However, when producer Anthony Hinds proposed removing the character's deerstalker, Cushing insisted they remain because audiences associated Holmes with his headgear and pipes. I remember quite vividly the sincere anguish he so openly expressed to me when his beloved wife Helen passed away. The only enjoyment he got out of it was drawing prospectives of proposed buildings, which were almost always rejected because they were too imaginative and expensive and lacked strong foundations, which Cushing disregarded as a "mere detail. Peter Cushing was not a handsome man. His first job was as a surveyor's assistant in . Dr Who . A Tale of Two Cities. [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. He said his only regret about working on it was that he wasn't able to be in ESB or RotJ. Knight, Chris (1971). [137] Cushing also wrote a children's book called The Bois Saga, a story based on the history of England. This led Lucas to write the character of Grand Moff Tarkin: a high-ranking Imperial governor and commander of the planet-destroying battlestation, the Death Star. '"[47], Unlike Frankenstein (1931) produced by Universal, the Hammer films revolved mainly around Victor Frankenstein, rather than his monster. "Talking toPeter Cushing". Their marriage seemed an idea one, each completely devoted to the other and despite never having children, they seemed a very happy couple. Peter Wilton Cushing was born on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, Surrey, England, to Nellie Maria (King) and George Edward Cushing, a quantity surveyor. Fourteen days of rehearsal was originally scheduled for each episode, but they were cut down to ten days for economic reasons. He had long blonde hair, tied with a bow, and enviable selection of dresses. [39] Cushing, who enjoyed the tale as a child,[10] had his agent John Redway inform the company of Cushing's interest in playing the protagonist, Baron Victor Frankenstein. [91] He tried to keep his performance identical to his portrayal of Holmes from The Hound of the Baskervilles. He appeared in several horror films and was in Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet. [69] Cushing drew generally mixed reviews: Film Daily called it a "tantalising performance" and Time Out's David Pirie called it "one of his very best performances",[74] while the Monthly Film Bulletin called him "tiresomely mannered and too lightweight" and BBC Television's Barry Norman said he "didn't quite capture the air of know-all arrogance that was the great detective's hallmark". [8], He began his early education in Dulwich, South London, before attending the Shoreham Grammar School in Shoreham-by-Sea, on the Sussex coast between Brighton and Worthing. Cushing and Lee did switch roles for one Hammer film . According to Peter Cushing's autobiography, he took a piece of silk that Helen's family had smuggled out of Russia. 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. The horror films were produced by Hammer Films in Britain.Peter Cushing, a British actor who chilled a generation of filmgoers as the evil Baron Frankenstein, died yesterday in a hospice in Canterbury, England. Cushing continued to perform in a variety of roles, although he was often typecast as a horror film actor. Which means Cushing's career vampire kill count is - drum roll - fifteen - five of which were the same bloody vampire over and over. [87] Cushing played the role in Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. Peter Cushing reached the impressive age of 81 years. [115][116][117][118][119] During rehearsals, Lucas originally planned for Tarkin and Vader to use a giant screen filled with computerised architectural representations of hallways to monitor the whereabouts of Skywalker, Solo and Organa. [61], In 1959, Cushing agreed to reprise the role of Van Helsing in the sequel, The Brides of Dracula (1960). One of his designs was even worn by the queen mother. 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 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. [10] Cushing felt his first performance was much stronger than the second, but the second production is the only known surviving version. He made me believe he was evil and cruel. Peter Cushing in Dracula (1958) Peter Cushing is well known to modern audiences as Grand Moff Tarkin in the original Star Wars. Matt Smith 2010 - 2013. [99][141] He was an ardent vegetarian for most of his life who served as a patron with the Vegetarian Society from 1987 until his death. [97] Cushing played a surgeon who attempts to restore the beauty of his wife (played by Sue Lloyd), whose face is horribly scarred in an accident. During this period, he lived with Joyce Broughton and her family at their homes in Hartley, Kent. Although not a particular fan of science fiction, Cushing accepted the part because he believed his audience would love Star Wars and enjoy seeing him in the film. Early life [ edit ] Child was born in Montclair, New Jersey , on January 15, 1902, to Bertha Cushing and Charles Tripler Child. [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. [21] Cushing wrote the books as what he called "a form of therapy to stop me going stark, raving mad" following the loss of his wife. [10] D.J. The first was J.B. Priestley's Eden End, which was televised in December 1951. 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. [135] Also that year, a sketch Cushing drew of Sherlock Holmes was accepted as the official logo of the Northern Musgraves Sherlock Holmes Society. Peter Cushing's former partners: Peter Cushing's former wife was Helen Cushing. Yes, it was small- but it was a valuable learning experience nonetheless. 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. 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. 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. Text taken from Peter Cushing, Wookieepedia, Wikia. He earned particular acclaim for his lead performance as Winston Smith in a BBC adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954). He appeared in several horror films and was in Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet. [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. Actors Who Have Played Sherlock Holmes. Nevertheless, he worked hard to master the lines so they sounded natural and that his character appeared intelligent and confident. 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. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (license statement/permission). 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. [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. Clive takes this to be an omen that he should live, and he goes on to perform great feats in his life. (1972), a sequel to The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and then co-starred with Price again in the film Madhouse (1974). Peter Cushing. 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. Ryan and Slater agreed, and Cushing later said performing the part was his most pleasant experience since his wife had died four years earlier. [10] He appeared alongside actor John Mills as Watson, and the two were noted by critics for their strong chemistry and camaraderie. "[22] Around this time actor Robert Coote, who met Cushing during a cricket game, recommended to director George Stevens that Cushing might be good for a part in Stevens' upcoming film Vigil in the Night (1940). [14] Also appearing in the film was Christopher Lee, who eventually became a close friend and frequent co-star with Cushing. 