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Grand
Moff Tarkin played by Peter Cushing
Star Wars character Grand Moff Tarkin
played by Peter Cushing starring in other movies TV shows
and even cameos. Hit the small pictures to see the
full captures.
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Dr.
Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
-Playing Dr. Sandor Schreck
-A horror movie with five men aboard a train who are told
their macabre fates. Five separate stories unfold: An
architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf
out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a
vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets
involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied
hand.
-Dr. Sandor Schreck (German for 'Terror') tells the passengers
their fortunes by reading Tarot cards and the last card
is Death. When they disembark and wonder where they are,
Dr. Schreck turns around and reveals his true identity. |
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The
Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
-Playing Baron Frankenstein
-Baron Frankenstein, accompanied by his eager assistant
Hans, arrives at his family castle near the town of
Karlstaad, vowing to continue his experiments in the
creation of life. Fortuitously finding the creature
he was previously working on, he brings it back to a
semblance of life but requires the services of a mesmerist,
Zoltan, to successfully animate it. The greedy and vengeful
Zoltan secretly sends the monster into town to steal
gold and 'punish' the burgomaster and the chief of police,
which acts lead to a violent confrontation between the
baron and the townspeople. |
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The
Brides of Dracula (1960)
-Playing Dr. J. Van Helsing
-Marianne, a Parisian schoolteacher, on her way to a
position in Transylvania meets a strange young man when
she is forced to spend the night at the castle of Baroness
Meinster. She helps the Baroness' son escape the shackles
his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently
unleashes the horrors of the undead vampire once again
on the populace, including those at the school for ladies.
-Dr. Van Helsing is the famous vampire hunter that usually
dispatches Dracula and the other vampires. In this movie,
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The
Mummy (1959)
-Playing John Banning
-Archeologist John Banning is so intent on unearthing
the Egyptian tomb of Ananka that he refuses to have his
broken leg properly set. He's therefore unable to assist
when his father Stephen (Felix Aylmer) is unaccountably
driven mad just as his dream of discovery comes true.
Years later back in England, the now-crippled John again
fails his asylum-restrained father when he discounts the
old man's claims that a living mummy is loose in the world,
much to John's later regret. Mehemet Bey, an Egyptian
adept of the god Karnak, has the holy scroll of life and
the living mummy Kharis (Christopher Lee) as well, and
plans to use both to murder the English infidels. |
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The
Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
-Playing Doctor Baron Victor Frankenstein / Dr. Victor
Stein
-Baron Frankenstein is facing the guillotine for the murders
he committed in the name of science., but manages to escape
execution, and with the aid of the deformed hunchback
named Karl. Three years later, now known as Dr. Stein,
the Baron has a successful practice, but someone recognises
him as the Baron Frankenstein. Doctor Kleve asks to Stein
in his search for knowledge. Frankenstein accepts, and
reveals that he has created the shell of a man into which
he intends to put the brain of Karl. So, Frankenstein
and Kleve transfer Karl's brain into the other lifeless
body, but complications ensue.
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Dracula
aka Horror of Dracula (1958)
-Playing Doctor Van Helsing
-This first of a series of Hammer Horror films starts
after Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the
vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the
family of Harker's fiancee. The only one who may be able
to protect them is Dr. van Helsing (Peter Cushing), Harker's
friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined
to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.
-Van Helsing is a Dutch doctor with a wide range of interests
and accomplishments but is best known as a vampire hunter. |
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The
Abominable Snowman (1957)
-Playing Doctor Dr. John Rollason
-On an expedition in the Himalayas, a botanist encounters
American Tom Friend at a monastery and joins a sortie
led by Friend to find the Yeti, which Friend intends to
bring back as a carnival exhibit. But the expedition’s
numbers are reduced by Friend’s wrecklessness, accidents
and the Yeti itself. Eventually only Friend and Rollason
are left to confront the Yeti.
-Dr. John Rollason is the botanist currently in the Himalayas
with his wife Helen and colleague Peter Fox collecting
samples of medicinal plants. He had planned to go after
the Yeti the whole time. |
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The
Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
-Playing Baron Victor Frankenstein
-This is Hammer's first color film, and told in flashback.
The story centers around Baron Victor Frankenstein, a
dangerously arrogant scientist who takes it upon himself
to play God. Using portions of dead bodies, Victor fashions
a synthetic monster (Christopher Lee) with a bad attitude.
In a radical departure from the Frankenstein canon, it
is the imperious Victor who orchestrates the film's two
murders by "borrowing" the brain of a learned
professor, then leaving his next victim at the mercy of
the monster. |
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