Peter Cushing

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1913 age 0

   Born

2. 1948 age 35

   CreditHamlet

3. 1952 age 39

   CreditMoulin Rouge

4. 1958 age 45

   CreditDracula

5. 1959 age 46

   CreditThe Hound of the Baskervilles

6. 1977 age 64

   CreditStar Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope

7. 1984 age 71

   CreditTop Secret!

8. 1994 age 81

   Died

• CLChristopher Lee4 titles
• MGMichael Gough2 titles
• FWFrancis de Wolff2 titles
• MMMiles Malleson2 titles
• TFTerence Fisher2 titles
• JBJames Bernard2 titles
• AHAnthony Hinds2 titles
• JAJack Asher2 titles
• JWJohn Williams1 title
• PTPatrick Troughton1 title

• It isn’t that I object to it. I just feel it’s the wrong adjective as applied to the films I do. Because horror to me is, say, a film like The Godfather. Or anything to do with war, which is real and can happen, and unfortunately, no doubt, will happen again some time. But the films that dear Christopher Lee and I do are really fantasy. And I think fantasy is a better adjective to use. I don’t object to the term horror, it’s just the wrong adjective!

  Peter Cushing, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I wasn't cut out for office life, I always wanted to be an actor.

  Peter Cushing, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Cause of death

prostate cancer

Languages

English

Years active

1935–1987

Education

Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Purley High School for Boys, Shoreham College