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<text id=94TT1076>
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Aug. 22, 1994: Died:Peter Cushing
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
Aug. 22, 1994 Stee-rike!
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 27
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<p> DIED. PETER CUSHING, 81, eagle-visaged star of innumerable monster
and maniac movies; in London. "If I played Hamlet, they'd call
it a horror film," Cushing, the "gentleman of horror," once
said of the somewhat declasse genre that brought him both fame
and frustration. When Cushing made his horror-movie debut in
1957, his career as an actor was two decades old. He began in
the theater with such reputable British companies as the Old
Vic and continued in films--including, ironically, a well-received
turn as Osric in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948). But Cushing's
reputation rests on the British-made, bloody-for-their-day Hammer
horror films that, Frankenstein-like, breathed new life into
a moribund art form--in no small part due to Cushing's surprisingly
nuanced performances in films like 1957's The Curse of Frankenstein
and 1973's The Satanic Rites of Dracula. Cushing and frequent
Hammer co-star Christopher Lee became the most famous horror
twosome since Lugosi and Karloff.
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