He repeated the role of the man who lost family in other horror films, including Asylum (1972), The Creeping Flesh (1973), and The Ghoul (1975). [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. In the opening scene, Cushing portrays the nineteenth century Van Helsing as he did in the previous films, and the character is killed after battling Dracula. [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. [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. Peter Cushing was and is one of the most well-loved and well-known actors of his own generation and of those which have followed. Peter Wilton Cushing was born on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, Surrey, England, to Nellie Maria (King) and George Edward Cushing, a quantity surveyor. Cushing read Thorndike to prepare for the role, and made suggestions to make-up artist Roy Ashton about Blyss' costume and hairstyle. Cushing often appeared alongside actor Christopher Lee, who became one of his closest friends, and occasionally with the American horror star Vincent Price. He and his older brother David were raised first in Dulwich Village, a south London suburb, and then later back in Surrey. He appeared in several horror films and was in Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet. He had long blonde hair, tied with a bow, and enviable selection of dresses. Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin exemplified how ruthlessly cold and callous the Empire's leadership really was. [63] Cushing appeared in Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972), a Hammer modernisation of the Dracula story set in the then-present day. [45] He later said that his career decisions entailed selecting roles where he knew that he would be accepted by the audience. [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. [6] Cushing loved dressing up and make believe from an early age, and later claimed he always wanted to be an actor, "perhaps without knowing at first. [10], Cushing continued to work in a few Hollywood engagements, including an uncredited role in the war film They Dare Not Love (1941), which reunited him with director James Whale. 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. The set provided technical difficulties, and all of Cushing's lines had to be post-synched. During that meeting, Cushing was given a walk-on part as a courier in that night's production of J.B. Priestley's Cornelius. 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. Afterward, he was granted the scholarship and given odd jobs around the theatre, such as selling refreshments and working as an assistant stage manager. The latter was often fatal during that period, although he survived. [21] One of Cushing's primary scenes involved Osric talking to Hamlet and Horatio while walking down a wide stone spiral stairway. [1] Peter Cushing WAS the villain in Star Wars, Vadar was his lap dog. 3 Dracula And Dr. Van Helsing. 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. 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. The Vampire Lovers. 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. [21] Cushing became very ill with dysentery during filming and lost a considerable amount of weight as a result. [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. He got fair grades only through the help of his brother, a strong student who did his homework for him. ", British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Council, Entertainments National Service Association, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, "Great Britons" commemorative postage stamp, Lawrence Van Helsing and Lorrimer Van Helsing, Medalla Sitges en Plata de Ley Award for Best Actor, "Horror actor Peter Cushing dead at age 81", Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Haeritage of Horror, Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror, "The effect was achieved by drawing on preexisting footage of the actor, particularly his work in A New Hope", "the CGI used to repurpose the footage may not age well", "Rogue One VFX head: 'We didn't do anything Peter Cushing would've objected to', "CGI resurrection of Peter Cushing is thrilling but is it right? Fisher agreed, and the scene was used in the film. The film gave Cushing the highest amount of visibility of his entire career, and helped inspire younger audiences to watch his older films. [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. "[71], Although he appeared in both television and stage productions, Cushing preferred the medium of film, which allowed his perfectionist nature to work out the best performance possible. This marked his professional stage debut, although he had no lines and did little more than stand on stage behind other actors. [48] The Curse of Frankenstein also featured Christopher Lee, who played Frankenstein's monster. "Horror-film actor Peter Cushing dies at 81, Played variety of roles From Sherlock Holmes to Baron Frankenstein" (12 August 1994). They went on to make two other films together, Legend of the Werewolf (1975) and The Masks of Death (1984) with the actor playing Sherlock Holmes once more. [61], In 1959, Cushing agreed to reprise the role of Van Helsing in the sequel, The Brides of Dracula (1960). One day Peter went missing, having wandered off in his frock to paddle in some puddles. [14] Also appearing in the film was Christopher Lee, who eventually became a close friend and frequent co-star with Cushing. Peter Cushing said in an interview that he picked parts based on what he thought audiences would like to see him in. 