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Star Wars character Grand Moff Tarkin, played by Peter Cushing starring in other movies TV shows and even cameos.

Star Wars Characters Actors Starring in Other Movies and TV Shows

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.
B.S.W.
BBC Sunday Night Theatre: 1984 (1954) (TV)
-Playing Winston Smith
 
The Black Knight (1954)
-Playing Sir Palamides
-As a blacksmith John (Alan Ladd) can't hope to win the hand of Linet (Patricia Medina), daughter of the Earl of Yeonil, so he secretly becomes the Black Knight to help out King Arthur when Saracens and Cornish men plot to take over the country by mounting raids dressed up as Vikings. However, his thoughts are not only on the protection of England when the good lady Linet becomes threatened.
 
Hamlet (1948)
-Playing Osric, Servant to the Court
-Claudius poisons the monarch and seizes the throne. Hamlet seeks revenge, in a play to torment Claudius. Thinking a concealed spy in his mother's chamber to be the lurking Claudius, he mistakenly kills the meddling counselor, Polonius, father of Ophelia and Laertes. Claudius, on the pretext that Hamlet will be endangered by his subjects for the murder of Polonius, sends the prince to England.
The Howards of Virginia (1940)
-Playing Leslie Stephens
-A historical epic about a Virginia couple from differing backgrounds during the Revolutionary War. Matt Howard (Cary Grant) is a common man who gains employment as a surveyor with the help of Thomas Jefferson. Howard quickly falls head over heels for his wealthy employer's daughter, Jane Peyton (Martha Scott). The lovebirds appear to be set for a happily-ever-after ending until Matt becomes involved in politics and the War of Independence arrives. Matt and his two sons side with the rebels while Jane sides with the British.
 
A Chump at Oxford (1940)
-Playing Student (Jones)
-With Stan (Stan Laurel) dressed in drag, he and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) get jobs as a butler and maid for a dinner party at the Vandevere's. After that ends in disaster, they're reduced to sweeping streets, and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford for a proper education. A knock on the head gets Stan to believing he's the famed Lord Paddington, scholar and athlete extraordinaire.
 
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