Awards
Given To
Peter
Cushing
- The National Television Award 1953 – Daily Mail (For Outstanding
Actor of the year)
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- The National Television Award 1954 – Daily Mail (For Outstanding
Actor of the year)
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- Guild of Television Producers and Directors 1955 – Best
Performance Award (For his role as Winston Smith in ‘1984’)
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- Television Top Ten News Chronicle 1956 – Award for the Best Actor
(Viewers’ Gallup Polls)
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- Pipe Smoker of the Year 1968 (For his role as Sherlock Holmes in
the BBC Television Series)
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- Best Male Actor 1971 – (The Licorne d’Or Award) 2nd
French Convention of Fantasy Cinema (For his role as Arthur Grimsdyke in
‘Tales from the Crypt’)
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- Most Popular Actor in France 1971 – 2nd French
Convention of Fantasy Cinema (For his roles in Fantasy Entertainment and
service to the cinema)
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- Best Actor 1976 – International Festival of Science Fiction and
Terror at Sitges, Spain (For his role as Dr. Lawrence in ‘The Ghoul’)
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- Best
Actor 1983 - International Festival of Science Fiction and Terror at Sitges,
Spain (Award shared with Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, and John Carradine
for their roles in 'House of the Long Shadows')
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- International
Fantasy Film Award 1984 - Fantasporto
Festival (For his contributions to the fantastic film genre)
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- Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) 1989 (Presented by
Queen Elizabeth II)
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- Laemmle Award 1999 – Monster Rally Convention at Virginia, USA
(For his lifelong contribution to films – posthumous)
References:
Peter Cushing: The Gentle Man of
Horror and His 91 Films by
Deborah Del Vecchio and Tom Johnson
Peter Cushing:
An Autobiography and Past Forgetting by Peter Cushing