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. [133] Cushing appeared alongside his old co-stars Christopher Lee and Vincent Price in House of the Long Shadows (1983), a horror-parody film featuring Desi Arnaz, Jr. as an author trying to write a gothic novel in a deserted Welsh mansion. 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. [39] Unlike the character from the novel and past film versions, Cushing's Baron Frankenstein commits vicious crimes to attain his goals, including the murder of a colleague to obtain a brain for his creature. Actor. 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. Whether playing Baron Frankenstein witnessing the awful results of his brilliance or Professor Van Helsing in hot . Cushing often said he felt his life had ended when hers did,[10] and he was so crushed that when his first autobiography was published in 1986, it made no mention of his life after her death. Best of all, he received $75 a week for 4 months - which seemed like a small fortune to the young Cushing. He scrutinised the costumes and screenwriter Peter Bryan's script, often altering words or phrases. The movie actor Peter Cushing died at the age of 81. Instead, seizing upon Cushing's interest in art and drawing, he got his son a job as a surveyor's assistant in the drawing department of the Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Council's surveyor's office during the summer of 1933. [153], Several filmmakers and actors have claimed to be influenced by Peter Cushing, including actor Doug Bradley, who played Pinhead in the Hellraiser horror films,[154] and John Carpenter, who directed such films as Halloween (1978), Escape from New York (1981) and The Thing (1982). [21] Cushing and Lee became extremely close friends, and remained so for the rest of Cushing's life. For information on reusing text from Wikipedia, please see the terms of use. [21] During this discouraging period for Cushing, his wife encouraged him to seek roles in television, which was beginning to develop in England. There was a general increase in BBC artists' fees, but Cushing's growing standing as a film actor must have given John Redway extra clout. Born in Kenley, Surrey, Cushing made his stage debut in 1935 and spent three years at a repertory theatre before moving to Hollywood to pursue a film career. [70] Hammer decided to heighten the source novel's horror elements, which upset the estate of Conan Doyle, but Cushing himself voiced no objection to the creative licence because he felt the character of Holmes himself remained intact. 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. Douglas Wilmer had previously played Holmes for the BBC,[88] but he turned down the part in this series due to the extremely demanding filming schedule. In an interview published in 1966, he added, "I do get terribly tired with the neighbourhood kids telling me 'My mum says she wouldn't want to meet you in a dark alley'." And then when that person is gone, there will be nothing like that in your life ever again. During the early eighties, Peter Cushing was diagnosed with prostate Cancer, and a decade later, he died aged 81 on August 11 1994 at his home in Canterbury, with his close friend Christopher Lee one of the first people to be called following his death. Peter Cushing's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. 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. [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. At an early age, Cushing was attracted to acting, inspired by his . In the following we list the major anecdotes which blend into an interesting story. 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. . They were the best of friends. As a Hammer Film actor, he portrayed Baron Frankenstein, Dr. Van Helsing, and Sherlock Holmes. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were two of the most prolific actors in horror cinema. [21] It was filmed on location in County Wicklow in the Republic of Ireland. Moorehead claimed she got the illness from a feature film she starred in, and she was not the only one. [105] Cushing used the emotions from the recent loss of his wife to add authenticity to the widower character's grieving. The former seaside home of film legend Peter Cushing has gone on the market for 1.4 million. Peter Cushing - not for first nor the last time this week, we salute you. [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. [51] Many felt Cushing's performance helped create the archetypal mad scientist character. Cushing continued to make occasional cameos in the series over the next decade, portraying himself desperately attempting to collect a payment for his previous acting appearance on the show. We've done enough of these now to know what we're doing. [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. To his many fans, the British star was known as 'The Gentle Man of Horror' and is recognized for his work with Hammer Films which began in the late 1950's, but he had numerous memorable roles outside of Hammer. Grant, Devin (19 May 2005). Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein is a movie full of cinematic firsts: Hammer's first color horror film, Peter Cushing's first leading role in a movie, and his first time acting in the same scenes as Christopher Lee.Loosely based on Mary Shelley's novel, the film tells the story of Victor Frankenstein - an unorthodox scientist who brings a creature to life, only to have it . Majendie, Paul (7 August 1986). During this period, he lived with Joyce Broughton and her family at their homes in Hartley, Kent. 