Star Wars1977
As Grand Moff Tarkin
TMDb 8.2 / 10
Peter Cushing
Born
Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite Christopher Lee, and occasionally Vincent Price. A familiar face on both sides of the Atlantic, his most famous roles outside of "Hammer Horror" include his many appearances as Sherlock Holmes, as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977) and as the mysterious Doctor Who in Doctor Who and the Daleks and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD in 1965 and 1966, two cinema films based on the television series Doctor Who.
Filmography (130)
Top Secret!1984
As Bookstore Proprietor
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Dracula1958
As Doctor Van Helsing
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires1974
As Professor Lawrence Van Helsing
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Innocent Blood1992
As Van Helsing (archive footage)
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight1984
As Seneschal
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Shock Waves1977
As SS Commander
TMDb 4.9 / 10
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault2020
As (archive footage)
Horror Express1972
As Dr. Wells
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Vampire Lovers1970
As General von Spielsdorf
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Frankenstein Reborn1993
As Victor's Grandfather (photo) (uncredited)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors1965
As Dr. Sandor Schreck aka "Dr. Terror"
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Tales from the Crypt1972
As Arthur Edward Grimsdyke
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Twins of Evil1971
As Gustav Weil
TMDb 6.7 / 10
I, Monster1971
As Frederick Utterson
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Curse of Frankenstein1957
As Baron Victor Frankenstein
TMDb 6.8 / 10
House of the Long Shadows1983
As Sebastian Grisbane
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Hound of the Baskervilles1959
As Sherlock Holmes
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Dr. Phibes Rises Again1972
As Ship's Captain
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Alexander the Great1956
As Memmon
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Dracula A.D. 19721972
As Professor Van Helsing
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Brides of Dracula1960
As Dr. J. Van Helsing
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The House That Dripped Blood1971
As Philip Grayson (segment 2 "Waxworks")
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror1994
As Narrator (voice) / Self
TMDb 7.3 / 10
A Chump at Oxford1940
As Student
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Biggles1986
As Air Commodore Colonel William Raymond
TMDb 5.2 / 10
The Black Knight1954
As Sir Palamides
TMDb 6.4 / 10
John Paul Jones1959
As Captain Richard Pearson
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Dr. Who and the Daleks1965
As Doctor Who
TMDb 5.8 / 10
She1965
As Holly
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Mummy1959
As John Banning
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.1966
As Doctor Who
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Skull1965
As Dr. Christopher Maitland
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed1969
As Baron Victor Frankenstein
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films2014
As Sebastian Grisbane (archive footage) (uncredited)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Satanic Rites of Dracula1973
As Prof. Lorrimer Van Helsing
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Arabian Adventure1979
As Wazir Al Wuzara
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Gorgon1964
As Dr. Namaroff
TMDb 6.4 / 10
At the Earth's Core1976
As Dr. Abner Perry
TMDb 5.1 / 10
The Revenge of Frankenstein1958
As Dr. Victor Stein
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Madhouse1974
As Herbert Flay
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Corruption1968
As Sir John Rowan
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Dracula: Prince of Darkness1966
As Doctor Van Helsing (archive footage)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Creeping Flesh1973
As Emmanuel Hildern
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Hamlet1948
As Osric
TMDb 7.4 / 10
The Abominable Snowman1957
As Dr. John Rollason
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Moulin Rouge1952
As Marcel de la Voisier
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Creature1955
As Dr. John Rollason
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Scream and Scream Again1970
As Major Heinrich Benedek
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Asylum1972
As Smith
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Captain Clegg1962
As Reverend Dr. Blyss
TMDb 6.3 / 10
And Now the Screaming Starts!1973
As Dr. Pope
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Beast Must Die1974
As Dr. Christopher Lundgren
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Torture Garden1967
As Lancelot Canning (segment 4 "The Man Who Collected Poe")
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Uncanny1977
As Wilbur Gray (segment "Montreal 1977")
TMDb 5.8 / 10
From Beyond the Grave1974
As The Proprietor
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Dalekmania1995
As Doctor Who (archive footage)
TMDb 7.6 / 10
The Man Who Finally Died1963
As Doctor Peter von Brecht
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Frankenstein Created Woman1967
As Baron Frankenstein
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Number Three1953
As Simpson
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Shatter1974
