Cast
Peter Cushing
Acting
Cast
Peter Cushing
Known for
Acting
Born
1913-05-26
From
Kenley, Surrey, England, UK
Died
1994-08-11
Also known as Peter Wilton Cushing
Biography
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 many appearances as Sherlock Holmes, as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977) and as the mysterious Doctor Who in Doctor Who and the Daleks and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD in 1965 and 1966, two cinema films based on the television series Doctor Who.
★8.2
MOVIE1977
Star Wars
as Grand Moff Tarkin
★7.1
MOVIE1984
Top Secret!
as Bookstore Proprietor
★7.3
MOVIE1958
Dracula
as Doctor Van Helsing
★4.8
MOVIE1977
Shock Waves
as SS Commander
★7.0
MOVIE1984
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
as Professor Charles Copeland
★6.2
MOVIE1992
Innocent Blood
as Van Helsing (archive footage)
★6.8
MOVIE1957
The Curse of Frankenstein
as Baron Victor Frankenstein
★6.4
MOVIE1970
The Vampire Lovers
as General von Spielsdorf
★10.0
MOVIE1993
Frankenstein Reborn
as Victor's Grandfather (photo) (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1965
She
as Holly
★7.2
MOVIE2004
The Story of Star Wars
as Grand Moff Tarkin (archive footage)
★8.2
MOVIE2024
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
as Self (archive footage)
★7.6
MOVIE1961
Cash on Demand
as Harry Fordyce
★7.2
MOVIE2014
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as Sebastian Grisbane (archive footage) (uncredited)
★5.2
MOVIE1986
Biggles
as Air Commodore Colonel William Raymond
★6.3
MOVIE1972
Horror Express
as Dr. Wells
★6.4
MOVIE1967
Frankenstein Created Woman
as Baron Frankenstein
★7.4
MOVIE1948
Hamlet
as Osric
★5.9
MOVIE1979
Arabian Adventure
as Wazir Al Wuzara
★6.7
MOVIE1960
The Brides of Dracula
as Dr. J. Van Helsing
★6.7
MOVIE1966
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
as Doctor Van Helsing (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE1956
Alexander the Great
as Memmon
★6.5
MOVIE1957
Time Without Pity
as Jeremy Clayton
★6.8
MOVIE1972
Tales from the Crypt
as Arthur Edward Grimsdyke
★6.7
MOVIE1959
The Mummy
as John Banning
★6.7
MOVIE1971
Twins of Evil
as Gustav Weil
★5.8
MOVIE1965
Dr. Who and the Daleks
as Doctor Who
★7.1
MOVIE1939
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Second Officer
★6.0
MOVIE1972
Dracula A.D. 1972
as Professor Van Helsing
★9.0
MOVIE1953
Number Three
as Simpson
★6.0
MOVIE1959
John Paul Jones
as Captain Richard Pearson
★6.2
MOVIE1957
The Abominable Snowman
as Dr. John Rollason
★10.0
MOVIE1992
Dracula in the Movies
as (archive footage)
★6.2
MOVIE1964
The Evil of Frankenstein
as Baron Frankenstein
★5.8
MOVIE1955
The End of the Affair
as Henry Miles
★5.3
MOVIE1967
Night of the Big Heat
as Dr. Vernon Stone
★6.8
MOVIE1959
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Sherlock Holmes
★6.1
MOVIE1980
A Tale of Two Cities
as Dr. Alexander Manette
★6.2
MOVIE1974
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
as Baron Victor Frankenstein aka Dr. Carl Victor
★5.2
MOVIE1984
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
as Seneschal
★6.3
MOVIE1972
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
as Ship's Captain
★5.8
MOVIE1974
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
as Professor Lawrence Van Helsing
★6.4
MOVIE1964
The Gorgon
as Dr. Namaroff
★5.1
MOVIE1976
At the Earth's Core
as Dr. Abner Perry
★7.0
MOVIE1964
The Caves of Steel
as Elijah Baley
★6.4
MOVIE1983
House of the Long Shadows
as Sebastian Grisbane
★7.0
MOVIE2008
Fanex Files: Hammer Films
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1972
Asylum
as Smith
★5.5
MOVIE1971
I, Monster
as Frederick Utterson
★6.1
MOVIE1960
Sword of Sherwood Forest
as Sheriff of Nottingham
★6.6
MOVIE1958
The Revenge of Frankenstein
as Dr. Victor Stein
★5.7
MOVIE1974
Shatter
as Paul Rattwood
★6.5
MOVIE1965
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
as Dr. Sandor Schreck aka "Dr. Terror"
★5.9
MOVIE1977
The Uncanny
as Wilbur Gray (segment "Montreal 1977")
★7.3
MOVIE1954
Nineteen Eighty-Four
as Winston Smith
★6.4
MOVIE1954
The Black Knight
as Sir Palamides
★6.6
MOVIE1960
The Flesh and the Fiends
as Dr. Robert Knox
★5.9
MOVIE1961
Fury at Smugglers' Bay
as Squire Trevenyan
★6.0
MOVIE2017
