One of Cushing’s most underrated turns from this era is his pitch-perfect performance as Sherlock Holmes in Hammer’s 1959 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles.

He told a fellow actor, Douglas Wilmer, that he “would rather sweep Paddington Station for a living than go through the experience again.” Cushing’s final appearance as Holmes was in a television film ...

Nick Digilio welcomes Bob Madia: screenwriter, speaker and Sherlock Holmes expert. In this conversation, they discuss horror icon Peter Cushing’s portrayal of the detective, the instances Holmes ...

Peter Cushing, born on this day in 1913, was one of the most respected and important actors in the horror and fantasy film genres. To his many fans, the British star, who died in 1994, was known as ...

The life and times of Whitstable legend Peter Cushing will be the theme of the town’s carnival on Saturday, with participants ...

Based on Doyle’s 1902 novel of the same name, The Hound of the Baskervilles follows Sherlock Holmes (Peter Cushing) and Dr. Watson (André Morell) as they learn about the legendary Hell Hound ...

In this spellbinding Sherlock Holmes mystery, Peter Cushing stars as the great detective who must unlock the mystery of a hound's horrible cry and the systematic deaths of generations of Baskervilles.

First, there’s Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed detective and Jude Law as his sidekick Watson.