Cast: Peter Cushing

Direction George Lucas

Cast Mark Hamill · Harrison Ford · Carrie Fisher · Alec Guinness

Plot In a distant galaxy, a long time ago, young Luke Skywalker, a young farmboy on Tatooine, is thrust into the struggle of the Rebel Alliance when he meets Obi-Wan Kenobi,...

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Jean Simmons · Basil Sydney · Eileen Herlie

Plot William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes...

Direction John Huston

Cast José Ferrer · Zsa Zsa Gabor · Colette Marchand · Claude Nollier

Plot Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently visits the Moulin Rouge, where he drinks cognac and draws sketches of the dancers and singers. Though the son of a French count, Henri's legs were...

Direction Jim Abrahams · David Zucker · Jerry Zucker

Cast Val Kilmer · Lucy Gutteridge · Omar Sharif · Christopher Villiers

Plot Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker--of AIRPLANE! and NAKED GUN fame--wrote and directed this genre-hopping slapstick juggernaut which lampoons World War II spy films and Elvis movies, making many other satirical stops...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Christopher Lee · Peter Cushing · Michael Gough · Melissa Stribling

Plot Posing as a librarian, erstwhile vampire hunter Jonathan Harker travels to Castle Dracula where he is welcomed by the courtly Count Dracula. Harker attempts to kill Dracula and eliminate the...

Direction Quentin Lawrence

Cast Peter Cushing · André Morell · Richard Vernon · Norman Bird

Plot A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.

Direction Ted Newsom

Cast Christopher Lee · Lon Chaney · Peter Cushing · Hugh M. Hefner

Plot A multi-volume documentary on the history of horror movies. Hosted by veteran horror star Christopher Lee, this video series brings together footage from many notable (and some less notable) films...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Hazel Court · Robert Urquhart · Christopher Lee

Plot Baron Victor Frankenstein, in prison for murder and trying to evade the guillotine, tells a priest how he and his mentor, Paul Krempe, had performed many scientific experiments, eventually leading...

Direction John Gilling

Cast Peter Cushing · June Laverick · Donald Pleasence · George Rose

Direction Graham Evans · John Gorrie · Alan Gibson · Herbert Wise

Cast Roald Dahl · John Houseman · Andrew Ray · Joan Collins

Plot TV Series (1979-1988). 9 seasons. 112 episodes. A British anthology of mystery, suspense, horror and black comedy, highlighted by plot twists and surprise endings (in the early seasons, all by...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Francis Matthews · Michael Gwynne · Eunice Gayson

Plot With the help of Karl, the crippled dwarf hangman, whom he promises to give a new body, Frankenstein escapes the gallows and they hang the officiating priest instead. Under the...

Direction Antony Kearey · Viktors Ritelis · Max Varnel · Bill Bain

Cast Peter Cushing · Douglas Wilmer · Nigel Stock · Peter Madden

Plot TV Series (1964-1968). 2 seasons. The 1960s BBC series Sherlock Holmes has all the virtues of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective--shrewd and efficient, with flashes of visual panache but never...

Direction Rudolph Cartier

Cast Peter Cushing · André Morell · Yvonne Mitchell · Donald Pleasence

Plot Peter Cushing stars as Winston Smith, a man tired of the oppressive government. Big Brother is always watching in a world where individual thought, actions, and feelings are a crime....

Direction Don Leaver · Peter Sasdy · Francis Megahy · Tom Clegg

Cast Nicholas Bal · Christopher Cazenove · Peter Cushing · Barbara Kellerman

Plot This British anthology series, which was produced by England's leading exporters of horror films, told tales of haunted houses, demons, ghosts and other supernatural wonders. Episodes: - Witching Time -...

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Gary Cooper · Deborah Kerr · Peter Cushing · Eric Portman

Plot George Radcliffe's testimony sends Donald Heath to prison for murder and the theft of over 60,000 pounds. Soon after, Radcliffe invests a large sum of money in an ultimately profitable...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Simon Ward · Veronica Carlson · Freddie Jones

Plot Abandoning his latest experiment after a drunk stumbles into his secret lab, Dr. Frankenstein finds new lodgings with a sweet young thing whose boyfriend works in the local sanitarium. Frankenstein...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · André Morell · Christopher Lee · Marla Landi

Plot Sherlock Holmes gets the Gothic treatment in this mix of mystery and supernatural horror from Britain’s Hammer Films. Peter Cushing is perfectly cast as the great detective, the very embodiment...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Susan Denberg · Robert Morris · Thorley Walters

Plot Baron Frankenstein’s lab assistant Hans is sentenced to the gullotine for the murder of an innkeeper, although this is something that was really conducted by three drunken libertines. However Frankenstein...

Direction James Whale

Cast Louis Hayward · Joan Bennett · Warren William · Joseph Schildkraut

Plot D'Artagnan and the musketeers are the only ones who know of the existence of a twin brother, and Fouquet uses his influence to keep everyone silenced. The main story was...

Direction Alfred J. Goulding

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Forrester Harvey · Wilfred Lucas

Plot With Stan in drag, the boys get jobs as a butler and maid for a dinner party at the Vandevere's. After that ends in disaster, they're reduced to sweeping streets,...