'I DID MY RESEARCH!' #MARKHAMILL TALKS CUSHING AND #CHRISTOPHERLEE

I'VE POSTED SEVERAL CLIPS , over the years of #MarkHamill talking about his respect for and his meeting #PeterCushing during the making of #StarWars, some from way back in 1977. Today, I have shared and posted a new  short clip over at the Facebook PCASuk Fan Page from 2016 and a really interesting and fun talk Mark gave for the The Oxford Union Society in the UK, were he mentions both Peter AND #ChristopherLee! It takes a while to thaw out the academics, and Hamill certainly make his huge store of anecdotes, very entertaining and  Interesting. His Christopher Lee impression, is I think, SPOT ON!....😆 😉 - Marcus

 

 

 

ABOVE: Clips we shared back in 2019: Hamill was a quite the Peter Cushing fan . So, much so when first cast in Star Wars back in 1976, he was extremely excited about appearing in a film, that featured Cushing as a Grand Guy in a black hat baddy! Sadly, they didn't get to appear on screen together.. but he made sure, he got the opportunity to meet up with one of his major big screen idols... Here are two short clips with Hamill talking about the day, he met Peter Cushing at Elstree studios . . 

 

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EXCLUSIVE! WATCH #DONALDFEARNEY'S 'TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN' DOCUMENTARY TEASER TO THIS YEAR'S '#PETERCUSHING: THE MAN WHO CREATED FRANKENSTEIN' BLU RAY DOC!

THIS YEAR, 2022 sees Donald Fearney's much anticipated blu ray release of 'Peter Cushing : The Man Who Created Frankenstein' documentary. The documentary will be release early 2022, and presented as a blu ray disc included in a large sized coffee table size book of rare press stills and archive key book photographs from Peter Cushing's SIX Hammer films! 'Peter Cushing: The Man Who Created Frankenstein' is narrated by Edward de Souza. I have seen the finished edit and it's another excellent and superb documentary, even outshining his other very popular 'Amicus : The Vault of Horror', an extensive documentary on the history of Amicus films. (This 2 hour 20 min extensively detailed production also came along, but for just a lucky few, with  a very limited numbered packaged blu ray with a large hardback matt finish keybook photographs extra!) 😊 Along with producing several notable 'History of and Making of Documentaries' on many Hammer films blu ray releases, including 'Brides of Dracula' 'Night Creatures / Captain Clegg' and 'The Evil of Frankenstein', Donald Fearney also produced 'The Legend of Hammer's Vampires' documentary in 2008. 

 

ON THE STRIKE OF MIDNIGHT, NEW YEARS EVE, I posted and shared The 'Tales of Frankenstein' a short documentary on the FACEBOOK PCASuk FAN PAGE, which wrapped production late 2021, and had not yet been seen anywhere until then. YOU CAN WATCH IT at the FACEBOOK PCASuk FAN PAGE HERE! Produced by Donald Fearney, it was made with the intention to have been included as an extra feature on the blu ray package release of Donald's 'Peter Cushing: Man Who Created Frankenstein' blu ray', but a change of plan, to include something else (!) made it possible for Donald to very generously, let PCASuk exclusively share it on our Official Facebook Fan Page! ! It's 11 mins in duration, and tells the story behind the planned US television series, 'Tales of Frankenstein' written by Hammer films script writer Jimmy Sangster, fresh from his success with Peter Cushing's and Hammer films 'The Curse of Frankenstein'.. it starred Anton Diffring as Victor Frankenstein, very much in a 'Cushinques style', but the series was doomed by producers and bickering... alas only the pilot episode was produced!

 

DONALD FEARNEY'S  'TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN' documentary, tells the tale, warts and all, with rare stills, internal documents, letters and memos and footage. It's a fascinating tale and a perfect teaser supplement to #DonaldFearney's impressive 'Peter Cushing: The Man Who Created Frankenstein' documentary blu ray release and key stills hardback book which comes with the blu ray package! VERY MANY thanks to Donald for generously making this happen😊 

 

BELOW: IMAGES OF COVER AND SOME PAGES FROM THE RARE 'AMICUS VAULT OF HORROR' HARDBACK BOOK

 

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DAME #JOANNALUMLEY IN NEW YEARS HONOUR LIST FOR 2022 IS #ABSOLUTELYFABULOUS!

MANY CONGRATULATIONS to #DameJoannaLumley, honoured in the Queen's New Years Day Honours list for Services to Drama, Entertainment and Charity. Very well deserved

 

Joanna Lumley said her damehood was "extraordinary" and "completely unexpected". She initially thought the formal letter was bad news, but "burst into tears" when she realised it was offering her an honour. "It was an extraordinary shock," she told BBC News. "I put my head in my hands and sobbed like a baby."Then I thought, how has this happened? Is it a mistake? I truly was completely thrown by it, and thrilled to bits, and so touched." Joanna won two Bafta Awards for her role as fashionista Patsy Stone in the 1990s BBC sitcom #AbsolutelyFabulous. She also appeared in TV shows The New Avengers and Sapphire & Steel, and was nominated for a Tony Award on Broadway in 2011. Beyond acting, she has been praised for her human rights and animal rights campaigning.

 

 

I AM SURE MANY of you here will know the #PeterCushing connection?! Joanna Played Jessica Van Helsing with Peter Cushing playing her grandfather in #Hammerfilms 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula' with #ChristopherLee. She played Purdey in the return of the Avengers tv series, with Peter appearing in the very first episode of '#TheNewAvengers' 'The Eagle's Nest' on September 1976. Joanna was also a fabulous guest in Peter's very own 'The Is Your Life' episode back in February 1990...

 

 

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