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4:30pm - 4:56pm
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Peter Cushing is best remembered now for his roles in Hammer Horror films, be that warding off, initiating or succumbing to the forces off darkness. There was not a vampire that he couldn't lay low with the lethal combination of his garlic-heavy props and perfect diction. But today he is celebrated for his full and lengthy acting career by lifelong fan, the actor and writer Mark Gatiss. We even get to hear a harrowing, rat-infested clip from his performance as Winston Smith in a BBC TV's 1954 dramatisation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the role that really launched his reputation as a fine British actor.


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Peter Cushing is best remembered now for his roles in Hammer Horror films, be that warding off, initiating or succumbing to the forces off darkness. There was not a vampire that he couldn't lay low with the lethal combination of his garlic-heavy props and perfect diction. But today he is celebrated for his full and lengthy acting career by lifelong fan, the actor and writer Mark Gatiss. We even get to hear a harrowing, rat-infested clip from his performance as Winston Smith in a BBC TV's 1954 dramatisation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the role that really launched his reputation as a fine British actor.


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cheers Freddy, Cushing was indeed a fine actor, thanks for the tip
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I'd forgotten all about that - thanks for the reminder!
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Is it me or is Gatiss rapidly becoming one of those talking heads who will comment on anything these days - particularly if it is trendy? Mind you, I seem to remember Peter Kay did an awful lot of spouting on similar programmes before he became huge.

Like many he seemed to be expressing an opinion (claiming to be contemporary) on things he could never have been old enough to witness at the time...

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Gatiss is something of an expert on horror films - he's written a book on James Whale and loads of stuff for film magazines. He certainly knows his stuff.
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Gatiss is something of an expert on horror films - he's written a book on James Whale and loads of stuff for film magazines. He certainly knows his stuff.
That's me then !

I thought he was just doing a jack-of-all-trades bit. I have obviously done him a disservice...

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I think he's scarily talented what with the acting and the scripts and the novels and the non-fiction books and the comedy and the generally being a nice chap. The Whale book is pretty good from what I remember.
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