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4 unusual facts about Peter Cushing


Anthony Read

He soon graduated to writer/script editor of several other adventure-mystery series, like the anthological Detective, The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling and Peter Cushing's 1965 Sherlock Holmes vehicle.

Brigitte Borghese

During the seventies she had roles in several films, her first being, a part in the adult feature Je prends la chose... du bon côté!, La bonzesse, Tout le monde il en a deux, her first time working with French director Jean Rollin, the fantasy horror Tendre Dracula, with Peter Cushing and Alida Valli, ...et mourir de désir, Les petites saintes y touchent, Les bijoux de famille, Le commando des chauds lapins, and L'hippopotamours.

John Cacavas

He was also responsible for the eerie score for Horror Express, a film starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.

Katya Wyeth

Her best-remembered role is probably as 'Countess Mircalla' in the 'Hammer horror' film Twins of Evil (1971), where she appeared alongside Peter Cushing.


Grand Moff Tarkin

Grand Moff Tarkin, real name Wilhuff Tarkin and also known as Governor Tarkin, is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe, portrayed by Peter Cushing and Wayne Pygram and voiced by Stephen Stanton.

Scream and Scream Again

The movie's title, and association with stars Price, Lee and Peter Cushing have given it an undeserved reputation as a violent horror film, but the violence in the film is mostly understated and/or off-screen, while the plot owes more to films like Invasion of the Body Snatchers or 1970's era 'conspiracy thrillers' like The Parallax View.

Some May Live

Some May Live is a 1967 British war film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Peter Cushing, Joseph Cotton and Martha Hyer.

The Curse of Frankenstein

Peter Cushing played the Baron in each film except for The Horror of Frankenstein, which was a remake of the original (Curse of Frankenstein) done with a more satiric touch, and it featured a young cast headed by Ralph Bates and Veronica Carlson.

The Flesh and the Fiends

The Flesh and the Fiends (US title Mania) is a 1960 British horror film starring Peter Cushing as medical doctor Robert Knox, who purchases human corpses for research from an obliging pair named Burke and Hare.

Wayne Pygram

In 2005, he made a brief cameo in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith as a young Grand Moff Tarkin, because of his resemblance to Peter Cushing, who portrayed the same character 28 years previously in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.


see also

Doctor Who and the Daleks

Dr. Who and the Daleks, a film starring Peter Cushing based on the television serial The Daleks

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

This was the sixth and last time that Peter Cushing portrayed the role of the obsessively driven Baron Frankenstein, a part he originated in 1957's The Curse of Frankenstein.