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Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE (26 May 191311 August 1994) was an English actor and a BAFTA TV Award Best Actor winner in 1956. He is mainly known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played the sinister scientist Baron Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes and the vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing, among many other roles. He appeared frequently opposite Christopher Lee, and occasionally Vincent Price. A familiar face on both sides of the Atlantic, Cushing's best-known roles outside the Hammer productions include Grand Moff Tarkin in the original Star Wars movie (1977) and Dr. Who in ''Dr. Who and the Daleks'' (1965) and ''Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.'' (1966), films based on the ''Doctor Who'' television series. ==Early life and career== Cushing was born in Kenley, London, the second son of George Edward Cushing (1881-1956) and Nellie Maria (née King) Cushing (1882-1961). Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Dulwich, South London. After the end of the First World War, they returned close to Kenley; this time to neighbouring Purley, Surrey, where in 1926 his quantity surveyor father built Clearview, an Art Deco house on St James Road. It was here that Cushing remained until early adulthood. Educated at Shoreham College, Cushing left his first job as a surveyor's assistant to take up a scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After working in repertory theatre in Worthing, Sussex, he left for Hollywood in 1939, debuting in ''The Man in the Iron Mask'' later that year, before returning to England in 1941 after appearing in several films. In one, ''A Chump at Oxford'' (1940), he appeared opposite Laurel and Hardy. During the Second World War he served with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). His first major film role was that of Osric in Laurence Olivier's ''Hamlet'' (1948). In the 1950s, he worked in television, notably as Winston Smith in the BBC's 1954 adaptation of the George Orwell novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (1949), scripted by Nigel Kneale. Cushing was highly praised for his performance, although he considered his acting in the surviving version of the broadcast — it was performed live twice in one week, then a common practice, and only the second version exists in the archives — to be inferior to the first. Among other TV appearances, Cushing starred as Fitzwilliam Darcy in the BBC's production of ''Pride and Prejudice'' (1952), as King Richard II in ''Richard of Bordeaux'' (1955), and as Raan, a Prospero-like character, in "Missing Link" (1975), an episode of ''Space: 1999''. He also appeared in ''The Avengers'' and its successor series, ''The New Avengers''. In 1956, he received the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Cushing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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