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Post by Charles Bronson on Oct 24, 2019 12:22:48 GMT
I can't recall whether or not there has already been a thread on Peter Cushing, but if there has perhaps one of the moderators could merge this one. I recently come across this trailer for a new documentary on Peter. The trailer features part of an interview Derek Fowlds gave on his experience of working with Peter in a Horror film in the sixties. Seeing as how Derek was mentioned on the R And H Elstree event thread, I thought I would post this YouTube link to some of Derek's interview.
The new Peter Cushing documentary is only available on Amazon Prime Video. I don't subscribe to it myself, but I will be looking out for it on some other source as it is supposed to be a very good bio.
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Post by Vienna on Oct 24, 2019 13:04:03 GMT
Frankenstein Created Woman is the film, Charles, and one of the last Hammer films to go into production at Bray Studios in 1966. Derek Fowlds talks about working with Peter Cushing in the audio commentary on an Australian Blu-ray release. It's now 25 years since Peter passed away, so this might be one of the reasons for the new documentary.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Oct 24, 2019 14:18:23 GMT
Yes Vi it was 'Frankenstein Created Woman' I'm not sure if I've seen that one all the way through but I am going to try and get hold of it and give it another viewing. The thing about Peter is that he always seems to put his all into a performance. He certainly left an impressive film legacy behind him when he left this world.
It's funny how so many of the actors who appeared in horror films were true gents, Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee and of course Peter himself.
I'd really like to watch that new documentary. Perhaps I could join Amazon Prime on a temporary basis. I used to be a member when it was 'Love Film' the dvd rental service before Amazon took it over.
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Post by Vienna on Oct 24, 2019 18:36:08 GMT
Peter is always associated with the horror genre, but one of his best performances was in a 1961 crime thriller called Cash on Demand. He plays a bank manager threatened by a ruthless criminal posing as an insurance investigator.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Oct 24, 2019 19:10:35 GMT
What can you say about Peter? Few actors have left the kind of impression he has, fans talk about him as if he were a Saint. I hadn't heard of this new documentary, I've seen the people behind it interviewing actors on talkingpicturestv.
Can't agree with the description of him on their website as 'the epitome of evil on the silver screen', he didn't play that many villainous roles. Only occasionally did he play a truly 'bad' character, more often he played good men.
I think he was the guest star on the Morecambe And Wise Show more times than anyone else. He made quite a few tv appearances in the 80's, but he strikes me as an enigmatic & remote figure. I wonder how he really felt about appearing in horror films?
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Post by Charles Bronson on Oct 24, 2019 19:34:03 GMT
I'd forgotten about those Morcombe And Wise appearences Arthur. They must be on YouTube. I will look them up. I think later on in life after he lost his wife, Peter lost interest in things and just wanted to join her.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Oct 25, 2019 16:21:53 GMT
A gathering of Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show guests in 1982. Peter is on the front row with his arm round Dennis Waterman.
Also like this smudge of Peter with Calvin Lockhart & director Paul Annett on the set of the 1974 film 'The Beast Must Die'. He took his roles very seriously & I think it's evident on his face in this image. One thing I've noticed about him off screen is what a natty dresser he was.
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Post by Three Litre on Oct 25, 2019 16:54:52 GMT
Great pics AP!
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Oct 27, 2019 18:50:28 GMT
Yes he certainly had quite a career didn't he and I remember from a commentary on the episode of the Boxed set I have of The New Avengers, he appeared in the episode "The Eagle's nest" about a group seriously wishing to resurrect the Nazis and start a 4th Reich.
On the commentary the late Gareth Hunt spoke very highly of him, and was a true gent to everyone he worked with on the set of the episode. He was apparently so particular he even put a glove on while he had a cigarette break so the nicotine didn't stain his hand. He also talked to the other cast and crew members fondly of his late wife, describing his life by then as "waiting to join her".
And of course he appeared twice as the "Film Dr Who", in Dr Who and the Daleks from 1965, and Dalek's Invasion of Earth 2150 AD (1966).
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Oct 27, 2019 19:18:33 GMT
'Jim'll Fix It' was repeated in the afternoon on BBC2 in the late 80's, I was surprised to see Peter on the show, he wrote in asking to have a rose named after his wife Helen. This piece of tv gives an idea of how gentle the man was.
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