Peter Cushing - biography

“I didn’t set out to make this kind of picture.  It just came my way.  But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently.  There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film.”

“If I played Hamlet, they’d call it a horror film.”

“Teeth are a vitally important part of an actor’s equipment.  I have other thirty toothbrushes at home and always keep a good supply at the studio.”

“There are all sorts of reasons why I don’t do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I’ve given all I can.  I hate repetition, I really do.  It’s like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.”

“I hope this doesn’t sound pompous but I don’t think of myself as famous, whatever fame I’ve got has come through what I’ve done and associations of things I’ve done.”

“I don’t think there is really a favorite, I’m very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I’ve enjoyed making more than others but I’ve enjoyed making all of them.”

“You see I don’t like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you’ve just got to be commercial otherwise the films don’t make money and you don’t make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it’s silly to kill it dead.”

“I hate the word ‘hate’.”

“Today’s youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their ‘sore and yellow’ as this splendid man’s creations have in mine!”

“I’m always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn’t take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I’ve been at what they call ‘on the top’ as far as being known for twenty years.”

Peter Cushing has appeared in the following films:
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Laddie (1940)
Vigil in the Night (1940)
A Chump at Oxford (1940)
The Hidden Master (1940)
Women in War (1940)
The Howards of Virginia (1940)
Dreams (1940)
They Dare Not Love (1941)
Hamlet (1948)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
The Black Knight (1954)
The End of the Affair (1955)
Magic Fire (1955)
Alexander the Great (1956)
Time Without Pity (1957)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
The Abominable Snowman (1957)
Violent Playground (1958)
Dracula (1958)
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
John Paul Jones (1959)
The Mummy (1959)
The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
Cone of Silence (1960)
The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Suspect (1960)
Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
Cash on Demand (1961)
The Hellfire Club (1961)
Fury at Smugglers’ Bay (1961)
The Naked Edge (1961)
Captain Clegg (1962)
The Devil’s Agent (1962)
The Man Who Finally Died (1963)
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
The Gorgon (1964)
Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965)
She (1965)
The Skull (1965)
Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
Island of Terror (1966)
Daleks’ Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Some May Live (1967)
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
The Mummy’s Shroud (1967)
Night of the Big Heat (1967)
Torture Garden (1967)
The Blood Beast Terror (1968)
Corruption (1968)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Scream and Scream Again (1970)
One More Time (1970)
The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Incense for the Damned (1970)
The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
Twins of Evil (1971)
I, Monster (1971)
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
Fear in the Night (1972)
Asylum (1972)
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
From Beyond the Grave (1973)
Nothing But the Night (1973)
The Creeping Flesh (1973)
-- And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
Horror Express (1973)
Shatter (1974)
Madhouse (1974)
The Beast Must Die (1974)
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Tendre Dracula (1974)
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)
Legend of the Werewolf (1975)
The Ghoul (1975)
Trial by Combat (1976)
At the Earth’s Core (1976)
The Devil’s Men (1976)
Star Wars (1977)
Shock Waves (1977)
The Uncanny (1977)
Die Standarte (1977)
Son of Hitler (1978)
A Touch of the Sun (1979)
Arabian Adventure (1979)
Black Jack (1980)
Misterio en la isla de los monstruos (1981)
House of the Long Shadows (1983)
Top Secret! (1984)
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984)
Biggles (1986)