As Paul Rattwood
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The End of the Affair1955
As Henry Miles
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Man in the Iron Mask1939
As Second Officer
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Time Without Pity1957
As Jeremy Clayton
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Blood Beast Terror1968
As Detective Inspector Quennell
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Night of the Big Heat1967
As Dr. Vernon Stone
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Nineteen Eighty-Four1954
As Winston Smith
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell1974
As Baron Victor Frankenstein aka Dr. Carl Victor
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Cash on Demand1961
As Harry Fordyce
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters2024
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 8.2 / 10
Dracula in the Movies1992
As (archive footage)
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Fear in the Night1972
As Michael Carmichael
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions2017
As Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood1987
As Self
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Nothing But the Night1973
As Sir Mark Ashley
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Devil's Men1976
As Baron Corofax
TMDb 4.1 / 10
The Evil of Frankenstein1964
As Baron Frankenstein
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Violent Playground1958
As Father Laidlaw
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes1985
As Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
TMDb 8.5 / 10
The Caves of Steel1964
As Elijah Baley
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Island of Terror1966
As Dr. Brian Stanley
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Sword of Sherwood Forest1960
As Sheriff of Nottingham
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Masks of Death1984
As Sherlock Holmes
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Vigil in the Night1940
As Joe Shand
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Hellfire Club1961
As Mr. Merryweather
TMDb 5.4 / 10
A Tale of Two Cities1980
As Dr. Alexander Manette
TMDb 6.1 / 10
One More Time1970
As Dr. Frankenstein
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman2007
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 9.0 / 10
A Touch of the Sun1979
As Commissioner Potts
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Suspect1960
As Professor Sewell
TMDb 6.9 / 10
The Howards of Virginia1940
As Leslie Stephens
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Naked Edge1961
As Mr. Evan Wrack
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Story of Star Wars2004
As Grand Moff Tarkin (archive footage)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Magic Fire1955
As Otto Wesendonk
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Cone of Silence1960
As Capt. Clive Judd
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Son of Hitler1979
As Heinrich Haussner
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Trial by Combat1976
As Sir Edward Gifford
TMDb 7.8 / 10
The Great Houdinis1976
As Conan Doyle
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Blood Suckers1971
As Dr. Walter Goodrich
TMDb 4.1 / 10
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.2020
As (archive footage)
The Flesh and the Fiends1960
As Dr. Robert Knox
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Standard1977
As Baron Hackenberg
TMDb 4.2 / 10
When We Are Married
When We Are Married1951
As Gerald Forbes
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Mystery on Monster Island1981
As William T. Kolderup
TMDb 4.6 / 10
The Ghoul1975
As Dr. Lawrence
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Fury at Smugglers' Bay1961
As Squire Trevenyan
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Legend of the Werewolf1975
As Prof. Paul
TMDb 5.4 / 10
The Horror Show1979
As (archive footage)
TMDb 3.4 / 10
Tender Dracula1974
As MacGregor
TMDb 4.2 / 10
Women in War1940
As Capt. Evans
TMDb 5.2 / 10
The Moment of Truth1955
As The Prime Minister
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook1991
As Victor Frankenstein / Dr. Carl Victor (archive footage)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues1984
As Professor Charles Copeland
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Peter Cushing: In His Own Words2020
As Himself
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Fanex Files: Hammer Films2008
As Self
TMDb 7.0 / 10
They Dare Not Love1941
As Sub-Lieutenant Blackler
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Laddie1940
As Robert Pryor
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Halloween Monster Bash1991
As Dr. Wells (archive footage)
Dreams1940
As First Dreamer
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Woman in the House1942
As Man Waking Up (archive footage)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Detour1979
As Narrator
Fists of Fire
Fists of Fire1975
As Self
Attack of the Octopus People2010
As Doctor Welles (archive footage)
It Might Be You1946
As The doctor
Black Jack1981
As Sir Thomas Bedford
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Some May Live1967
As John Meredith
TMDb 4.3 / 10
The Hidden Master1940
As Robert Clive of India
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Anastasia
Anastasia1953
As Piotr Petrovsky
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Look at Life: Model World
Look at Life: Model World1960
As Self
Peter Cushing: A One Way Ticket to Hollywood1989
As Himself
TMDb 9.5 / 10
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