Peter Cushing
Actor
- Dalekmania
- Feat. Peter Cushing
- Cast members and cultists take a nostalgic peek at the making of the Dr. Who feature films.
- 1984 (1956)
- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling…
- The first adaptation of George Orwell's visionary novel is this little known, stark BBC television production. Apparently hated by his widow for the…
- Abominable Snowman (1957)
- Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Richard Wattis
- Hammer Horror's version of the 'yeti' legend has Cushing and Tucker journey to the roof of the world to hunt out the elusive creature. From a…
- Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
- The first true Hammer gothic horror and number one in the Frankenstein series bringing together the fantastic talents of Cushing (as the Baron) and…
- Time Without Pity (1957)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Ann Todd…
- Nervy noir has Michael Redgrave in top form as an alcoholic father racing against time to save his son from the gallows.
Somewhat dated thriller…
- Horror of Dracula (1958)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
- Quintessential Hammer horror is the first of six films with the peerless pairing of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as the razor–fanged Count…
- Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn…
- One of the best in the series of six Frankenstein films made by Hammer, with Peter Cushing reprising one of his signature roles as Baron Frank. …
- Mummy, The (1959)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
- Peter Cushing confronts Christopher Lee in bandages in this stylish early Hammer.
- Mania (The Flesh and the Fiends) (1959)
- Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, George Rose…
- An old–fashioned but sometimes ghoulishly nasty horror film in which an experimenting doctor in Edinburgh must harvest fresh corpses to…
- Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andre Morell…
- Quite possibly the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation, with Cushing in the lead, investigating the horrors of the Baskerville killings. The 'Hammer'…
- Brides of Dracula (1960)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Peel, Martita Hunt
- Recognised as one of Hammer Studios' best horrors, this acclaimed sequel to HORROR OF DRACULA reconvenes director/actor team Fisher and Cushing. This…
- Night Creatures (Captain Clegg) (1962)
- Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen…
- Hammer horror set in 18th–century England, where a captain of the Royal Navy is sent to investigate reports of illegal activity in a coastal…
- Evil of Frankenstein, The (1964)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, Duncan Lamont, David Hutcheson
- Number three in the renowned Hammer horror Frankenstein series set in an isolated castle. The Baron (Cushing) and his assistant, in need of help to…
- Gorgon, The (1964)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco…
- A small village falls prey to an unseen monster. Citizens are found turned to stone after every full moon. The town Doctor (Peter Cushing) concludes…
- Doctor Who and the Daleks (Dr. Who and the Daleks) (1965)
- Dir. Gordon Flemyng
Feat. Peter Cushing
- First go at putting the classic TV serial on the big–screen, with Peter Cushing giving a pleasingly daffy rendition of the Doctor, combating…
- Amicus Collection (Asylum, The Beast Must Die, And Now the Screaming Starts, The House that Dripped Blood, City of the Dead, Dr. Terrors House of Horrors) (1965-1974)
- Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
- A collection of low–budget horror films from Amicus Studios.
CITY OF THE DEAD (a.k.a. HORROR HOTEL): A student is sent by her professor to…
- Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Bernard Lee…
- The first omnibus horror from low–budget outfit Amicus, in which the mysterious Dr. Schreck (Cushing) foretells the awful future fates of five…
- Island of Terror (1966)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing
- Peter Cushing stars in this Hammer sci–fi tale about cancer research gone awry.
- Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966)
- Dir. Gordon Flemyng
Feat. Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks
- A mixed attempt to translate Doctor Who (Peter Cushing in this incarnation) to the big screen, with Daleks enslaving humans in a future,…
- Night of the Big Heat (1967)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
- An extreme heatwave blankets an English winter, the cause of which is neither natural nor human. Eerie and stylish sci–fi with Christopher Lee…
- Blood Beast Terror, The (1967)
- Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Peter Cushing
- In Victorian rural England, Peter Cushing's murder enquiries uncovers a beastly weremoth and the gruesome experiments of a crazed entymologist.
- Torture Garden (1967)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams…
- Grisly, well–acted omnibus of four horror stories by PSYCHO–scribe Robert Bloch, framed by the fiendish hype of Burgess Meredith's…
- Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters
- The fourth film in Hammer's Frankenstein series starring Peter Cushing as Baron Frankenstein and Susan Denberg as his new creation. Diverts away from…
- Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) (A Study In Scarlet, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of Four, The Blue Carbuncle) (1968)
- Feat. Peter Cushing, Nigel Stock
- One of the best to ever play Sherlock Holmes (formerly, in Hammer's HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES), Peter Cushing steps back into the shoes of the famed…
- Scream and Scream Again (1969)
- Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
- Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee all turn in for this Hammer mad–doctor–creates–super–being yarn.
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1970)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing
- The fifth Hammer Frankenstein film focuses on Peter Cushing's Baron who tries brain surgery to save an associate who went mad. Followed in the series…
- Vampire Lovers (1970)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing
- Hammer's famous lesbian–vampire pick made a cult star of the Polish–born volupte, Ingrid Pitt, as Carmilla. Esteemed…
- House That Dripped Blood, The (1970)
- Dir. Peter Duffell
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Denholm Elliott…
- Juicy if variable four–part portmanteau film written by PSYCHO scribe, Robert Bloch, and adorned by the Cushing/Lee double–act as well as…
- Twins of Evil (1971)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Peter Cushing, Dennis Price
- Final part of the 'Karnstein trilogy' (after THE VAMPIRE LOVERS and LUST FOR A VAMPIRE), climaxing in perhaps the most sexually–explicit of the…
- Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
- Dir. Robert Fuest
Feat. Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Cushing…
- Vincent Price reprises the Phibes, and this time gets to go to Egypt.
