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PETER CUSHING : CHRISTOPHER LEE: DRACULA AD 1972 40 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! AT OUR PCASUK FACEBOOK FAN PACE

This FRIDAY 28th SEPTEMBER PCASUK celebrates the 40 year anniversary of the Hammer Film Productions 'DRACULA AD 1972' at our UK Peter Cushing Appreciation Society Facebook Fan Page.

Galleries, Features and all things AD 72! come and join us!

TENDRE DRACULA: EURO POSTER: PETER CUSHING AS MACGREGOR.

PETER CUSHING: HAMLET : (1948)

Peter Cushing as the sinister Beau Brummell of the Danish Court 'Osric' with Terence Morgan as 'Laertes' in HAMLET (1948) directed by Laurence Olivier. Peter's brother-in-law Reginald Beck (who had edited Olivier's HENRY V) was associate producer.

Cushing said of Olivier: 'When the production started, Larry was a kind, considerate, patient director...but as time went by he became more and more autocratic...towards the end it was 'do it this way, do it that way, and don't argue, goddamit!' '. The film is beautifully shot in B&W and takes obvious visual cues from Orson Welles as well as Universal horror. Cushing also said: 'If Hamlet had been a Hammer film...they'd say 'This is disgusting! Dreadful! All these deaths. Think of the bodies littering the floor!' ' The film also features great genre actors Patrick Troughton and Niall MacGinnis, and uncredited extra work by Doreen Lawrence (Peter's first love and one-time fiancé), Desmond Llewelyn, Patrick Macnee and Christopher Lee (making this the first film Cushing and Lee ever appeared in together).

JENNIE LINDEN: 'DR WHO AND THE DALEKS' (1965) PROMOTION PHOTOGRAPH

A GREAT PUBLICITY STILL FEATURING JENNIE LINDEN WHO STARRED AS BARBARA IN 'DR WHO AND THE DALEKS' WITH PETER CUSHING AS DR WHO BACK IN 1965

PETER CUSHING COLOURISED FULL SIZE PHOTOGRAPHS

A SELECTION OF COLOURISED STILLS BY LEE 'GOATBOY' HARTUP AS FEATURED ON THE UK PETER CUSHING APPRECIATION SOCIETY FACEBOOK FAN PAGE!  ABOVE PETER CUSHING IN THE BBC 1954 PRODUCTION OF '1984'

A BEHIND THE SCENES SHOT ON THE SET OF HAMMER FILMS PRODUCTIONS 'FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED' (1969) AT ELSTREE FILM STUDIOS. FROM THE LEFT: SIR JAMES CARRERAS CEO OF HAMMER FILMS, DIRECTOR TERENCE FISHER, PETER CUSHING AND PRODUCER ANTHONY NELSON-KEYS

ON THE SET OF SAMMY DAVIS JR FILM 'ONE MORE TIME' CHRISTOPHER LEE AND PETER CUSHING. BOTH CUSHING AND LEE APPEARED IN CAMEOS AS DRACULA AND BARON FRANKENSTEIN.

PETER CUSHING WITH DIRECTOR ROBERT DAY BEHIND THE SCENES DURING THE MAKING OF HAMMER FILMS 'SHE'  (1965)

A YOUNG PETER CUSHING WITH SWEET HEART DOREEN HAWKINS

PETER CUSHING: THE CUSHING, LUPINO AND HAYWARD FRIENDSHIP

PETER CUSHING: LAUREL AND HARDY : CHUMPS AT OXFORD CONTRACT

Peter Cushing's contract (bearing his signature) with Hal Roach Studios for A CHUMP AT OXFORD (1940) with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Cushing recalled it was in the evening when they filmed his final scene getting tossed into the pond. Laurel and Hardy personally made sure that every actor who got wet received towels and hot drinks. Cushing was star struck by Laurel and Hardy and would remember them fondly for the rest of his life.

PETER CUSHING: 'TALES FROM THE C RYPT' AWARD : THE FESTIVAL DU FILM FANTASTIQUE: PARIS 1974

Peter Cushing and Alain Schlockoff at the Festival du Film Fantastique de Paris 1974, where Peter received his award for his performance in Amicus Films : 'Tales from the Crypt'

CHRISTOPHER LEE: 'I, MONSTER' AMICUS FILM PRODUCTIONS 1971

CHRISTOPHER LEE AS DR MARLOWE IN AMICUS FILMS 'I,MONSTER' 1971

PETER CUSHING : VINCENT PRICE: MADHOUSE: AMICUS FILM PRODUCTIONS 1974

PETER CUSHING: MADHOUSE FINAL SHOT: PAUL TOOMBES

Very little make up...it's all in the facial expression

SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE ON PETER CUSHING.

SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE ON HIS GREAT FRIEND PETER CUSHING!

PETER CUSHING BY NUMBERS: 'THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK' (1939)

PETER CUSHING : DONALD PLEASENCE: THE DEVIL'S MEN : LOBBY CARD