#PETERCUSHING #AUCTION AT CANTERBURY AUCTION GALLERY OCTOBER 2023

Canterbury Auctions, were kind enough to send this along.... 

PETER CUSHING : PERSONAL DOCUMENTS AND MOVIE 

EPHEMERA FOR AUCTION

 

Favourite star of the silver screen, Peter Cushing found international fame as Baron Frankenstein and Doctor Van Helsing in the most acclaimed films from the Hammer House of Horror.

 

During his lengthy acting career, Cushing also played Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes and the villain of the original Star Wars - Grand Moff Tarkin.

 

SUNDAY 1st OCTOBER 2023

Plus: collectible bespoke catalogue available for pre-orders

 

IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll  love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.  Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, #facebook fan page and #youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCAS co-ordinator since 1979. PCASuk is based in the UK,  but open to everyone, whoever, where ever, YOU are!

'PACK! WE ARE LEAVING' THANK GOODNESS!

TO QUOTE, #PeterCushing as Baron Frankenstein in #Hammerfilms 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' (1969) 'PACK! We Are Leaving!' . .

 

ABOVE: A rare candid photograph of Peter Cushing and his wife, Helen in 1948, about to set sail with Laurence Olivier Company on a tour of Australia and New Zealand... a well-timed and much appreciated opportunity for the Cushing's, after a lean period of 'resting', tough provincial theatres and damp, accommodation, that compromised Peter's and Helen health. A lung weakness, from which Helen would never fully recover . . . 

 

N.B: We know about Peter's half of thumbnail, his false front tooth on a plate, the scar on his nose, we know how he got these little 'personal' but interesting points of character but .... no one has mentioned the walking cane that Peter is using here in this photograph.... I am blowing the cobwebs off my brain, memory and thinking hard, for the answer 😕 Did I once know and have now forgotten? Huh! Can't remember... maybe you do??  

 

ABOVE: PETER AND HELEN CUSHING, Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh arrive at Freemantle, Australia with the Old Vic Theatre Company....during their tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1948.... they performed Shakespeare's Richard III and Sheridan's 'School for Scandal'.... (A: Helen Cushing B: Peter Cushing C: Laurence Olivier.

 

OLIVIER'S FILM production of 'HAMLET' .... starring Peter Cushing as Osric... and it is allegedly believed, to be 'someone else' as the 'spear carrier ' in the far left of the frame....

 

 

CREATING 'BEAUTY' while resting. How Peter Cushing made a living while resting and how one item became a 'star' in its own right! 

 

IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.  Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, #facebook fan page and #youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCASuk co-ordinator since 1979. PCASuk is based in the UK, but open to everyone, whoever, where ever, YOU are!

YES THAT IS WHO YOU THINK IT IS! JOIN HIM FOR A QUICK WALK IN #WHITSTABLE!

A GEM of a VIDEO ARTS PROJECT from 1989! JOIN PC on his SUNDAY WALK in #WHITSTABLE! Right HERE! 

 

IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.  Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, #facebook fan page and #youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCASuk co-ordinator since 1979. PCASuk is based in the UK, but open to everyone, whoever, where ever, YOU are!

THIS IS YOUR LIFE : THE TWO PETER'S

A VERY RARE SNAP! Peter Cushing was fortunate to have an episode of the ITV programme THIS IS YOUR LIFE dedicated to him, which was broadcast February 21st 1990. After the show, the guest is presented with that BIG RED BOOK. Inside is the complete script and several colour photographs of the evening's recording of the show and keep sake snaps of all the guests that took part and appeared too. Watching the recording, you can see he had a wonderful time. 

 

TRULY HUMBLED, Peter watched surprised as guests rolled on with hugs, kisses and anecdotes to share, along with Christopher Lee via a pre recording, Joanna Lumley, Freddie Jones, Tyburn producer, and close friend Kevin Francis, Hammer films' Sir James Carreras and Anthony Hinds, Ernie Wise, David Rintoul, John Mills ad Peter Ustinov, who wrote and appeared in a long forgotten live tv dire nightmare called 'Moment of Truth', starring Cushing as the Prime Minister, while written, and also starring Ustinov! Broadcast on March 4th 1955, it also starred Donald Pleasance, Janette Sterke, Hugh Griffith.

 

DO YOU RECALL seeing this episode of THIS IS YOUR LIFE at the time? If not there is a link to our PCASuk recording in our archive!

 

YOU'LL FIND THE FULL EPISODE at our PCASuk Video Archive : HERE! 

 

IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.  Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, #facebook fan page and #youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCASuk co-ordinator since 1979. PCASuk is based in the UK, but open to everyone, whoever, where ever, YOU are!

#SMILEPLEASE! #PETERCUSHING!

OVER AT The Peter Cushing Appreciation society Facebook Fan Page, it's 'This way, SMILE PLEASE!' and maybe for some followers it could be hard to see this pic and consider, THIS is the man who played Grand #MoffTarkin in #StarWars, Baron Frankenstein, Van Helsing, Dr Who and the evil Sheriff of Nottingham! But, off camera, socially both Peter and Christopher Lee could quite easily and happily share their wacky and humorous side... when Peter laughed, as Lee once said, 'It would clear a restaurant!!' In answer to a question from follower Brian Dennett, we estimate this photograph was taken at a social gather with the Broughton family, around the late 1980's....

 

IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.  Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, #facebook fan page and #youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCASuk co-ordinator since 1979. PCASuk is based in the UK, but open to everyone, whoever, where ever, YOU are!

IT'S MADNESS! IT'S MADHOUSE! #VINCENTPRICE AND #PETERCUSHING

It's Madness! Well, it's two press stills from Amicus films , 'Madhouse' starring #VincentPrice and #PeterCushing as Paul Toombes and scriptwriter friend, Herbert Flay. Excellent casting, and one of the rare films where both PC and VP starred together. 

 

The pic of Vincent and Peter sat chatting together was for an interview presented by BBC TV Film Night, where both actors promoted the latest Amicus movie and exchanged preferences of what they thought, made a good creepy horror film... 'Madhouse' did quite well at the box office, but for me, after Cushing's 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'From Beyond the Grave' this film is very much a top five favourite! - Marcus

 

A TWO PART PCASuk GALLERY of rare stills from AMICUS FILMS 'MADHOUSE' starring #VincentPrice, #PeterCushing and #RobertQuarry

 Just CLICK :  HERE!

 

IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll  love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.  Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, #facebook fan page and #youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCAS co-ordinator since 1979. PCASuk is based in the UK,  but open to everyone, whoever, where ever, YOU are!