Peter Cushing

...from Hell (1974) Hammer horror films made stars of actors like Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, but some of the most iconic images from the Hammer era are of the glamorous actresses who appeared alongside them. Madeline Smith was a...

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...said Prince Charles "couldn't have been nicer and was very easy to talk to". Lee became known for his performances opposite Peter Cushing in the Hammer movies. He admitted he had become typecast by the end of the 1960s. He added that his...

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...(left) and as Count Dracula in 1972 movie Dracula A.D. Movies such as Dracula, The Mummy and The Hound of the Baskervilles followed, all co-starring British actor Peter Cushing. Lee famously played the villain in Hammer's low-budget...

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...first horror picture with its soon-to-be legendary horror team, Cushing and Lee. Strictly as films come and go, Cushing and Lee had better outings than "The Curse of Frankenstein," but this movie set the standards - blood in vibrant...

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...Dracula, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Mummy and The Devil Rides Out. It made international stars of its leading men, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Raquel Welch created an iconic image by squeezing into a fur bikini for the...

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...lavishly-designed romantic chillers. Today, Hammer is most commonly associated with the career-defining roles of its leading men, namely Peter Cushing's Frankenstein and Christopher Lee in "Dracula." Less commonly remembered is the wealth...

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...adaptation, "The Quatermass Xperiment" (1955), it's doubtful the company would have gone on to make the Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing features "The Curse of Frankenstein," "Horror of Dracula," and the rest of Hammer's gigantic catalog of...

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...not showy. The camera moves constantly, so it's not a stagey picture. Combine that with great performances again by Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, smoking hot leading ladies Munro and Stephanie Beacham and genuine suspense and you have a...

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...based on the Universal movies of the 1930s. Color re-imaginings of horror standards made stars out of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing who became the new Karloff and Lugosi of horror cinema. Most of the Hammer films are excellent, but...

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