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. It'll be a glorious death, so long as I can hear what you're saying. "After the recording, I cleared the studio and left Peter and Christopher alone with the TV. That film marked the first Cushing worked for producer Kevin Francis, who worked in minor jobs at Hammer and had long aspired to work with Cushing, whom he admired deeply. Peter Wilton Cushing was born on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, Surrey, England, to Nellie Maria (King) and George Edward Cushing, a quantity surveyor. [10][42][68], On 10 April 1943, Cushing married Violet Hlne Beck, sister of Reginald Beck. [21][53] The two men continued to work together in many films for Hammer, and their names became synonymous with the company. As a result, playwright Edward Percy was brought in to make modifications to the script, though the rewrites pushed filming into early 1960 and brought additional costs to the production. 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. [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! Cushing continued acting into the early 1990s and wrote two autobiographies. [91] He tried to keep his performance identical to his portrayal of Holmes from The Hound of the Baskervilles. Hope was the name of a whaling ship sailing from Scotland's Peterhead to Greenland. [72] Lee later claimed to be awestruck by Cushing's ability to incorporate many different props and actions into his performance simultaneously, whether reading, smoking a pipe, drinking whiskey, filing through papers or other things while portraying Holmes. What movie did Peter Cushing play a vampire or has he ever played a vampire? A cinema idol for multiple generations of people, her inherent French mystique brought her from Paris and cast her into stardom at a young age. Perhaps the friendship between these two men - and its loss - speaks to us so keenly because it speaks . (1984), the fantasy film Sword of the Valiant (also 1984) and the adventure film Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986). [134] The final notable roles of Cushing's career were in the comedy Top Secret! The cause was cancer, The Associated Press reported. [21][28], He earned praise for playing the lead male role of Mr. Darcy in an early BBC Television serialisation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1952). Peter Cushing is one of the most highly regarded performers amongst all manner of cinephiles. Never harmed a fly. It was his final stage performance for a decade, but he continued to stay active in film and television during this period. Since the film's primary antagonist Darth Vader wore a mask throughout the entire film and his face was never visible, Lucas felt a strong human villain character was necessary. "[31] Nearing middle age and finding it increasingly harder to make a living in acting, Cushing began to consider himself a failure. He was not cast because he insisted he could not perform in an American accent. Peter Cushing. The studio executives were anxious to have Cushing; in fact, Hammer co-founder James Carreras had been unsuccessfully courting Cushing for film roles in other projects even before his major success with Nineteen Eighty-Four. [21] Cushing had previously stated Knox was one of his role models in developing his portrayal of Baron Frankenstein. [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. [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. [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. Eventually, the character is driven to commit suicide, but returns from the grave to seek revenge against his tormentors. [24] Despite the promise, however, Cushing grew homesick and decided he wished to return to England. Originally, all of the character's lines were spoken aloud to himself, but Cushing suggested he speak to a framed photo of his deceased wife instead, and director Freddie Francis agreed. [39] For that film, he travelled to Spain and filmed scenes on location in the castles of Manzanares el Real and El Escorial. [112] When Cushing smoked between shots, he wore a white glove so the make-up artists would not have to deal with nicotine stains on his fingers. 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. [21] Also around the same time, he appeared in Magic Fire (also 1955), an autobiographical film about the German composer Richard Wagner. They Dare Not Love. Cushing was about twenty years older than Baron Frankenstein as he appeared in the original novel, but that did not deter the filmmakers. But millions want to see me as [Baron] Frankenstein, so that's the one I do. Yes, it was small- but it was a valuable learning experience nonetheless. [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. In May 1982, Cushing was diagnosed with prostate cancer. [15] After Hamlet, both Peter and Helen Cushing accepted a personal invitation from Olivier to join Old Vic, Olivier's repertory theatre company, which embarked on a year-long tour of Australasia. [10] The next year he was set to star in a sequel, Lust for a Vampire (1971), but had to drop out because his wife was ill and Ralph Bates substituted. [10] As a result, while the film did well at the box-office with its target audience, it drew mixed to negative reviews from the critics. [87] Cushing played the role in Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. 