151] In accordance with his wishes, Cushing had a low-profile funeral with family and friends, although hundreds of fans and well-wishers came to Canterbury to pay their respects. Paul Cushing Child (January 15, 1902 - May 12, 1994) was an American civil servant, diplomat, and artist known for being the husband of celebrity chef and author Julia Child. [135] Also that year, a sketch Cushing drew of Sherlock Holmes was accepted as the official logo of the Northern Musgraves Sherlock Holmes Society. During his. [134] The final notable roles of Cushing's career were in the comedy Top Secret! 4 Grand Moff Tarkin. He regularly applied for auditions and openings for roles he found in the arts-oriented newspaper The Stage, but was turned down repeatedly due to his lack of professional experience in the theatre. [21] Cushing and Lee became extremely close friends, and remained so for the rest of Cushing's life. [18], Cushing returned to England during the Second World War. 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. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-destroyer, but never a monster. Neither Carlson nor Cushing wanted to do the scene, filmed despite director Terence Fisher's objections, and the controversial sequence was edited out of the film for its American release. [86] Cushing also starred in several horror films released in 1975. He was forced to withdraw from the film to care for his wife, and was ultimately replaced by Andrew Keir. Known for a number of iconic roles, Peter Cushing's career stretched across multiple genres. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (license statement/permission). During that meeting, Cushing was given a walk-on part as a courier in that night's production of J.B. Priestley's Cornelius. Peter Sellers CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 - 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian.He first came to prominence performing in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show, featured on a number of hit comic songs and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film roles, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series. [147] In a silent tribute to Helen, a shot of Van Helsing's desk includes a photograph of her. 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. O'Flinn, Paul (1983). Afterward, he was granted the scholarship and given odd jobs around the theatre, such as selling refreshments and working as an assistant stage manager. [21], Cushing later starred in the fifteen-episode BBC television series Sherlock Holmes, once again reprising his role as the title character with Nigel Stock as Watson, though only six episodes now survive. The former seaside home of film legend Peter Cushing has gone on the market for 1.4 million. In the films where Lee iconically played Dracula, Cushing plaid his foil and rival, the righteous vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing. [18] Although the job meant Cushing received no actual screen time, he was eventually cast in a bit part as the king's messenger, which made The Man in the Iron Mask his official film debut. "[32], Hamlet won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and earned Cushing praise for his performance. [88] Production lasted from May to December,[90] and Cushing adopted a strict regimen of training, preparation and exercise. [151] In 2013, Cushing was honoured by the Royal Mail as one of ten people selected for their "Great Britons" commemorative postage stamp issue.[157]. He lived in the town for 35 years whilst making many of the 91 films in which he starred. During production, Lucas decided to add those shots, along with second unit footage of the Death Star gunners preparing to fire, to add more suspense to the film's space battle scenes. [21] He once again co-starred opposite Lee, who portrayed the aristocratic Sir Henry Baskerville. The Hammer horror star, who lived in Whitstable for the final 25 years of his life, appeared in . [10] D.J. They were the best of friends. Although Cushing's protagonist was derived from television scripts used for First Doctor serials, his portrayal of the character differed in the fact that Cushing's Dr. Who was a human being, whereas the original Doctor as portrayed on TV by William Hartnell was extraterrestrial. Crisp and executive producer Kevin Francis both in turn sought to portray them as two old-fashioned men in a rapidly changing world. 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. It'll be a glorious death, so long as I can hear what you're saying. [10] Cushing accepted the role, and Hamlet (1948) marked his British film debut. [92] Although the series proved popular, Cushing felt he could not give his best performance under the hectic schedule, and he was not pleased with the final result. 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. The person you saw has been dead for more than two centuries! Peter Wilton Cushing was born on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, Surrey, England, to Nellie Maria (King) and George Edward Cushing, a quantity surveyor. Fisher said she liked Cushing so much that it was difficult to act as though she hated Tarkin,[10] and she had to substitute somebody else in her mind to muster the feelings. His next role was in Vigil in the Night (1940), which was a much larger part and played opposite Carole Lombard. [7] Cushing harboured aspirations for the arts all throughout his youth, especially acting. After making his motion picture debut in the film The Man in the Iron Mask (1939), Cushing began to find modest success in American films before returning to England at the outbreak of the Second World War. [10][123][124], For the film Rogue One (2016), CGI and digitally-repurposed-archive footage[125][126] were used to insert Cushing's likeness from the original movie over the face of actor Guy Henry. A great fan of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Cushing played Holmes in several productions, including a British TV series of the 1960s.Peter Wilton Cushing was born in Kenley, Surrey, England, on May 26, 1913, the younger of two sons of a surveyor and a carpet merchant's daughter. The cause was cancer, The Associated Press reported. At birth, Peter disappointed his mother, who, already having a sonPeter's older brother Davidreally wanted a daughter. 1959 - 1984. The hectic schedule became overbearing for Cushing, who had to drop out of the play and resolved to never again attempt a film and play simultaneously. [73], Cushing had a variety of interests outside acting, including collecting and battling model soldiers, of which he owned over five thousand. As a result, he asked Lucas to film more close-up shots of him from the waist up and, after the director agreed, Cushing wore slippers during the scenes where his feet were not visible. List of the best Peter Cushing movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Perhaps better known as Endora, the witch from "Bewitched," Agnes Moorehead sadly passed from cancer in 1974. Later that year he was set to appear in Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971), an adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel The Jewel of Seven Stars. Cushing considered this among the favourites of his films,[21] and some critics believed it to be among his best performances, although it was one of the least seen films from his career. [87] Cushing played the role in Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. Cushing later appeared in The Vampire Lovers (1970), an erotic Hammer horror film about a lesbian vampire, adapted in part from the Sheridan Le Fanu novella Carmilla. In May 1982, Cushing was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Portrayed some of horror films he made for Hammer Studios between 1957 1974... 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