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Peter Cushing
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| Known for: | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, Dracula 1958, Top Secret! |
| Birth name: | Peter Wilton Cushing |
| Birthday: | 26 May 1913, Kenley, Surrey, England, UK |
| Height: | 5' 11½" (1.82 m) |
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Turned down the role of Dr. Sam Loomis in Halloween (1978).
The costume boots they gave Cushing for Star Wars (1977) were too small and hurt his feet. Cushing told George Lucas this, and asked if he could wear slippers instead. Lucas agreed, and shot Cushing from the waist up for nearly all his scenes to compensate for Cushing's slippers.
Withdrew from the film Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) due to the death of his wife. His role was assumed by Andrew Keir.
His sketch of Sherlock Holmes became the official logo for the Northern Musgraves, a British Sherlock Holmes society.
During a television interview he confessed that fellow actor Christopher Lee had telephoned him earlier that evening to "Wish me luck!"
Carrie Fisher said in an interview that doing her scenes with him in the Star Wars (1977) were difficult for two reasons: she thought the lines were ridiculous and she found Peter to be so polite and charming off camera that it was hard to project the sense of disdain that her character, Princess Leia, held for his character, Tarkin.
Prior to casting Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977), George Lucas considered using him as Obi-Wan Kenobi (a role that ultimately went to Alec Guinness).
Described by many presenters as the best interviewee they had.
Cushing reprised his role, with dialog, from his last film Biggles (1986) in the video for the movie's theme song "No Turning Back" by The Immortals. He appears at the end to tell the camera: "I'm a restless sort of guy." Technically, this makes it his last performance and his last line of dialog.
Only one of the main characters from Star Wars not to appear in the sequels (for the obvious reason).
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