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. [135] Also that year, a sketch Cushing drew of Sherlock Holmes was accepted as the official logo of the Northern Musgraves Sherlock Holmes Society. [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. [5] With the exception of art, Cushing was a self-proclaimed poor student in most subjects and had little attention span for that which did not interest him. "How Jim fixed it for horror actor Cushing" (8 May 2004). [13][18] While he was in Southampton he met an 18 year old fellow actor Doreen Lawrence and they were engaged to be married. [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. [55] In Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Cushing portrayed Frankenstein as having gone completely mad, in a fitting coda to the earlier films. Biography - A Short Wiki. In exchange, Hammer's James Carreras thanked Cushing by paying for extensive roofing repair work that had recently been done on Cushing's recently purchased Whitstable home. [14][28] They fell in love and were married on 10 April 1943. Cushing won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor in 1956. Thereafter the action jumps ahead to 1972, and Cushing plays the original character's grandson for the bulk of the movie. [21] He once again co-starred opposite Lee, who portrayed the aristocratic Sir Henry Baskerville. 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. [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. It received poor reviews, however, and ran for only eleven days. Lucas felt a talented actor was needed to play the role and said Cushing was his first choice for the part. Peter Cushing was born in Surrey. [106] After Cushing was cast in the role, several changes were made to the script at his suggestion. [48] Screenwriter Jimmy Sangster wrote the protagonist as an ambitious, egotistical and coldly intellectual scientist who despised his contemporaries. [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. Cushing played the lead role twice more in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974). 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. "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. .mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}To learn how to add open license text to Wikipedia articles, please see this how-to page. PETER CUSHING was one of the handful of actors. He looked like a schoolteacher that would struggle to hold the attention of the children. Peter Cushing played a vampire in a French film called "Tender Dracula". Peter Cushing (26 may 1913 - 11 august 1994) was a British actor who played Sherlock Holmes 3 times. His next role was in Vigil in the Night (1940), which was a much larger part and played opposite Carole Lombard. There was no reference to such an injury in the film script, and when he asked the publicity department why it was on the poster, they said it was simply meant to serve as a shocking image to promote the movie. You have my permission to publish that really, you know, dear boy, it's all just killing time. What happened to Peter Cushing's wife? [10] The scene in which Tarkin and Organa appear together on the Death Star, just before the destruction of the planet Alderaan, was the first scene with major dialogue that Fisher filmed for Star Wars. I love animals, and when I'm in the country I'm a keen bird-watcher." The person you saw has been dead for more than two centuries! His childhood inspiration was Tom Mix, an American film actor and star of many Western films. 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. In the films where Lee iconically played Dracula, Cushing plaid his foil and rival, the righteous vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing. Other people in this association: David Tennant 2005 - 2010. [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. Around this time he learned that Helen Ryan, an actress who impressed him in a televised play about King Edward VII, was planning to run the Horseshoe Theatre in Basingstoke with her husband, Guy Slater. I shall remember you. Director: James Whale | Stars: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Joseph Schildkraut Votes: 1,771 2. [41], Cushing appeared in the television film The Masks of Death (1984), marking both the last time he played detective Sherlock Holmes and the final performance for which he received top billing. 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. Very few. "Peter Cushing, 81; Starred in Classic Horror Movies". Crisp and executive producer Kevin Francis both in turn sought to portray them as two old-fashioned men in a rapidly changing world. Did Peter have any children. In January 1995, a memorial service was held in The Actor's Church in Covent Garden, with addresses given by Christopher Lee, Kevin Francis, Ron Moody and James Bree. But he never did it with that same natural panache. That person is so close to you that you are able to share so. [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. The first was J.B. Priestley's Eden End, which was televised in December 1951. They immediately accepted, and among the works Cushing recorded was The Return of Sherlock Holmes, a collection of thirteen one-hour stories. 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. He earned particular acclaim for his lead performance as Winston Smith in a BBC adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954). Born in Kenley, Surrey, England, the son of a quantity surveyor, he did not thrive well at his studies in school, however in extra curriculum such as sports and drama club he excelled. [43] He also starred in the film adaptation of the Graham Greene novel The End of the Affair (1955) as Henry Miles, an important civil servant and the cuckolded husband of Sarah Miles, played by Deborah Kerr. 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