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Peter Cushing

Peter CushingAKA Peter Wilton Cushing

Born: 26-May-1913
Birthplace: Kenley, Surrey, England
Died: 11-Aug-1994
Location of death: Canterbury, England
Cause of death: Cancer - Prostate
Remains: Cremated

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars

Father: George Edward
Mother: Nellie Marie
Brother: David
Wife: Violet Helene Beck ("Helen", m. 10-Apr-1943, d. 14-Jan-1971 emphysema)

    Young Men's Christian Association Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Officer of the British Empire 1989
    Risk Factors: Prostate Cancer

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Biggles: Adventures in Time (19-Jun-1986)
    Top Secret! (8-Jun-1984)
    House of the Long Shadows (17-Jun-1983)
    Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1982)
    A Tale of Two Cities (2-Dec-1980)
    Arabian Adventure (5-Jul-1979)
    Land of the Minotaur (1978)
    The Uncanny (24-Aug-1977)
    Shock Waves (15-Jul-1977)
    Star Wars (25-May-1977)
    At the Earth's Core (Jul-1976)
    Trial by Combat (1976)
    Legend of the Werewolf (1975)
    The Ghoul (1975)
    The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (6-Oct-1974)
    Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (2-May-1974)
    Madhouse (Mar-1974)
    The Satanic Rites of Dracula (13-Jan-1974)
    The Beast Must Die (1974)
    Horror Express (3-Dec-1973)
    The Creeping Flesh (12-Feb-1973)
    And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
    From Beyond the Grave (1973)
    Dracula A.D. 1972 (28-Aug-1972)
    Dr. Phibes Rises Again (Jul-1972)
    Asylum (Jul-1972)
    Tales from the Crypt (8-Mar-1972)
    Nothing But the Night (1972)
    I, Monster (1-Nov-1971)
    Twins of Evil (17-Oct-1971)
    The Vampire Lovers (4-Oct-1970)
    The House That Dripped Blood (1970)
    Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (8-Jun-1969)
    Scream and Scream Again (1969)
    The Blood Beast Terror (Jan-1968)
    Frankenstein Created Woman (Mar-1967)
    Night of the Big Heat (1967)
    Torture Garden (1967)
    Island of Terror (20-Jun-1966)
    The Skull (9-Jun-1965)
    She (18-Apr-1965)
    Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (28-Feb-1965)
    The Gorgon (18-Oct-1964)
    The Evil of Frankenstein (8-May-1964)
    Captain Clegg (13-Jun-1962)
    The Naked Edge (28-Jun-1961)
    The Brides of Dracula (7-Jul-1960)
    The Mummy (25-Sep-1959)
    John Paul Jones (16-Jun-1959)
    The Hound of the Baskervilles (4-May-1959)
    The Flesh and the Fiends (1959)
    The Revenge of Frankenstein (1-Jun-1958)
    Horror of Dracula (8-May-1958)
    Violent Playground (1958)
    The Abominable Snowman (26-Aug-1957)
    The Curse of Frankenstein (2-May-1957)
    Alexander the Great (28-Mar-1956)
    The End of the Affair (23-Feb-1955)
    The Black Knight (28-Oct-1954)
    Moulin Rouge (1952)
    Hamlet (28-Sep-1948)
    A Chump at Oxford (16-Feb-1940)
    Vigil in the Night (5-Feb-1940)
    The Man in the Iron Mask (26-Jun-1939)

Author of books:
Peter Cushing: An Autobiography (1986, Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
Past Forgetting: Memoirs of the Hammer Years (1988, Weidenfeld and Nicolson)


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