PETER CUSHING BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Peter Cushing was born on May 26th, 1913 in Kenley, Surrey in England with the birth name Peter Wilton Cushing to parents Nellie Marie and George Edward.  As a child he developed an interest in acting since he was exposed to the industry from his aunt who was a working actress.
 
While in school he became involved in acting taking classes and also performing in school productions.  After school he did a couple local theater stage productions and then relocated to London to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he received a scholarship to study.
 
After a couple years of working in repertory theater he decided to relocate to Hollywood and see if he could break into the film industry.  His film debut was in, "The Man in the Iron Mask" (1939).  He was soon being cast in a number of other films in Hollywood such as, "A Chump at Oxford" (1940), "Vigil in the Night" (1940) and "They Dare Not Love" (1941).
 
Cushing returned back to England and worked as a stage actor for while and also during World War II he chose to join the Entertainment National Services Association.  When the war came to an end, Cushing remained in England working on stage productions such as, "Hamlet" (1948), "Moulin Rouge" (1952) and on British television. 
 
He remained in England appearing on such films as, "The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957), "Horror of Dracula" (1958) and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1959) playing the characters of Dr. Frankenstein, Van Helsing and Sherlock Holmes.  As his career progressed for the next twenty years he continued to play these roles plus other horror character roles in a number of Hammer Films. 
 
Some of his later roles were on, "Star Wars: Episode IV-A New Hope" (1977), occasional television appearances and his last film role, "Biggles: Adventures in Time" (1986) and he then retired completely. 
 
Peter Cushing married once to Violet Helene Beck in 1943 and they were married until she passed away on January 14th, 1973.  He never had any children and never remarried again.  On August 11th, 1994, Cushing passed away in Canterbury, Kent, England after suffering from prostate cancer.

 
Filmography

1986 Biggles: Adventures in Time
1984 Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death
1984 Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 
1984 Top Secret! 
1984 Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues 
1983 Tales of the Unexpected
1983 House of the Long Shadows
1981 Black Jack 
1981 Mystery on Monster Island 
1980 A Tale of Two Cities
1980 Hammer House of Horror
1979 Arabian Adventure
1979 A Touch of the Sun 
1978 Son of Hitler
1977 The Standard 
1977 The Uncanny 
1977 Shock Waves 
1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
1976 The New Avengers 
1976 The Great Houdini
1976 Land of the Minotaur 
1976 At the Earth's Core 
1976 A Dirty Knight's Work 
1976 Space: 1999 
1975 Shatter 
1975 Legend of the Werewolf
1975 The Ghoul 
1974 Tender Dracula, or Confessions of a Blood Drinker
1974 The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
1974 The Zoo Gang
1974 Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
1974 The Beast Must Die 
1974 Madhouse 
1974 From Beyond the Grave
1973 The Satanic Rites of Dracula
1973 Great Mysteries 
1973 -- And Now the Screaming Starts! 
1973 The Creeping Flesh 
1973 Nothing But the Night
1972 Horror Express 
1972 Asylum 
1972 Dr. Phibes Rises Again 
1972 Fear in the Night
1972 Dracula A.D. 1972
1972 Beyond the Water's Edge
1972 Tales from the Crypt 
1972 Bloodsuckers 
1971 I, Monster
1971 Twins of Evil
1971 The House That Dripped Blood
1970 The Vampire Lovers 
1970 One More Time
1970 Scream and Scream Again
1969 Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
1968 Sherlock Holmes
1968 Carnage 
1968 The Blood Beast Terror
1967 Torture Garden 
1967 The Avengers
1967 Island of the Burning Damned 
1967 Frankenstein Created Woman
1967 Some May Live 
1966 Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 
1966 Island of Terror
1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 Dr. Who and the Daleks
1965 The Skull
1965 She
1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1964 The Gorgon 
1964 Story Parade
1964 The Evil of Frankenstein 
1963 The Man Who Finally Died
1963 Comedy Playhouse
1963 The Spread of the Eagle
1962 The Devil's Agent
1962 ITV Television Playhouse 
1962 Night Creatures
1962 Drama 61-67
1962 Cash on Demand 
1962 Peace with Terror
1961 The Naked Edge
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay 
1961 The Hellfire Club 
1960 Sword of Sherwood Forest 
1960 The Risk 
1960 The Brides of Dracula 
1960 Trouble in the Sky 
1960 The Flesh and the Fiends
1959 The Mummy 
1959 John Paul Jones
1959 The Hound of the Baskervilles
1958 The Revenge of Frankenstein 
1958 Horror of Dracula
1958 Uncle Harry 
1958 The Winslow Boy 
1958 Violent Playground
1957 The Abominable Snowman
1957 The Curse of Frankenstein 
1957 Time Without Pity
1951-1957 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
1957 Home at Seven 
1956 Alexander the Great 
1955 Richard of Bordeaux 
1955 Magic Fire
1955 The End of the Affair
1955 The Browning Version 
1954 The Face of Love 
1954 The Black Knight 
1953 Epitaph for a Spy 
1953 Rookery Nook
1953 A Social Success 
1953 The Noble Spaniard 
1952 The Silver Swan 
1952 Moulin Rouge 
1952 Asmodée
1952 Pride and Prejudice 
1952 If This Be Error 
1951 When We Are Married 
1948 Hamlet 
1941 They Dare Not Love 
1940 Dreams
1940 The Howards of Virginia
1940 Women in War 
1940 The Hidden Master 
1940 Vigil in the Night 
1940 A Chump at Oxford
1940 Laddie
1939 The Man in the Iron Mask