- Horror Express (1972)
- Dir. Gene Martin
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
- Inspired gothic yarn with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing travelling on the Trans–Siberian express with what could be the missing link.
- Fear in the Night (1972)
- Dir. Jimmy Sangster
Feat. Peter Cushing, Joan Collins
- Hammer chiller about a teacher and his insecure bride who encounter murder at a desolate school for boys.
- Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
- Dir. Alan Gibson
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
- Christopher Lee's Count incongruously schmoozes with the youth of the 1970s in his never–ending search for the red stuff. Peter Cushing turns…
- Asylum (House of Crazies) (1972)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom…
- A compendium of four tales by Robert Bloch (writer of PSYCHO) set around the quest by a young psychiatrist to interview inmates of a madhouse and…
- Bloodsuckers (Incense For The Damned) (1972)
- Dir. Robert Hartford-Davies
Feat. Patrick Macnee, Peter Cushing, Edward Woodward…
- A vampire oddity, which splices together the intrigues of Oxford professors with a blood–sucking Greek cult. This was so tampered with after…
- Tales from the Crypt (1972)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice…
- A schlocky omnibus from Amicus Studios derived from EC comics in which five people are trapped in a crypt with the mysterious Crypt Keeper, who…
- ...And Now the Screaming Starts! (Fengriffen) (1973)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee…
- Non–omnibus horror from inventively cheap horror specialists 'Amicus' concerns a young bride's horrifying discovery that her husband's family…
- Nothing But the Night (The Resurrection Syndicate) (1973)
- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Diana Dors…
- Lee and Cushing are sent by Scotland Yard to investigate a fatal bus crash and how it relates to the going–ons at a creepy orphanage.…
- Satanic Rites of Dracula, The (1973)
- Dir. Alan Gibson
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Joanna Lumley…
- When a group of Scotland Police Investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism, they call in Van Helsing to put a stop to Count…
- Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1973)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Shane Briant
- The sixth and final installment of the Frankenstein series for Hammer Films was also the last for its director and star Peter Cushing as Victor…
- Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires (1974)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing
- Fusion of Hammer horror and martial arts spectacle follows Peter Cushing's Van Helsen to China where he discovers ol' fangface lurking behind an…
- Beast Must Die!, The (1974)
- Dir. Paul Annett
Feat. Peter Cushing, Calvin Lockhart, Charles Gray…
- A rich sportsman (Lockhart) invites a number of guests to his house with the knowledge that one of them is a werewolf.
The film features a novel…
- From Beyond the Grave (1974)
- Dir. Kevin Connor
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Warner, Ian Bannen…
- Enjoyable anthology film from Amicus adapted from four short stories linked through the classic device of an antique store and its mysterious owner…
- Madhouse (1974)
- Dir. Jim Clark
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry…
- British horror film based on the 1969 novel Devilday by Angus Hall, with Vincent Price playing a horror actor renowned for his character Dr. Death,…
- Ghoul, The (1975)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, John Hurt
- In the foggy moors of the 1920's, one of Peter Cushing's 'gate crashers' disappears and turns up dismembered, initiating a disturbing pattern. …
- At the Earth's Core (1976)
- Dir. Kevin Connor
Feat. Peter Cushing, Doug McClure, Caroline Munro
- Eccentric doctor Peter Cushing burrows down into the Earth onboard a huge iron mole to emerge in an underground world ruled by the Mahars:…
- Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
- Dir. George Lucas
Feat. Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford…
- George Lucas' epic trilogy of space adventure begins "long ago and far far away", with the life of Luke Skywalker being disturbed by the galactic war…
- Shock Waves (Almost Human, Death Corps) (1977)
- Dir. Ken Wiederhorn
Feat. Brooke Adams, Peter Cushing, John Carradine
- Cushing plays a Nazi scientist wrecked in the Florida Keys since WWII, where he has remained hidden with his special squad of underwater zombie…
- Arabian Adventure (1979)
- Dir. Kevin Conner
Feat. Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Mickey Rooney…
- Sumptuous Arabic fantasy set around a treasure hunt for the mystical Rose of Elil. Good f/x and a great British cast make for smooth entertainment.
- Hammer House of Horror (TV Series) (1980)
- Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors…
- The last gasp of the Hammer Horror franchise was this low–budget TV series. Combining some inventive plotting, gore and a little nudity with…
- Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) (1982- 1983)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Peter Cushing, Brenda Blethyn, Liza Goddard…
- Fondly remembered British television series of self–contained stories – each with a twist – inspired by the adult macabre of Roald…
- Top Secret! (1984)
- Dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Feat. Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp…
- No secret this is one of the best of the Abrahams/Zucker Bros comedies (FLYING HIGH) with Val Kilmer as a rather dim, Elvis–type singer who, in…
- Sword of the Valiant (The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) (1984)
- Dir. Stephen Weeks
Feat. Miles O'Keefe, Cyrielle Clair, Leigh Lawson…
- Cannon Films fantasy fodder from the 1980's starring a hilariously coiffured Miles O'Keefe as Sir Gawain and Sean Connery as the Green Knight,…
- Biggles - Adventure in Time (1985)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Peter Cushing, Alex Hyde-White
- Curious, though effective recasting of the 'Biggles' stories by W.E. Johns, in which a NYC office–worker travels through time back to WWI to…