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. Peter Wilton Cushing, actor: born Kenley, Surrey 26 May 1913; OBE 1989; married 1943 Helen Beck (died 1971); died Canterbury 11 August 1994. [106] After Cushing was cast in the role, several changes were made to the script at his suggestion. 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. MacDonald, Andrew and MacDonald, Gina (2003). Wesley Snipes has taken out more in single scenes, no doubt. [39] Cushing was cast in the lead role of The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), marking the first of twenty-two films he made for Hammer. [44] In 1959, Cushing originally planned to appear in the lead role of William Fairchild's play The Sound of Murder, while shooting a film at the same time. [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 performed in such plays as Robert E. Sherwood's The Petrified Forest, Arnold Ridley's The Ghost Train, S. N. Behrman's Biography and a modern dress version of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Thereafter the action jumps ahead to 1972, and Cushing plays the original character's grandson for the bulk of the movie. They both appeared in numerous Hammer films, as well as other genre films, throughout their careers. The movie actor Peter Cushing died at the age of 81. [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. [102] He appeared alongside Vincent Price in Dr. Phibes Rises Again! 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. 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. He portrayed an English botanist searching the Himalayas for the legendary Yeti. [114], During the filming of Star Wars, Cushing was provided with a pair of boots far too small to accommodate the actor's size twelve feet. 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. What movie did Peter Cushing play a vampire or has he ever played a vampire? At birth, Peter disappointed his mother, who, already having a sonPeter's older brother Davidreally wanted a daughter. [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. Cushing wished for a strain of rose to be named after his wife, and it was arranged for the Helen Cushing Rose to be grown at the Wheatcroft Rose Garden in Edwalton, Nottinghamshire. List of the best Peter Cushing movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. [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. [29] Cushing eventually had to leave ENSA due to lung congestion, an ailment his wife helped him recover from. [150] In August 1994, Cushing entered himself into Pilgrims Hospice in Canterbury, where he died on 11 August at 81 years old. "[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. Others closed after a few showings, like an ambitious five-hour stage adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace that opened and closed in 1943 in London's Phoenix Theatre. In the film, Clive tries to shoot himself twice but the gun misfires, then he fires a third time at a pitcher of water and the gun works perfectly. [82] Cushing played Robert Knox in The Flesh and the Fiends (1960), based on the true story of the doctor who purchased human corpses for research from the serial killer duo Burke and Hare. 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. [136], Cushing wrote two autobiographies, Peter Cushing: An Autobiography (1986) and Past Forgetting: Memoirs of the Hammer Years (1988). [123] In 1989 he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his contributions to the British film industry. [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. [86], Cushing took the lead role in two science fiction films by AARU Productions based on the British television series, Doctor Who. 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. 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. He has adorned our screens as Dr. . [21] Cushing and Lee became extremely close friends, and remained so for the rest of Cushing's life. He achieved recognition in his home country for his leading performances in the Hammer Productions horror films from the 1950s to 1970s, while earning international prominence as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977). Cushing often appeared alongside actor Christopher Lee, who became one of his closest friends, and occasionally with the American horror star Vincent Price. [21] Cushing became very ill with dysentery during filming and lost a considerable amount of weight as a result. Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin exemplified how ruthlessly cold and callous the Empire's leadership really was. [45] Produced by American writer and director Ted Newsom, his contribution was recorded in Canterbury, near his home. Presumably living in a famous actor's former house is a mixed blessing for its current occupants. [73] In later years, Cushing considered his Holmes performance one of the finest accomplishments of his career. Peter Cushing (1913-1994) was one of the most respected and important actors in the horror and fantasy film genres. [10], In 1947, when Laurence Olivier sought him out for his film adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Cushing's wife Helen pushed him to pursue a role. 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. "Horrormeister Cushing belonged to gentlemanly school of actors". [86] Cushing also starred in several horror films released in 1975. [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, the prolific and . "[31] Nearing middle age and finding it increasingly harder to make a living in acting, Cushing began to consider himself a failure. This article incorporates text from a free content work. [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. Peter Cushing is one of the most highly regarded performers amongst all manner of cinephiles. [92] Cushing himself was not a particular fan of horror or science fiction films, but he tended to choose roles not based on whether he enjoyed them, but whether he felt his audience would enjoy him in them. 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. Cushing was known for his roles as Baron Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. Who, and Grand Moff Tarkin. Twins of Evil. Thus a grey pallor is added to his . But he never did it with that same natural panache. [12], Cushing eventually applied for a scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. "Peter Cushing, 81; Starred in Classic Horror Movies". 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. Studio executives were pleased with Cushing's performance, and there was talk among Hollywood insiders grooming him for stardom. Saint Peter settled in the town of Capharnaum around the year 26-28. Acquaint yourself with Peter Cushing OBE (1913 -1994), film actor, television star and artist. The Peter Cushing Companion David Miller 2002 Page 45 "Cushing's fee for The Face of Love was 74 guineas. [142] He also had a great interest in ornithology and wildlife in general. (1973),[65] and The Beast Must Die (1974). His is most identified with the horror films of Hammer Pictures, often sharing the screen with Christopher Lee. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-destroyer, but never a monster. [39] For that film, he travelled to Spain and filmed scenes on location in the castles of Manzanares el Real and El Escorial. Despite making the movie in the late Seventies his fiendish character lives on the character was even revived in CGI form for 2016's Rogue One. 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. [2] His father, a quantity surveyor, was a reserved and uncommunicative man whom Peter said he never got to know very well. 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. Did Peter Cushing have any family? 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