Peter Wilton Cushing was an English actor. His acting career spanned over six decades and included appearances in more than 100 films, as well as many television, stage and radio roles. He achieved recognition for his leading performances in the Hammer Productions horror films from the 1950s to 1970s, and as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977).
English Heritage blue plaque at 32 St James' Road, Purley, London
Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing in The Brides of Dracula
Cushing and his close friend Christopher Lee in Horror Express (1972). They starred in twenty-two films together, including four Dracula Hammer films.
Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is a British film production company based in London. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic horror and fantasy films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Many of these involve classic horror characters such as Baron Victor Frankenstein, Count Dracula, and the Mummy, which Hammer reintroduced to audiences by filming them in vivid colour for the first time. Hammer also produced science fiction, thrillers, film noir and comedies, as well as, in later years, television series.
John Van Eyssen as Jonathan Harker
Christopher Lee as the Creature in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Christopher Lee in Dracula, a.k.a. Horror of Dracula (1958)