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
★6.6
MOVIE1952
Moulin Rouge
as Marcel de la Voisier
★7.2
MOVIE1958
Violent Playground
as Father Laidlaw
★7.6
MOVIE1995
Dalekmania
as Doctor Who (archive footage)
★6.4
MOVIE1971
The House That Dripped Blood
as Philip Grayson (segment 2 "Waxworks")
★6.1
MOVIE1966
Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
as Doctor Who
★7.0
MOVIE1955
The Moment of Truth
as The Prime Minister
★5.6
MOVIE1973
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
as Prof. Lorrimer Van Helsing
★6.3
MOVIE1962
Captain Clegg
as Reverend Dr. Blyss
★6.3
MOVIE1961
The Naked Edge
as Mr. Evan Wrack
★5.3
MOVIE1970
Scream and Scream Again
as Major Heinrich Benedek
★6.2
MOVIE1967
Torture Garden
as Lancelot Canning (segment 4 "The Man Who Collected Poe")
★6.8
MOVIE1940
The Howards of Virginia
as Leslie Stephens
★6.3
MOVIE1969
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
as Baron Victor Frankenstein
★5.5
MOVIE1968
The Blood Beast Terror
as Detective Inspector Quennell
★6.2
MOVIE1973
Nothing But the Night
as Sir Mark Ashley
★4.1
MOVIE1971
Blood Suckers
as Dr. Walter Goodrich
★6.3
MOVIE1963
The Man Who Finally Died
as Doctor Peter von Brecht
★6.4
MOVIE1987
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1955
The Creature
as Dr. John Rollason
★6.8
MOVIE1960
Cone of Silence
as Capt. Clive Judd
★5.9
MOVIE1972
Fear in the Night
as Michael Carmichael
★5.9
MOVIE1966
Island of Terror
as Dr. Brian Stanley
★5.0
MOVIE1979
A Touch of the Sun
as Commissioner Potts
★6.1
MOVIE1965
The Skull
as Dr. Christopher Maitland
MOVIE2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
as (archive footage)
★5.4
MOVIE1961
The Hellfire Club
as Mr. Merryweather
★5.9
MOVIE1973
The Creeping Flesh
as Emmanuel Hildern
★6.3
MOVIE1976
The Great Houdinis
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
★4.3
MOVIE1977
The Standard
as Baron Hackenberg
★6.2
MOVIE1974
Madhouse
as Herbert Flay
★5.9
MOVIE1940
Vigil in the Night
as Joe Shand
★5.5
MOVIE1974
The Beast Must Die
as Dr. Christopher Lundgren
★6.5
MOVIE1974
From Beyond the Grave
as The Proprietor
★7.8
MOVIE1976
Trial by Combat
as Sir Edward Gifford
★7.3
MOVIE1994
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
as Narrator (voice) / Self
★4.2
MOVIE1974
Tender Dracula
as MacGregor
★5.0
MOVIE1975
The Ghoul
as Dr. Lawrence
★5.9
MOVIE1973
And Now the Screaming Starts!
as Dr. Pope
★10.0
MOVIE1951
When We Are Married
as Gerald Forbes
★5.8
MOVIE1979
Son of Hitler
as Heinrich Haussner
★5.9
MOVIE1968
Corruption
as Sir John Rowan
★3.4
MOVIE1979
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
★10.0
MOVIE1981
Black Jack
as Sir Thomas Bedford
MOVIE1991
Halloween Monster Bash
as Dr. Wells (archive footage)
★6.9
MOVIE1960
Suspect
as Professor Sewell
★6.5
MOVIE1942
The Woman in the House
as Man Waking Up (archive footage)
★7.5
MOVIE1941
They Dare Not Love
as Sub-Lieutenant Blackler
★6.9
MOVIE1940
A Chump at Oxford
as Student
★4.1
MOVIE1976
The Devil's Men
as Baron Corofax
★5.0
MOVIE1970
One More Time
as Dr. Frankenstein
MOVIE1979
The Detour
as Narrator
★4.9
MOVIE1955
Magic Fire
as Otto Wesendonk
★5.4
MOVIE1984
The Masks of Death
as Sherlock Holmes
★6.3
MOVIE1991
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Victor Frankenstein / Dr. Carl Victor (archive footage)
★9.0
MOVIE2007
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
as Self (archive footage)
★7.5
MOVIE2020
Peter Cushing: In His Own Words
as Himself
★4.5
MOVIE1981
Mystery on Monster Island
as William T. Kolderup
★5.2
MOVIE1940
Women in War
as Capt. Evans
MOVIE2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
as (archive footage)
★8.5
MOVIE1985
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
MOVIE1975
Fists of Fire
as Self
MOVIE1946
It Might Be You
as The doctor
★5.4
MOVIE1975
Legend of the Werewolf
as Prof. Paul
MOVIE2010
Attack of the Octopus People
as Doctor Welles (archive footage)
★4.3
MOVIE1967
Some May Live
as John Meredith
MOVIE1960
Look at Life: Model World
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1940
The Hidden Master
as Robert Clive of India
★6.6
MOVIE1940
Laddie
as Robert Pryor
★6.0
MOVIE1940
Dreams
as First Dreamer
★9.5
MOVIE1989
Peter Cushing: A One Way Ticket to Hollywood
as Himself
★6.3
MOVIE1953
Anastasia
as Piotr Petrovsky