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| Born | May 26, 1913 |
| Hometown | Kenley, England |
| Net worth | $10 million |
| Height | 6'0" (1.82m) |
| Spouse | Violet Beck (m 1943 - 1971) |
| Parents | George Edward Cushing , Nellie Marie Cushing |
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“I’ve always liked a good horror film,” says Peter Capaldi. “I find them comforting, rather than disturbing.” On a rare day off, he likes to settle down with an old favourite – one of Peter Cushing’s Hammer horrors, say, or Dracula A.D. 1972. “Those films remind me of my childhood;” he adds, speaking over video from his home in Muswell Hill, North London. “I was brought up Catholic, so when I watched horror I think I saw something familiar – gore.”
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A pastor and a police officer. These are people we are raised to believe in, to trust with our lives and our salvation.
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The rise of Dalekmania, the Doctor Who craze that made suckers of us all
On May 18 1965, Michael B Bromhead – the general manager of Lion International Films – wrote to producer-screenwriter Milton Subotsky about their upcoming film, Dr Who & The Daleks. In the letter, now kept in the Subotsky Archives, Bromhead advised Milton Subotsky against entering Dr Who & The Daleks into a science fiction festival.
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How the ‘unadulterated horror’ of Peter Cushing’s Nineteen Eighty-Four broke the BBC
“Wife dies as she watches,” wrote the Daily Express in December 1954. Mrs Beryl Mirfin of Herne Bay (a “local beauty queen of 1936”) had keeled over, struck down by a heart attack, while watching the BBC’s Sunday evening teleplay of Nineteen Eighty-Four, adapted from the George Orwell book and starring Peter Cushing. It was perhaps the most sensational, damning headline amidst a furore of controversy over the teleplay.
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Veronica Carlson, Actress in Hammer Horror Movies, Dies at 77
Veronica Carlson, the British actress who starred for Hammer Films opposite Christopher Lee in Dracula Has Risen From the Grave and alongside Peter Cushing in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, has died. She was 77. Carlson died Sunday of natural causes at her home in Bluffton, South Carolina, her daughter, Carly Love, told The Hollywood Reporter. […]
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‘He'd write the waiters poems’: Peter Cushing, remembered by the people of Whitstable
Among the more seasoned of Whitstable locals, interactions with the late British actor Peter Cushing (who bought a quaint seaview house in the area back in 1958) are treasured like a letter from the Queen. My callout posts for memories of Cushing – who died 27 years ago this month – on two Facebook groups dedicated to local residents quickly generated hundreds of passionate replies, many treating their experiences with the shock and awe of a Bigfoot sighting. Some tell me he’d find the gentrific
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