Hammer Films stalwart
Peter Cushing, OBE, was born today in Surrey in 1913. He died in 1994. Among the notable roles in his long career were Sherlock Holmes in
The Hound of the Baskervilles (and in a subsequent TV series), Josef Vadassey in the TV series adapted from Eric Ambler's
Epitaph for a Spy (1953), Dr. Who in
Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and
Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 AD (1966), Holly in H. Rider Haggard's
She (1965),
and Grand Moff Tarkin in
Star Wars (1977).
About the image: Peter Cushing in
The Hound of the Baskervilles (dir. Terence Fisher, 1959)
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